During a time when feelings of isolation and loneliness are rampant, it’s important for people who may not find solace in the spaces they are confined to, to know they have a community. As such, I see the struggle of Black queer youth around me every day and am all too aware of the difficulties they face.
Janine Arellano, Angie Ma, Pam Patterson, Daniel Payne, Mikael Sandblom, Leena Raudvee, Vicky Talwar.įor philosopher Gilles Deleuze, productions are collectively formed by a complex of bodies and environments a complex that presents a series of plateaus or stratifications constantly becoming as they produce.
Unpacking Pandemic Pondering: Strain, Stress, and Subversion Through these processes, webs of support evolve and sustain one another as networks of community care. Students use creative practice to serve their proximate communities, while researchers and artists contemplate the significance of these interactions in grassroots approaches to overcoming the crisis of virus. Learner and teacher are never privileged one over the other but in constant flux. In presenting the work of arts education students alongside senior researchers and artists, intergenerational networks of knowledge sharing flourish, providing fertile systems to contest the toxic virality imposed on the creative voice. The virus thrives on reproducibility and mutation to infect as many hosts as possible, whereas the rhizome is a powerful biological force for multiplicities and mutualism that nurture and sustain. This exhibition explores the rhizomatic and tentacular as an antidote to mimetic virality. Two Gallery 1313 artists are exhibiting with OCAD researchers. Each university has facilitated two interrelated exhibitions by researchers/artists and by students. Resulting from a year of creative research and community sharing, senior and emerging artists from three different spaces have produced multiple exhibitions that energize a dialogue on so many levels around climate change and the pandemic. Ma| Exhibitions, Past Exhibitions | No CommentsĬOVID-19 Anxiety: Location, Refuge and Loss titles a collaborative creation project among OCAD University, University of Manitoba, and Gallery 1313.