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A Problem So Big It Needs Other People

Curator: cheyanne turions

MARCH 15 - MAY 3, 2014

exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tanya Lukin Linklater, Slow Scrape – So it goes like this - map of syllabics - we spark the spongy wood, 2013, text, canvas, grommets, ink, 167.6 x 129.5 cm, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tiziana La Melia, clay voice drink still, 2013-2014, glazed ceramic, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tiziana La Melia, Dust selves, reflect and flex, 2012, gouache on linen, dust, sunglasses, clothes hanger, rare earth magnet, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tiziana La Melia, Yolk Tabs medieval genuflex and still, 2012, gouache on silk, rare earth magnets, metal, wire, pop tabs,

Curly roads, ysl opium, aerosol hair pointing at, a living fact if lucky to hand registration, cement finisher who wants to be a banker’s wheelbarrow and reverse the desire switch the character, 2012, steel, wood, oil on duralar, gouache and acrylic on paper, spray paint, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Basil AlZeri, Pull, Sort, Hang, Dry, and Crush, 2014, wild thyme and white sage, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Annie MacDonell, Untitled, from the Picture Collection Series, 2012, inkjet print, 55.9 x 76.2 cm, courtesy of Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
Annie MacDonell
Annie MacDonell
Untitled, from the Picture Collection Series, 2012, inkjet print, 55.9 x 76.2 cm, courtesy of Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
exhibition view
exhibition view
Maggie Groat, Fences will turn into tables, 2010 - 2013, found fence boards, posts and hardware, variable dimensions, courtesy of Erin Stump Projects
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibtion view
exhibtion view
Maria Hupfield, Present – Absence, 2013
site-specific installation, glass etching on door, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, 2007, black and white video, sound, stereo, 21 minutes, courtesy of Timothy Taylor Gallery
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, 2007, black and white video, sound, stereo, 21 minutes, courtesy of Timothy Taylor Gallery
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
Basil AlZeri
Basil AlZeri
The Postcard Project, Postcard #7, 2013, courtesy of Manolo Lugo
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Tanya Lukin Linklater
grain(s), 2013 (with Duane Linklater), documentation of live performance within the installation, Ceinwen Gobert (dancer) and Anne Bourne (cellist), photo credit: Images Festival
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tanya Lukin Linklater, Slow Scrape – So it goes like this - map of syllabics - we spark the spongy wood, 2013, text, canvas, grommets, ink, 167.6 x 129.5 cm, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tiziana La Melia, clay voice drink still, 2013-2014, glazed ceramic, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tiziana La Melia, Dust selves, reflect and flex, 2012, gouache on linen, dust, sunglasses, clothes hanger, rare earth magnet, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Tiziana La Melia, Yolk Tabs medieval genuflex and still, 2012, gouache on silk, rare earth magnets, metal, wire, pop tabs,

Curly roads, ysl opium, aerosol hair pointing at, a living fact if lucky to hand registration, cement finisher who wants to be a banker’s wheelbarrow and reverse the desire switch the character, 2012, steel, wood, oil on duralar, gouache and acrylic on paper, spray paint, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Basil AlZeri, Pull, Sort, Hang, Dry, and Crush, 2014, wild thyme and white sage, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Annie MacDonell, Untitled, from the Picture Collection Series, 2012, inkjet print, 55.9 x 76.2 cm, courtesy of Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
Annie MacDonell
Annie MacDonell
Untitled, from the Picture Collection Series, 2012, inkjet print, 55.9 x 76.2 cm, courtesy of Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
exhibition view
exhibition view
Maggie Groat, Fences will turn into tables, 2010 - 2013, found fence boards, posts and hardware, variable dimensions, courtesy of Erin Stump Projects
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibtion view
exhibtion view
Maria Hupfield, Present – Absence, 2013
site-specific installation, glass etching on door, courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, 2007, black and white video, sound, stereo, 21 minutes, courtesy of Timothy Taylor Gallery
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, 2007, black and white video, sound, stereo, 21 minutes, courtesy of Timothy Taylor Gallery
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
exhibition view
exhibition view
Photo credit: Guy L'Heureux
Basil AlZeri
Basil AlZeri
The Postcard Project, Postcard #7, 2013, courtesy of Manolo Lugo
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Tanya Lukin Linklater
grain(s), 2013 (with Duane Linklater), documentation of live performance within the installation, Ceinwen Gobert (dancer) and Anne Bourne (cellist), photo credit: Images Festival

INFORMATION

Opening: Saturday, March 15, 2014, from 3 pm to 5 pm

 

Curator cheyanne turions’ year-long residency within SBC Gallery’s Focus Program on Sovereignty culminates in the exhibition A Problem So Big it Needs Other People, including participants Basil AlZeri, Daina Ashbee, Maggie Groat, Susan Hiller, Maria Hupfield, Tiziana La Melia, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Annie MacDonell, Gabrielle Moser and Chelsea Vowel.

 

A Problem So Big it Needs Other People attempts to think through the ways that sovereignty manifests as processes of negotiation on the level of the subject—but not a subject sovereign in solitude; a subject sovereign through contact, intimacy and sociality. Negotiation implies reciprocity, all parties with vested interests, all parties subject to encounter, acknowledgment and compromise.

 

Shifting the place of sovereign embodiment from the nation state to the subject re-orients the projection of enactment, from governing internal components (as a nation state acts as law-maker and enforcer over its citizens) to governing external relationships between subjects. When the place of sovereign embodiment is shifted from the nation state to the sovereign subject, what is the corresponding achievement of sovereignty, and how does it crystallize what it means to be in relation?

 

turions offers up a provisional definition of sovereignty in the context of this exhibition: an oscillation between different ways of knowing; the recognition of other understandings as they rub up against one’s own; the act of holding a space for not-knowing. Sovereignty is the work of mediation in recognizing the irreducible sovereignty of another, like one’s own, and the corresponding legitimacy of another’s claims on one’s self.

 

cheyanne turions is an independent, Toronto-based curator and writer who holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia. Most recently she curated Other Electricities, which explores the possibility of using decolonial aesthetics to contextualize works within the Art Gallery of Windsor's collection (September 2013 - January 2014). Her writing has been published by Canadian Art, C Magazine, FUSE, Gallery TPW and the Western Front. In addition to her curatorial work and writing practice, she is the director of No Reading After the Internet (Toronto), is part of the Editorial Advisory Committee at FUSE magazine and sits on the Board of Directors for Fillip magazine. She was the Shop Manager/Curator at Art Metropole in Toronto. 

 

SBC thanks Canada Arts Council for its’ support through the Aboriginal Curator for Residencies in the Visual Arts program.

 

 

 

Subjects as Things

par cheyanne turions

Confronting Movement, Confronting Vocabularies

par cheyanne turions

Learning to Prepare Food is Not Unlike Learning a Language

by cheyanne turions

Holding a Space for the Work Yet to Do

by cheyanne turions

RELATED TEXTS

A Table for Negotiation, Mediation, Discussion, Difference

by cheyanne turions

Language: a Diverse and Expansive Collectivity that Needs Constant Tending

by cheyanne turions

Not Looking at an Archive of Collecting Practices

by cheyanne turions

Reflecting on Couchiching: Some Thoughts on What it Means to Navigate

par cheyanne turions

INTERVIEW: Theaster Gates

par Sky Goodden

 

"A problem so big it needs other people" est extrait de l'entrevue de Theaster Gates (“Theaster Gates on His Strange Position of Power”, Blouin Art Info, 23 novembre 2013).

SOVEREIGNTY

PARTICIPANTS

BASIL ALZERI
MAGGIE GROAT
SUSAN HILLER
MARIA HUPFIELD
TIZIANA LA MELIA
TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER
ANNIE MACDONELL
GABRIELLE MOSER
CHELSEA VOWEL

Saturday, March 15, 2014, 3-5 pm

Opening

EVENTS

Saturday, March 22, 3-5 pm

Chelsea Vowel

No Reading After the Internet (discussion)

Saturday, March 29, 3-5 pm

Basil AlZeri

Pull, Sort, Hang, Dry, and Crush (performance & discussion)

Saturday, April 12, 3-5 pm

Gabrielle Moser & Annie MacDonell

No Looking After the Internet (discussion)

Saturday, April 26, 3-5 pm

Daina Ashbee & Tanya Lukin Linklater

Slow Scrape (performance & discussion)

Press release

DOCUMENTATION

List of works + map

Radio

CKUT: Native Solidarity News

Tanya Lukin Linklater interview @ 4:00

April 22, 2014

MEDIA COVERAGE

Audio

Belgo Report #10

cheyanne turions interview @ 29:00

March 30, 2014

Radio

CFRU: The Secret Ingredient

cheyanne turions Interview

March 26, 2014

Radio

CKUT: Native Solidarity News

cheyanne turions interview @ 29:55

March 25, 2014

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