2024

Media: Single channel video

Dimensions: Vary

A collaboration with Brandon A. Dalmer.

Commissioned and curated by Amber Berson and Felicity Tayler for Educating Our Desires, equity-deserving action within artist-led spaces, a group exhibition with Rihab Essayh, Shaya Ishaq, Sarah E.K. Smith, and Jinny Yu. Presented at OPTICA, un centre d’art contemporain from November 2nd 2024 to December 14th 2024.

For over 60+ years, conversations around equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility have flickered in and out the consciousness of Canadian cultural institutions, artist-run-centres, and artist-led milieus. How can studying the work of those before—reflecting on successes, the things that fell apart, those that have reappeared, and what has been transformed—spark potential for pathways forward? We gather to host conversations and questions: How can we move in time with the intergenerational knowledge and collective work of past and current artist-led unions? Do all our movements need to be forward in order for change to occur? Is there something fruitful in taking steps back: through repetition, examining in between the lines of recurring historical and contemporary patterns.

Photo credits: Brandon A. Dalmer