About this Event
Join curator Dallas Fellini for a joint tour of at the Jackman Humanities Institute and at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. These concurrent exhibitions consider the roles that absence and opacity play in rendering trans and queer lives and archives.
The program will begin with a tour of Mnemonic silences, disappearing acts on the 10th floor of the Jackman Humanities Institute (170 St. George Street). From there, attendees will travel down St. George Street to the Art Museum’s Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (about a 10-minute walk) for a tour of Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances.
Mnemonic silences, disappearing acts considers the silences, erasures, and censorships that colour the queer and trans archive, featuring works by Kasra Jalilipour, Jordan King, Kama La Mackerel, Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney, and Lan “Florence” Yee.
Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances brings together the work of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Lucas LaRochelle, Joshua Schwebel, Chelsea Thompto, and Lan “Florence” Yee to consider opacity, illegibility, and invisibility as productive alternatives to contemporary trans hypervisibility.
This event is free and open to the public. Both exhibition spaces are wheelchair accessible. Please contact [email protected] if you have any accessibility needs or questions.
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About the Curator
Dallas Fellini is a curator, writer, and artist living and working in Toronto. Their research is situated at the intersection of trans studies and archival studies. Dallas is a co-director of the arts publication Silverfish and has curated exhibitions and screenings for Gallery 44, Vtape, Trinity Square Video, Xpace Cultural Centre, Hearth, Riverdale Hub Gallery, the Jackman Humanities Institute, and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Dallas is the recipient of the 2024 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators.
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Co-presented with The Arquives and Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
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Title image: Chelsea Thompto, Fog Lights, 2023. Textured glass, LCD screen, Raspberry PI, code, and 3D printed housing, 2” x 2.5” x 3”, set of 3 sculptures, duration infinite. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Jackman Humanities Institute, 170 Saint George Street, Toronto, Canada
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