Upcoming Events
Accelerated Art, Accelerated Culture UACC Panel
October 25, 2019
Chaired by Julian Jason Haladyn ( Canadian writer and independent curator)
Hilton Hotel, Quebec City
Friday, October 25, 9 am
As an iteration of my upcoming publication Undoing as Activism, this panel led presentation argues that by first unmaking that which already exists, one can slow the accelerated rate at which we think, grow, extract, produce, consume and dispose of goods. In addition to presenting personal art experimentations and reflections, the work of Peter von Tiesenhausen,Katie Patterson and Sharon Kallis will be brought forward to offer examples of art practices that resist acceleration both materially and aesthetically, demonstrating how many immaterial and material things become unmade when taking earth, the final audience and owner of all things, into account.
An UNTWISTING: A durational performance exploring the potential of unmaking and existing and hidden materials.
September 19, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 10 am - finished
Isabel Bader Performance Art Centre - Art & Media Lab
Kingston, Ontario
FREE EVENT
Currently pursuing a research-creation PhD in Cultural Studies and continuing to acknowledge my role as a maker, settler and consumer in the Anthropocene, "An Untwisting" is a follow-up performance to Undoing #1, a durational work where I unravelled a shrunk and damaged acrylic / wool poncho until it was beautiful piles of yarn. These quiet gestures offer a way to explore how “unmaking” serves as a creative act and might reveal unknown potential hidden in our culture’s material excess so that we can begin to imagine design systems of production and exchange built on foundations of human care and environmental concern.
This more public sitting invites the viewer to be present so as to collaboratively discuss how undoing can become monumental if we are to consider the value of human and non-human materials or view trash as an extension of our neo-colonial capitalist systems of global trade.
CRAFT @ the EDGE: Call for Contemporary Craft - Deadline October 15, 2019
October 15, 2019
Craft @ the Edge: A Handmade Future is a four-day international conference designed to celebrate, energize and inspire Newfoundland and Labrador craft in all mediums. Hosted by the Labrador and Newfoundland Craft Council, the event is scheduled to happen on the Bonavista Peninsula from October 1st to 4th, 2020, with an international contemporary craft exhibition entitled RE-crafted running on the Bonavista Peninsula from September 1 - October 4, 2020. Entitled RE-crafted, this exhibition will showcase post-disciplinary approaches to creative practice that work to change the environment in which we live or work on behalf of the environment itself. To read the full call for submissions document and guidelines, click on the link.
To read more about the amazing offerings of the larger conference, click on the image.
Jill Price Entanglements featured at Hard Twist 14
January 01, 2020
Curated by Chris Mitchell and Helena Frei
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
Exhibition dates: September 5, 2019 to January 5, 2020
Exhibition opening reception: Thursday September 12, 7-10pm
Hard Twist, the Gladstone Hotel’s annual contemporary textile and fibre arts exhibition, is now accepting submissions. Artists are invited to submit works that are entwined with the traditions, techniques and materials of the cultural space of Canada. Hard Twist 14: Entwined seeks to showcase artists who navigate this ever-evolving space and employ the multiplicity of cultural traditions, influences and powerful markers of identity to weave, spin, knit, stitch and imagine a new and marvellous contemporary cultural fabric.
Unsettling Nature: Jill Price, Leslie Putnam, Morag Webster & Kim Wilkie
June 01, 2020
June 1 - September 29, 2019
Part of a four person exhibition that explores the the vulnerability and power of nature, Fleet, 2019 a site specific installation of horizontally tilted sheets of paper that offer audiences an opportunity to sonically and visually experience the fleeting forces of nature. Whether it be the silent pictures of shadows moving across the picture plane or the sound of light rain hitting their surface, the white triangulations of material serve as projection screens, drawing attention to how living matter, light, shadows and sound often goes unnoticed within the forest floor. To learn more about the other artists and artworks, click on the image.
80602 Benmiller Line, Ontario, Canada - Please note the interior gallery is only accessible by a set of stairs.
Visiting Hours: Thursday through Sunday 11am to 5:30pm or by appointment 519-524-8146
The Reconfiguration of Similar Elements to a Separate Effect
May 16, 2019
May 17 - July 7, 2019, Opening: May 17, 6-8 pm
Within this two person exhibition Jill Price and Tonia Di Risio explore material wealth from different perspectives. Where Tonia engages with the image, its place in advertising and the production of material desire, Jill considers the end-of-life process of our textile goods, the material of our material desire. To read more about the exhibition visit the Durham Art Gallery website.