“No ‘expert’ intermediary can help you think for yourself”: rules for reading

by Gabby | Dec 27, 2014 | Writing

My dear friend cheyanne turions, who has been thinking alongside me about the practices of looking and reading for quite some time, sent me photos of several pages of A Great Books Primer (1955) this holiday season, which offers 10 rules for running and participating...

No Looking with cheyanne turions and Annie MacDonell at SBC Gallery, Montreal, April 12

by Gabby | Apr 7, 2014 | Photography

This weekend, No Looking After the Internet meets in Montreal as part of cheyanne turions’s “A Problem So Big It Needs Other People,” an exhibition about sovereignty as a form of negotiation at Montreal’s SBC Gallery. Co-facilitated with...

Not Reading Nor Looking at Prefix ICA, Dec. 12

by Gabby | Nov 23, 2013 | Photography

When I first began thinking about how to run a looking group, I had always hoped to do a session on images that were not really photographs: scenes produced by a camera, but rarely reproduced or circulated and instead largely known through textual and verbal...

“No Looking…” in London: Harry Sanderson’s “Unified Fabric”

by Gabby | Oct 17, 2013 | Photography

I’m taking No Looking After the Internet on the road this month, hosting a special edition at London’s Arcadia_Missa gallery in conjunction with Harry Sanderson’s “Unified Fabric” project. Part installation, part render farm, part curated...

“No Looking After the Internet,” July 23 at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

by Gabby | Jul 21, 2013 | Photography

For the first time this month, No Looking After the Internet is being held off-site at the CLGA, in tandem with the exhibitions “Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives, 1973-1983 at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives,” and its counterpart of...