EMILIA–AMALIA at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Toronto Art Book Fair

by Gabby | Jun 8, 2017 | Curatorial

Since 2016, EMILIA–AMALIA has been hosting monthly meetings to explore the legacies of 1970s feminisms, with a particular focus on Italian feminisms and the histories of “second-wave” feminism that we have inherited. Initiated by Cecilia Berkovic, Annie...

“Developing Historical Negatives” out now in Photography and the Optical Unconscious

by Gabby | Jun 8, 2017 | Photography, Research, Writing

Academic publishing sometimes feels painfully slow. I learned, towards the end of my PhD, that the average time between finishing a dissertation and getting it edited into and published as a book manuscript is 9 years. 9 years! That felt like an eternity at the time,...

“Pedagogies of Looking” conversation with Kim Simon and Amish Morrell

by Gabby | Oct 14, 2016 | Conversations, Curatorial, Interviews

C Magazine’s fall issue addresses the art world’s ongoing interest in forms of pedagogical practice, experimental education and public engagement, and it was under this rubric that editor Amish Morrell (whose own research also addresses forms of pedagogy,...

Picturing Canadian citizenship in the Black Star Collection

by Gabby | Aug 8, 2016 | Photography, Research

Throughout the month of June, I had the pleasure of working in the Black Star agency’s collection at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) through their Elaine Ling Fellowship. During that time, I looked through more than 3,300 photographs in the collection, as part of...

Family photography in “The Clarion” newspaper (1946-56)

by Gabby | Aug 3, 2016 | Photography, Research, Writing

I’ve been increasingly trying to find ways to share parts of my academic research in progress, in part to try to demystify work in photographic archives, in part to keep myself accountable to typing up and beginning to analyze the research I’m doing as I...