My posts on this blog will be scarcer than usual over the next week as I’ll be writing for the Images Festival blog here. Artist and critic Sholem Krishtalka and I will be doing previews of screenings and live performances as well as interviews with artists and curators, while Andrew J Paterson and others will be posting their reviews of events, exhibitions and screenings. There are a lot of fantastic events planned, so if you have any interest in film, video and related image-based performance works, I highly recommend checking out the full program online.
Louise Liliefeldt, Lekker III, 2004, performance still (left). Courtesy of the artistMarlon Griffith, Runaway Reaction, 2008 (right).
Photography by Akiko Ota. Courtesy of the artist.
But, before the Images madness begins this evening, I highly recommend stopping by the opening of “South-South: Interruptions & Encounters,” a group exhibition at the Justina M Barnicke Gallery (co-organized with SAVAC) put together by artist and curator Tejpal S. Ajji and historian Jon Soske. The show brings together “eight artists whose work is situated at an intersection of African and South Asian history, politics, or culture” and includes work by Omar Badsha, Allan deSouza, Brendan Fernandes, Marlon Griffith, Jamelie Hassan, Apache Indian, Louise Liliefeldt, and Hew Locke.
Not only does the exhibition look fascinating, but as with Ajji’s excellent 2007 exhibition, “Rightfully Yours,” the public programming promises to be fantastic. It includes a workshop with Toronto/New York–based artist and Nuit Blanche alumni Brendan Fernandes, a scholarly panel discussion on African and Indian nationalisms and a multidisciplinary panel discussion that “brings together artists and writers to further explore the notion of an “aesthetics of the encounter” as represented in the exhibition.”
The opening is tonight, Thursday April 2, 2009 from 6 pm – 8 pm at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto and the exhibition runs until May 19.
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