Andrew Maize, Lou Sheppard, and Shaheer Tarar: LINEs OF FLIGHT: from above

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Andrew Maize, Lou Sheppard, and Shaheer Tarar, "LINEs OF FLIGHT: from above," 2019

Opening Reception: Thursday March 14, 8pm, PAVED Arts

Panel Discussion: Thursday, March 14, NOON, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery

rtist-Residencies: February 28–March 14, 2019

Andrew Maize (rural Ontario), Lou Sheppard (Halifax), and Shaheer Tarar (Toronto) engage in a perceptual semiotic, which is to say that each artist, in disparate ways, examines how meaning is changed by shifting perspective, and for various reasons the artists are, more specifically, engaged with aerial perspective.

Andrew Maize examines how “Early panoramic and aerial photographic technologies used both kites and balloons to expand human vision and surveillance.” For this project Maize will develop a new work to be featured on our outdoor billboard space – 424-20th Street West, Saskatoon, SK.

Lou Sheppard‘s Saskatchewan Song Cycle project will work from satellite maps of the Saskatoon area to create a series of graphic scores which will then be interpreted through vocal performance and presented as an installation.

Shaheer Tarar‘s practice concerns the infrastructures of migrant containment and detention, as well as the ways in which aerial images are mobilized in support of this infrastructure. The artist has developed a three-channel film that uses satellite images to document the siege of Kobanî in Syria, the migration it provoked, and how the city’s proximity to a border affected both militants and migrants.

Maize, Sheppard and Tarar will have access to the PAVED Arts production centre and opportunity to collaborate during their residency time in Saskatoon.

Related Events:

Thursday, March 14th at noonGordon Snelgrove Gallery, Murray Building, 3 Campus Dr #191, Saskatoon, SKLINEs OF FLIGHT: from above Panel Discussion featuring Andrew Maize, Lou Sheppard and Shaheer Tarar, moderated by program curator David LaRiviere. Presented in partnership with Gordon Snelgrove Gallery and PAVED Arts.

Friday, March 15LINEs OF FLIGHT: from above Studio Visits, artists from the exhibition conduct studio visits with graduate students from the University of Saskatchewan Fine Art program.LINEs OF FLIGHT: from above (March 14–April 20, 2019) and LINEs OF FLIGHT: subterranean (May 16–June 22, 2019) will be the subject of a panel presentation by project curator David LaRiviere at the 12^th Annual Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. (See https://dgs2019.wordpress.com/ for more information)