Dispersions
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Trap\door Artist-Run Centre 811 5 Ave S c/o Bowman Arts Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 0V2
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Trap\door Artist-Run Centre, "Dispersions," 2018
Tanya Doody is organizing an experimental collaboration with Trap\door members to consider how social connections are made and community formed through processes of artistic creation. Mandy Espezel's site-specific installation engages the unique architectural and aesthetic elements of the exhibition venue to explore subjective experiences of “body” and “touch.” Mary-Anne McTrowe will read from her artist book "Rhythmic Couplets," an original text of unusual word pairings derived from Olive M. Wyatt’s "Teach Yourself Lip-Reading." Megan Morman investigates the formal mechanisms of lenticular imaging with a text work called, "How is This Possible?" Migueltzinta Solís brings together notions of queer sexualities, landscape, place and processes of unsettling in his performance of "Lapdances for Landscapes." Corinne Thiessen's animated collages appropriate kitsch and pop culture imagery as a mediating effort toward a resilient apathy and maintenance of hope.
Underlying the formal premise of the exhibition is a question of what defines a group when significant measures of space and time separate its members. What direct or indirect associations must exist between independent constituents to be identified as a group? How much contact between elements is necessary to sustain a cohesive form? How does the group transform as contact diminishes or intensifies? What meanings are created by presenting artworks in close proximity and what meaning is possible when that distance is stretched?
Gallery-based work is located at 1267 2A Avenue N.
For more information about site specific projects and scheduling please visit trapdoorarc.org