Nickle at Noon: Fall Schedule 2021

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Nickle at Noon talks are free online events with local and visiting artists and curators and that take place on Zoom at noon every Thursday.

Jon Davies: Colin Campbell, Video Art and Writing

Thursday, September 16 - 12:00 PM MST

Curator and writer Jon Davies will talk about pioneering Canadian video artist Colin Campbell (1942–2001) and video art as a medium for writing, performance and narrative. He will draw on his experiences editing the anthology More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings (Concordia University Press, 2021) and curating two exhibitions surrounding Campbell’s work in video.

Jon Davies is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Stanford University researching the intertwining of artistic and sexual experimentation in San Francisco. He has worked as a curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. His writing has been published in C, Canadian Art, Fillip, Frieze, and Master Drawings.

**Together with Concordia University Press, we are pleased to offer a discount on copies of More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings. Use code “Campbell20” at checkout to receive 20% off plus free shipping

This will be a free, ONLINE event. https://ucalgary.zoom.us/join 

Meeting ID: 914 5148 2996

Passcode: Nickle

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Possible Worlds: A talk by Alexander Nagel

**POSTPONED**

Location Contemporary Calgary Auditorium

Time Doors open at 5pm; Lecture at 6pm

(Light refreshments will be served)

Taking a painting by Parmigianino as a guide, Alexander Nagel considers the European encounter with other worlds in the sixteenth century as a matrix for imagining how worlds are destroyed and possible worlds imagined, then and now.

Jointly organized by Nickle Galleries and Contemporary Calgary, the talk is offered as a public program of Everywhere We Are, and touches upon the underlying thread of spiritual expression that connects many of the works in the collection.

Alexander Nagel (he/him/his) is the Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. His publications include: Renaissance Metapainting (2020), and Medieval Modern (2012).

Free with registration. This is an in-person program. Masks are mandatory, and physical distancing will be maintained in seating arrangements. We recommend that in-person guests are vaccinated. The program will be live-streamed via Zoom, and a recording will be made available for those who cannot attend. The rest of the gallery and exhibitions will remain open until 9:00pm.

RSVP for tickets or register on Zoom. https://bit.ly/3BOvBuL.

For questions about this event or with help reserving your ticket, please contact us via email at info@contemporarycalgary.com or call us at 403-770-1350

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Brittany Nickerson: Those Days, These Days – Uncovering Figures in the Archives

Thursday, September 23 - 12:00 PM

In this talk, artist Brittany Nickerson will share past and recent lens-based artworks that question the patriarchal structures of photographic archives. Using her family’s photographs as a departure point, Nickerson uses autoethnographic and self-reflexive processes to examine archival paradigms. Made through gestures of care and grief, this body of work pursues new narratives for femme and Queer identities. Nickerson’s current research is generously supported by The Bows and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Following the presentation, librarian and archivist Alexandra Alisauskas will respond to Nickerson’s work

Brittany Nickerson (she/they) is a lens-based artist living and working in Mohkinstsis, which is colonially known as Calgary. She was born on the traditional, unceded territory of the Wəlastəkewiyik (Maliseet) people. In 2014 she graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts with a Bachelor in Design. She completed a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University in 2017. Since 2018, she has served as the Programming Coordinator of The New Gallery, an artist-run centre in Mohkinstsis / Calgary.

Alexandra Alisauskas is a Learning and Engagement Librarian at the University of Calgary, and a recent graduate of the MAS/MLIS Program at the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, pursuing the First Nations curriculum concentration. Alex also holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester and was previously an arts writer, researcher, and educator. Her current research explores contemporary art, artists’ and writers’ archives, and person-centred approaches to library, archival, and information services. She lives as a grateful guest on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in southern Alberta.

This will be a free, ONLINE event.

https://ucalgary.zoom.us/join

Meeting ID: 914 5148 2996

Passcode: Nickle