Joint Curatorial Tour with Dallas Fellini

Joint Curatorial Tour with Dallas Fellini

A program of: Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances and Mnemonic silences, disappearing acts

By Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Date and time

Friday, June 7 · 2 - 3:30pm EDT

Location

Jackman Humanities Institute

170 Saint George Street #10th floor Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 Canada

About this event

Join curator Dallas Fellini for a joint tour of Mnemonic silences, disappearing acts at the Jackman Humanities Institute and Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. These concurrent exhibitions consider the roles that absence and opacity play in rendering trans and queer lives and archives.

The program will begin with a tour of Mnemonic silences, disappearing acts on the 10th floor of the Jackman Humanities Institute (170 St. George Street). From there, attendees will travel down St. George Street to the Art Museum’s Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (about a 10-minute walk) for a tour of Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances.

Mnemonic silences, disappearing acts considers the silences, erasures, and censorships that colour the queer and trans archive, featuring works by Kasra Jalilipour, Jordan King, Kama La Mackerel, Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney, and Lan “Florence” Yee.

Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances brings together the work of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Lucas LaRochelle, Joshua Schwebel, Chelsea Thompto, and Lan “Florence” Yee to consider opacity, illegibility, and invisibility as productive alternatives to contemporary trans hypervisibility.

This event is free and open to the public. Both exhibition spaces are wheelchair accessible. Please contact artmuseum@utoronto.ca if you have any accessibility needs or questions.

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About the Curator

Dallas Fellini is a curator, writer, and artist living and working in Toronto. Their research is situated at the intersection of trans studies and archival studies. Dallas is a co-director of the arts publication Silverfish and has curated exhibitions and screenings for Gallery 44, Vtape, Trinity Square Video, Xpace Cultural Centre, Hearth, Riverdale Hub Gallery, the Jackman Humanities Institute, and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Dallas is the recipient of the 2024 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators.

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Co-presented with The ArQuives and the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.

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Title image, left: Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney, The Pink Pegboard from Tape Condition: degraded (2016), 2023 (detail). Mixed-media installation. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Title image, right: Chelsea Thompto, Fog Lights, 2023. Textured glass, LCD screen, Raspberry PI, code, and 3D printed housing, 2” x 2.5” x 3”, set of 3 sculptures, duration infinite. Photo courtesy of the artist.

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The Art Museum comprises the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) and the University of Toronto Art Centre (University College). Located just a few steps apart, the two galleries were federated in 2014 and began operating under a new visual identity as the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, one of the largest gallery spaces for visual art exhibitions and programming in Toronto. 

 

Building on the two galleries’ distinguished histories, the Art Museum organizes and presents an intensive year-round program of exhibitions and events that foster — at a local, regional, and international level — innovative research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and knowledge of art and its histories befitting Canada’s leading university and the country’s largest city.

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