CURRENT EXHIBITION
SPACE: Joi T. Arcand
14 September 2018 - 3 November 2018
Opening Reception 14 September 2018 7pm
kiya itako (be you) presents two mirrored Nēhiyawēwin (Plains Cree) phrases written in syllabics. One phrase, set atop a prairie sky, is installed outside of MOCA Toronto; the other, on a childhood photograph of Arcand, is installed outside Mercer Union. The two sentences come from words spoken by Joi T. Arcand’s mentors, offering contradictory descriptions […]
CURRENT EXHIBITION
The Fine Thread of Deviation
Anne Low & Evan Calder Williams
15 September 2018 - 3 November 2018
Opening Reception 14 September 2018 7pm
The silkworm has long been reared commercially for the production of silk fibre; their cocoons are naturally spun white and later dyed into a variety of colours. In 2011, researchers in Singapore developed a technique of adding a chemical dye known as Rhodamine B into the diet of silkworms, producing cocoons of brightly coloured silk […]