Back by popular demand! Initially conceived as part of the Whose Chinatown? virtual conference, Chats & Chews are intended as informal mingling sessions for community members to connect and come together for casual conversation over virtual drinks and snacks.

PREVIEW EVENT!

IMPERFECT CONSTELLATIONS

Adjunct curator and moderator at Griffin Art Projects, Karen Tam, will be hosting an informal conversation that brings together an intimate group of artists and cultural producers engaging with key themes of resilience and resistance from a BIPOC settler perspective. From institutional critiques to explorations into the politics of archives and the effects of colonialism on diasporic communities in Canada, this panel explores ways that art and artists address the gaps in dominant discourse and narratives by creating and sharing space for underrepresented voices to tell their stories. Panelists include Dr. Marissa Largo, Pamila Matharu, Moridja Kitenge Banza and Jen Sungshine and David Ng of Love Intersections, with South African-based artist and curator Usha Seejarim as respondent.

Join Griffin Art Project’s Director, Lisa Baldissera for a live virtual curator’s tour of Griffin’s current exhibition, William Kentridge: The Colander.

Drawing from private collections in Western Canada as well as a selection of previous projects and new works from the Kentridge Studio, South Africa produced during 2020’s global pandemic, William Kentridge: The Colander explores the critique of political structures in Kentridge’s printmaking and filmmaking—looking at the layered, kinetic and collaged nature of his formal working processes, to investigate the porousness and vulnerability of artmaking and life—as well as the processes of the studio in his 2020-2021 series, Studio Life. Planned with the research and curatorial assistance of Jillian Ross, of Jillian Ross Print, as well as Parts & Labour, VivianeArt, Calgary and David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, The Colander will be held at Griffin Art Projects from May 29 to September 4, 2021.

As part of our ongoing Conversations on Collecting series, this two-part miniseries will focus on the impacts that COVID19 has had on artists, galleries, curators, studios and online entities operating within the complex ecosystem of the international art market in South Africa, Canada and beyond.

As part of our ongoing Conversations on Collecting series, this two-part miniseries will focus on the impacts that COVID-19 has had on artists, galleries, curators, studios and online entities operating within the complex ecosystem of the international art market in South Africa, Canada and beyond.

Join Latitudes Co-Directors Roberta Coci and Luci MacGarry for a conversation focused on the challenges, changes and silver linings encountered over the course of the past year amidst COVID-19, and what it means to break down barriers and inequalities in the art world as the founders LATITUDES, the first platform of its kind dedicated to African art.