Test Site

Exhibition, artLAB/Cohen Commons, October 2024

London, Ontario has long been known as a test site, a place where new products are introduced to measure their success across various socioeconomic demographics and markets. This exhibition reimagines that consumption-based label, focusing instead on the Centre for Sustainable Curating’s efforts in ‘testing’ (defined as a critical examination, observation, or evaluation) new possibilities and futures. Bringing together past and ongoing experiments by the CSC—such as those involving light and shadow, visible mending, compostable signage, collaborative ownership, solar archiving, and collecting as redistribution—Test Site asks: What traces and marks are left behind by an exhibition?

Detail of note cards with hand made ink samples and details

Exhibition documentation by Dickson Bou, 2024

Learn more about Test Site here.

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About Kirsty Robertson

Kirsty Robertson is Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability, and Professor and Director of Museum and Curatorial studies at Western University, Canada, where she directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating.