Category Archives: Curatorial
The Air of the Now and Gone
Curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith Crisis, catastrophe and disaster abound in contemporary discussions of climate change and its impacts. In fact, such sentiments are so pervasive that they might have tipped into what author Cal Flyn describes
The Air of the Now and Gone
Curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith Crisis, catastrophe and disaster abound in contemporary discussions of climate change and its impacts. In fact, such sentiments are so pervasive that they might have tipped into what author Cal Flyn describes
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
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
Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum (article)
Kirsty Robertson and Eugenia Kisin. “Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 12.2 (October 2023), 232-46. Can a curatorial model based on radical pedagogy encourage action on climate change? To answer
Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum (article)
Kirsty Robertson and Eugenia Kisin. “Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 12.2 (October 2023), 232-46. Can a curatorial model based on radical pedagogy encourage action on climate change? To answer
meromictic
Curated by Kirsty Robertson and MCS4605E, artLAB, Western University, February 29-March 14, 2024 This exhibition was curated as a part of the capstone course in the undergraduate Museum and Curatorial Studies program at Western University. Kionywarihwaen, or Crawford Lake, is
meromictic
Curated by Kirsty Robertson and MCS4605E, artLAB, Western University, February 29-March 14, 2024 This exhibition was curated as a part of the capstone course in the undergraduate Museum and Curatorial Studies program at Western University. Kionywarihwaen, or Crawford Lake, is
A Public (Art) Notice
How can public art be made more sustainable? This collaboration among the Centre for Sustainable Curating, the Synthetic Collective, the Institute for Public Art and Sustainability (IPAS) at Evergreen Brick Works, and The Bentway took place in the warm spring of 2023, and coalesced
A Public (Art) Notice
How can public art be made more sustainable? This collaboration among the Centre for Sustainable Curating, the Synthetic Collective, the Institute for Public Art and Sustainability (IPAS) at Evergreen Brick Works, and The Bentway took place in the warm spring of 2023, and coalesced
Using the Resources at Hand: Sustainable Exhibition Design
Using the Resources at Hand is designed primarily to help students in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, Canada think about eco-friendly options in designing exhibitions. Skills learned here can also be used elsewhere, and can help to
Using the Resources at Hand: Sustainable Exhibition Design
Using the Resources at Hand is designed primarily to help students in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, Canada think about eco-friendly options in designing exhibitions. Skills learned here can also be used elsewhere, and can help to
Centre for Sustainable Curating
Located in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, the Centre for Sustainable Curating encourages research into waste, pollution, and climate crisis, and the development of exhibitions and artworks with low carbon footprints. While many museums have started to
Centre for Sustainable Curating
Located in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, the Centre for Sustainable Curating encourages research into waste, pollution, and climate crisis, and the development of exhibitions and artworks with low carbon footprints. While many museums have started to
From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures
Image: From Remote Stars, installation, showing work by Christina Battle, are we going to get blown off the planet [and what should we do about it], video installation (digital video, collaged fabric curtain), 2022, photo courtesy of Tony Hafkenscheid, 2022
From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures
Image: From Remote Stars, installation, showing work by Christina Battle, are we going to get blown off the planet [and what should we do about it], video installation (digital video, collaged fabric curtain), 2022, photo courtesy of Tony Hafkenscheid, 2022
From Remote Stars: Podcast
This three-part miniseries explores the recently uncovered recording that artist Greg Curnoe made of R. Buckminster Fuller speaking in London, Ontario in 1968. One evening in London, Ontario in 1968, R. Buckminster Fuller stood in front of an audience of
From Remote Stars: Podcast
This three-part miniseries explores the recently uncovered recording that artist Greg Curnoe made of R. Buckminster Fuller speaking in London, Ontario in 1968. One evening in London, Ontario in 1968, R. Buckminster Fuller stood in front of an audience of
In Conjunction with Light: The Plastics Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1967
I wrote this article as part of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto’s digital spotlight series for the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Excerpt: “In Fall 1967, the Women’s Committee at the Art Gallery of
In Conjunction with Light: The Plastics Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1967
I wrote this article as part of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto’s digital spotlight series for the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Excerpt: “In Fall 1967, the Women’s Committee at the Art Gallery of
Kirsty Robertson 
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