Posts Tagged: contemporary art
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
Littoral Entanglements: The Fractured Lives of Plastic Artworks
Katie Lawson and Kirsty Robertson Known by many names, including “dentritic organoplastoids”, whale burps, sea balls, and aegagropila, Neptune balls are material clusters found on lake and ocean shores around the world, created through the action of wind and waves,
Littoral Entanglements: The Fractured Lives of Plastic Artworks
Katie Lawson and Kirsty Robertson Known by many names, including “dentritic organoplastoids”, whale burps, sea balls, and aegagropila, Neptune balls are material clusters found on lake and ocean shores around the world, created through the action of wind and waves,
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
Plastic Dislocations: Questions of Labour and Environment in Plastic Heart
Kirsty Robertson and Heather Davis. “Plastic Dislocations: Questions of Labour and Environment in Plastic Heart.” Sculpture Journal 33.4, pp. 561-82 Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through / Le synthétique au cœur de l’humain, Title banners & artist list, salvaged
Plastic Dislocations: Questions of Labour and Environment in Plastic Heart
Kirsty Robertson and Heather Davis. “Plastic Dislocations: Questions of Labour and Environment in Plastic Heart.” Sculpture Journal 33.4, pp. 561-82 Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through / Le synthétique au cœur de l’humain, Title banners & artist list, salvaged
Chained to the Gallery: 1970s Protest, Nationalism, and Anti-Racism at the Art Gallery of Ontario
This article details research into an archival fonds at the Art Gallery of Ontario (ago) chronicling protests that took place at the institution in the 1970s. The archive, assembled by the institution’s registrar, was either lost or stolen in the
Chained to the Gallery: 1970s Protest, Nationalism, and Anti-Racism at the Art Gallery of Ontario
This article details research into an archival fonds at the Art Gallery of Ontario (ago) chronicling protests that took place at the institution in the 1970s. The archive, assembled by the institution’s registrar, was either lost or stolen in the
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
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
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective. The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, September 8-November 15, 2021 Plastic Heart is an experimental exhibition that examines plastic as art material, cultural object, geologic process,
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective. The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, September 8-November 15, 2021 Plastic Heart is an experimental exhibition that examines plastic as art material, cultural object, geologic process,
Kirsty Robertson 
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