Posts Tagged: curating

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

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

Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through (article)

This article explores the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective, the exhibition emerged from a scientific study aimed at tracking plastic pellet pollution on the strandlines of beaches of the Great Lakes. This lake

Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through (article)

This article explores the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective, the exhibition emerged from a scientific study aimed at tracking plastic pellet pollution on the strandlines of beaches of the Great Lakes. This lake

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