artLAB 2024-2025
Fall 2024
EVENT: Water (Deshkan Ziibi)
EVENT: Holiday Ornament Decorating
artLAB Gallery:SustainableCities: A Collective Eclipsing
Cohen Commons: Parfumé
EVENT: Meet and Greet
artLAB Gallery:over and over and over and
Cohen Commons: Test Site
artLAB Gallery:Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Cohen Commons: RiverFest2024
Curated by Christof Migone, Sheri Osden Nault, and Ruth Skinner.
December 12, 2024
12 noon to 12 midnight
artLAB Gallery, 深夜福利站, London and online on YouTube
Water (Deshkan Ziibi) is the fifth in a series of 12 annual events. Each year, the event focuses on a word of the12-word phrase "You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life AndDeath," and activates it in myriad ways. This year's event will willingly wade the time away, in eddies, in sinks, in drains, in backwaters, through root systems, capillaries, infiltrating, inundating, as Isabelle Stengers put it, our "humid brains."
Water (Deshkan Ziibi) features Kate Armstrong, Bagida'waad Alliance, Dickson Bou, Penelope Cain, Shannon Cooney, Tom Cull, Melissa General, Farheen Haq, Sharmistha Kar, Claire Liu, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Brady Marks, Laura Millard, Valerie Mills-Milde, Eli Nolet, Racquel Rowe, Jon Sasaki, Lou Sheppard, Quinn Smallboy, Jordyn Stewart, Mark Timmings, Paul Walde, Michelle Wilson, and more.
Water (Deshkan Ziibi) is presented by the artLAB Gallery in partnership with Art Gallery Of Hamilton, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Forest City Gallery, Futura Resistenza, Glenfiddich Artists-In-Residence, McIntosh Gallery, NAISA, NIMAC, Other Sights, SASAH, Thames Art Gallery, and WalkingLab.
LINEUP
HOUR 1 (12 EST)
artLab PRESENTS Tom Cull with Daniella Butters and Sruthi Ramanarayanan, plus E.B.B.S.
HOUR 2 (13 EST)
National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition PRESENTS Amanda Amour Lynx, Kaya Joan, Star Nahwegahbo, plus Sheri Osden Nault
HOUR 3 (14 EST)
WalkingLab PRESENTS Eli Nolet plus Lina Choi
HOUR 4 (15 EST)
Doris McCarthy Gallery PRESENTS Farheen Haq, Laura Millard, Jordyn Stewart, Jon Sasaki, Lou Sheppard, plus Bagida’waad Alliance
HOUR 5 (16 EST)
Art Gallery of Hamilton PRESENTS Celia Vernal, Tyler Tekatch, Laurie Kilgor-Walsh, plus Melissa General
HOUR 6 (17 EST)
SASAH PRESENTS Michelle Wilson and the Coves Collective Ensemble, plus Kate Armstrong and Kate Liu
HOUR 7 (18 EST)
Thames Art Gallery PRESENTS Dickson Bou, Jamie Dronyk, Sharmistha Kar, Peter Lebel, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Valerie Mills-Milde, & Quinn Smallboy
HOUR 8 (19 EST)
Futura Resistenza PRESENTS Christof Migone with Masha Kouznetsova and Ellen Moffat
HOUR 9 (20 EST)
Forest City Gallery PRESENTS Racquel Rowe
HOUR 10 (21 EST)
Glenfiddich Artists in Residence PRESENTS Penelope Cain
HOUR 11 (22 EST)
McIntosh Gallery PRESENTS Shannon Cooney and Paul Walde
HOUR 12 (23 EST)
New Adventures in Sound Art and Other Sights PRESENTS Brady Marks & Mark Timmings (Wetland Project)
🚗 Free parking in Middlesex Lot [G] from 4PM onward
EVENT:
Drop-in Workshop: Holiday Ornament Decorating
Organized by Cheyne Ferguson, artLAB Gallery Intern
Monday, November 25 from 12pm-2pm
Cohen Commons
Take a break from studying to get into the holiday spirit! Join us for some FUN crafts, enjoy light refreshments and some unencumbered time to unwind. We’ll be decorating holiday ornaments for your tree. All materials provided, while supplies
SustainableCities: A Collective Eclipsing
Curated by Imogen Clendinning
Brigitta Zhao, Philip Gurrey, Michelle Wilson, Theo Jean Cuthand, Danielle Petti, and Jessica Joyce
Exhibition: November 14 – December 5
Reception: Friday, November 22 / 5-7PM
artLAB Gallery
Image credit: Dithered still image from "Fiona Happening," Brigitta Zhao. Video loop 3:18, 2023.
An eclipse is in sense, a collaboration between two forces, passing across one another from immense distances and meeting in a cosmic dance. In the works of Theo Jean Cuthand, Philip Gurrey, Jessica Joyce, Danielle Petti, Michelle Wilson and Brigitta Zhao, intangible collaborative dynamics play out in acts of creation; in processes of remediation, explorations of materiality, human and non-human relations, interdisciplinary exchange and the use of digital technology, artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure. The eclipse serves as an ontological tool to rethink relations between matter and maker, situating material as not a resource to be mined, but an autonomous entity with its own logics and priorities. These many eclipses rotate and converge between critiques of colonial extraction and pollution, the poetry of minerals, microplastics, corn and rust, and various datafications of the environment.
Photography by Dickson Bou, artLAB Gallery Preparator
Partnering with the Free Appropriate Sustainable Technology (FAST) research group in 深夜福利站 Engineering, A Collective Eclipsing features 3-d printing technology and solar power, in a celebration of digital infrastructures that require collaboration between the Sun, the weather, the artist and engineer.
This project is funded by: 深夜福利站 Sustainable Impact Fund, 深夜福利站 Research, Society of Graduate Students, 深夜福利站 Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Office of Indigenous Initiatives.
This exhibition is presented by Junyu Ke's SustainableCities Connect Workshop which will take place in the Visual Arts Department on November 22nd, 9:00am-4:00p EST. Click the register by November 17th.
Thank you to our collaborators from the FAST research group, Dr. Joshua Pearce, Uzair Jamil, Motakkabir Rahman and Alessia Romani.
Parfumé
Co-curated by Venus Nwaokoro and Maggie Shook
Exhibition: November 14 – December 5, 2024
Reception: Friday, November 22 / 5-7PM
Cohen Commons
Arlen Griffiths, Dhra Patel, Dylan Evans, Emily Kings, Emma Mary Sked, Jadhen Pangilinan, Juliette Devos-Speers, Kate Murphy, Natasha Beaudoin, Parisa Lahooty, and Stephanie Davey.
Parfumé is an exhibition where sight and scent are intertwined, inviting audiences to explore and reflect on the interplay between visual art and the evocative power of memory. Featuring colourful and nature-inspired pieces, Parfumé asks viewers to consider the scents that each artwork might summon from their personal experiences. The title, Parfumé, hints at an olfactory connection that guides audiences to think of aromas as they observe the artworks on display. Through colours, imagery, textures, and diverse media, this exhibition prompts viewers to associate these visual cues with specific scents, creating a sensory dialogue between memory and art.
In S’mores in Sudbury by Natasha Beaudoin, richly saturated colours and familiar campfire imagery evoke the comforting, nostalgic scent of a wood-burning fire. This work conjures memories of summers spent outdoors, tapping into the almost universal connection people feel with the aroma of campfires, which is both distinctive and steeped in nostalgia.
Scent is deeply intertwined with memory, often carrying some of our most vivid recollections. Untitled by Arlen Griffiths explores this, using multi-portrait imagery to represent how scents unlock memories and linger in our consciousness. As viewers engage with the work, they may find themselves searching their own memories, experiencing the power of scent to conjure moments from the past, even in its absence.
Other works in Parfumé rely on colour and texture alone to evoke scents, as seen in Sleep Has Her House by Dylan, Primordial Landscape by Emily Kings, and Psychedelic Chaos by Jadhen Pangilinan. In The Pheromones, Emily Kings plays on the theme through both title and subject matter, while Kate Murphy’s painting of lilies and Emma Mary Sked’s abstracted, geometric floral series similarly leverage familiar floral forms to suggest scents, invoking the delicate, sweet aroma of flowers such as lilies.
The exhibition’s colour palette also encourages sensory associations that differ from person to person. As audiences enter the space, the exhibition title Parfumé, in French, an allusion to France’s rich history of perfumery, gently encourages viewers to consider each artwork through a lens of intuition, emotion, and sensory memory. Although no actual scents are present (except for Dhra Patel’s Henna-coated work, which adds a subtle, earthy fragrance), Parfumé serves as a prompt for viewers to connect the visual with the olfactory, bridging art with sensory memory in a personal, reflective experience.
Photography by Dickson Bou, artLAB Gallery Preparator
Department of Visual Arts:
MEET AND GREET!
Thursday, October 10 from 3-4PM
Organized by Cheyne Ferguson, artLAB Gallery Intern
artLAB Gallery
Have you ever wanted to opportunity to get to know faculty and staff better? Then join us for this special event--there will be coffee to sip, nametags to wear, and great conversations to be had between students, faculty and staff. All are welcome, light refreshments will be served.
Photography by Dickson Bou, artLAB Gallery Preparator
over and over and over and
Curated by Katie Lawson
Tia Bates , Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
artLAB Gallery
To work with residue, refuse, salvage, and waste necessitates moving through the world with openness and curiosity, slowly gathering materials over time and through various means. This is not mere 'resourcefulness' but a major principle in terms of how Tia Bates, Danielle Petti, and Masha Kouznetsova work and understand value in sourcing the material and immaterial aspects of their artwork. In the exhibition over and over and over and each artist has cultivated their own approach to the transformation of found materials, a further translation of their embodied experiences. The distortion or alteration of materials occurs through pulping, setting, melting, illuminating, recording, and transmitting with paper, water, cement, beeswax, light, soundwaves, acetate and metals. A concept, a rock, an image or a sound is revisited time and time again, revealing itself bit by bit. Matter is never fixed, but ever changing through multiple iterations of a singular installation, and time is embraced as medium. Over and over and over and over and over and…
Documentation by Dickson Bou, Gallery Prepartor.
Test Site
Organized by the Centre for Sustainable Curating.
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
CSC GIVEAWAY: October 21 at 11am until October 22 at 5pm
Cohen Commons
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?
Documentation by Dickson Bou, Gallery Prepartor.
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Hannah West, MFA Candidate
Exhibtion: September 5 – September 26, 2024
Reception: Thursday, September 5 / 5-7pm
artLAB Gallery
Image credit: Hannah West, "Sequins," coloured pencil on wood panel, 8 x 8 inches, 2023
This exhibition is the culmination of a project that has been in development since my time as a student at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) consists of select drawings created during my two years as an MFA candidate.
The drawings explore the beauty of everyday life, seeking to bring attention to moments, objects and spaces that are often overlooked, using coloured pencil, an overlooked fine arts medium. I am inspired by scenes I have discovered in passing, choosing to capture what stands out to me in the moment I encounter it. I emphasize these moments by highlighting elements of lighting, colour and reflection. My work is a way for me to find comfort in isolation and to cope with the inevitable passage of time, as I view the world with a sense of childlike wonder.
River Through Your Eye: Campus Community Photography
RiverFest2024
Exhibtion: September 5 – October 1, 2024
Cohen Commons
深夜福利站 Sustainability
Office of Indigenous Initiatives
Indigenous Students’ Association
River Through Your Eye: Campus Community Photography is an exhibit curated by the campus community through the annual celebration of Riverfest. This collection on photo submissions from 2022 and 2023, showcases the beauty of the Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River/Thames River) captured through different perspectives.
River Through Your Eye returns for another year, with submissions being accepted from September 7 – 27. Those who submit photos will be entered into a Sustainability prize pack draw that includes Riverfest-branded swag. Participants are encouraged to submit their photos via Instagram to @深夜福利站uSustain or email sustainability@uwo.ca.Be sure to use the hashtag #RiverThroughYourEye2024.
Learn more about Riverfest and how you can get involved by visiting the 深夜福利站 Sustainability website
