Unreleased Press Release #2
August 2016
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The annual exhibition of second-year MFA work at Western University’s Artlab Gallery with Paul Chartrand, Charles Harris, Sarah Munro, Samantha Noseworthy, Quinn Smallboy, and Quintin Teszeri.
Here we are. Again. Guess who’s back, back again. We're back. LIVE. Same bat-time. Same bat-channel. Who moved the garbage can? Where the hell is it now? And why’s everybody kick the doorstop into my studio when they don't need it? This is another group show. Ecological fragmentation, digital subcultures, simulated identities, the collective taste of Western middle class society, Russian Constructivism, apathetic consumerism, cultural determinism. String.
Plants with agency, objects as habitats, machinima, the viscosity of space. Dense, airy. A shackle, a hug. Claustrophobic love. Made by hand. An act of caregiving. The coming and going of life. Residue, leftovers, the remainder, what gets carried over, the difference, what gets left behind. Empty Mountain Dew bottles.
Domestic décor. Romanticism. Visions of the future. Vantage points that are ambivalent, unstable, singular, incommensurable, hypocritical, and fluid. Worms. A body born into an unfathomable set of circumstances it must navigate unto its end. Living and breathing systems.
When you’re a part of a system, when you take from it and give to it, because you’re in it and of it, and sometimes for it, and sometimes against it, it’s hard to tell who you are and what this all is. This is us.
August 2016
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The annual exhibition of second-year MFA work at Western University’s Artlab Gallery with Paul Chartrand, Charles Harris, Sarah Munro, Samantha Noseworthy, Quinn Smallboy, and Quintin Teszeri.
Here we are. Again. Guess who’s back, back again. We're back. LIVE. Same bat-time. Same bat-channel. Who moved the garbage can? Where the hell is it now? And why’s everybody kick the doorstop into my studio when they don't need it? This is another group show. Ecological fragmentation, digital subcultures, simulated identities, the collective taste of Western middle class society, Russian Constructivism, apathetic consumerism, cultural determinism. String.
Plants with agency, objects as habitats, machinima, the viscosity of space. Dense, airy. A shackle, a hug. Claustrophobic love. Made by hand. An act of caregiving. The coming and going of life. Residue, leftovers, the remainder, what gets carried over, the difference, what gets left behind. Empty Mountain Dew bottles.
Domestic décor. Romanticism. Visions of the future. Vantage points that are ambivalent, unstable, singular, incommensurable, hypocritical, and fluid. Worms. A body born into an unfathomable set of circumstances it must navigate unto its end. Living and breathing systems.
When you’re a part of a system, when you take from it and give to it, because you’re in it and of it, and sometimes for it, and sometimes against it, it’s hard to tell who you are and what this all is. This is us.
Hi Quintin,
Overall, while I think the writing is interesting I am not convinced it works for Akimbo and other forms of advertising. It doesn't give the public enough information about what is going on. I understand it is difficult to write about everyone's work, especially as it is new work that is in process. However, I am also finding the list concept too long. List fatigue comes quickly. I think this would benefit from a bit more concrete info content in a discursive form. Is it possible for you to get back to me with a re-write?
I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks,
The Curator
Overall, while I think the writing is interesting I am not convinced it works for Akimbo and other forms of advertising. It doesn't give the public enough information about what is going on. I understand it is difficult to write about everyone's work, especially as it is new work that is in process. However, I am also finding the list concept too long. List fatigue comes quickly. I think this would benefit from a bit more concrete info content in a discursive form. Is it possible for you to get back to me with a re-write?
I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks,
The Curator
Hi The Curator,
Unfortunately, I'm positively swamped and overextended in so many directions already I won't be able to rewrite the press release. If you'd like, I can pass along your comments to the group and see if anyone's willing to write something more normative.
All my best,
Quintin
Unfortunately, I'm positively swamped and overextended in so many directions already I won't be able to rewrite the press release. If you'd like, I can pass along your comments to the group and see if anyone's willing to write something more normative.
All my best,
Quintin
Hi Quintin,
Do you have any problem with me working on this? In case you were not aware, editing and managing advertising copy is something that I normally do in my role with the gallery.
Best,
The Curator
Do you have any problem with me working on this? In case you were not aware, editing and managing advertising copy is something that I normally do in my role with the gallery.
Best,
The Curator
Hi The Curator,
I'm certain you could do a far better job than I. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Quintin
I'm certain you could do a far better job than I. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Quintin