AFTER RENDERING ON VIEW (BETTY ROWLAND MEETS ANGELA AAMES), MAY 27, 2017.
presented in the context of

… move or be moved by some thing rather than oneself
Guillaume Adjutor Provost, Adam Basanta, Adrienne Crossman, and Nadège Grebmeier Forget

June 23 – August 5, 2018
Critical Distance, Toronto
Curated by : Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau and Maude Johnson

…move or be moved by some thing rather than oneself. is an exhibition that considers curating and choreography as materials and subjects. The title, taken from a quote by choreographer Yvonne Rainer, echoes the curators’ desire to question the potentialities of artworks as well as presentation contexts from the position of transdisciplinary instability.

… move or be moved by some thing rather than oneself. examines the intersections between methods of creation and reflection particular to curatorial and choreographic spheres. As part of the ongoing discussion on dance in the museum, this exhibition responds specifically by disengaging from the danced gesture. It gathers artists who, on the one hand, borrow from curatorial and choreographic methodologies; and who, on the other hand, transform the multiple spaces (physical, virtual, social, political, historical, etc.) and temporalities of the gallery.

This exhibition probes at the politics generated or renewed by these two approaches when (re)located together in the gallery space. What performative potentials will emerge from this juxtaposition of the curatorial and the choreographic? Choreography and curating are understood as two transmission systems able to reveal the agency of works as well as of the exhibition structure. Can the analytical tools provided by curating and choreography mutually enhance each other and be used as theoretical frameworks to address the relationships between artworks, exhibition, and publics in a new light?

Gallery Supplement | Images of all works exhibited

Curatorial essays and full documentation of the exhibition is forthcoming.

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After Rendering on View (Betty Rowland meets Angela Aames), May 27, 2017.

This work includes : a multi-platform intervention presented as a selection of archival images and videos divided among CDCC’s various communication channels (website, press release, Instagram, catalogue, etc.); an image-based response to the guided discussion between the curators and the artists published in the catalogue; as well as a large-scale photograph installed on the Artscape Youngplace billboard on Shaw Street, outside of CDCC, and its “negative” or trace, in the same format, appearing in the gallery in the form of a pink-painted square on the wall facing the billboard.

Rendering on View (Betty Rowland meets Angela Aames) was a performance created by Nadège Grebmeier Forget as part of the installation Walls of Wind: The mirroring and rendering performed on May 27, 2017, and created in the context of the group exhibition I’ve Only Known My Own curated by Nicole Burisch and presented from April 21 to June 10, 2017, at OPTICA, Montréal.

Cover and billboard images : Toni Hafkenscheid
Performance image : Paul Litherland. Rendering on View (Betty Rowland meets Angela Aames), Optica, Montréal, 2017