Grieve Weave 9 (overlapping grief weave) / Bauhaus wallpaper Oujia tea set, 2023, Monotype on paper. Artists' book: monoprint on coventry rag and somerset, asahi silk and iris rayon bookcloth.
Studio,
Artist’s Books
The Embodied Press: Queer Abstraction and the Artist’s Book is a touring exhibition that features artist’s books and publications by queer and transgender artists, from graphic novels and collage-works to bold experiments with letterpress, screenprinting, video, performance, and risograph.
Curating
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper focusing on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working within communities that are most impacted by the virus: queer and trans people, people who use drugs, sex workers, people of colour, and indigenous peoples. Together we reflect the immediacy and urgency of global HIV/AIDS dialogues as well as their historical continuities. The HIV Howler is a forum for dialogue, a demand for aesthetic self-determination, a response to tokenism, and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between policy, pathology, and community.
Studio,
Publishing
PLEASURE CRAFT is a screening that explores appearances of craft and hand making in film and video from the 1960s to the present, where craft is a temporal process rather than a fixed object.
Curating
The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design is a publication on contemporary craft politics edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch from Bloomsbury Press Visual Culture, 2020.
Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy.
Writing & Books
NO PLACE: Queer Geographies on Screen is a touring exhibition program that features the work of Canadian and international queer and trans artists who examine ways in which queer notions of place, mapping, and geography are realized on screen. The works address the complex intersections of culture, orientation and geography, and together, they articulate queerness as “simultaneously everywhere and nowhere”, echoing the dual meaning of utopia as both an ideal and non-existent place. The artists deal with issues such as migration, displacement, queer assimilation, and spatial politics. In some instances, the medium and mechanics of film and video itself becomes the subject of the work. The queerly re-embodied camera may be understood, for example, as an “orientation device” that documents the artist’s position in relation to physical space.
Curating
Craft and the Polymorphous Perverse: This essay was commissioned for the catalogue of “Making Otherwise,” a touring exhibition of contemporary craft works by six artists, Richard Boulet, Marc Courtemanche, Ursula Johnson, Sarah Maloney, Paul Mathieu and Janet Morton. The exhibition’s curator, Heather Anderson, uses the concept of “otherwise” to bring together and think through their divergent works, that promiscuously move across disciplinary and sensory boundaries. In my text, I bring the psychoanalytic concepts of ambivalence, the polymorphous perverse, shame, and the real into closer relation with craft theory and queer theory. This text contributes to an emerging body of writing that seeks to “queer” craft discourse and understandings of material.
Writing