Moving beyond conventional exhibition formats, Carleton University Art Gallery’s experimental Open Space Lab turned the empty gallery into a space for research, creation and collaboration.
Through three sessions in 2017 the OSL offered artists and collectives whose work is performance-based, exploratory and multi-disciplinary the space to explore, develop and initiate dialogue about ideas and art.
Curated by Anna Khimasia
The OSL was generously supported by the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Culturally Diverse Curatorial Projects grant.
January 31, 2017 – February 11, 2017
In the inaugural OSL work, Hashemi writes life stories shared with her by an Iranian woman named Zahra, in Farsi. The narrative has been emerging through conversations between Hashemi and Zahra about how their lives are marked by gender. Hashemi plays the role of scribe; what is shared is Zahra’s.
Livestream Footage of Gita Hashemi’s work (Full Playlist)
Interview with Gita Hashemi
Curated by
Anna Khimasia
Artists in the Exhibition
Gita Hashemi
Credits
OSL is generously supported by the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Culturally Diverse Curatorial Projects grant.
May 13, 2017 – May 21, 2017
A co-production between Hong Kong Exile (Vancouver) and fu-GEN Theatre (Toronto), produced in association with Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver), No Foreigners is a new performance work that considers Chinese shopping malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash.
Curated by
Anna Khimasia
Artists in the Exhibition
Hong Kong Exile
Credits
OSL is generously supported by the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Culturally Diverse Curatorial Projects grant.
November 29, 2017 – December 4, 2017
For OSL 03, the internationally renowned Brooklyn artist Kambui Olujimi will be working at CUAG on a new performance/animation project based on Wayward North—a 2010 commission for Art in General in New York.
Wayward North was comprised of twelve embroidered celestial star maps, sculptures, photographs and drawings that work in tandem with the mythical narrative of the same name. The installation blended real places and events with the imagined to create a mythical world capable of reflecting the hopes and fears of the current moment
Artist Interview with Kambui Olujimi
Curated by
Anna Khimasia
Artists in the exhibition
Kambui Olujimi
Credits
OSL is generously supported by the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Culturally Diverse Curatorial Projects grant.