This program opens our gallery space to regional media artists free of charge in direct response to artists’ diminishing access to presentation space in the city. It also acknowledges the unique circumstances of artists working primarily digitally who may not need consistent access to a physical workspace.
Elia Morrison
Dates: November 6, 7, 8
Bio: Elia Morrison is a Guelph based artist living in The Ward. He works primarily in video and print, combining analog and digital process.
Project: Art Gallery of Ontario will be a re-mounting of a project initially developed during Elia’s time as a student at OCAD. Using discarded signage and promotional materials from the AGO along with newly created materials, this installation will present a liminal space designed to interrogate the institution and format of contemporary galleries and arts organizations.
Lauren Prousky
Dates: November 14, 25, 26, 28
Bio: Lauren Prousky is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, video, performance, painting and sculpture as well as a writer of poetry, short fiction and experimental essays. Her art practice typically involves year-long deep dives into scientific or autoethnographic subjects. She positions an anomaly—whether it be the self, creature, object, or imagined character—as a central figure or muse and then through them, she teases out narrative or poetic threads.
Project: At Ed Video, Lauren will be filming herself doing performance experiments that use “semantic satiation”—the phenomenon where a word or phrase repeated excessively becomes difficult to say and loses its meaning. She will be exploring meaning-making practices in information-saturated environments like social media’s infinite scroll UX by positioning infinite scroll interfaces as a mirror to semantic satiation.
Elisa Glugosh
Dates: November 15, 22, 29
Bio: Elisa is an interdisciplinary artist currently enrolled in the Studio Art program at the University of Guelph. Using photography and sculpture as a base medium, she explores curiosity of what is real and what is not, dreams and false memories. Inspired by surrealist ideas of creation, nature and sound.
Project: Elisa will continue exploring the experience of the dream world, sleep and false memories: creating nostalgic stories with obscure characters; emphasizing on the fuzziness of how memories develop over time and how some memories are completely false; exploring new ways to display photography and traditional animations using technology from the past.
Ana Platanos
Dates: November 16, 17, 18, 30; December 1
Bio: Ana Platanos (She/They) is a Queer Latina artist based in Guelph, Ontario. Ana is currently pursuing a Bachelors degree in Honours Studio Art. Ana is a multimedia artist with a focus on performance and video. She tends towards themes of identity, social issues, and humour.
Project: Ana will stage an exhibit entitled “Is This an OSHA Violation?” with varying multimedia works (sculpture, performance, video, etc.) about the relationship between Latine people and trades labour.
sophia bartholomew
Dates: December 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Bio: sophia bartholomew is an interdisciplinary artist descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory (rural Northwestern Ontario) and English and Irish settlers in and around so-called Toronto. Working outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture, installation, video, collaboration, and small, daily negotiations with found materials and household waste. sophia received their BFA from UBC and their MFA from the University of Guelph. Recent group exhibitions include “This dream pays for its space in my heart” at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery and “re-piecing” at the James Black Gallery.
Project: sophia will pursue a period of studio exploration, culminating in an exhibition of new video installation work.