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In search of the overflow
For Emily Johnson
In exhibition catalogue for Groundings: Care and Climate Justice, with Emily Johnson, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Courtney Desiree Morris, and Sarah Rosalena, 2024.
“In this futurity we remember to be slow with one another. We remember how breath absorbs tensions in the body. How breath moves stagnancies and how our collective breathing might disperse the overwhelming tensions of our lands. Sitting on a soft bed of moss, I breathe in the smell of rain. I know there is a word for this but choose to find another. I choose to find the way of expressing this from within the body so that my body remembers how this smell—beyond any other—is a reminder that we are future beings, our vibrational expanse moving into perpetuity as the overflow.”
Exhibition Texts
Forthcoming. “Witnessing Lisa.” Co-written with Sebastian De Line for Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson. Date TBD.
Forthcoming. “How do you gather with the ocean?” For the New Bedford Whaling Museum as part of the exhibition BREACH: Logbook 24 | Scrimshaw, New Bedford, MA. 2024.
“Ken Lum: The Power of Disruption.” In Ken Lum’s catalogue as part of winning the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Prize. Steidl Publishing, 2024.
“The Colour of Light.” In exhibition catalogue for GTA 2024 (March 23 - July 28, 2024), curated by Kate Wong, Ebony L. Haynes and Toleen Touq. Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON, 2024.
“In search of the overflow - Response to Emily Johnson’s ‘Quilt Beings’.” In exhibition catalogue for Groundings: Care and Climate Justice (group show with Emily Johnson, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Courtney Desiree Morris, Sarah Rosalena), Gallery At Heimbold, Sarah Lawrence College, NY. 2024.
“Tell me of the shape that I have sunken into.” In Terms: Depression (Topography) Part 1. Edited by Julia Eilers Smith and Michèle Thériault. Montreal, QC: Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, 2023.
“Ethereal Beings Swaying into Endlessness.” In Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael, edited by Bonnie Devine, Sarah Milroy, and John Geoghegan, 335–36. Kleinburg: McMichael Art Collection and Figure 1 Publishing, 2023.
“In Waking a Dream.” E-flux Architecture. December 14, 2022. As part of Half-Life, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Art Institute of Chicago within the context of its exhibition “Static Range” by Himali Singh Soin.
“On being elsewhere - these archives of guilt.” For the exhibition I Know About Hidden Things by Juliane Foronda curated by Letticia Cosbert Miller. Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON, 2022.
“For the Bee Held within the Flower’s Arms.” In the book MOMENTA Biennale: Sensing Nature. Co-edited by MOMENTA / Kerber Verlag, 2021.
“in wonder of smallness.” For the exhibition Opening Exercises (works by Didier Morelli) curated by Emily Falvey and Jane Tisdale. Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB. January 2020.
Interview with Couzyn van Heuvalen written with Bryan Winters. “Allured - Couzyn van Heuvalen’s Bait!” Bait: Couzyn van Heuvalen. Arts Space and the Owen’s Gallery. Peterborough, ON and Sackville, NB. 2019.
“Intentionality.” The Lay of the Land: Logan McDonald. Eastern Edge. St. John’s NL. Fall 2017.
Book Chapters
“Notes from a Garden Wedged into the City.” In Ecologies in Practice Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada. Elysia French and Amanda White, eds. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2024.
“A Love Letter to Damaged Earth.” Kyla LeSage, Thumlee Drybones-Foliot, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, eds. Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà. Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2021.
“All that Moves us: Bodies in Land.” Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism. Edited by Amy K. Levin and Joshua Adair. London, UK: Taylor and Francis Group. 2020.
Journal Articles
“Space for the virtual in curatorial futures.” Muse Magazine, Canadian Museums Association, Summer 2020.
“If the Body is an Assembly, How does it Assemble?” Canadian Art, Winter 2019.
“The Life of a Drum.” Inuit Art Quarterly, 29.2, Fall 2016.
“Bikes, Beads, and Babes: A Conversation Between Cheli Nighttraveller and Camille Usher.” Relations, Special Edition on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Spring 2016
“For Appeasement of the Spirits: Interview with Cedar-Eve Peters by Camille Usher” Relations, Special Edition on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Spring 2016
“Northern Highlights: Community Consultation in the ‘Big Land’.” Inuit Art Quarterly, Special Nunatsiavut Edition, 28.3-4, Winter 2015.
Reviews
“Robert Houle: Major Retrospective Highlights Artistic Practice as Resistance and Transformation.” Galleries West 7, no. 5 (March 7, 2022).
“A Thread That Never Breaks: Angel Aubichon, Joi T. Arcand, Leanna Marshall, Caroline Monnet, Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien), Olivia Whetung, The Pacific Sisters.” C Magazine, Summer 2021.
“Inuit Filmmaking that Sparks a Fire: Starting with the lighting of a qulliq, Inuk artist Asinnajaq put together a vital celebration of 30 years of Inuit film at ImagineNATIVE.” Canadian Art, January 23, 2018.
“Ogimaakwebnes (Chief Lady Bird)/Nancy King.” Canadian Art, Summer 2017
“Review of Picturing Arctic Modernity.” Inuit Art Quarterly, 30.2, Summer 2017.
Opinion
Georgeson-Usher, Camille, Agapi Gessesse, Michael Thompson, and Blake Goldring. “When Toronto Comes Back, It Must Be a City That Works for Everyone.” The Toronto Star, May 22, 2021.
Theses and Dissertations
“The Threshold for Gathering.” PhD, Cultural Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. 2024.
“More than Just Flesh: The Arts as Resistance and Sexual Empowerment.” Masters, Art History, Concordia University, Montréal, QC. 2017.
Canadian Art, February 2020
In a personal account, an artist, runner and scholar considers space and the everyday, in theory and creative practice
Logan MacDonald, monasthus / to touch soft wax, for hard bronze, 2019. Digital photograph.