Working Conditions

Juan Ortiz-Apuy, “Measures of Distance II (North, South, East and West) (After Heizer),” 2014.

Tuesday, 02 August 2016
Gallery TPW (170 St. Helens Avenue)
7 PM
Free

As part of Working Conditions, an exhibition currently on view at Gallery TPW, this salon will expand upon the exhibition’s interrogation of power dynamics, blind spots and measures of success contained in cultural economies and ecosystems, investigating the invisible structures that are used to organize time, bodies and space.

Working Conditions brings together the work of artists questioning where they stand and what they stand amidst. Acknowledging that the studio exists at the intersection of many ecologies, the artists place themselves in relation to factors beyond their place of production. Their interactions negotiate complicities, rights and responsibilities while pushing at the blurry boundaries between art and life.

Readings have been selected in consultation with participating artists Kajsa Dahlberg and Juan Ortiz-Apuy, and curator Sam Cotter, and will include selections from Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows and Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. Excerpts will be handed out at the salon and no pre-reading is required.

Working Conditions is on view until 06 August 2016 at Gallery TPW.

Special thanks to the Gallery TPW for hosting this salon.