Blackwood Gallery
3359 Mississauga Road North, University of Toronto Mississauga L5L 1C6 Mississauga, ON, Canada

Now Live! Roy Dib's address for Artists In Presidents: While he smokes, checks Instagram, and looks out onto the Mediterranean, the Beirut-based artist and filmmaker delivers a pensive monologue on love, sex, nationhood, and migration. Between drags, Dib pries apart the norms that ostensibly unite societies (marriage, the nation-state, the pursuit of happiness), forging a critique embedded in his own entanglements and complicities.https://buff.ly/3pgghUG Listen to the full tr...ansmission on www.artistsinpresidents.com and www.blackwoodgallery.ca, or subscribe for weekly releases on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Spotify! Full episode transcripts and ASL videos are available on the website. Song credit: Cesária Évora, Sodade, 1992 Photo: Aly Saab Image description: A person, presumably Roy Dib, appears indistinct in the lower half of the vertical-format image, in front of a black background. The image effect is blurry and kaleidoscopic, inhibiting the ability to see the subject. The outline of a person from mid-chest upward is visible, wearing a white shirt. #ArtistsInPresidents #TransmissionsToPower #RoyDib #Beirut #Mediterranean #Nationhood #Migration #Love #CesariaEvora #Sodade

We are thrilled to share SDUK issue 10: PRONOUNCING! In parallel with Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power, a series of leadership portraits and audio addresses from artists-as-leaders, PRONOUNCING explores how speech, performance, language, and poetry shape sociopolitical discourse. With contributions from Oana Avasilichioaei, Eliza Chandler, Jesse Chun, Zoë Dodd, Ines Doujak, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Louise Hickman, LLana James, Maandeeq Mohamed, Matt Nish-Lapidus,... Shama Rangwala, Laura Rosella, Jordan Scott, Ai Taniguchi, Rinaldo Walcott, and Jacob Wren. Available on the Blackwood website and as a downloadable pdf: https://buff.ly/3BbIFK8 #SDUK #PRONOUNCING

Now live! Presentations by #RwCMediatic Research Fellows Olivia Klevorn, Estraven Lupino Smith, and Polina Teif are streaming on the Blackwood Gallery website until Saturday November 21 at 5pm EST. Access them here: https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca//constructions-of-selfhood

Check out the latest video tour of the lightboxes on campus! In this video, educator-in-residence Laura Tibi speaks on works by Yto Barrada, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Black Quantum Futurism, and Erdem Tadelen. Videography by Vuk Dragojevic. Radical Hope runs to December 13, 2020 as part four in the lightbox series Burning Glass, Reading Stone. For more on the ongoing lightbox series (including images, project descriptions, and other interpretative materials), visit blackwoodgallery.ca.

Burning Glass, Reading Stone 3: Radical Hope opens next week in the lightboxes on campus! Featuring works by Yto Barrada, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Black Quantum Futurism and Erdem Tadelen, the series runs to December 13, 2020. For more info on the full series, check out our website: https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/program/radical-hope Image: Erdem Tadelen, Demagogues: 5, 2020.

This is the final week to catch Oscar Santillan's project, Solaris, in the lightboxes on campus as part of Burning Glass, Reading Stone! We're thrilled to share a response to the projecta sound work and "reading" based on Octavia Butler's Earthseed by artist Laurie Kang, as part of the Reader-in-Residence series. Check it out on our website: https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca//reader-in-residence-lauri

Another stream is now online! Esery Mondesir's "Haitian Trilogy" and Brett Story's "The Hottest August," streaming for one week, until next Wednesday, November 4 at 5pm EST. Link: https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca//documentary-practices-pow A conversation between the filmmakers follows on November 4.... Audio introductions to all films, and transcripts of translated speech are available for download. #RwCMediatic