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Stories We Tell Ourselves Panel Discussion
Featuring participating artists Sameer Farooq, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Emii Alrai
Moderated by guest curator Matthew Kyba
February 9, 2023, 7:00 pm EST on Zoom
This group exhibition, conceptualized by guest curator Matthew Kyba, questions how the museum’s history as a colonial tool for Western pedagogy influences the stories we tell. To elucidate the unseen politics within the display systems and political agendas of cultural institutions, the four featured artists/artist duos appropriate various museological practices—collection, didactics, video, sculpture, presentation techniques and artifacts—to self-referentially question how such institutions dictate politicized stories. Stories We Tell Ourselves undermines the museum’s colonial past and current pedagogy by probing how these settings shape public opinion and social understanding of different histories and contemporary conditions.
Stories We Tell Ourselves runs from January 19 – March 18, 2023, at McIntosh Gallery.
More information at mcintoshgallery.ca
Recorded and published with the permission of all participants.
© All rights reserved to the speakers, 2023
McIntosh Gallery acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through its The Museums Assistance Program (MAP), the Canada Council for the Arts through its Assistance to Art Museums and Public Galleries Program, the Ontario Arts Council, the London Arts Council, Western University, Foundation Western, and our donors.
Stories We Tell Ourselves Panel Discussion
Featuring participating artists Sameer Farooq, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Emii Alrai
Moderated by guest curator Matthew Kyba
February 9, 2023, 7:00 pm EST on Zoom
This group exhibition, conceptualized by guest curator Matthew Kyba, questions how the museum’s history as a colonial tool for Western pedagogy influences the stories we tell. To elucidate the unseen politics within the display systems and political agendas of cultural institutions, the four featured artists/artist duos appropriate various museological practices—collection, didactics, video, sculpture, presentation techniques and artifacts—to self-referentially question how such institutions dictate politicized stories. Stories We Tell Ourselves undermines the museum’s colonial past and current pedagogy by probing how these settings shape public opinion and social understanding of different histories and contemporary conditions.
Stories We Tell Ourselves runs from January 19 – March 18, 2023, at McIntosh Gallery.
More information at mcintoshgallery.ca
Recorded and published with the permission of all participants.
© All rights reserved to the speakers, 2023
McIntosh Gallery acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through its The Museums Assistance Program (MAP), the Canada Council for the Arts through its Assistance to Art Museums and Public Galleries Program, the Ontario Arts Council, the London Arts Council, Western University, Foundation Western, and our donors.
