{"id":20685,"date":"2021-03-01T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20685"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:59:18","slug":"new-local-podcast-explores-curatorial-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/03\/01\/new-local-podcast-explores-curatorial-hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"New local podcast explores curatorial hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toby Lawrence is creating the space for big conversations about art, curation, and relationality. In connection with Krista Arias\u2019 Earth Is My Elder<\/em> exhibit, running now at Open Space, Lawrence has launched a podcast, In Relation: Engaging Curatorial Hospitality<\/em>, to make these conversations accessible.<\/p>\n

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Toby Lawrence is launching a new podcast on curatorial hospitality (photo by Toby Lawrence).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arias and Lawrence met at the UBC Okanagan campus as PhD candidates through a supervisor and, along with Lindsay Harris, developed the artist collective Bread Flesh & Ink.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the anchor points for the collaboration is one of the films that\u2019s in the exhibition, Eating Our Ancestors<\/em>,\u201d says Lawrence, \u201cand in addition to the ideas in Eating Our Ancestors<\/em>, we\u2019re also looking at food sovereignty and community connection\u2026 and guest\/host relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bread Flesh & Ink began hosting small get-togethers that they called The Activist Potlucks. It was through these communal conversations that they began to explore their contributions to their collaboration and how to realize them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the questions that came up was, well, what is curatorial hospitality? What would that even mean? That question really started to build in my mind,\u201d says Lawrence.<\/p>\n

This concept of curatorial hospitality led Lawrence to explore it deeper at a research residency at Comox Valley Art Gallery, where she reworked the space into a research lab, doing readings and inviting people in for conversations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sort of mind-mapped a lot of the research that I was coming across, and that led into the overarching project that I\u2019m doing with Open Space throughout 2020 and into 2021, [also] called In Relation: Engaging Curatorial Hospitality,\u201d says Lawrence.<\/p>\n

Through her position at Open Space as the curator of special projects, Lawrence is expanding on these broad questions.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] looking in particular at the ways in which we work in relation to one another and the ways in which process and protocols are established within art gallery spaces or within curatorial spaces,\u201d says Lawrence, \u201cand so part of the more tangible elements of this program is my facilitation of the programming mandate revisioning process, as well as the exhibition The Earth Is My Elder<\/em>, and then the In Relation<\/em> limited series podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The In Relation<\/em> podcast is not an elaboration of Arias’ video-poetry work presented in The Earth Is My Elder<\/em>; these new conversations are, however, rooted from collaboration between Lawrence, Arias, and Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe link between all of these components is essentially this ongoing dialogue around hospitality and what that means around the arts and our working in art administration or as artists or as curators,\u201d says Lawrence.<\/p>\n

These talks are not meant to be authoritative voices on curation and hospitality, and the medium of a podcast allows them to be recorded, returned to, and expanded upon as they continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very much a way of documenting ongoing and potentially unresolved conversation, so it\u2019s not meant to be the definitive explanation of curatorial hospitality in any way,\u201d says Lawrence. \u201c[It\u2019s] also a way to document all of the dialogical elements that go into the processes of building exhibitions and creating artwork and creating community around artwork.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Relation: Engaging Curatorial Hospitality<\/em>
\nTuesday, February 23 to April 2021
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