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Wednesday, May 18, 6:30 pm
122 Bond Street, Room IMA-307
Join multidisciplinary artist Annie MacDonell for a talk on her exhibition Holding Still // Holding Together, now on view at the Ryerson Image Centre.
Annie MacDonells newly-commissioned, site-specific installation activates both the white-cube interior of the RICs University Gallery and the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall. The exhibition originates in images of passive political resistance gathered from the RICs Black Star Collection and other sources. At times deceptively peaceful, the photographs express an imbalance and struggle between the police officers and the limp bodies of protestors being forced to move. Despite the variety of circumstances, political situations and historical moments documented by these images, they demonstrate a clear continuity in the distorted postures of dissidents as they are taken down.
Working with choreographer Ame Henderson and six contemporary dancers, the Toronto-based artist studied and dissected these scenes of passive resistance in order to reproduce them using performance and video. MacDonell notes that in imitating these complicated configurations of bodies the intention is to hijack and rewrite the power relations described within them.
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