South-South: Interruptions and Encounters
Hew Locke, Edward VII (Restoration Series), 2006. C-type photograph mounted on aluminium, MDF and formica with metal and plastic items affixed to front, 183 x 122 x 15cm.
Omar Badsha, Allan deSouza, Brendan Fernandes, Marlon Griffith, Jamelie Hassan, Apache Indian, Louise Liliefeldt, Hew Locke
April 2 – May 19, 2009
In partnership with the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, U of T
Curated by Tejpal S. Ajji and Jon Soske
Opening reception: Thursday, 2 April 2, 6–8pm. JMB Gallery.
Exhibition catalogue launch: Monday, 11 May, 2009. 7:30-9pm. JMB Gallery.
South-South: Interruptions and Encounters stages an unprecedented intervention by bringing together eight artists whose work is situated at an intersection of African and South Asian history, politics, or culture. These encounters occur in a variety of forms and locations: Trinidad’s Carnival, a South African ghetto, the music of Black Britain, a family’s history of migration from East Africa, the colonial monuments of a historic slave port, and the actual speaking voice of an artist. Concerned with a common set of questions about identity and history, each artist also addresses these Southern intersections formally, either by transfiguring the parameters of a particular medium (photography, sculpture, video, installation, or performance) or through interrupting normative representations of “India” and “Africa.”
- Catalogue available from the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. $15 CAD
Essays By: Tejpal S. Ajji and Jon Soske, Christopher Cozier, Sarah Nuttall, Annie Paul, Sukhdev Sandhu, Mark Sealy, and Leon Wainwright with a foreword by Barbara Fischer and Haema Sivanesan.
Editors: Tejpal S. Ajji and Jon Soske
ISBN: 978-0-7727-6068-5
Publication Year: 2009
