Artist Talk: Dec 15, 6pm at Latitude 53

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Join us Wednesday, December 15 at 6 PM for an introductory Artist talk with Gabrielle Paré our Artist-in-Residence. Gabrielle will be with us until January 29, 2022.

This talk is also an invitation to collaborate. Gabrielle will share recent projects, including the socially engaged process of the language experiment “Samgrunnelse” (run jointly with urbanist Tina Lam and ROM for kunst og arkitektur in Oslo). This project explores the power of words; particularly, the power to include and exclude, and the power to shape the worldview of its speaker.

Building on the outcomes of “Samgrunnelse,” she will run a series of word workshops in January with local artists who share an interest in language. Artists will receive a fee for their participation.

Stay updated on our website and social media about the possibility of an online stream of the event for those who can't come in person. We hope to see you there!

Artist in Residence at Latitude 53: December 6 - January 29, 2022

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Gabrielle Paré is Latitude 53’s artist-in-residence from December 6 - January 29, 2022.

Latitude 53
10242 – 106 Street
amiskwacîwâskahikan
Edmonton, AB, Canada
T5J 1H7

Paré is interested in the interpretation of words and images and the many ways we as humans misunderstand one another. Because we communicate with many languages —textual, visual, physical— her practice is also text-, material- and performance-based.

During her time as an artist-in-residence at Latitude 53, she will continue her practice of exploring the language of identity. This approach includes a deconstruction of colonial language or distortion of recognizable codes to shift their meanings. In a central work to her current practice, “Void if Altered” (2020), she depicts and distorts records of an official identity: a passport photo and a birth certificate. In this series of lightbox photographs, spaces are forced into the flat surface of the papers, creating bendable proof of a person. A piece of paper and a thin layer of ink is what authenticates our sex on a birth record and our biometric portraits. Yet, this is easily invalidated of intended meaning at the presence of a scratch, a misprint, or a stain. She sees the material possibilities of this “invalidation” as a liberation: an opportunity to transcend binary categories and to reveal something truer about ourselves than just our identities. In material terms, she blurs and bends and smudges at the edges of things to remember that understanding is movable.

Oct 28, 2021: Presenting Verdensrommet at UKS's Centenary seminar "Artists Organizing Artists" at Deichman Bjørvika, Oslo

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Oct 28, 2021
Deichman Bjørvika
12-5pm
Oslo, Norway


I'm presenting the mission and ambitions of Verdensrommet at Unge Kunstneres Samfund's seminar "ARTISTS ORGANIZING ARTISTS" on the occasion of UKS's 100th anniversary.

I'm sharing the stage in a panel discussion with fellow artist organizers and advocates Steffen Håndlykken (Chair of the UKS Board of Directors), Simona Barbera (Art Workers Italia), and Maj Horn (Unge Kunstnere og Kunstformidlere).

Verdensrommet is a mutual-support network of currently 200+ non-EU/EEA artists and cultural workers based in Norway. The network is a space for solidarity and exchange for immigrant artists in precarious situations shaped by meeting two often conflicting conditions: the nature of artist labour and Norwegian immigration regulations (utlendingsforskriften).

Sep 20, 2021 PODCAST: Conversations with Aliens of Extraordinary Ability

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This conversation includes the voices of artists and members of the Verdensrommet working group Gabrielle Paré, Rodrigo Ghattas, Prerna Bishnoi, and Anthony Morton. They discuss the origins of the network on the occasion of its first anniversary and shed some light on the work being realized in favor of non-EU artists working and living in Norway.

Listen to the podcast Conversations with Aliens of Extraordinary Ability here.

Credits:
Intro, outro and transition sounds by Emilie Wright
Logo design: Martin Schor
Producers: Gabrielle Paré, Rodrigo Ghattas, Prerna Bishnoi, and Anthony Morton
Postproduction: Prerna Bishnoi
Support by Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, and Norske Billedkunstnere