Heather Hart, Northern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother, Doris McCarthy Gallery, 2017. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.
15 Sep 2022 - 26 Nov 2022
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Opening Reception: Thursday September 15, 4-7pm
Tues – Fri: 11-6
Sat: 12-4
Closed on Sundays, Mondays and statutory holidays
The Library in partnership with Black Lunch Table (BLT) and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery will host an online edit-a-thon that focuses on important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers on October 6th 2022 from 3-6pm. An overview of Wiki basics, an introduction to the Wikimedia Community, and how to update and edit articles will be held at the beginning of the session. No specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required and help will be available throughout the event. The event is free and open to all. Bring your own computer or use one in the library!
Heather Hart, based in Brooklyn, is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the power in thresholds, questioning dominant narratives, and creating alternatives to them.
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Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance by Northern Oracle is an ambitious rooftop installation that emerges from the floor of the gallery, and is accompanied by a series of mixed media drawings. Through her work, Heather Hart considers Black histories, access to ownership, taking up physical space, and the significance of having a place to call home. Visitors will be able to access both the rooftop and its floor level attic, while further contemplating and enacting upon the corollary of these vantage points. At the heart of the Oracle, in its attic space, visitors will find a site-specific lounge space to visit, relax and research.
Northern Oracle will provide a performative area, a locale for demonstration of power, influence, and direction where the idiom, “shout it from the rooftop” will be made literal. Throughout the exhibition, the space will be activated by performances, lectures and workshops.
Detail, Heather Hart, Oracular Rooftop (Touched), 2016. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.
