MOMENTA Biennale de l’image
November 22, 2023 | 12 p.m.
For the exhibition Mother Memory Cellophane, co-produced by MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, join a conversation with the artist Séamus Gallagher, hosted by artist Morris Fox.
In light of their research in the Museum’s archives, Séamus Gallagher will present the creative process behind Mother Memory Cellophane. They will discuss how this latest creation fits into their larger body of work by drawing a parallel with previous projects. The talk will be facilitated by Morris Fox, whose artistic practice explores many similar themes to Gallagher’s: queer aesthetic, identity, gender performativity and hauntology.
Information
- Free online activity presented Wednesday, November 22, 2023, at 12 p.m.
- Conversation in English followed by a Q&A in English.
- Duration: 1 h
Choose how you will join
The event will take place on Zoom, in addition to being livestreamed on the Museum’s Facebook page. Choose how you will join and sign up!
- Attend on Zoom: Register on Zoom to receive connexion instructions. After the event, you will receive the recording by email to watch it later.
- Attend on the Museum’s Facebook page: Register on the Facebook event.
Learn more about the artists
SÉAMUS GALLAGHER
Séamus Gallagher is a lens-based artist currently living in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. Infusing queer aesthetics with self-portraiture, video game engines, and set construction, Séamus explores the limits of representation, and failure as a form of liberation. Gallagher’s work has been shown at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, the Portrait Gallery of Canada, and the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, among others.
MORRIS FOX
Morris Fox (he/they) is a queer-gothic artist/writer, and an Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia (Tiohtiá:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal). Fox’s practice cruises the haunted house for feelings of community. Words and materials become a net that enmeshes, become a necropolis, a cemetery of desire. He interconnects eco-poetry, self-performance, VR, video, textiles, chainmaille, with queer material research, rubbing against ruins of memory, shimmering with apocalyptic imaginaries. Fox graduated from SAIC’s Low Residency MFA (2018), and Concordia’s Studio Arts BFA (2011).
Past exhibitions include: Regarde! Tiotiá:ke (2023), Sex Ecologies: Becoming Plastic, Stoveworks (2023), Psionic Hope, Astonishing Dream, Trinity Square Video (2023), My Gay Mediaeval Times, Spacemaker II, (2022), Vestiges&Remains, Artcite Inc., (2022), Claudia Hart’s Ludicy, Hyphen Hubs (2021), Gothwerk, Hotwheelz Festival (2020). Fox interned at the Icelandic Textile Centre, Blönduós (2020), and completed artist residencies including NES, Skagaströnd (2019), Icelandic Textile Centre (2019), Artscape Gibraltar Point, (2018). He is a member of the collective QueerSoftOrange.
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