Mark Clintberg in Conversation with Crystal Mowry
Mark Clintberg will be in conversation with Crystal Mowry, author of Portal's exhibition text epigraph for another room, on Saturday, December 12 at 1:00 PM. The virtual conversation will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook, and a link to tune in will be posted here closer to the date of the event.
Portal uses installation, textiles, works on paper and other materials to approach the archive as a queer portal for intellectual, erotic, and sensory encounter. Here, the archive can be thought of as a physical place for research, and a discursive space created through dialogue and relationship. The included works refer to elements of the regional history of non-normative sexualities, as well as text and drawings pulled from popular culture, print archives, and histories associated with the nation state named "Canada."
Mark Clintberg is a queer artist who works in the field of art history. He is an Associate Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts. Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (Montreal) represents his work, and he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2013.
Crystal Mowry is Senior Curator at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Her curatorial projects include group exhibitions such as The Limits (2011), Imitation of Life (2015), The Brain is wider than the Sky (2018), and I’ll be your Mirror (2018). She has curated solo projects and commissions with artists such as Deanna Bowen, Aislinn Thomas, Joseph Tisiga, and geetha thurairajah. Her solo projects with Ontario-based artists Maggie Groat and Ernest Daetwyler have received Exhibition of the Year Awards from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. She has written about and around art for various artist-focused projects, including Still Move: Brendan Fernandes, a monograph on the performance and installation work of Brendan Fernandes.