Party celebrating CUAG’s 25th birthday and the opening of four new exhibitions
Monday, 11 September 2017, 5:00 p.m.

It’s our 25th birthday! Please join us at a party celebrating our birthday and the opening of our fall exhibitions!

The party takes place at CUAG from 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. Opening remarks at 6:00 p.m. by Dr. Alastair J.S. Summerlee, Interim President of Carleton University. DJ Memetic will spin live vinyl sets.

Animate: Diyan Achjadi and Alisi Telengut
Curated by Alice Ming Wai Jim
11 September – 12 November 2017
This exhibition reflects on how colonialism, climate change and animate forces of the universe are interconnected through the work of two Canadian artists. The natural world is an inexorably bounded, animated environment in which art plays an agential role.

Always Vessels
Curated by Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow
11 September – 12 November 2017
Presenting work by Barry Ace, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Carrie Hill, Nadya Kwandibens, Jean Marshall, Pinock Smith, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Samuel Thomas and Olivia Whetung

Today, many contemporary Indigenous artists are investigating and incorporating traditional modes of making in their practices. This exhibition explores contexts for, processes of learning, making and the transfer and continuity of knowledge. By acknowledging artists’ desire and need to learn customary skills and techniques that in the past were met with resistance or repressed, this exhibition explores the different ways makers are seeking out and uniquely applying this knowledge.

Annie Thibault: La chambre des cultures, foraging in time and space
Curated by Heather Anderson
11 September – 03 December 2017
Returning to the lab as a site for artistic research and experimentation, Annie Thibault is artist-in-residence in a pilot project hosted by CUAG and the Department of Biology. With the collaboration of Dr. Myron Smith, Professor in the Department of Biology, Thibault is cultivating Armillaria and several other basidiomycota (filamentous fungi composed of hyphae). Where Thibault has worked previously with mushrooms—the fruiting bodies of fungi—in this project she cultivates the organism’s fascinating underground mycelium network through which it shares information and nutrients. Continuing her work in drawing, video, photography and installation, and merging exhibition, lab and studio, Thibault is working with this living organism as agent and material.

Carleton Curatorial Laboratory (CCL): HERbarium
Curated by Josie Arruejo, Chelsea Black, James Botte, Brigid Christison, Michelle Jackson and Sharon Odell
In collaboration with Dr. Cindy Stelmackowich
11 September – 03 December 2017
So, what is a “herbarium?” and why is she the focus?

A herbarium is a collection of dried and preserved pressed plants or fungi that are stored, catalogued and arranged systematically for study. In highlighting the “her” within HERbarium, this exhibition focuses on the highly skilled and too widely unknown women who contributed to the collection, identification, illustration, production and distribution of early scientific knowledge within the field of botany in Canada.

This exhibition has been developed for the Carleton Curatorial Laboratory in collaboration with Dr. Cindy Stelmackowich as part of her seminar “Representations of Women’s Scientific Contributions” offered through the Pauline Jewitt Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome! CUAG is an accessible space, with barrier-free washrooms and elevator.

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale at the tunnel entrance from 4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Please see the visiting page for directions.

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St. Patrick’s Building
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