Please join Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for a screening and conversation with Anthea Black and Janet Morton, moderated by Heather Anderson. Artist, curator, and writer Anthea Black will present Pleasure Craft, which explores appearances of craft and handmaking in film and video from the 1960s to the present, where craft is a temporal process rather than a fixed object. An artist in CUAG’s current exhibition Making Otherwise, Janet Morton will screen a selection of her video work that signals a shift in her knitted work from the sculptural object to process and ephemerality.

Anthea Black is a Toronto-based artist and cultural worker. She has exhibited and published widely through Canada and the United States and her writing with Nicole Burisch is included in The Craft Reader (BERG) and Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke University Press). She is also a contributing editor for FUSE Magazine and her curatorial projects, SINCERITY OVERDRIVE, SUPER STRING, and No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen, have focused on embodied perspectives and politics in relational practice, contemporary textiles, and queer film and video.

Janet Morton has uses knitting, installation, performance, and sculpture to explore issues of labour, home and the domestic. In several new video collaborations, the Guelph-based artist explores ephemerality and challenges productivity by unraveling knitted sculptures that represent hours of labour. Morton holds a BFA from York University (1990) and is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art. Morton’s work is included in the collections of the Cambridge Galleries, The Royal Bank of Canada, Museum London, and in numerous private collections in Canada, Switzerland, India, and the United States.

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