Contemporary Art Bus Tour: Art Museum to The Blackwood – Fall 2024
A program of:
Otherworld
Sunday, November 3
12pm–4pm
Join the Art Museum and the Blackwood Gallery for a contemporary art bus tour! The program begins at the Art Museum at noon with a tour of Otherworld led by Barbara Fischer. From there, the bus departs for the Blackwood Gallery for a curator-led tour by Jacqui Usiskin. The bus then returns to the Art Museum at 4pm.
Detailed itinerary:
- 12pm: Tour at Art Museum (University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle)
- 1pm: Bus departure from Downtown Toronto to Mississauga
- 2pm: Curator-led tour at The Blackwood (3359 Mississauga Rd.)
- 3pm: Bus returns to Art Museum (University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle), ETA: 4pm
The event is free and all are welcome.
Spots are limited. Please register on Eventbrite by November 1, 5pm.
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS
Art Museum, University of Toronto
Otherworld
Camille Turner
September 4, 2024–March 22, 2025
Curated by Barbara Fischer
The newly commissioned exhibition, Otherworld, immerses the visitor in a non-linear Afro-Astronautic journey transcending space-time boundaries. Recognizing historical silences as both information and direction, Camille Turner’s Afronautic research methodology takes the visitor deep into the archive, uncovering the traces and legacies of enslavement that extend from named enclaves of urban wealth in Toronto to the shipbuilding industry in Newfoundland. Filled with personal recollections and stories of immeasurable loss, the exhibition walks us back to the portals of departure and arrival of those forcibly taken from the shores of West Africa and dispersed throughout the Americas, and those lost in the passage between. Camille Turner’s work takes its inspiration from Afrofuturism; looping in and around time, it offers places of recovery and dreams of a liberated future. On their journey, the visitor is invited to listen to stories contained in the geologic time of displaced rocks and sea-worn sticks resembling bones, finding there the potential of changing history and, powered by the imagination, to make worlds otherwise.
Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga
The Whole World in Our Hands
Yuki Iiyama, Mikhail Karikis, Darrin Martin, Alison O’Daniel, Abi Palmer, the vacuum cleaner and collaborators
September 3, 2024–January 7, 2025
Curated by Jacqui Usiskin
The Whole World in Our Hands is an invitation to break apart, remodel, and act out new grammars of empathy and togetherness. Composed of a series of artworks made by, for, and with disabled artists and collaborators, this program asks: How does the presence of blindness, deafness, illness, and neurodiversity nurture a language that is sensed rather than spoken? What are the syntaxes of touch, smell, sound, and movement? With the understanding that everyone plays a role in how disability is experienced, The Whole World in Our Hands embraces our shared responsibility for making livable worlds for all.
Exploring the corporeal possibilities of communication, The Whole World in Our Hands considers the voice as elastic, textured, and embodied, a muscle that can reach beyond the verbal and audible to reconceive what it means to listen and to be heard.
Visit the The Whole World in Our Hands webpage on the Blackwood website for full program descriptions and artist bios.
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Accessibility notes: While all stops on the tour are accessible and free of physical barriers, we regret that the shuttle bus is not accessible.
The Whole World in Our Hands tour will begin at The Blackwood’s e|gallery, which is a physically accessible space. The e|gallery is located on the ground floor of the CCT building, accessible via the east entrance (adjacent to parking lot 9) at ground level, or by elevator from the main floor entrance and at parking garage levels 1, 3, and 5. Accessible multi-user gendered washrooms are located at ground level, and accessible multi-user all-gender washrooms are located on the third floor of the CCT Building.
Some movement throughout the campus will be required—ramps and curb cuts are in place. Please note part of the tour will be in an unpaved area a short distance from a paved walking trail. Its surface is hard-packed mulch. If you have questions about accessibility accommodations, please contact a Blackwood Gallery staff member at blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca or 905-828-3789.
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Otherworld is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario, and the Toronto Arts Council. Special support for the project has been provided by the Jackman Humanities Institute as part of its 2024–25 annual theme, Undergrounds/Underworlds. Research for this exhibition was developed through a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture, and Design (2022–24)
The Whole World In Our Hands is generously supported by the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council. Special thanks to CNIB Access Labs for their support with accessibility initiatives.
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Images (clockwise from left): From Otherworld: (1) Camille Turner, Afronautic Research Lab, 2016–present. installation view and performance at Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2016. Photography by Sandra Brewster. (2) Camille Turner, Fly, 2024. Video, 04:00. Courtesy of the artist. From The Whole World in Our Hands: (3) Abi Palmer, Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Rain) (video still), 2023. Quad HD video, 12 minutes, 4 seconds. Commissioned by Artangel. Courtesy the artist. (4) Yuki Iiyama, Old Long Stay, 2020. Single-channel video with sound, 170 minutes. Production still restaged for the Blackwood’s lightbox. Courtesy the artist and WAITINGROOM, Tokyo.
