This weekend, McMaster University’s Department of English & Cultural Studies is hosting The Archive and Everyday Life, a conference that promises to bring high humanities studies down to earth for a close look at the commonplace. This merging of disciplines means that there will be several related openings and events at McMaster and on James Street North for those who fancy a mix of art and academia.
Angela Grauerholz, Luftfeuchtigskeitmesser, 2010, colour inkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 3, 101.6 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, and Art 45, Montreal. (Source: McMaster Museum of Art)
The conference kicks off tonight at the McMaster Museum of Art, which is hosting the opening reception for Angela Grauerholz, Recent Photographs and Alfredo Jaar: Benjamin from Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project, 1993, as well as bringing out Marcel Duchamp’s La boite en valise from the Permanent Collection for another always-appreciated gander.
Keeley Haftner, Household Artefacts. Ink, graphite, printed documents, 2009-2010.
Friday May 7 sees the action shift to downtown, with the opening reception of the conference’s related exhibition of the same name at Hamilton Artists Inc. from 6:00-8:00pm, featuring works by Adrienne Batke, Melissa Carroll, Amanda Delorey, Jeffery Douglas, Keeley Haftner, Megan Hahn, Nicholas Holm, Andrea Kastner, Philip Kingstone, Kegan McFadden, Devon Mordell, Midi Onodera, Simon Orpana, Malissa Phung, and Maria Whiteman. Following that reception, The Factory is presenting Framing the Archive from 8:00-10:30pm, screening works by Nina Levitt, Francisca Duran, Karina Skvirsky, Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky, Liss Platt, Diana Nurwen, June Pak, Leslie Loksi Chan, Mary J. Daniel and Philip Hoffman.
As a late-addition bonus to the weekend’s programming, the New Harbours Music Series (those folks that bring amazing acts to the Cathedral near every Art Crawl) will be presenting a performance at the Inc. on Saturday May 8 starting at 10:00pm, which would make for a great chaser to the Hammer City Roller Girls‘ first home bout of the season earlier that same night - and okay, Mother’s Day Massacre IV is not technically part of the McMaster conference, but it totally should be. Doors open at 6:00pm at Market Street Arena in Dundas for those who want girls on skates to go with their high-brow culture.
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