Part residency, part studio, and part exhibition, Doubletake is a live visual call and response between two animators, demystifying the animation process by allowing research, experimentation, and ‘finished’ work to coexist in a gallery setting. Read the exhibition essay by Sarah Smellie. Opening reception + Artist talk: May 23, 7pm Facebook event here About the… Read More
It’s the media not you is a collaborative performance art research residency in which Icelandic artists Eva Ísleifsdóttir, Katrín I Jonsdottir Hjordisardottir, and Rakel McMahon collapse method and medium in Eastern Edge Gallery’s main space. Through performance itself, the artists investigate the use and effects of performance in both their individual and shared practices in… Read More
Every day I wake up is an installation exploring the actions and experiences of everyday life. Through watercolour and video, April White sensationalizes and memorializes a repetitive non-event: waking up. In his anthology The Everyday, Stephen Johnstone states that an aesthetic focus on everyday life may bring “overlooked aspects of lived experience into visibility.” Here… Read More
Cave is a light based installation that uses the construction and deconstruction of white light to prove that purity, as a concept, is unattainable. The installation demonstrates that the white that our eyes see, often used as a symbol of purity, is in reality a composition of all of the frequencies in the visible spectrum,… Read More
Object Says is a series of interactive electronic sculptures based on household mechanisms. The often-unnoticed light switches, smoke detectors, faucets, thermostats, doorknobs, all play an under-appreciated roll in our daily lives. We touch them and we expect only the expected from them. This work is about subverting what we know, crushing expectations and creating a… Read More