November 6 – November 20
Presented by articule as part of the HTMlles festival
𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 +𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨… | Aislinn Thomas
Exhibition
Via articule’s window and website
Exhibition
Via articule’s window and website
With 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨+ Aislinn Thomas creates multiple invitations to slowness, with consideration for how we engage with artwork.
A first invitation is launched with 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨, a video presenting three windows in the artist’s house. Each are sites of permeability, exchange and chance. Accompanying this first work is a second video, 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨…where three writers were invited to respond to the video by creating an alternative audio description that functions as a work of art in itself. Pushing the conventions of audio description, they make it possible to exploit the imaginative and poetic potential of this act of sensory translation. Finally, the audience is invited to leaf through a zine designed by the artist which includes a transcript of the audio-description and create a space where the first two works intersect.
Aislinn Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist. She culls material from everyday experiences and relationships, creating work that ranges from poignant to absurd, at times straddling both. Her recent projects explore the generative nature of disability while pushing up against conventional access measures, treating access as an art-form in itself. Exhibitions include the WRO Media Arts Biennial (Wroclaw, Poland), Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff, AB), Tangled Art + Disability (Toronto, ON), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (ON), and C Magazine. Aislinn is a white settler of Ashkenazic and British/Scottish descent. She is grateful to live in Unama’ki / Cape Breton in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people.
© Still Three windows, Aislinn Thomas, 2018.
