When observed closely, human and non-human relations echo onto one another: a tree branch is a lightning strike is a crack in the sidewalk. Inviting a recognition of the cycles of rot and regeneration, To Broadcast is to Scatter illuminates memory-marking within the human insistence on organizing time.
Guided by the principles of the rhizome, described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as a network of connections with no beginning and no end, this exhibition is also informed by cultural scholars Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker’s proposition of “thick time.” Within the thick time model, layers of time stack together, expand and contract. This model encourages us to refuse a distinction between the human and non-human world, and instead, embrace an embodied understanding of ourselves as deep archives.
Artists Diana Sofia Lozano, Cadence Planthara, and Natalia Villanueva Linares present works that embrace multiplicity, hybridity, and unfixedness. seth cardinal dodginghorse, June Canedo de Souza, and collaborators Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind explore their family histories to reflect on inheritance: what is lost, what is found, and what may be seeded. Across the works, we are asked to entwine, not to arrive at something, but to get closer to it. How may we lean into an understanding of time as rhizomatic?
To Broadcast is to Scatter is the third and final exhibition presented as part of the School of Art Gallery’s Visiting Curator Program. Launched in Summer 2021, this initiative supports curatorial research, exhibitions, events, and publications by emerging and established guest curators alike.
The Visiting Curator Program is a catalyst for international-calibre exhibitions and aims to play a vital role in defining contemporary art and its attendant discourses in the Prairies. It gives students, faculty, and other community members meaningful opportunities to engage with curators who are charting bold new trajectories in their field. Through a significant mentorship component, it aims to foster new and strong curatorial voices.
This program is generously supported by Michael F. B. Nesbitt.
Artists
seth cardinal dodginghorse
seth cardinal dodginghorse is a Tsuut’ina/Blackfeet/Saddle Lake Cree multidisciplinary artist, Prairie Chicken Dancer, experimental musician, and cultural researcher. They grew up eating dirt and exploring the forest on their family’s ancestral land on the Tsuut’ina Nation. In 2014, their family was forcibly removed from their homes and land for the construction of the South West Calgary Ring Road. This life-changing event has been the focus of their creative work.
They are currently a part of the artist collective tīná gúyáńí (Deer Road), which also includes their mother, Glenna Cardinal. In 2022, tīná gúyáńí was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award. seth is currently recording an album for their music project lawrence teeth.
Cadence Planthara
Cadence Planthara is an interdisciplinary artist and craftsperson of mixed South Asian and European descent currently living in the City of Toronto. Working in an expanding range of media including ceramics, photography, painting, writing, textiles, and installation, they move with questions around inheritance, identity, power, and agency that resist straightforward answers.
Through careful attention and play, they constellate disparate raw materials, inherited and found objects, producing oblique, poetic forms for use and consideration.
Their work has recently been exhibited at the Khyber Centre for the Arts (Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS), Joys, Pumice Raft, Hearth, and Trinity Square Video (all in Tkarón:to/Toronto, ON).
Diana Sofia Lozano
Artist Diana Sofia Lozano was born in Cali, Colombia and is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work uses the language of botanical hybrids—the naturally occurring, genetically modified, and the imagined. Lozano presents biomimicry as metaphors for identity construction at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the politics of difference.
She is interested in the deconstruction of botanical taxonomic failures in order to reveal and redefine the boundaries of colonial identificatory practices and geopolitical borders.
Lozano has exhibited at Company Gallery, Wave Hill Gardens, Deli Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery, Proxyco Gallery, and Venus Over Manhattan in NYC; Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco; New Image Art in Los Angeles; Casa Prado in Barranquilla, Colombia; Örebro Konsthall in Sweden; Parallel in Oaxaca, Mexico; Arto Kyoto in Japan; and Capsule Gallery in Shanghai, China, among others.
Natalia Villanueva Linares
Natalia Villanueva Linares is a French Peruvian artist who graduated with highest honors from the National School of Fine Arts of Paris. She currently lives in Chicago and works between North and South America and Europe. Her work has been shown in two major exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Paris. She exhibited at the Sala Miro Quesada Garland in Peru (2013), the Collège de Bernardins in Paris, and La Graineterie (2018). Natalia had her first solo shows with Doyang Lee Gallery (2014, Paris), DPM gallery in Ecuador (2019), Wu Gallery (2021, Peru), and Comfort Station (2022, Chicago). Her solo show at the Museo de Arte de San Marcos (Peru) won the Luces Award for Best Solo Exhibition in 2022. Natalia is a cultural worker who co-founded the non-profit organization Yaku in Peoria, IL. She is the former Director of the artist-run mini mansion High Place and is the founder of Ukayzine, a magazine created to promote international cultural exchanges through the visual arts.
She is a contributor for Sixty Inches From Center and organizer of the critic program Canje.
In dialogue
Exhibitions presented in conjunction with To Broadcast is to Scatter.
June Canedo de Souza: O Escândalo
Lobby Gallery
Through the repetitive motion of sweeping, the artist retraces the domestic landscapes and stories of her childhood, extending an invitation to listen to what may be untold as these stories trickle through family members.
O Escândalo is an installation and performance, initially presented on July 26, 2022 in New York.
Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: In Vitro
Collections Gallery
In Arabic with English subtitles
Filmed in black and white, In Vitro is a 2-channel Arabic sci-fi film in which its protagonists negotiate questions of cultural heritage and memory, engaging dichotomies and dualities of myth/fiction, natural worlds/human architectures, and inherited trauma/collective memory. As Alia and Dunia navigate generational disagreements, above ground, an abandoned nuclear reactor is prepared to be planted by heirloom seeds. Despite what we seek in the face of colonial catastrophe, the land itself endures.
In Vitro was commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation for the Danish Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2019 and produced by Spike Island.
Events
- Talk: Eat Your Arts and Vegetables with Shalaka Jadhav: Thursday, November 23, 5:30–6:00 pm, CKUW, 95.9 FM and ckuw.ca
- Conversation: Diana Sofia Lozano, Natalia Villanueva Linares, and Shalaka Jadhav: Wednesday, November 29, 12:00–1:30 pm
- Opening Reception: Thursday, November 30, 5:00–8:00 pm
- Performance: Natalia Villanueva Linares – Landscapes of Dual 11: Thursday, November 30, 6:30–7:00 pm
- Exhibition Tour: To Broadcast is to Scatter with Shalaka Jadhav: Friday, December 1, 12:00–1:00 pm
- Ceramics Workshop: Ritual, Reciprocity, and Altars with Cadence Planthara: Friday, December 1, 3:30–7:30 pm, Presented in partnership with Art City
- Performance: seth cardinal dodginghorse – Dirt Dance #3: Thursday, January 25, 7:00 pm