Co-curators of project ARCTICNOISE Britt Gallpen and Yasmin Nurming-Por will present their current collaborative project with artist Geronimo Inutiq. Rooted in challenging the idea of the indexical or categorical archive, ARCTICNOISE seeks to challenge the ways in which the categories of associations of Inuit artists have formed a greater mythology of representation around art production in, and of, the North. Using ARCTICNOISE as a platform, this collaborative presentation proposes to examine the ways in which digital medias can make use of archival content to re-envision and propose new forms for engaging and re-imagining memory.
Biographies
Britt Gallpen is a critic and emerging curator based in Toronto, Canada. She is currently completing an M.A. in Art History at York University, specializing in contemporary Canadian art and curatorial studies. Her current research is focused on a conceptual artwork by the collaborative N.E. Thing Co. related to the arctic and it’s legacy in considering contemporary geo-political positions in the circumpolar region. This project is supported by the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). In addition she is the web editorial intern at Canadian Art and recently completed an internship as curatorial assistant in Contemporary and Modern Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, esse art + opinions, KAPSULA and the Undergraduate Journal of Art History at the University of British Columbia.
Yasmin Nurming-Por is an Art Historian currently based in Toronto, where she completed her M.A. in Art History at the University of Toronto in 2013. She is currently the head of exhibitions at Diaz contemporary. Her research has focused on the intersection of public performance, community, and temporal dissidence in conceptual practices in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Yasmin is invested examining the potential for ephemeral and art-based work to provoke, intervene in, and engage with discourse around the idea of community. Yasmin has held research and programming positions at various Canadian and international artist-run centres and galleries, and was a recipient of the Robert and Jacqueline White Graduate Scholarship.
