Catalogue available for Unsettling, an exhibition curated by Bojana Videkanic

Friday, May 31, 2019

Unsettling catalogue cover image
Fine Arts faculty member Bojana Videkanic curated the exhibition Unsettling at the Doris McCarthy Gallery (University of Toronto) in 2017. The catalogue of the exhibition in now available and features essays by curator Bojana Videkanic; Ranu Basu, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University; writer, artist, and cultural manager Elwood Jimmy; and journalist and author Shawn Micallef. The digital document is available for download and reading

To unsettle means to disturb, unnerve, and upset, but could also mean to offer pause for thinking otherwise about an issue, or an idea. This catalogue seeks to explore and unsettle the site of Scarborough, offering subtle and not so subtle gestures of reversal, of questioning, of disturbance, inviting readers to pause and think about the space and place they occupy. The exhibition was a culmination of a longer project that artists participated in, involving The Guild Park and Gardens in Scarborough where the artists completed a number of site-specific interventions during the early summer 2017, and a followup exhibition at Doris McCarthy. This catalogue is a record of those events, while it also provides some historical and contemporary socio-political background to which the works responded.