@gabbymoser
Art critic, curator, art historian. Associate Professor Art History + Research Chair/Director of the Jarislowsky Institute for Canadian Art History at Concordia University. Founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA (she/her).
From 2023-25, @morrislum.bsky.social and I met every other month to sequence the photographs from his “Chinatowns” series into this book, which officially launched today. This lead image on CBC Arts was always my cover image contender. So proud of Morris and this series
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The thrill of seeing an undergrad student on the bus, poring over their highlighted copy of Stokstad.
Some decisive shots of Montreal life, in black and white, currently on view in the McCord Stewart Museum’s “Pounding the Pavement” exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant.
Morris Lum’s forthcoming “Chinatowns” book, which I helped him to photo edit and sequence, is on today’s @cnn.com style page! The book is out October 28 with a book launch planned in Montreal for December 11. @morrislum.bsky.social
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With one of my oldest and dearest in Montreal.
Write fast and Don't Think (trying this out as a "get your book done already" mantra)
Over the last five (eight? Ten?) years I’ve realized the profound responsibility and pleasure it is to be a part of an artist’s practice via friendship and to truly understand their work as it develops. 🙏 to count @narrowrooms.bsky.social as one of my people as I watched her present her work today
Montreal is really showing off in this late summer segue into fall
Flight canceled. Amazing the chaos CEOs will cause rather than pay people a living and fair wage. The wager that customers will side with the airline and not the flight attendants is not going to work out.
Seriously! How the hell is that allowed?
Full solidarity with the flight attendants. Shame on you AC.
Just waiting for @aircanada.bsky.social to pre-emptively cancel our flight home from visiting family in Vancouver rather than returning to the bargaining table with @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants. Solidarity with the workers.
From yesterday’s lovely and generous studio visit with Emma Nishimura. Furoshiki paper printed with photogravures of her family photographs of ancestors and kin incarcerated during Japanese internment in Canada.
The first of three conversations as part of Kate Wong’s SITE project at Mercer Union unfolded today, asking why Toronto’s art institutions are in crisis and what can be learnt from their symptoms.
ELLE A GAGNÉ !!!
Championne 🔥
Bravo, Victoria Mboko !
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So long, York U office.
They loved it! And I shared with them your excellent Ordinary Unhappiness podcast episode
I bring a text about parenting, technology & creativity to read aloud each year at MOTHRA: an artist parent residency on Toronto island. Today, we read the introduction to @hzeavin.bsky.social’s “Mother Media” and talked about extended kinship, pathologizing mothering and artists as media
“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.”
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
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I tried to take on this impossible challenge:
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Paris in May is a study in having a very nice life
Is there an online support group for disappointed Parisians who have moved to any other city in the world?
This semester, *every student* quoted her in their final paper. I am so curious about how much the zeitgeist determines what resonates, and to what extent ideas find their right moment, in different generations.
I regularly teach a graduate seminar called Un-Learning the Archive at York University in the faculty of education, and every year I assign Anjali Arondekar's "For the Record" in a week about the body and the archive. Until this year, her work seemed to fly under the radar.
Saaaaame
I love this animal.
Students who thank you for transforming their research after they hand in their final assignment: this never gets old ✨
We are looking for a postdoc for our research group in digital sociology within DIGSUM. The research is about how false information is created and spread across digital platforms, and how it can affect public opinion and undermine democracy. Spread the word! www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...
How are we still in a place where a child-focused supposedly trauma informed health service will ask for a mom and dad’s name — rather than the names of the parents — on their intake form? Truly astonishing
Against all odds, or maybe because I arrived here in 2006 at the height of Torontopia, I still love this city best of all
