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Ella Dawn McGeough













                              

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Negotiating sticky sites of affection & infection, influence & inheritance, obligation &
commitment, encounter & entanglement, dreaming & waking, inside & outside, you &
me, us & we...


Riding the breath of that common wind... 


Thinking about recent or upcoming projects & sustained conversations with artists Helen Cho, Derek Coulombe, Patrick Cruz, FASTWÜRMS, Stefana Fratila, Jessica Groome, Faith La Rocque, Katie Lyle, Sarah Nasby, Ella Tetrault, Dustin Wilson; curators/writers John Goodwin, Jacqueline Mabey, Lillian O’Brien Davis, Daniella Sanader...

Playing with Miwi...

Working with Liza Eurich and Colin Miner on moire.ca at our own, unhurried pace...

Making (SSHRC-funded ◔ω◔) practice-based research shaped and supported by my doctoral committee at York University: Yvonne Singer, Dan Adler, and Allyson Mitchell...

Living in the area known as Toronto/Tkaronto on land cared for by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. By acknowledging Indigenous Relations, I recognize the violence that makes my presence as a person of mixed Euro-descent on these lands possible, along with my responsibility to confront the enduring impacts of colonialism...

Reflecting upon how, raised an hour from the city recently-named Vancouver on the unceded territories of Coast Salish Peoples--specifically the Kwantlen|qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓, Katzie|q̓ic̓əy̓, Semiahmoo|SEMYOME, and Tsawwassen|sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ Nations--and how I could have grown up speaking these names without knowing what they meant or to whom they belong...

Trying to reach not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance (heyhey D&G)...




Mark

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EDM_some writing with/for friends 




Katie Lyle: Nowadays, Franz Kaka, September 2021 


I’m on Fire. Spoiler Zone, January 2020 



Ken Lum: in Correspondence. moire 5, June 2019 


Laura Findlay: The Shortsighted Can’t Love Mountains. Arsenal Toronto, January 2019 



My father: The Smoker. “Smoke: Figures, Genres, Forms,” Public Journal, 29.58, Winter 2018


Kathleen Ritter: The Pickpocket and the Sloth. Open Studio, September 2017 



Jessica Groome: Soft Glove. ESP Toronto, September 2017 



Tiziana LaMelia: in Conversation. moire 4, 2016 


Amy Brener: Crusty Crunchy Roundy Smoothy. moire 2, 2014 

Dancing with Tantalus, 2021
School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba
w/ Katie Lyle and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis

Consider the Greek myth of Tantalus, who stole ambrosia, nectar, and the gods’ secrets of immortality for his people. As punishment for his crime, Tantalus was made to stand in a clear pool where water receded before he could drink, underneath trees laden with fruit that forever escaped his grasp. Touching leaves traces, often more lasting than originally imagined, but the absence of touch builds both anticipation and desire.

Dancing with Tantalus engages qualities of contact—between people, surfaces, and objects—to examine haptic intimacy and explore the causal relationship between artworks and the many structures that make contact with them—physically, intellectually, emotionally, institutionally, and historically.

This exhibition develops from Greener than Grass at Susan Hobbs Gallery in 2020.

My works in the exhibition expand upon the ongoing “_~form_” series to a selection of throw pillows and blankets  (dream~forms_idle) and copper sheets (space~forms_currency).

Further Reading:
Clean Hands, Lillian’s exhibition text.

Greener than Grass, 2020
Susan Hobbs Gallery
w/ Katie Lyle, curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis

This two-person exhibition engages qualities of contact—between people, surfaces, and objects—to examine haptic intimacy and explore the causal relationship between artworks and the many structures that make contact with them (physically, intellectually, emotionally, institutionally, historically). Over two-years, Lillian curated the project through a series of collaborative conversations orbiting around desire and reverberations of touch in its various manifestations.

My sculptural works expand upon the ongoing “_~form_” series to include castings of my basement’s uneven concrete floor (site~forms_foundation); a selection of throw pillows and blankets as markers of cessation (dream~forms_idle); and copper sheets that record impressions developed during transient gatherings of many entities (space~forms_currency). Each finds temporary support through various found materials.

A subsequent iteration of the collaboration entitled, Dancing with Tantalus will include work by Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill and be presented at School of Art Gallery, Winnipeg from January - March 2021.

I would like to acknowledge funding support for this project from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.



Further Reading:
Stranger Within, Lillian’s exhibition text.
FrameWork 11/20, a beautiful response by Simon Fuh.