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Primary

  • time
    • (how) do i reconcile
    • disproportionate effects (the shadows we all live in)
    • state building
    • all the rooming houses on my street have had their front door removed
      • introducing
      • building
      • constructing
      • creating
      • making
      • naming
      • forming
      • defining
  • relationship
    • collect/ive grief collect/ive joy
    • i can’t reach for his hand
    • i float
    • gr(i)éve
    • a year with my grandma
      • creating memories in my grandma’s room
      • archiving memory
      • reparations
      • tablecloth cut
      • the gift
      • act of trust
    • mourning in public
    • guestlist
    • monitoring the community meal
    • creating something from what was already there
  • words
    • books
      • a lament: why my art is failing
      • winter: her first year
      • because savour this time made me feel like crap
      • leaving/longing
      • places you can observe hope
      • things you can do when you feel lonely
    • writing
      • am i ever going to stop feeling like this?
      • documentation as a political act
      • addressing power
    • works
      • …there was literally an ocean between…
      • ways i have been fooled
      • residing in motherhood: performances
  • connect
    • get in touch
    • invitations
    • made tangible

In one day I took all the objects-representing memories created in my grandma's room- and archived them. It operates as a reflection on socially engaged art's relationship with the institution, the reality of creating memory with my grandma as she lives with dementia, and our current ability to document every moment.
2012•graduate studio•university of manitoba.

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