Image Resources

The galleries in this section reference contemporary art works related to the residencies, and can be used as curricular references for educators, artists, and reserachers.

Fluxus was a group of avant-garde artists, poets, design­ers and archi­tects. Most pro­lif­ic in the 1960s and 1970s, Fluxus art prac­tices empha­sized exper­i­men­tal­ism, chance, and the blur­ring of art and…

An overview of artist residencies that challenge the idea of a residency as a "retreat" away from everyday burdens.

Insti­tu­tion­al cri­tique has a his­to­ry in both the art world as well as the acad­e­my. As an artis­tic prac­tice, its ear­li­est for­ma­tion focused on estab­lish­ing a rela­tion­ship between the work…

This gallery explores writing and text as alternative forms of visual artistic practice.

Images in this gallery explore the notions of abject and monument, confronting the viewer with what appears attrac­tive or repul­sive, pre­cious or worth­less, alive or dead.

Considering concepts such as time, performance, and duration the work in this gallery raise questions about labor, temporality and daily life.

Heroic images of land­scape are often mapped directly onto a Cana­dian sense of place and iden­tity. This gallery examines the complexities of land and nation in contemporary art.

Artists and images selected for this gallery question the value of cultural and social production using garbage, poo humor, and snow.