Launch of Winter 2023 Exhibitions
Schedule
Fri Jan 20 2023 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
Esker Foundation | Calgary, AB
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Join us to celebrate the launch of our Winter 2023 Exhibitions including "Interiors" paintings by Margaux Williamson and Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Visitors." "The Visitors" is presented in partnership with Calgary Folk Music Festival's 8th Annual BLOCK HEATER Music Festival.
Ragnar Kjartansson: "The Visitors"
January 21 - April 30, 2023
Through elements of theatre, music, and visual art, Ragnar Kjartansson creates performances in which he explores the intertwining of pathos, humour, and collective emotion by testing the limits of repetition and the endurance of both performers and audience.
"The Visitors" is a large sound and video installation consisting of nine audio and video channels that document a single-take musical performance. Running for just under an hour, the work depicts eight musicians performing the same melody of a song called “Feminine Ways,” based on a poem of the same name by artist Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir. The musicians, all friends of Kjartansson’s—including Kristín Anna and Gyða Valtýsdóttir, founding sisters of the historic Icelandic band Múm; Kjartan Sveinsson, keyboard player until 2012 with the famous Sigur Rós; and composer and frequent collaborator Davíð Þór Jónsson—each sing and play a different instrument, isolated yet in unison.
Margaux Williamson: "Interiors"
January 21 - April 30, 2023
Organized and circulated by McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Guest Curated by Jessica Bradley
Margaux Williamson is a painter who also writes and makes videos. Her community includes writers, artists, and musicians with whom she has collaborated, notably on her 2008 feature-length video, Teenager Hamlet, which captures the existential questioning and curiosity of young urban friends thinking through their experience of the world. She has also made performances and published movie reviews. Within this multifaceted practice, Williamson’s painting has evolved through long rhythms; her bodies of work are produced over years interspersed with pauses, often for as many years. Writing has been a constant companion, and though writing and painting offer parallel paths to meaning, for her they are neither interchangeable nor ultimately substitutes for each other. Rather, writing accompanies her image making, offering another place for reflection and inspiration.
In the Project Space:
"HEADSPACE"
with Lizzy Moorhead, Sid Smillie , Zabdi and May G N
Until 5 February
In Bridge Space:
"Narrating Ourselves From the City"
Until 19 February
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Where is it happening?
Esker Foundation, 4th floor - 1011 9th Ave SE,Calgary,AB,CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
