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Mapping the Everyday: Neighbourhood Claims for the Future

Nov. 17, 2011 - Feb. 25, 2012
FREE

Audain Gallery

This process-oriented exhibition is a collaborative project between the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC), the art collective desmedia, the visiting artist Elke Krasny, and the Audain Gallery. Presented as a text-based “horizon line” across the walls of the gallery, the exhibition is a visual mapping of the demands and aspirations of the DEWC community. These demands, both current and historical, address issues of poverty, violence and insecurity, social exclusion, the deferral of rights, and the legacy of colonialism.

During the exhibition, the gallery will function as a platform and meeting ground for the production and exchange of different forms of knowledge. The “horizon line” will be a framing device and backdrop for a series of events, including a workshop on the making of button-blankets, a theoretically informed seminar, a discussion on the negotiation of an archive, and the building of a library for the DEWC.

With important participation from the community, Mapping the Everyday examines the possibilities for and consequences of community-based political activity as articulated within artistic and institutional practices.