Roger Mooking, The Other Guy Returns, 2022, acrylic on canvas/photography. Courtesy of the artist.

SoundBites

Roger Mooking:

Clementina marks her birthday by dyeing her hair blue and swimming in the ocean for the first time in 30 years, November 2022. Digital print. Courtesy of the artist, Elegoa Cultural Productions, Birch Contemporary, and Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain.

Ed Pien: Present: Past / Future

Present: Past / Future is an evolving multimedia installation by artist Ed Pien that considers temporality as a lived, unstable, and relational condition. Developed through a long-term collaboration with the same group of elders in San Agustín, Cuba, the project brings together video portraits, photography, exchanged personal objects, and sculptural furniture assemblages to produce an immersive environment in which memory, aging, and presence unfold across multiple registers.

Panelists (clockwise from top) kay macdonald, I'thandi Munro, and Chris Cochrane.

It's About Time: Performance and Panel

Join us in the gallery for an evening of performance and conversation presented as part of our current exhibition It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900–1970 and Now curated by Seika Boye.

Halifax/Kjipuktuk-based artists kay macdonald, I’thandi Munro, and Chris Cochrane (Elle Noir) will gather for a moderated discussion reflecting on Black performance as lineage and living practice. Together, they will explore how movement carries memory, how artists prepare to be seen, and how performance becomes a site of community, survival, and transformation.

Ruby Miller at the weekly dance at the Conway School, 1950. Photo: John Collier Jr. Image courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives

It's About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now