TTTM Exhibitions
Queer affections to remedy the unseeable
Oct 13 - Nov 7, 2023
Treaty Space Gallery, 1107 Marginal Rd., Kjipuktuk/Halifax
CURATORS:
Mahlet Cuff and Adrienne Huard
ARTISTS:
Elle Noir, Shampoo Extravaganza, Adrienne Huard, Raven Davis, Jeremy Dutcher, Princex Naveed
Image credit: Elle Noir
“Without community, there is no liberation…but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”
— The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde
Who has access to queer spaces, and what happens when they start disappearing? Making connections between shortages of queer spaces in both Winnipeg and Halifax, this exhibition aims to create its own queer liminal environment in support of Black, brown, and Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA++ communities. Acknowledging the profound queer histories of these two mid-sized city centers, we commit to the urgency to highlight voices that have been excluded and erased from histories, and uplift those who have been left out. From drag performances, music videos, photography, and installations, Treaty Space Gallery is transformed by artists from both Winnipeg and the Atlantic region into a multidimensional space that illustrates our diverse and expansive queer creative expressions while leaving room to learn about the functionality and growth of the queer Halifax community.
Thanks goes to Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Carla Taunton, and TTTM’s Museum Queeries Cluster for their guidance and support. This exhibition was featured as part of Nocturne: Art at Night’s 2023 program and has been generously sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Inuit Art Foundation.
INSTALLATION VIEW:
Photography credit: Yifan Liu
team members
Mahlet Cuff
Mahlet Cuff is an undergraduate student majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. While a student, they have gained experience as an interdisciplinary artist, in curation, and in archival research. Cuff’s main research interest is the history of Black queer life in Manitoba. She is also interested in looking to the past to imagine how we may create new futures.
Role: Research Assistant Cluster: Museum Queeries
Adrienne Huard
Adrienne Huard (they/them) is a Two-Spirit Anishinaabe curator, writer, scholar, and performer. They are a citizen of Couchiching First Nation, Ontario, and born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They are a former Editor-at-Large at Canadian Art magazine and are a co-founder of gijiit curatorial collective with collaborator Jas M. Morgan. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art history at Concordia University in Montreal and went on to complete OCAD University’s graduate program in Criticism and Curatorial Practice in Toronto. Currently, they are enrolled in the PhD program in Indigenous studies at University of Manitoba.
Role: Research Assistant Cluster: Museum Queeries