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Art NOW presents Tyler J Stewart
The Politics of Sound: Why Listening Matters
12 pm MT | January 11, 2023
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome
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On display at the Galt Museum & Archives until May 7, 2023, the Politics of Sound is a temporary exhibition that combines historical artifacts from the Galt Museum collection, with sound-based artworks by six different contemporary artists from around the world. This exhibition explores the potential of sound to create new understandings and challenges visitors to contemplate their own position within our shared soundscape.
Tyler J Stewart (BFA '11, MA '21) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and scholar of settler descent, living and working on Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot) territory in the city of Lethbridge. His current research focuses on the role of sound within the ongoing structure of settler-colonialism in Canada, and how artists use sound as a form of resistance and refusal against imbalances of power. Working across sectors from music to museums to magazines, he is interested in fostering multi-disciplinary collaboration to inspire new events and experiences that encourage participation, and are meaningful to the communities from which they originate.
His artistic and curatorial work has included projects for organizations such as the Galt Museum & Archives, Critical Mass Centre for Contemporary Art, Lougheed House National Historic Site, the National Music Centre, and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
Images: Tyler J Stewart; Benny Nemer, The Last Song; jamilah malika abu-bakare, listen to Black women (II) + offerings (III); Marjie Crop Eared Wolf, Niitsipowahsin Secwepemctsin; Maskull Lasserre, Beautiful Dreamer; Adam Basanta, Curtain (white). Photo of Tyler by Angeline Simon. Exhibition photos courtesy of Galt Museum & Archives.
Thank you to the Galt Museum & Archives for their collaboration on this presentation.
Tyler would like to thank both the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for funding aspects of his research related to this exhibition.
Contact:
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