Raven Chacon, Gabi Dao, Lou Sheppard: Relations of Responsibility

Raven Chacon, Gabi Dao, Lou Sheppard: Relations of Responsibility

Relations of Responsibility is a group exhibition of work by contemporary artists that explores how the performativity of identity is echoed through the interpretive leniency of scores. In the capacity to respond to the call of a score, the agency of an actor is first acknowledged and then subsequently altered through the heeding of that call. The understanding of a score — how it signifies and what meaning is made from it — develops in reciprocity to these intersections. Borrowing its title from the propositions of Karen Barad, a theoretical physicist ad feminist scholar, Relations of Responsibility  includes projects that extend the performance of a score beyond looking and interpreting, towards conditions of relationality.

As prompts for performance, interpretation or choreography, scores point toward the materializing effects of habit: we are what we do. The range of possible responses are not given, but rather subject to never-ending negotiations impacted foremost by the making and remaking of difference. The social, political and ethical obligations we confer on each other through relation are formed through these demarcations and bindings such that the performance of a score becomes a way of registering address and taking responsibility, shaping ourselves and the matter of the world in turn.

Curated by cheyanne turions

This exhibition is co-presented by SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts' Audain Visual Artist in Residence program, and with the support of the Western Front and SFU Library.

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation based in Albuquerque, NM and Toronto, ON.

Gabi Dao is an artist and organizer based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations.

Lou Sheppard is an interdisciplinary artist working in audio, performance and installation-based practice. Sheppard was raised on unceded Mi'Kmaq territory / Nova Scotia.

UPCOMING EVENTS

PERFORMANCE: A Strong Desire: Syntactic Movement by Lou Sheppard

WED, OCT 9 / 6 - 7PM Audain Gallery, Vancouver

OPENING RECEPTION: WED, OCT 9 / 7 - 9PM Audain Gallery, Vancouver

WORKSHOP: Storytelling in the Domestic Cinema with Duc Kim Dao and Gabi Dao

Registration is required. Please email audaingallery@sfu.ca

WED, NOV 6 / 6PM Audain Gallery, Vancouver

PERFORMANCE: For Zitkála-Šá, directed by Raven Chacon

SUN, NOV 17 / 2PM Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

LISTENING PARTY: Aram Bajakian, Raven Chacon and Gabi Dao

FRI, NOV 22 / 7PM Western Front 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver

TALK: Raven Chacon in Dialogue SAT, NOV 23 / 6PM Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema,

149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver