© Credits : Diane Hau Yu Wong
As part of the 8th edition of Montréal Monochrome, curator and art historian Diane Wong presents Deep Alternative Futures.
Deep Alternative Futures is a video presentation by Diane Wong, inspired by her research on Afrofuturism, which rejects the Eurocentric notion of a single future and the assumed linear temporalities at the center of mainstream apocalyptic visions and offer up alternative and pluralistic world in the form of Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism will first be situated in an art historical context by tracing its development in the mid to late 20th century and its revitalization in the 21st century. It will focus on Siegfried Zielinski and Jussi Parikka’s notion deep time of media with an emphasis on temporalities and future fossil to shift this depiction through an ecocritical lens to criticize the linear progress myth and instead offers up imagination new temporalities to address different aspects of planetary scale justice. These futures act in parallel to our own, from which we can collapse into our own lives to encourage steps towards making these futures our reality with artistic discussions on the works of Black Quantum Futurism and Quentin VerCetty.
Considering the increase in COVID 19 and flu transmissions, please note that masks must be worn for the duration of the events.
© kimura byol, 2022.
Diane Hau Yu Wong (She/Her) is a Cantonese-Canadian emerging curator and art historian based in Vancouver. She is currently an MA Candidate in the Critical Curatorial Studies program at the UBC. Her curatorial practice and research are largely based on the intersection between technology and art, predominantly focusing on the world building possibilities of Futurisms. She is particularly interested in examining the depiction of Asian bodies in speculative fiction and how it can be used to embrace diasporic identities.
Montreal Monochrome is an annual conference organized by articule’s Fabulous Committee (anti-oppression). It aims to address the mis- and under-representation and systemic oppression of marginalized groups in Montréal’s contemporary art milieu. The conference works toward imagining and nurturing new and existing bonds, solidarities and friendships between Indigenous artists, thinkers and cultural workers and their racialized allies.
As a project of the Fabulous Committee, this year the Short Term Programming Committee is joining the efforts of the Fabulous Committee to combine the annual conference with a window exhibition and a Special Project. Both proposals are an invitation to think about the new gallery space in terms of multiple notions of time.
Given that accessibility is contextual, varied and dynamic, if any aspect of our programming is inaccessible to you now or in the future, please let us know. We are happy to discuss and provide an alternative.
articule is located in a ground floor commercial building in Villeray neighbourhood. There are no stairs at the gallery, and to enter, the front door has a slope (light inclination). There is one glass door to get into the gallery. A staff member can assist you with the door.
Accessibility contact: Aziza Nassih - outreach@articule.org