© Image: What Is To Be Done, Then? – Kandis Friesen and Indu Vashist 2021, text, newsprint, distribution, each 41 cm x 55 cm, limited edition of 2000. Pasting and distribution in Montreal done by Stefan Christoff..
What Is To Be Done, Then? An Artist Talk
Discursive activité: May 28th, 1:00 PM - 2h30 PM (EDT)
An artist talk with Indu Vashist, Stefan Christoff, and Kandis Friesen, speaking about collage and repetition, the intersections of their practices, and things that are classified as activism. With fluid practices that have changed over the many years they’ve known each other, they’ll talk about collaborative authorship, forms that are often separated, and returning to the question: what is to be done.
This event is part of Kandis Friesen’s solo exhibition Tape 158: New Documents From The Archives, running from May 8 - June 6 at articule in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. Works in the exhibition are a self-installed video installation, a sculpture in the gallery’s storefront windows, and a newsprint artist text; co-authored with Indu Vashist, it is distributed through public postings by Stefan Christoff and a newspaper rack outside the gallery door.
Kandis Friesen works with the dispersed monumental. Her compositions build from architectural, material, and spectral inhabitations of exile, amplifying minute and myriad histories at once. Anchored in diasporic sitespecificity, her recent work in writing, video, sculpture, and sound uses history as a central material, proposing collaged frameworks for structural resonance, repositioning, and dis/repair.
Indu Vashist has served as the Executive Director of SAVAC since 2013. She is interested in art that is not precious and words that are precise.
Stefan Christoff plays music, hosts Free City Radio, is a street artist and community organizer.
Associated event
Exhibition
Tape 158 : New Documents From The Archives
Kandis Friesen (CA)