Exhibit: Reading Exercises

In recent years, upheavals to traditional reading methods brought on by the development of new digital media have led to nostalgic discourse foretelling the imminent demise of book culture and its replacement by a widespread new regime of entertainment. Running counter to this trend, many artists today are revisiting the act of reading and reinventing its rules, inviting us to think differently about contemporary issues surrounding this practice.

The exhibition Reading Exercises juxtaposes recent works that use multiple strategies to reappropriate the fields of knowledge, language and writing. As the title suggests, reading is addressed and deployed in this exhibition specifically as an exercise (physical, mental, cognitive, pedagogical, epistemological, political, ethical, etc.) in order to question, among other things, our cognitive faculties, the involvement of the body, contexts of utterances, modes of subjectivation, relations of power, and the formation of social, cultural and gender identities. As such, the presented works serve to broaden our thinking on what it means to read in our day and age.

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Fiona Banner, Simon Bertrand, Clayton Cubitt, Ricardo Cuevas, Brendan Fernandes, Gary Hill, Bouchra Khalili, Ève K. Tremblay, Nicoline van Harskamp and #ReadTheTRCReport, an initiative by Erica Violet Lee, Joseph Murdoch-Flowers, and Zoe Todd, presented in collaboration with No Reading After the Internet, a project by Amy Kazymerchyk, Alexander Muir, and cheyanne turions
 

Curator

Katrie Chagnon