Two to a Blanket, Feet to the Fire - JAMIE ROSS
Video installation artist (Montréal | Canada)
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Two to a Blanket, Feet to the Fire

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From a bustling homosocial winter homestead in Eastern Ontario during the tail end of the 19th-century timber industry boom to a contemporary Queer Pagan community. This piece weaves material from the Archives of Ontario and the National Archives of Canada with footage of a May Day gathering of faeries who find platonic intimacy, kinship and jouissance on the same plot of land, centuries apart.

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Video commission for Trinity Square Video (Toronto) part of CENTRE, third and final instalment of the series LEFT, RIGHT, CENTRE.

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Exhibition History
‡ Left, Right Centre, Trinity Square Video, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) 2012
‡ The Apparition of the Wild solo show, SKOL (Montréal, Québec) 2012
‡  OKQuoi Festival, Struts Gallery (Sackville, Canada) 2014, curator: Coral Short

Upcoming

‡ Exhibition of new photographs curated by Momenta, Biennale de l’Image, Art Toronto Art Fair, October 28 – November 8 2020 
(Toronto)

‡ New Sodom: Carl and the Country Faggots audio artwork radio transmission, Art in the Open, August 29 2020 
(Charlottetown, Canada)

‡ Exhibition and performance, To the Law of the Letter, Gay and Lesbian Memory In Action Queer Archive, March 2020 
(Johannesburg, South Africa)

‡ Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, December 16-29 2019 
(Toronto)

‡ Residency, Klondike Institute for Art and Culture | Guest Lecturer, Yukon School of Visual Arts, October 1-31 2019
(Dawson City, Yukon)

‡ Entités vivantes | Living Entities duo exhibition (with Maggie Groat), Momenta Biennial, Galerie B-312, September 5 – October 12 2019 (Montreal)

‡ Club Gemini, sound installation Art Pop, September 25-29 2019 (Montreal)

‡ Pop Symposium round table discussion with Hugues Lefebvre Morasse, Carmen Colas and Tommy Ting September 27 2019
(Montreal)

‡ Club Gemini, sound installation, Centre Clark, September 6 – October 12 2019
(Montreal)

‡ Residency, Struts + Faucet Media Arts Centre, August-September 2019
(Sackville, Canada)

‡ 69 Positions Exhibition (curator), MAI, August 8-25 2019
(Montreal)

‡ Future Toxic (with Gesig Isaac), May-June 2019
(Fredericton, Canada)

‡ Pour un front gai à Montréal (paper), Anti-69 Conference, Carleton University, March 24-25 2019
(Ottawa, Canada)

‡ The Silent Stacks: Ghosts in the Archives, performative lecture, 69 Positions Workshop Series, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, February 27 2019
(Toronto)

‡ Screening/Performative Lecture, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, February 2 2019
(Morelia, Mexico)

‡ Escuela Incierta summer institute (Oculturas), Lugar a Dudas, June-July 2018
(Cali, Colombia)

‡ Outdoor School Residency, August 2018
(Banff, Alberta, Canada)

‡ Social practice and video exhibition, Verticale + Eastern Bloc, April 30-May 19 2018
(Montréal and Laval, Québec)

‡ Conference: Running with Concepts: The Empathic Edition, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, March 9–11 2018
(Mississauga, Ontario)