Art Connects | Ashlee Conery and Tarah Hogue

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Curators’ Talk: Ashlee Conery and Tarah Hogue

Tuesday, April 7 | 1:30 PM

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In conjunction with the exhibition lineages and land bases, Ashlee Conery, Curatorial Coordinator—Interpretation, and Tarah Hogue, Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art, will reveal the curatorial decisions and interpretive lenses used in the exhibition to reframe understandings of Emily Carr’s paintings and bring to light the basketry made by her friend of 33 years, Sewiṉchelwet Sophie Frank.

How to highlight the intersection of these women’s lives and practices became the basis for larger conversations around institutional language, research, collaboration and structures, which Conery and Hogue are excited to share and discuss further with event participants.

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This discussion will be moderated by Melissa Lee, Director of Education and Public Programs, and Stephanie Bokenfohr, Adult Programs Coordinator.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Ashlee Conery has been Curatorial Interpreter at the Vancouver Art Gallery since 2018. She is also a member of the curatorial collective, FormContent (London + Vienna). Inclusive of makers, communities and larger social-political contexts, her practice endeavours to apply constellation-based thinking—and the intimacy of storytelling—to curatorial forms of information sharing and knowledge production around art. Producing multilingual texts, video, audio and commissioning artworks as accessible filters to institutional didactics, in and outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, she mirrors the character of an enzyme.
Having co-authored Incident Reports (Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2019), Sarah Derat (L’atelier du Pavillon des Indes, 2015), Conery has also curated exhibitions in Budapest, Istanbul, Paris, London and Vienna. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Tarah Hogue is a curator, cultural worker and writer. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation, with French Canadian and Dutch ancestries, and was raised on the border between Treaty 6 and Treaty 7 territories in Red Deer, AB. Hogue is the inaugural Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2017–20) and an uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm [Musqueam], Sḵwx̱wú7mesh [Squamish] and səlilwətaɬ [Tsleil-Waututh] territories since 2008. Her curatorial practice responds to the complex histories and present circumstances of place by engaging adjacent or resonant gestures embodied within contemporary artistic practices and through collaboration. Recent curatorial projects include lineages and land bases (2020), Transits and Returns (2019) and Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? (2018) at the Vancouver Art Gallery; The Commute at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; and #callresponse, which toured Canada and the United States in partnership with grunt gallery (2016–19). She has contributed essays to exhibition catalogues such as Maureen Gruben: QULLIQ (Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, 2020) and Tania Willard: dissimulation (Burnaby Art Gallery, 2017), and her writing has appeared in BlackFlash, c magazine, Canadian Art, Inuit Art Quarterly, MICE Magazine and others. In 2019, Hogue was the recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation – TD Bank Group Awards for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art. She is the co-chair of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones, and she holds an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia and a BA(H) in Art History from Queen’s University.