TRUCK Contemporary Art
2009 10 Ave SW T3C 0K4 Calgary, AB, Canada

Given the recent spike in cases of COVID-19 in our province, we have decided to close the gallery to the public for the time being. It is our hope that we will not have to do so for too long, however, should we have to extend our closure into December, we are considering possible avenues for continuing to share the work of our current exhibiting artist, Jin-me Yoon, with you all. As members of this community and citizens of this region, we call on our provincial government t...o respond to the current health crisis with considerably more care and empathy for those that are vulnerable, in precarious and public-facing employment, and our health care workers, whose calls for action we echo here. All news related to reopening the gallery to the public or an extended closure will be shared on our social media channels and our newsletter. If you have any questions about our closure, please reach out to TRUCK’s director, Ginger Carlson, at [email protected] or 403-261-7702. cc: M:ST Performative Art

SAVE THE DATE: Open Forum, December 5, 1pm - 5pm MDT. Event will be updated with registration and further information on Monday, November 23.

ICYMI Jin-me Yoon spoke with Rudy Howell from CKUA Radio Network's "Traffic Jams" earlier this week about her current Main Space exhibition, "Untunnelling Vision". Listen here: https://bit.ly/3jJYcrV Untunnelling Vision" runs from October 1 - December 12, 2020 at TRUCK Contemporary Art (2009 10 Ave SW). For full exhibition details, visit https://bit.ly/3jhkTnF. This exhibition was co-produced by TRUCK Contemporary Art and M:ST Performative Art. We would like to acknowle...dge contributions from the Cardinal-Dodginghorse family and our project funders Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, BC Arts Council, and the Alberta Culture Anti-Racism Grant. : Untunnelling Vision" (video still), Jin-me Yoon, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. See more

Please join us tonight at 7pm MDT for the launch of the collaborative Autumn 2020 issue of@cmagazinearttitled Gather. Please visit www.gather.cmagazine.com to view the live stream. C Magazine, in partnership with the Alberta Association of Artist-Run Centres (AAARC), invites you to join us on Thursday, October 29th (6pm PDT/7pm MDT/9pm EDT/10pm ADT) for an online gathering to mark the launch of our Autumn 2020 issue, Gather. The evening event will include readings fro...m contributors Mackenzie Ground and Rob Jackson, Henry HeavyShield, and Jenna Swift in concert with musical performances by Matthew Cardinal and Tracey Kayy. In light of the paradox of so urgently, vitally, needing to participate in the many movements of social progress during a time with unparalleled restrictions on gathering, we wanted to better understand what the word gather means at its core. Not only for us humans, but all of usstones, gravestones, Prairie grass, comets, seeds, travelling envelopes, berries, buried jugs of water, frozen pixels, beeswho comprise the many concentric circles of our shared world. The Saddlebacks’ fulsome examination of the amorphous, universal, and specific experience of sharing space with others (excerpted above) sets the stage for many more contributions that query the profoundly complex, political, sensuous, and shimmering nature of gathering, within and exceeding the particularities and impossibilities imposed by our current pandemic-engendered life. The issue includes contributions from Kelsey Adams, Lauren Crazybull, L. Sasha Gora, Faye HeavyShield, Su-Ying Lee, Christiana Myers, Jerry Saddleback and Jo-Ann Saddleback, Cason Sharpe, Safia Siad, Emma Steen, Aislinn Thomas, Mercedes Webb, and many others. Justin Langlois, 2017, digital photo documentation of elders interview as part of Locals Only, 2017-19, collab between Justin Langlois, CHEP Good Food Inc., and @aka_artist_run curated by Tarin Dehod

SAVE THE DATE: BIPOC Community Conversation, December 4, 5pm - 7pm MDT. Event will be updated with registration and further information on Monday, November 23.

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VISIT | "Grounding" (21’00, sound), Indu Vashist, link here: http://www.truck.ca/extended-indef Yoga nidra is a form of guided meditation, where sound guides the practitioner through imagination tasks, engaging various parts of the body and senses. "Grounding" is a yoga nidra written and recorded by Indu Vashist in the first summer months of the pandemic, creating an embodied grounding exercise through sound. It draws on images from Kandis’ video installation "Green Fields"..., two synchronized videos filmed in the lush summer months in the Ukrainian village of Zelene Pole in 1991 and 2016, enveloping visitors in an ambient, low soundscape. The yoga nidra "Grounding" emerges from Indu’s ongoing practice, offered as a form of care during a time of both isolation and uprising. Support the Encampment Support Network - Toronto here: https://linktr.ee/ESN_TO "Extended Indefinitely" is an undetermined, and continuously shifting extension of Kandis Friesen’s exhibition Tape 158: New Documents From The Archives which remains in storage following its closure shortly after being installed at TRUCK in March of this year. The exhibition in its initial form offered possible structures for archival retrieval; the extension of its current state offers storage as a provisional space to work within. During this extended time, two video works from Friesen are hosted in continuous loops online; slow-moving and in the present tense, one consists of rhythmic text, the other a tableau vivant of an ancient oak tree in Ukraine. Running as continuous loops on their own sites, they can be visited as they revolve. Acting as a space for publication and exchange, "Extended Indefinitely" makes public correspondences, excerpts, and echoes in text or otherwise between Kandis Friesen and Indu Vashist, who wrote the initial exhibition essay, "Object Constancy", folding citations from Friesen’s video texts into her own. Kandis Friesen, stills from Green Fields, two channel stereo sound SD video, 2016-2019.

"... Relationships between infrastructure, colonialism and tourismincluding that very ring road, Tsuut’ina land, and [seth cardinal dodginghorse’s] research, k...nowledge and sound artalso converge in 'Untunnelling Vision,' a must-experience project led by Jin-me Yoon that has been three years in the making and has involved dozens of participants, sites, histories and reinscriptions of Treaty 7 lands." , Thank you to Canadian Art for including Jin-me Yoon's "Untunnelling Vision" as a current Editors' Pick. Visit https://linktr.ee/performativeart to learn more about the exhibition and book a viewing. seth cardinal dodginghorse's full speech during the opening of the SW Ring Road can also be found there, addressing the road project's occupation of Tsuut’ina land and displacement of seth’s family. "Untunnelling Vision" runs October 1 - December 12, 2020 at TRUCK Contemporary Art (2009 10 Ave SW). In light of COVID-19 health and safety considerations and gallery restrictions, we encourage scheduling an appointment prior to your visit. More info at http://bit.ly/UntunnellingVision This exhibition was co-produced by M:ST Performative Art and TRUCK Contemporary Art. We would like to acknowledge contributions from the Cardinal-Dodginghorse family and our project funders Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and the Alberta Culture Anti-Racism Grant. Install shot from Untunnelling Vision," Jin-me Yoon, 2020.