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OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, March 1 from 7–10 PM CURATOR-LED DISCUSSION Sunday, March 4 from 2–5 PM PERSONAL BELONGINGS: A WORKSHOP W/ PROJECT 40 COLLECTIVE Saturday, March 10 from 1–5 PM, FREE Register here to participate www.p40collective.ca www.facebook.com/187Augusta See PROGRAMMING for more details. |
CONVENIENCE is an exhibition fronting as a quasi-convenience store. Featuring the work of Heidi Cho, Meera Sethi, Manny Trinh, Michael Veneracion, Xiaojing Yan, and Shellie Zhang, it explores the processes of diasporic place-making that take root within spaces stereotypically associated with Asian immigrants.
Treating the Asian mom-and-pop shop as a point of departure, the exhibition extends the notion of ‘convenience’ beyond built commercial environments. It explores how ‘convenience’ is used to characterize immigrant life: especially in relation to broader notions of proximity, passivity, and efficiency. With an intention to challenge easy categories of social, racial, and economic difference, the exhibition re-conceptualizes the site of the convenience store into a place of creative memory and possibility. CONVENIENCE is presented as a part of the 2018 Myseum Intersections Festival (Arrivals + Departures), in partnership with 187 Augusta and Project 40 Collective. |
