Indexing Resistance

June 18 - July 24 2022

Keith Cole, Dayna Danger, Patrick DeCoste, Andy Fabo, Kalil Haddad, Pamila Matharu, Kelly McCray, Courtnay McFarlane, Muhammad Nour ElKhairy, Jamie Ross, Deion Squires, Shake n' Make, Natalie Wood, Lan Florence Yee

Curated by Amanda Boulos, Laura Carusi &
Schem Rogerson Bader


^{Video documentation by Miles Rufelds can be seen here.}

Queer bodies, much like the archives that serve them, disclose the injuries of homophobia and transphobia that have always been enmeshed in racism, classism, and misogyny. Intersections include legacies of state violence, community pushback, preservation of counter-histories, artistic creation, and community building. Indexing Resistance brings artists together, who are concerned with forms of queer resistance and the types of materiality that speak to the moment.

While some artists included use creative practices to bring new knowledge to queer history, protest and decolonial approaches by employing a hybrid of materials to explore the points and wounds of history. Other artists explore materiality and stretch it to it limits to reinforce the necessity of connecting. The artists in this exhibition each use a form of material, such as sculpture, video, collage, performance and painting to deep dive into the issues of queer resistance in Canada.


_{Documentation courtesy of Toni Hafkenscheid}