Core Concerns, Care Embodiments Opening Reception

Join us for the opening reception of Core Concerns, Care Embodiments, an exhibition of new student artworks exploring bodies, assistive technologies, and networks of care on 9th October at McMullen Gallery.

How might an assistive technological fabric hold and support the body while attending to the extraordinary complexities of embodiment with care? Core Concerns, Care Embodiments is the first public presentation of artistic work created in connection with co-designing a Smartwear Revolution, an interdisciplinary research project led by the University of Alberta, developing “smart” garments that can respond to the body and provide support when needed.

The exhibition features new work by current students and recent graduates from the University of Alberta Department of Art and Design alongside collaborators on the Smartwear Revolution project. From the intimate to the systemic and the relational to the responsive, the artworks in Core Concerns, Care Embodiments tend to the complexities, multiplicities, and potential choreographies of bodies, assistive technologies, and care networks. Together, they take up the poetics of one of the project’s core scientific and technical research concerns: what can (trunk) support do? Core Concerns, Care Embodiments is curated by Smartwear Revolution PhD student researcher and curator Ginger Carlson.

Artworks by Dylan Brenneis, Calli Giroux, Michelle Kwasnycia, Brooke Leifso and Mona Dehghanzadeh Sahi, Monique Mah, Samantha McLeish, Aynaz Raoufian, Sheryl Spencer, and Al Young.

Core Concerns, Care Embodiments