Join curators Melanie O'Brian and Krista Belle Stewart for a tour of Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection, which centres around Stewart's video installation Seraphine, Seraphine (2015) to consider doubling – and duplicities – in personal and historical narratives. O'Brian and Stewart will walk through the exhibition and offer insights into the themes, conversations and points of resonance between Stewart's and the other works drawn from the Belkin's permanent collection.

Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection centres around Krista Belle Stewart’s video installation Seraphine, Seraphine (2015) to consider doubling – and duplicities – in personal and historical narratives. Connecting to Stewart’s questioning of authorial representation and intention versus interpretation of archival materials, Start Somewhere Else considers how stories are told between the individual and institution. The list below includes readings expanding on themes and ideas in the exhibition that were compiled by graduate and undergraduate researchers at the Belkin.  

Marian Penner Bancroft's Two Places at Once (1983) presents a set of photographed landscapes across silver gelatin prints and an artist book. In this artist talk that took place during the exhibition Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection, Bancroft discusses the ways the work speaks to place, dreams, personal and family histories and connections between near and far.