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Listenings: A publication following the Soundings exhibition

2025 / ISBN 978-1-988860-22-0
288 pages, colour, hardcover with paper wrap

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Listenings is published in response to and alongside Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, a travelling exhibition curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson and organized by Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University and Independent Curators International

How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization?

 

In Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, artists responded to this question through commissioned works that ranged from performance and video to sculpture, bead work, sound installation, written instructions and re-presentations of cultural belongings held in museum collections. Unfolding in sequences of five parts, these “scores” were activated at specific moments by musicians, dancers, performers and members of the public, gradually filling the gallery and surrounding public spaces with sound and action. Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, Soundings was cumulative, limning an ever-changing community of artists, players, artworks, shared experience and engagement as it travelled from one venue to the next over the course of three years and beyond. Some artworks had multiple parts; others changed to their own rhythm as the exhibition grew.

Listenings features writing and responses to the artists represented in the many iterations of Soundings: Raven Chacon, Sebastian De Line, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Garry Gottfriedson, Maggie Groat, Kite, Germaine Koh, Aaron Leon, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Logan MacDonald, Cristóbal Martínez, Chandra Melting Tallow, Peter Morin, Ogimaa Mikana, Diamond Point, Lisa C. Ravensbergen, Taylor Jordan Riner, Heidi Senungetuk, Greg Staats, Olivia Whetung and Tania Willard.

Writing and responses are offered by Xenia Benivolski, Lorna Brown, Whess Harman, Ashley Hynd, Roshanak Kheshti, Vanessa Kwan, Logan MacDonald, Cecily Nicholson, Patrick Nickleson, Beth Piatote, Erin Sutherland and Jordan Wilson.

Listenings is published by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery with Information Office.

 

  • Candice Hopkins

    Editor, Curator

    Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer of Tlingit descent originally from Whitehorse, Yukon. She is Senior Curator of the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-curator of the 2018 SITE Santa Fe biennial, Casa Tomada. She was a part of the curatorial team for documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany and a co-curator of the major exhibitions Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, and the 2014 SITElines biennial, Unsettled Landscapes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing is published widely and her recent essays and presentations include “Outlawed Social Life” for South as a State of Mind and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices at Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway. She has lectures internationally including at the Witte de With, Tate Modern, Dak’Art Biennale, Artists Space, Tate Britain and the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art and the 2016 the Prix pour un essai critique sur l’art contemporain by the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco. She is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation.

     

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  • Dylan Robinson

    Editor, Curator

    Dylan Robinson is a xwélméxw artist and writer of Stó:lō descent, and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. His current work focuses on the return of Indigenous songs to communities who were prohibited by law to sing them as part of the Indian Act from 1882‒1951. Robinson is the author of Hungry Listening (2020). His other publications include the edited volumes Music and Modernity Among Indigenous Peoples of North America (2018), Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2016), and Opera Indigene (2011).

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