Closing - Diasporic Affections

Join us for an evening that celebrates diasporic narratives and closes the exhibition Diasporic Affections curated by Nicholas Dawson and Phorie. The performance “stop pretending this is a child's adventure” marks the final activation of artist Francisco-Fernando Granados' installation, “studies in minor abstraction” currently on view as part of Diasporic Affections. The action reconfigures the artist's archive of studio ephemera, connecting vertical and horizontal planes with memories of coming to Canada as a teenager. We also invite you to the launch and signing of Nicholas Dawson's book VUELTAS, Affects diasporiques. VUELTAS, in Spanish, means twists, turns and detours. Nicholas Dawson takes advantage of this polysemy to take us to Chile, from where he left as a child with his entire family, and to which he returns repeatedly in this queer and diasporic narrative, borrowing different styles and crossing geographical, cultural, linguistic, literary, disciplinary, epistemological, sexual and gendered boundaries. This hybrid essay, made up of theoretical reflections, self-narratives, ekphrasis, lists, playlists and poems, gives voice to the affective and shifting experience of memory, borders and exile.