AG's annual report 2009 - Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

January 15, 2009 – March 22, 2009
ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land
Cynthia Girard, Alisdair MacRae, FASTWÜRMS, Shirley Moorhouse, Dana Inkster, KC Adams,
and Eric Robertson. Curated by Ryan Rice, Organized by Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land featured the work of artists from across Canada who
identified varying forms of nationhood that serve or detract from the concept of a national accord. Artists
from various backgrounds – Aboriginal, Métis, White (Anglophone and Francophone), and African-
Canadian – consult their personal and communal selves to address forms of sovereignty that they express
responsively as their anthem.
March 28, 2009 – May 3, 2009
Expressions 34 and Re-mix
Please see the Education and Public Programs Report for exhibition details.
April 2, 2009 – May 3, 2009
Janet Cardiff: Whispering Room
Co-presented by the Open Ears Festival, Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario
As part of the 2009 Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, KW|AG was pleased to host an installation
by Janet Cardiff. Whispering Room was a multimedia installation featuring sixteen speakers, each playing
dialogue by a female describing a particular event from various viewpoints. As listeners moved through
the gallery space, the story they heard changed. Each segment gently pulled the listener in a different
direction, shuffling them between the past and the future and implicating the psychology of different
modes of communication. The hushed voices were interrupted by a brief film projection of a girl tap
dancing in the forest. This seemingly random interruption was both mysterious and familiar, a fitting
analogy for the haunting voice that moved throughout a forest of speakers in the Gallery space.
2009 Exhibitions
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