Symposium

Sorting Daemons Symposium

Program Information

Antonia Hirsch (http://antoniahirsch.com) is based in Vancouver and Berlin; her work has received critical attention in Canada, Europe and Asia, and her projects have been presented at institutions including Program, Berlin; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; the Power Plant, Toronto; and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions across Canada, among others at the Charles H. Scott Gallery and Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; and Gallery 101, Ottawa. In 2004, she was awarded the Canada Council Studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her work can be found in public collections such as those of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank and the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami Beach. Hirsch has written for various publications including Fillip, C magazine, and artecontexto.

 

"A Plurality of Solitudes"

Based on specific examples of her own work, Antonia Hirsch's paper will discuss the concepts of public space and public sphere that have informed these projects. The presentation will consider the notion of visibility in a literal as well as a metaphoric sense, examining the role of the artwork in constituting public space and, in fact, a public (audience). Following Chantal Mouffe's notion of the agonistic public sphere, she will consider whether it is possible for an artwork to mobilize what is invisible, and the element of agency that may be embodied in this.