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Opening: Friday, June 3, 2011 7 – 10pm
Day of Globe Making: Sunday, June 19, 1 – 4pm
The world views through which people see and experience our planet, contribute to the ways they interact with one another and the world in which they live. During this one-day event, participants are invited to make globes together. Multiple patterns and materials will be available for globe production as well as histories and resources for future globe making projects. Free, all are welcome, drop in at any time.
Gallery hours: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 1 – 4pm and by appointment
Royal NoneSuch Gallery is pleased to present Planetary Visions, a solo exhibition and ongoing project by Emily Dippo.
Planetary Visions is an installation revolving around an atlas that charts the contours of ecofeminisms, contemporary site-specific art and cultural production contributing to dialogues concerned with our shared planetary geographies. The collection of visual materials and texts that comprise the atlas envision how ecofeminist perspectives contribute a necessary breadth and depth to contemporary analyses of art concerned with the past, the present and the future of life on earth.
The interdisciplinary project is organized across media and in multiple formats, designed as a work-in-progress. It is offered as an emerging platform from which to engage and create with blank spots left to fill in. Pages of the atlas are designed as multiple posters for self-assembly. For the duration of the exhibition the Royal NoneSuch Gallery will function as an assembly, workshop and research center for the atlas, connecting the planetary visions of the atlas to local and global points of research, knowledge and action. Visitors to the gallery will be invited to assemble their own atlas, and contribute to the ongoing collective dialogues in the exhibition space.
Artists and Theorists included in the atlas:
Amy Balkin – Artist
Betty Beaumont – Artist
Rebecca Belmore – Artist
Zarina Bhimji – Artist
Rachel Carson – Environmental Theorist
Mary Beth Edelson – Artist
Donna Haraway – Environmental Theorist
Nancy Holt – Artist
Emily Jacir – Artist
Natalie Jeremijenko – Artist
Suzanne Lacy – Artist
Ana Mendieta – Artist
Carolyn Merchant – Environmental Theorist
Lucy Orta – Artist
Val Plumwood – Environmental Theorist
Shelley Sacks – Artist
Catriona Sandilands – Environmental Theorist
Vandana Shiva – Environmental Theorist
Mierle Laderman Ukeles – Artist
Yin Xiuzhen – Artist
Andrea Zittel – Artist
Emily Dippo is an artist based in San Francisco, California. She received her MFA in Sculpture and MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011. Emily was born and raised in Schomberg, Ontario, Canada, and attended York University in Toronto for her undergraduate degree in Visual Arts and Environmental Studies. Her research interests lie in the intersections of art, ecofeminisms, site-specificity, and planetary geographies.
