Food for thoughts dinner with Amy Wong was held in the exhibition space alongside her installation, The Art of Hanging Pictures 2016

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Feature: Are Potlucks the New Artist Talks?

By Julie Hollenbach, published in Canadian Art

Posted 17 Nov 2016

"Just as Wong’s symphonic arrangement of collaboratively sourced images and objects in the Eyelevel space destabilized predominant ideologies inherent to the Modernist white-cube gallery—those that privilege individualism, romantic authorial power, the hierarchical ritual of veneration, and the legacy of white masculine genius—the talk that accompanied the exhibition in the form of a potluck dinner disrupted the conventions of the artist talk format, while simultaneously riddling the application of relational aesthetics and social practice."

Are Potlucks the New Artist Talks?
Canadian Art Online
Feature by Julie Hollenbach