Posted by Wayves volunteer 5/09/2013
By Art+Activism@NSACAD
The Art+Activism@NSCAD project is pleased to host Toronto-based Chase Joynt whose installation Resisterectomy will be featured at the Anna Leonowen's Gallery from September 16-28.
On September 18 at noon, Chase will be giving an artist talk in the gallery.
"Resisterectomy is a 4-part multi-media moving image, picture and text installation that challenges the boundaries of a gendered body through the examination and infiltration of, in and on various medical procedures and spaces.
I began this project in search of a counter-narrative to my experiences of mastectomy and hysterectomy as they relate to gender and embodiment. What I discovered was an artistic and intellectual collaboration that served to collapse the boundaries of a gendered body as they relate to these surgeries; and conversation that complicated the very notion of a counter-narrative in service of greater things lost and now gained.
As a transgender man, I highlight these surgical experiences as both highly contentious and ultimately pivotal turning points in the formation of my (de)gendered sense of self. The various trajectories illuminated by and through my collaboration with Mary Bryson have caused me to further underscore the impact of institutions on these narratives; and subsequently inspired me to create work that exists at the liminal points of transgression, between the controlled management of public bodies and the articulation of embodiment.
RESISTERECTOMY was curated by The Feminist Art Gallery in Toronto and presented as a solo exhibition in collaboration with Mary Bryson at Access Gallery in Vancouver, BC."
CHASE JOYNT is a Toronto-based filmmaker, performer and writer. Recently awarded the EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist and the Jury Award at the Regent Park Film Festival, Chase's film Akin is currently being exhibited at festivals in Canada, the US and Internationally. His last film, Everyday to Stay was awarded Best Short Film while on tour with Madrid's International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the Jury Award for Best Documentary in Bangalore, India. Chase’s latest media installation project Resisterectomy was curated by The Feminist Art Gallery in Toronto, and presented as a solo exhibition in collaboration with Mary Bryson at Access Gallery in Vancouver, BC.
Most recently, Chase starred as Mars Brito, the lead character in John Greyson’s Murder in Passing. Launched in January of 2013, Murder in Passing is widely regarded as the most ambitious transmedia public narrative project available on public screens worldwide. Chase holds a BA from the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, and is pursuing a PhD in Film at York University in Toronto.
In 2013-2014, Chase will be in residence as a Visiting Artist and Instructor at the University of Chicago where he holds a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice & Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
More information can be found at http://chasejoynt.com/
