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Collection Count + Care seeks relationships within and conversations across the collection. What stories does the collection tell? / Prise en compte, prise à cœur cherche à tisser des liens et des dialogues entre les œuvres de la collection. Quelles histoires la collection raconte-t-elle?
Speaker / Présentatrice
Sebastian De Line, Associate Curator, Care and Relations / conservateur associé, Solidarité et relations
Works / Œuvres :
Nobuo Kubota, “Roctoc” and “Tocroc” (from the “Atonement” series) / “Roctoc” et “Tocroc” (de la série “Réconciliation”), 1986, photolithograph on paper, 23/30 – photolithographie sur papier, 23/30. Gift of Nobuo Kubota, 2006 / Don de Nobuo Kubota, 2006
Isah Papialuk, “Head (Hear No Evil)” / “Tête (N’écoute pas le mal)”, unknown date / date inconnue, soapstone / pierre à savon. John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Art, 1990 / Collection d’art inuit John et Mary Robertson, 1990
Ted Rettig, “The kindness of others, version 2” / “La bonté des autres,” version 2, 2004–2006, mixed media: wood, paint, vinyl lettering, limestone, felt, earthenware, steel, mussel shells, glue and hardware / techniques mixtes : bois, peinture, lettrage en vinyle, calcaire, feutre, faïence, acier, coquilles de moules, colle et quincaillerie. Gift of Alice Wong-Rettig, 2006 / Don d’Alice Wong-Rettig, 2006
“Metamorphic Folded Rock,” 1.1 billion years old, Salmon River, near Tamworth, Ontario / “Roche métamorphique plissée,” 1,1 milliard d’années, rivière Salmon, près de Tamworth, Ontario. On loan from the Miller Museum of Geology, Queen’s University, donated by Dr D. Carmichael / Prêt du Musée de géologie Miller, Université Queen’s, don du Dr D. Carmichael
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https://agnes.queensu.ca/site/uploads…Collection Count + Care seeks relationships within and conversations across the collection. What stories does the collection tell? / Prise en compte, prise à cœur cherche à tisser des liens et des dialogues entre les œuvres de la collection. Quelles histoires la collection raconte-t-elle? …
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>> As one enters the gallery, a table
is situated in the centre of the room.
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This installation by Ted
Rettig, “The kindness of others,
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version 2” encompasses an interdependency
of many beings propping each other up.
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Bricks on the floor prop up the table legs,
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while the fourth leg is a
branch of a tree with mussel shells.
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On top of the table, a terra cotta dish
is placed alongside a piece of limestone.
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Here, a poem reads “the deep kindness
of others, the deep kindness of the air,
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the deep kindness of water, the deep kindness
of the warmth of the sun, the deep deep kindness
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of light, the deep deep kindness of plants
and animals, the rich kindness of the earth,
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the gentle kindness of a peaceful night.”
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The animacy and agency of beyond-human relatives and
our kinships with them as well as the ethics
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of relations are important themes to the artist,
Nobuo Kubota, Ted Retticg, and Isah Papialuk.
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In Kubota’s “Tocroc” and “Roctoc”, you see the
artist comfortably laying down next to a rock.
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Both of them are wearing headphones while in one
of the images, Kubota is speaking to the rock
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and in the other image, he’s pointing the
mic at the rock listening to a response.
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The photographs act like stills
in what could be an interview
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for a documentary film, a
radio or news broadcast.
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In “Head (Hear No Evil)”, by Isaac Papialuk, a soapstone
figure looks outward with pursed lips,
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cupping his ears with both hands.
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He chooses not to hear or speak what he sees.
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Stones are our oldest relatives on
Earth, the longest living witnesses
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to all which has passed amongst them.
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In the spirit of Kubota’s prompt,
we’ve included the presence of one
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of the most ancient rocks living in the region,
a 1.1 billion year old folded metamorphic rock
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which came from the Salmon River, a
45-minute drive north of Kingston.
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This rock was part of the early creation
of the Grenville Mountains,
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which were at that time as
tall as the Himalayas.
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The visitor is invited to sit
down with this ancient grandparent
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and listen to what they have to share.
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