HOP THE TWIG

March 6th - April 4th, 2020

Opening Reception: Friday, March th, 7-10PM

Featuring new work by Sara K. Maston, Sami Alwani, Ron Siu, and Shevon J. Lewis

Curated by Benjamin de Boer

“How long halt ye between two opinions?”

“Until when are ye hopping from twig to twig?”

- 1 Kings xviii. 21.

So asks Elijah during a crisis of faith. He seeks confidence from a wavering people to make up their minds about the future they desire. There is a strange mechanics to this indecision:

Halt, falter = limp = polekhim = hop, leap about, dance!

Here is a hopedoubt knot in shanty and dirge, a sprig on life's mediation. This contradiction pries us away from Elijah’s command for immediate action and pins a perverse activity to our fidgeting.

The knot tightens its two strands as two futures stretch out before us. One future is fleeting intention dwelling on the levelling power of the past's hulking totality. The other future is eternal consequence concerned with prophecy: the destiny of the soul. To choose one is to lose the other, but to choose the other is to make sure of and make the best of both.

Collected inside are new works by artists who are prophecy’s lyricists. Their songs are material remains of a future-thinking beyond the phenomenal face of appearances and cognition. Instead of simply accommodating the machinery of what has been - and drawing a limit to potential identity and collectivity - these pleas enunciate hope in the folds of the future by force of interruption. Their songs are not blueprints from which to build - but future’s filaments smuggled into the present.

Come, commune so as to give witness to the radiant force of their worlding and unworlding dimensions.

HEARTH

Founded Sept. 2019 as an artist-run space, Hearth seeks to provide a site for artists, writers, curators, and community organizers to present projects within a context that values collaboration and experimentation. In presenting a range of programming, Hearth aims to provide a reprieve from limitations imposed by many larger operating bodies, and the city itself. Hearth is committed to working towards an anti-oppressive, queer positive environment, and welcoming marginalized, racialized, and indigenous folks through programming that celebrates the work of a diverse range of emerging collaborators.

A structural element in the makeup of a house, and a tool providing warmth, light, and food; a hearth gathers us towards itself, and towards each other.

HOURS and LOCATION

Gallery hours are Mondays & Saturdays, 11-5PM, or please feel free to contact us at hearthgarage@gmail.com to request an appointment.

Hearth is located on Ulster St. just east of Three Star Variety (621 Bathurst, Toronto, ON, M5S 2R2). It is an accessible venue with a large garage door at ground level. There are no washrooms on site.

This event is BYOB. There will be snacks and cider available PWYC, no one turned away for lack of funds.

For info and updates see hearthgarage.com and @hearth.garage

Contact us at hearthgarage@gmail.com.