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Amanda Shore is a white-settler arts worker, critic, and curator based in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, NS). 


This issue embraces the expansive nature of craft—focusing on the relationships among artists and their materials in conversation with lineage, embodied processes, function, survival, and life as it is lived. Many contributors elaborate on craft as perpetual motion: continually reformed bonds in the act of making that serve as proof of self-definition. Artists and writers explore the psychedelia of time devoted to a loom, material kinship, tea encounter, sentimentality as a curatorial drive, and more, following craft as it moves through families, diasporic realities, and markets of trade, tourism, and commercial art.


Craft

Death

Curatorial practice

Amanda Shore reflects on the commemorative exhibition “For the Love of Sandra Alfoldy” (2020–2021), which was dedicated to the beloved mentor and eminent Canadian craft scholar. Shore explores how the show created a space that might hold fuller truths about craft histories, its joys and baggage, in a moment of immense loss, and asks what happens when feeling enters the curatorial realm.

Love Made Object

**Justin Langlois** is an artist and Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. His practice explores collaborative structures, critical pedagogy and custodial frameworks as tools for gathering, learning and making.

**Leah Snyder** is a writer and digital designer whose research and curatorial work centres around art as social practice, arts advocacy and contemporary Indigenous art with a particular focus on digital archives, new media activism, national narratives in a digital era and developing communities in cyberspace. At its foundation, her work is about constructing different kinds of architectures that provide alternative spaces for engagement. Leah is also the editor of _Mixed Bag Mag_, an online magazine on contemporary culture in Canada.

Rinaldo Walcott is Associate Professor and Director of Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. He is the author of _Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies_ (Insomniac Press, 2016).

Citizenship

Participation

Location

International

Site-specific

These writers revisit projects and presentations at the Venice Biennale that offer alternative models for practicing and engaging with citizenship that are “nuanced, complicated and poetic,” including Public Studio and Adrian Blackwell’s performative intervention Migrant Choir. They further ruminate on the idealistic curatorial intervention of Okwui Enwezor, and the dialogue generated between Indigenous peoples and recently displaced populations during the Creative Time Summit. 

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Love Made Object

Questioning Citizenship at the Venice Biennale: Responses and Interventions