JENNIFER LINDSAY
jennifer lindsay (canada/the republic of ireland) is a tkaronto based artist-researcher working in theatre, video, ceramics, and sound. spanning art and health sciences, her practice is informed by memoirs of the body, language disfluency, and crip time.
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BALAENA
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LITTLE SISTER GALLERY
aug 2017
set in summer years, BALAENA is a gentle inquiry into wayward forms of body movement that maintain an inward sense of stability.
i found articulations of these movements in letters written by my granda from his days of travelling around the world working on whaling ships in the 1940s. reading his letters felt intrusive, but i persisted because the sounds of his conviction were familial, and i wanted the spirit of his movements to help reconcile and encourage the new and unfamiliar ways my body was moving after brain injury.
reshaped in clay and suspended from the ceiling, the words in BALAENA play together and alone.
selections from balaena
please excuse pencil and vile scribbling
no more monotony
they sure do love to rush you if you let them
no cracks sister
they said we could go down tomorrow and get cash if we want (we all want)
the heat is terrific
a moving life with me
and you never forget where you are
outlier
three deaths down, nine hundred and ninety-seven to go
don't get too comfortable
dossier
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special thanks to lynn fisher.
photos by albert kwon