"Infrastructure Poetry"
September 27 | Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome
Alex Turgeon (b. Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates formal relationships between poetry and architecture. His overall work focuses on how the structures of language and architecture inform the queer subject as built environment.
Turgeon’s practice finds interdisciplinary form by embodying a radical ethos rooted in the methodologies of printed matter—framed as a distributive tool and political method for making and occupying space. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA from Rutgers University. His work has been presented in part at the Tate (Liverpool); Akademie der Künste and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin); Kunsthalle Zürich; Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius); and as part of “Poetry as Practice,” an online exhibition hosted by Rhizome and the New Museum (New York). In 2022-2023 Turgeon received a Junge Akademie Fellowship from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin and has participated as an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, (2011), Rupert (2015), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (2017), Autodesk Technology Center (2019) and is a forthcoming resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2024-2025).
The artist joins us via Zoom in the recital hall for this lecture. Thank you to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery for their collaboration in making this artist talk possible.
Image: Alex Turgeon, Open-Faced Closet (Renoviction), 2024. Courtesy of the artist and SAAG. Photo credit: Blaine Campbell.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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