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Kids these days

Kyla Mallett, Your Pal Alicia from the Notes series, 2004 (light jet print).

Kids these days presents video, photography, and graphic works that draw from the fields of anthropology, psychology and sociology, to examine youth and youth cultures in the Canadian context. The artists document young people—their bodies, expressions, and movements—while investigating their tastes, thoughts, clothing styles, methods of communication, and leisure activities. The resulting artworks suggest an underlying desire on the part of the artists to capture the “essence” of youth or at least to affiliate themselves with the coveted values typically associated with this group: freedom, escape, authenticity, expressivity, creativity, and idealism.

Artists: Jo-Anne Balcaen, Sarah Febbraro, Kerri Flannigan, Emmanuelle Léonard, Kyla Mallett, Helen Reed, Guillaume Simoneau, Althea Thauberger

Opening Reception and Public Conversation Saturday 16 January at 2pm
Curator Zoë Chan and Dr. Marnina Gonick, Canada Research Chair in Gender Identity and Social Practices at MSVU, will hold a public conversation discussing the exhibition and its larger social and artistic contexts.

PUBLIC READING 2 March 2016 @ Noon “What was I thinking? “ public reading/open mic reading of stories, poems, notes, designs, plans, schemes, dreams, etc from when the participants were teenagers.

Purchase the catalogue, Kids these days

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