Aisle 4 is a curatorial collective based in Tkaronto/Toronto working in social practice and public art. Learn more about us; view our complete list of collaborators; and explore our current & past projects, including exhibitions, public programming, research, and advocacy. Aisle 4 is a curatorial collective based in Tkaronto/Toronto working in social practice and public art. Learn more about us; view our complete list of collaborators; and explore our current & past projects, including exhibitions, public programming, research, and advocacy. TBD Programming
October 1–31, 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art
Toronto
Francisco-Fernando Granados
Bridget Moser
This series of public programming ran concurrently with TBD, a self-reflexive group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (now MoCA Toronto) that marked the institution’s final presentation in its physical location as it embarked on a move to a new facility. Through institutional critique and parody, the programming subverted two common museum practices–guided tours and visitor experience surveys–and engaged audiences in non-traditional, unusual ways.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Su-Ying Lee for the invitation to create programming for this exhibition, and to museum accessibility specialist Laura Robb and MOCCA artist staff members Michael Vickers and Sarah Sands Phillips for their support of the tour program.
About the works
Francisco-Fernando Granados
Walls & Outlets
Walls & Outlets was a guided performance tour led by Francisco-Fernando Granados that gave audiences an opportunity to learn about the structure of MOCCA, both architecturally and institutionally. Rather than referencing the artworks or the themes of the exhibition, Granados illuminated the museum’s intimate exhibition, building, and bureaucratic histories, with which only its employees or longstanding members would be familiar.
Bridget Moser
Another Visitor Research Survey
Another Visitor Research Survey was a humourous performance installation led by Bridget Moser that parodied the increasingly common practice of conducting onsite surveys at museums and galleries, collecting qualitative and quantitative data to report back to funding bodies and improve their overall experience. Assuming the role of visitor researcher and holding set shifts in the gallery, Moser conducted surveys and even traced visitors’ movements in the exhibition space. The results were documented through hand-drawn maps, paper surveys, and a list of quotes overheard in the gallery, producing an absurdist record of visitor activity across several weeks.
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