Kirsty Robertson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3860787 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kirsty Robertson |
| PRENOMES | Kirsty |
| SOBRENOME | Robertson |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERTSON K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3518-9267 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Synthetic Forever
Synthetic textiles create problems both as waste and through the shedding of plastic microfibers. But the afterlives of synthetic textiles are more complex than can be captured through quantification. This article explores the degradation of synthetic textiles by speculatively tracking the decomposition of three white suits: a fictional and indestructible prototype from the film The Man in the White Suit; Colonel Sanders’s iconic tailored suit; a…
Chained to the Gallery
This article details research into an archival fonds at the Art Gallery of Ontario (ago) chronicling protests that took place at the institution in the 1970s. The archive, assembled by the institution’s registrar, was either lost or stolen in the late 1970s and then re-collected. The re-assembled archive captures two major actions in 1972 and 1974 that coalesced around artist-activist fear of the cultural imperialism of the United States and ange…
Plastic Heart
This article explores the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective, the exhibition emerged from a scientific study aimed at tracking plastic pellet pollution on the strandlines of beaches of the Great Lakes. This lake system crosses the border of the United States and Canada and contains more than 20% of the world’s surface freshwater reserves. Utilizing this study as a starting point, Plastic Hea…
The Disappearance of Arthur Nestor
This paper considers Beneath the Surface: The Archives of Arthur Nestor, a parafictional exhibition that I curated in 2014 with 16 undergraduate students at Western University, Canada. The exhibition depicted the life of Dr. Arthur Nestor, a professor of Biology who had disappeared from London (ON) in 1975, seemingly without trace. Over the summer of 2014, some of Nestor's files and artefacts had been discovered during university renovations, and…
Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to plastics pollution awareness and action
Crafting Community
Negotiations in a Vacant Lot
At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked: is "Canada" - or any other nation - still relevant as a category of inquiry? Is our country simply one of many "vacant lots" where class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation interact? What happens to the proje…
Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules
This article asks whether exhibitions of political art are used to discipline dissent. Certainly, many artists, activists, and scholars argue that exhibitions of protest art might echo the issues of the protest, but they do so in a ‘context without consequence’. In answer, a number of curators have attempted instead to bring art exhibitions to the action as a way of potentially avoiding the institutional depoliticizing logic of the museum or gall…
Introduction to the Artists' Statements
Embroidery Pirates and Fashion Victims
Debates over copyright and craft are particularly thorny, jumping as they do from notions of a common shared history of quilting bees and knitting circles that should be open and welcoming to all, passing through the idea that as an apparently gendered pastime crafting is regularly devalued (and that this is something its practitioners should resist) and concluding with more recent arguments that there are lucrative opportunities for professional…
Capturing the Movement
Essay| August 01 2006 Capturing the Movement: Antiwar Art, Activism, and Affect Kirsty Robertson Kirsty Robertson Kirsty Robertson recently completed her doctoral dissertation, “Tear-Gas Epiphanies: New Economies of Protest, Vision and Culture,” at Queen’s University in Montrial, Canada. In the fall, she will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Goldsmiths College, in London, United Kingdom, investigating textiles, wearable technologies, and activi…
Resistance and Submission, Warp and Weft
This paper attempts to unravel some of the knots of handweaver Ethel Mairet's biography, and to embrace the paradoxes, political vagaries, and textures of her life. At once appropriator and colonizer, Indian nationalist and Sri Lankan scholar, twice married, twice divorced, feminist, submissive wife, communist sympathizer, businesswoman and feminized weaver, Ethel Mairet complicated virtually every trope of “feminine,” “craft,” and “colonial”—bot…
Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to plastics pollution awareness and action
Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules
This article asks whether exhibitions of political art are used to discipline dissent. Certainly, many artists, activists, and scholars argue that exhibitions of protest art might echo the issues of the protest, but they do so in a ‘context without consequence’. In answer, a number of curators have attempted instead to bring art exhibitions to the action as a way of potentially avoiding the institutional depoliticizing logic of the museum or gall…
Introduction to the Artists' Statements
Resistance and Submission, Warp and Weft
This paper attempts to unravel some of the knots of handweaver Ethel Mairet's biography, and to embrace the paradoxes, political vagaries, and textures of her life. At once appropriator and colonizer, Indian nationalist and Sri Lankan scholar, twice married, twice divorced, feminist, submissive wife, communist sympathizer, businesswoman and feminized weaver, Ethel Mairet complicated virtually every trope of “feminine,” “craft,” and “colonial”—bot…
Capturing the Movement
Essay| August 01 2006 Capturing the Movement: Antiwar Art, Activism, and Affect Kirsty Robertson Kirsty Robertson Kirsty Robertson recently completed her doctoral dissertation, “Tear-Gas Epiphanies: New Economies of Protest, Vision and Culture,” at Queen’s University in Montrial, Canada. In the fall, she will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Goldsmiths College, in London, United Kingdom, investigating textiles, wearable technologies, and activi…
Embroidery Pirates and Fashion Victims
Debates over copyright and craft are particularly thorny, jumping as they do from notions of a common shared history of quilting bees and knitting circles that should be open and welcoming to all, passing through the idea that as an apparently gendered pastime crafting is regularly devalued (and that this is something its practitioners should resist) and concluding with more recent arguments that there are lucrative opportunities for professional…
Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules
This article asks whether exhibitions of political art are used to discipline dissent. Certainly, many artists, activists, and scholars argue that exhibitions of protest art might echo the issues of the protest, but they do so in a ‘context without consequence’. In answer, a number of curators have attempted instead to bring art exhibitions to the action as a way of potentially avoiding the institutional depoliticizing logic of the museum or gall…
Introduction to the Artists' Statements
Negotiations in a Vacant Lot
At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked: is "Canada" - or any other nation - still relevant as a category of inquiry? Is our country simply one of many "vacant lots" where class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation interact? What happens to the proje…
Crafting Community
Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to plastics pollution awareness and action
The Disappearance of Arthur Nestor
This paper considers Beneath the Surface: The Archives of Arthur Nestor, a parafictional exhibition that I curated in 2014 with 16 undergraduate students at Western University, Canada. The exhibition depicted the life of Dr. Arthur Nestor, a professor of Biology who had disappeared from London (ON) in 1975, seemingly without trace. Over the summer of 2014, some of Nestor's files and artefacts had been discovered during university renovations, and…
Plastic Heart
This article explores the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective, the exhibition emerged from a scientific study aimed at tracking plastic pellet pollution on the strandlines of beaches of the Great Lakes. This lake system crosses the border of the United States and Canada and contains more than 20% of the world’s surface freshwater reserves. Utilizing this study as a starting point, Plastic Hea…
Chained to the Gallery
This article details research into an archival fonds at the Art Gallery of Ontario (ago) chronicling protests that took place at the institution in the 1970s. The archive, assembled by the institution’s registrar, was either lost or stolen in the late 1970s and then re-collected. The re-assembled archive captures two major actions in 1972 and 1974 that coalesced around artist-activist fear of the cultural imperialism of the United States and ange…
Synthetic Forever
Synthetic textiles create problems both as waste and through the shedding of plastic microfibers. But the afterlives of synthetic textiles are more complex than can be captured through quantification. This article explores the degradation of synthetic textiles by speculatively tracking the decomposition of three white suits: a fictional and indestructible prototype from the film The Man in the White Suit; Colonel Sanders’s iconic tailored suit; a…
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