(Without) Losing Oneself (installation detail) by Kyla Gilbert & Curated by Flavia Carton, Nature Sounds (Research image), written, performed and edited by Gigi Cheri, Breathing Room (installation details) by Gemma Crowe, Untitled (installation detail), by Jimena Diaz-Jirash.
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Yard Space Gallery (YSG) is a space for experimental and emerging practices. It is also a conceptual space, informed and framed by the negotiation and concession of materials as a result of the bureaucratic conditions of the Institution in which I’m undertaking an MFA. Though it is not a permanent location, YSG is located on Instagram, in a private yard and in a basement apartment in Mt Pleasant, Vancouver, Canada. Whilst these locations are outside of the Institution, I acknowledge they are imbued with their own problematic conditions. For the moment, these domestic environments are the available locations from which the structure and function of YSG can be developed.
YSG’s activities are determined and guided by an ever-evolving mandate. The mandate is formed with feminist thought at its foundation and demonstrates curatorial feminism by referencing feminist knowledge; disordering, unlearning, intervening and unstabilising the existing structures of exhibition spaces.
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Yard Space Gallery (YSG) Mandate - Revised 11:22am, April 29th, 2022
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YSG is a place for emerging and experimental practices with curated projects, open calls and happenings occurring intermittently.
YSG is particularly interested in facilitating projects that cannot occur within the structure of an institution or in a traditional gallery space.
Curatorial premises, projects and artworks will not be presumptively explained. YSG believes that the work will communicate in its own mode. Questions and inquiries are invited and encouraged.
The conditions of viewing and participation at YSG change from project to project and are mostly determined by the participating artists. Projects at YSG are open to the public and are viewable on Instagram: @yardspacegallery and by appointment Direct Messaging (DM) on Instagram. YSG does not have set viewing times.
Exhibition texts are available in audio or textual formats and are available for each project on Instagram: @yardspacegallery in the profile biography. YSG is actively engaged in an endeavour to achieve zero waste.
YSG is un-funded and volunteer powered. Thus, YSG is unable to promise fees for any services. Sales inquiries are directed to the artist and exhibiting commissions are never acquired. YSG does not ask artists to make new work as fees cannot be paid. Any payment associated with or accumulated by YSG will be directed back to YSG and its contributors.
YSG will follow the Covid-19 Health Guidelines for its district and endeavour to provide a safe space for its artists and visitors.
YSG is an evolving space that wholeheartedly invites feelings, feedback and critique on this mandate, the structure of the (dis)organisation, outcomes and everything else. Questions and concerns are always invited.