Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities (TKS). Live street/collaborative printing Princess St. TKS is a series of performance pop-ups that looks to activate Kingston’s rich history of Black life. Each day focuses on a person or family and their history in the city. Gesturing toward abundant print histories and archives, a mobile printing press moves around the city. The public is invited to print t-shirts and pick up a brochure that explains the life behind the images. In this way, the performance responds to a hidden history and scrutinizes both visible and invisible pasts.

Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Alejandro Arauz and Agnes’s Associate Curator, Arts of Africa Qanita Lilla. The mobile printing press was fabricated by Arauz, whose practice explores issues of identity and diaspora through the vernacular of print media, performance, and video. Lilla’s curatorial work looks to provide alternatives to exclusionary museum practices. SSHRC funded project. Photo: Garrett Elliott

TKS Pamphlets . Photo: Garrett Elliott

TKS Printing Plates. Photo: Garrett Elliott

Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live street/collaborative printing Princess St. Photo: Garrett Elliott

Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live collaborative printing at Agnes

Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live collaborative printing at LCVI

Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live collaborative printing at People Symposium at Marine Museum

Introduction at the People’s Symposium

Presenting TKS and the concept of collaborative mobile printing

Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live collaborative printing at People Symposium at Marine Museum

Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live collaborative printing at People Symposium at Marine Museum

Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live collaborative printing at People Symposium at Marine Museum

New printing plate for TKS. Tracing Kingston Solidarities (TKS). Live collaborative printing at People Symposium at Marine Museum

TRANSFER AND TAKE OFF: One.  30 minute video, 3 minute clip

TRANSFER AND TAKE OFF: One.  30 minute video, 3 minute clip

SKIN ANTHEM: One.  Body pressed prints on paper(22x30) and digital display. Edition of three.  30 minute video. 3 minute clip.

SKIN ANTHEM: One. 3 minute lcip

Arabic and Ojibway anthem translations

French and English anthems translations

German and Hindi anthem translations

Hebrew and Filipino anthem translations

Spanish and Chinese anthem translations

JAW PRESSED - 2015/16 Gesso on canvas, ink on transparency and video projection on canvas. (Photo cr. Alan Diaz). Queen's University Fund for Creative Works.

Installation image #1. Part of ‘Entrails’ performance festival at WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay 2017. Eight translations of Canadian anthem written by R. Stanley Weir.

Installation image #2. Handwritten translations laser etched on acrylic and ‘frottage’ prints on paper. Edition of 3 (whole installation).

Performance still image #1. Alejandro Arauz, members Near North Voices and Dr. Adam Adler.

Performance video sample #1. Alejandro Arauz, members Near North Voices and Dr. Adam Adler.

Laser Etched LED Plates (Detail Image).  2017.  Translations by members of the Near North Voices.

Frottage print detail Image #1. Edition of 3. 2017.

Waterless Lithography. Edition of 10. 2017. Composed by Dr. Adam Adler and performed by the Alejandro Arauz, members Near North Voices and Dr. Adam Adler.

SKIN ANTHEM II.  30 minute video, 3 minute clip

Double Side. Body Pressed print and digital. 22x30 (pentaptych) .

Double Side. Chinese detail image.

Double Side. Filipino detail image.

Double Side. French detail image.

Double Side.  Spanish detail image.

Double Side. English detail image.

Choir Chant. Wood, Acrylic, Paper, Wire, Sound and Graphite. MAPC -University of Wyoming.

video sample

The Incunabula Wall installation references the space, vernacular and procedures used at ports of entry.

The main matrices are on two plinths; one shows the Canadian coat of arms, and the other a ‘proposed’ coat of arms. In 2002, Senator Vivienne Poy proposed to change the Canadian National Anthem, in 2008 another motion was introduced into the House of Commons calling on the government to amend the coat of arms and incorporate First Nations, Inuit, and Métis symbols.

The Incunabula Wall continues the exploration of identity, lineage and diaspora through interdisciplinary print-based works. The exhibition was funded by OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant and the work was funded by the Queen's University Fund for Creative Works (completed 2014-15) .

Incunabula Wall. Nuit Blanche 2016. Artscape Youngplace. OAC. Detail image.

Incunabula Wall. Nuit Blanche 2016. Artscape Youngplace. OAC. Detail image.

Incunabula Wall. Nuit Blanche 2016. Artscape Youngplace. OAC. Detail image.

Incunabula Wall. Nuit Blanche 2016. Artscape Youngplace. OAC. Detail image.

Incunabula Wall. Nuit Blanche 2016. Artscape Youngplace. OAC. Detail image.

Incunabula Wall. Nuit Blanche 2016. Artscape Youngplace. OAC. Detail image.