Althea Thauberger

2019 Exhibition Artist

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Althea Thauberger (born in 1970, Saskatoon, Canada) is an artist and filmmaker whose work seeks to contribute to experimental and collaborative social documentary practices. Her place-based projects consistently involve a community of articulation and awareness around issues disclosed and discovered through collective research. She lives and works in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ / Tsleil-Waututh Nation territory (Vancouver) and teaches visual art and theory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Exhibit

Althea Thauberger & Kite at Small Arms

Thauberger + Kite’s installation Call to Arms features audio and video recordings of their rehearsals with Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) York band in advance of a live performance of four musical scores by Kite during the Biennial’s opening weekend in addition to the band’s own repertoire. Boasting the country’s only conch shell sextet, the […]

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September 21 – December 1, 2019

Althea Thauberger + Kite, Battle Cry (Gift to the Shell Ensemble), 2019, 2-channel video with 6-channel audio. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Courtesy the artists.
Althea Thauberger + Kite, Battle Cry (Gift to the Shell Ensemble) (still), 2019, 2-channel video with 6-channel audio. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Courtesy the artists.
Althea Thauberger + Kite, Battle Cry (Gift to the Shell Ensemble) (still), 2019, 2-channel video with 6-channel audio. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Courtesy the artists.
Althea Thauberger & Kite, "Battle Cry (Gift the Shell Ensemble)," from "Call to Arms," 2019. Courtesy the artists.

Donors & Supporters

Ann and Harry Malcolmson

Program

Call to Arms

As part of the Biennial’s launch, in collaboration with Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship HMCS York, four musical scores by Kite will be performed along with the band’s own repertoire. Boasting the country’s only conch shell sextet, the Navy band will perform inside the Navy’s drill hall, a “stone ship” a highly resonant space which itself […]

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September 21

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Althea Thauberger and Kite, Call to Arms, performance at the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photo: Sue Holland. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.
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