Blockchains and Cultural Padlocks / The Staking Internet (2019-2021)

Venue: 221A, Vancouver, Canada (commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts)

Role: Editorial Director; author of The Staking Internet research essay

Contributors: Rosemary Heather, Julian Yi-Zhong Hou, Patricia Reed, Maral Sotoudehnia, with an editorial essay by Jesse McKee – a research publication, not an exhibition

Source: 221a.ca – project page banner

Nasty (2017)

Dates: January 21 – March 4, 2017

Venue: Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Role: Catalogue essayist (not curator)

Participating artists: Nadia Belerique, Valerie Blass, Shannon Bool, Aleesa Cohene, Kara Hamilton, Kristine Moran, Jennifer Murphy, Elizabeth Zvonar

Images: individual works by participating artists appeared in press materials for this show (not reproduced here – see Daniel Faria Gallery for documentation).

On Art and Populism (research/writing series) (2015-2016)

Venue: Kunsthalle Wien blog, Vienna, Austria

Role: Writer/editor (institutional project tied to her staff role there)

A critical writing series accompanying the Political Populism exhibition – not a fixed-artist exhibition, so no artist roster applies.

No representative image located.

Kevin Schmidt: EDM House (2013-2014)

Venue: Fogo Island Cinema, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada (exhibition Oct 1-Dec 31, 2014; book published Nov 2014, Sternberg Press)

Role: Co-editor of the publication, with Nicolaus Schafhausen

Participating artist: Kevin Schmidt. Contributing writers: Jeff Derksen, Michael Turner, Jack Stanley

Source: Sternberg Press, sternberg-press.com – book cover, co-published with Fogo Island Arts

Screen and Decor (2013, touring)

Dates: June 8 – November 24, 2013 (touring)

Venue: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary

Role: Curator

Participating artists: Shannon Bool, Simone Gilges, Bernhard Karmann, Sanaz Mazinani, Kristine Roepstorff, Emmy Skensved. Exhibition design: Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthoft

Source: Canadian Art, canadianart.ca – installation view, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Love Letters to the Future (2009)

Dates: September – December 2009

Venue: Online / global, presented at the UN Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen

Role: Co-creator/writer, with Communal Information Aesthetics

Participating artists: crowd-sourced public submissions; no fixed roster. Greenpeace-sponsored.

Source: loveletterstothefuture.blogspot.com – project blog, Final Transmission Unlocked, Dec 18, 2009

Ron Giii: Hegel’s Salt Man (2007)

Dates: September 11 – October 21, 2007

Venue: Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, Canada (later toured to Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa)

Role: Curator, co-author of catalogue essay (with Eli Langer)

Participating artist: Ron Giii (solo survey exhibition)

Source: Doris McCarthy Gallery, dorismccarthygallery.utoronto.ca – Ron Giii, Untitled, 1984

Philip (collectively written novel) (2006)

Venue: Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland (workshop Nov 2-9, 2006; exhibition through Jan 14, 2007)

Role: Co-author

Participating writers: Heman Chong, Cosmin Costinas, Rosemary Heather, Francis McKee, David Reinfurt, Steve Rushton, Leif Magne Tangen, Mark Aerial Waller – curated by Mai Abu ElDahab

Source: MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona) digital repository – novel cover

Moby Dick (2002, re-presented 2015-2016)

Venue: Originally online; re-presented at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada (Nov 17, 2015 – Jan 21, 2016)

Role: Artist / Author (solo work)

A conceptual piece presenting Melville’s novel word by word, one word at a time. No participating artists – authored solely by Rosemary Heather.

Source: Plug In ICA, plugin.org – installation view of the storefront presentation