“ "LONG", "Long distance relationship", and "Long term relationship" are expressions of close relations with loved ones, but also my ongoing relationship with the event that inspired my exhibition "Portal", and with hate, violence, and aggression directed at non-straight people. Growing up in a small town on the Prairies, I was threatened, belittled, and demeaned verbally and physically for my perceived sexuality and my femme gestures and speech. I recognize that as a White person, although I regularly felt unsafe, I experienced forms of privileged protection not experienced by non-White, non-straight people in the region. Although many people are keen to celebrate the progress made for non-heteronormative rights and freedoms in Canada, to this day I still feel uneasy when I walk alone after twilight in my own neighbourhood in Calgary because of the reek of compulsive heterosexuality and macho bravado. What is more, despite the frustrations and violence of my context, I also feel the thrill and sense the lustre of non-straight histories, presents, and futures. "Other rooms" is based on a quotation from trans woman director Lana Wachowski, one of the creators of the Matrix universe, as well as part of the title of a book by flamboyant homosexual author Truman Capote, "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948); both thinkers, in their own way, celebrate gender and sexuality as shifting in time and space, and they suggest the radical potential of other ways of being." - MC

"...so that this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds previously unimaginable." - Lana Wachowski

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« La citation est un thème permanent dans cette exposition. Other rooms, par exemple, est une grille de fenêtre en bois sculptée à la main. Cette pièce est basée sur une citation de la réalisatrice transgenre Lana Wachowski, l'une des créatrices de l'univers Matrix, ainsi que sur une partie du titre d'un livre de l'auteur homosexuel flamboyant Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) ; les deux penseurs, à leur manière, célèbrent le genre et la sexualité comme changeant dans le temps et l'espace, et ils suggèrent le potentiel radical d'autres façons d'être. » - MC