Map by Teresa Tam, 2020.
Teresa Tam, Syzygy on a Budget: An Alternate Universe Tour
WALKING TOUR
January 23, 8.15pm
Tour: 45-60 minutes
As part of the opening reception of Planetary and Museum of the Moon, please join Planetary artist, Teresa Tam, at Contemporary Calgary and take in the hearts and histories of 9 alternate universes with an expert tour guide starting at 8.15pm.
For the fee of your attention, experience the wonders of memory, identity, and futures on an affordable budget. Learn more about the mysterious details and histories that you won’t find on your own.
Have questions? Curious about how all of these universes came to be in our own? The tour guide will help you with all of that and more! Shopping, snack, and bathroom stops included. (Transportation and accommodations not included. All ages appropriate. Please indicate accessibility assistance during sign-up, we will do our best to accommodate.)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Teresa Tam is a practicing artist based in Calgary, graduating from Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Arts + Design) in 2014. Teresa’s practice utilizes spaces and experiences that are familiar, and then alter them into something a bit foreign through re-interpreting and re-creating. Her projects are developed to include and emphasize visitor interactions. She specializes in digital platforms, functional installations, DIY practical objects, and body-based exchanges. Some places she has exhibited include Stride Gallery, Particle + Wave Festival, WRECK CITY, The New Gallery, IKG LIVE and Femme Wave Festival.
ABOUT PLANETARY
Contemporary Calgary is pleased to launch Planetary as one of our inaugural exhibitions in our new home at the former Centennial Planetarium. Grounded in contextual investigations around shaping vision through site and placemaking, 36 artists living in Calgary respond to our much beloved City landmark, creating work that draws upon the building’s architecture, its cosmological connections and its relationships to personal memory and nostalgia.
Planetary is an opportunity to consider the aspirations and ideologies driving the building design as it was realized in 1967 and its familiar role as a science centre for many decades thereafter. Through research, workshops and extensive site-specific residencies, artists addressed notions of futurity, technology, space travel and knowledge through a multiplicity of genres and mediums, both collaboratively and individually. Critically, Planetary is an occasion to reflect on our past and reignite our imaginations about the future of this site, our cultural landscape, and a vision for Contemporary Calgary that is welcoming, inclusive, engaging and relevant.
Rami Abdulnour, Mahwish Ahmed, Brittney Bear Hat, Richelle Bear Hat, Derek Beaulieu, Ashley Bedet, Noel Bégin, Morgan Campbell, Ali Ceaser & Cody Cox, Cîpayak ᒌᐸᕀ, Mark Clintberg, Bill Gardner, Guy Gardner, Rocio Graham, Brandon Hearty, Dan Hudson, Jennifer Ireland, Kriss Janik, Joe Kelly, Joanne MacDonald, Dan Cardinal McCartney, Tammy McDonald, Jeremy Pavka, Mireille Perron, Leah Petrucci, Shea Proulx, Rebecca Reid & Ryan Bourne, Alia Shahab & Michel Gignac, Lane Shordee, Teresa Tam, Alberta Rose W. / Ingniq, Tommi Watts, George Webber.