Living Room (2025)
Incite Gallery
Art Gallery of Burlington
Burlington, Canada
Team: Reza Nik, Nam Hoang, Jerry Chen
Photography: Darren Rigo
Curators: Suzanne Carte, Jasmine Mander
Incite Gallery
Art Gallery of Burlington
Burlington, Canada
Team: Reza Nik, Nam Hoang, Jerry Chen
Photography: Darren Rigo
Curators: Suzanne Carte, Jasmine Mander
The Living Room is an informal space for conversation, creativity, and rest. The project is the final stop on a three-year journey to build an all-ages, flexible programming space designed to foster connectivity and meet the changing needs of Burlingtonians.
Co-curated by Suzanne Carte and Jasmine Mander, the “living” series opened its doors in 2023 with the Living Library, a year-long initiative with rotating and overlapping artists’ and authors’ projects, which provided free and equitable access to events, a makerspace, books, and room to sprawl. Like a library, it encouraged the exchange of a broad range of human knowledge, experience, traditions, and ideas in a welcoming and supportive environment. It promoted the sharing of resources and stories through resting, writing, reading, listening, and looking.
This fluid, social space is ideal for co-authored workshops and discussions. It is an informal space for gathering with an emphasis on flexibility and adaptability. Multiple modular units such as tables, seats, containers, curtains, and a cart are available for hosts, participants, and guests alike to shape and form the room to optimize their needs to relax, make, and learn together.
The Living Room is part of the AGB’s special community-arts project series geared to stimulate more opportunities for artists and audiences across the Greater Halton/Hamilton district. The open invitation for activations is dedicated to creating equitable and open processes for artists, makers, and collectives to respond to social, political, and cultural issues in new and unconventional ways.
Co-curated by Suzanne Carte and Jasmine Mander, the “living” series opened its doors in 2023 with the Living Library, a year-long initiative with rotating and overlapping artists’ and authors’ projects, which provided free and equitable access to events, a makerspace, books, and room to sprawl. Like a library, it encouraged the exchange of a broad range of human knowledge, experience, traditions, and ideas in a welcoming and supportive environment. It promoted the sharing of resources and stories through resting, writing, reading, listening, and looking.
This fluid, social space is ideal for co-authored workshops and discussions. It is an informal space for gathering with an emphasis on flexibility and adaptability. Multiple modular units such as tables, seats, containers, curtains, and a cart are available for hosts, participants, and guests alike to shape and form the room to optimize their needs to relax, make, and learn together.
The Living Room is part of the AGB’s special community-arts project series geared to stimulate more opportunities for artists and audiences across the Greater Halton/Hamilton district. The open invitation for activations is dedicated to creating equitable and open processes for artists, makers, and collectives to respond to social, political, and cultural issues in new and unconventional ways.