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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This chapter describes Untitled by Kim Moodie, created in 1997, and measuring 125 by 117 cm. There is a tactile version of one part of this drawing. It is labeled “1.” This chapter is 2 minutes long. 
This large drawing is composed of 20 8 ½ by 11 sheets of white paper, pulled roughly from a spiral notebook, and arranged in a grid, four down and five across. Using only a thick black felt tip pen, the artist has created something similar to a page from a comic book, with 20 cells, or scenes. Crudely drawn characters appear across these scenes, pulled from pop culture and history: witches, spiders, Godzilla, Frankenstein’s monster. In the top left corner, a mummy wrapped in bandages lifts a giant bird by their outstretched wings, or maybe tries to keep it from flying away. Fights unfold across the pages: a soldier wields a gun in one scene and throws a grenade in another. Walls, towers and obelisks populate the background, as does a set of empty chairs which keep reappearing. The chaos is emphasized by the density of how the artist has drawn everything, there is no empty spot left on the page. A NASA shuttle flies above a falling Godzilla in a starry night, about to crash land on a witch. A spider hunts a fly in his web, woven above a two-faced horse-riding cowboy who points a gun both ahead and behind him. Who wins, who loses? Despite the serial quality of the drawing, there is no satisfactory ending when we reach the bottom left cell of the artwork. 
To hear more about this work, play the next track. Or move to the next stop. Make a 180 degree turn and move down the path 2 metres and then turn right. The next stop is another 2 metres ahead. The drawing is slightly to your left.
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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CUAG has developed an audio description tour for "Drawing on Our History," designed for gallery visitors who are blind or who have low vision. It is intended for in-gallery use, but can also be used remotely. "Drawing on Our History" is a celebration of CUAG’s 30th anniversary, bringing the works of eight contemporary artists (invited by past guest curators) into an open conversation with a wide-ranging group of historical and contemporary drawings selected from the University’s collection and made by Canadian and international artists. The tour provides an overall description of the exhibition, and descriptions of ten works from the CUAG collection, including the newest acquisition, “Medusa” by Ed Pien. It also features descriptions and interviews with three of the invited contemporary artists: Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, Mélanie Meyers and Marigold Santos. In gallery, there are tactile reproductions of several art works, and a tactile path for independent navigation. This tour was produced by CUAG, and designed with insights from members of Ottawa and Carleton’s blind and low vision community.