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MORE LIGHT THAN HEAT
Teresa Carlesimo with Michael DiRisio
15 November 2019–15 March 2020
Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
Catalogue
more light than heat invokes an uneasiness with space. The exhibition features common construction materials manipulated into sculptural forms, participatory installations and fictional spaces, and video works that push recognizable forms to their formless limits. Hamilton-based artists Teresa Carlesimo and Michael DiRisio present an exhibition that exposes their behind-the-scenes inquiries into the built environment through a series of works that play with the authenticity of building materials and inexpensive “fast construction.” Through this, the exhibition gestures towards the ways by which our everyday spaces cannot be separated from capitalism, nor our world’s current environmental shift. more light than heat is a discussion that doesn’t necessarily provide the answers or illuminate a solidified thesis—rather, the exhibition exists as an agitation with materiality, the built environment, and natural resources to pose questions about our everyday spaces. Acting as an extension of their recent presentation of a form of formlessness presented at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and curated by Sunny Kerr, this exhibition at Rodman Hall Art Centre can be understood as an elongated exposure of artistic process and labour.
Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
Installation team: Teresa Carlesimo, Michael DiRisio, Carina Magazzeni, Ben Mikuska and Brittany Sostar
Additional installation support, facilitation and caretaking provided by: Jason Robert Baggett, Bryan Boles, Darle Bradbury, Cindy Carlesimo, Bryan Cober, Danny Custodio, Rick Demoel, Kevin Erb, Bob Ferri, Emma German, Jonathan Groenweg, Scott Johnstone, Michael Law, Dave McArthur, Sean McCormak, John McCormak, Mandeep Mukkar Ippolito, Ben Needham, Stuart Perry, Curtis Pigdon, Nathan Plato, Bob Rattew, Dough Smith and Mauricio Tovar
Exhibition Coordinators: Marcie Bronson and Lauren Regier
With special thanks and acknowledgement to: Shirley Lennox and family
Teresa Carlesimo with Michael DiRisio
15 November 2019–15 March 2020
Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
Catalogue
more light than heat invokes an uneasiness with space. The exhibition features common construction materials manipulated into sculptural forms, participatory installations and fictional spaces, and video works that push recognizable forms to their formless limits. Hamilton-based artists Teresa Carlesimo and Michael DiRisio present an exhibition that exposes their behind-the-scenes inquiries into the built environment through a series of works that play with the authenticity of building materials and inexpensive “fast construction.” Through this, the exhibition gestures towards the ways by which our everyday spaces cannot be separated from capitalism, nor our world’s current environmental shift. more light than heat is a discussion that doesn’t necessarily provide the answers or illuminate a solidified thesis—rather, the exhibition exists as an agitation with materiality, the built environment, and natural resources to pose questions about our everyday spaces. Acting as an extension of their recent presentation of a form of formlessness presented at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and curated by Sunny Kerr, this exhibition at Rodman Hall Art Centre can be understood as an elongated exposure of artistic process and labour.
Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
Installation team: Teresa Carlesimo, Michael DiRisio, Carina Magazzeni, Ben Mikuska and Brittany Sostar
Additional installation support, facilitation and caretaking provided by: Jason Robert Baggett, Bryan Boles, Darle Bradbury, Cindy Carlesimo, Bryan Cober, Danny Custodio, Rick Demoel, Kevin Erb, Bob Ferri, Emma German, Jonathan Groenweg, Scott Johnstone, Michael Law, Dave McArthur, Sean McCormak, John McCormak, Mandeep Mukkar Ippolito, Ben Needham, Stuart Perry, Curtis Pigdon, Nathan Plato, Bob Rattew, Dough Smith and Mauricio Tovar
Exhibition Coordinators: Marcie Bronson and Lauren Regier
With special thanks and acknowledgement to: Shirley Lennox and family