Art Metropole

05 Dec. 2024

Reactivating the Archive 3: Daniella Sanader on Lisa Steele's The Ballad of Dan Peoples

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600-8:00

Please join us on Thursday December 5th from 6–8PM for the third event in Art Metropole’s Reactivating the Archive series, featuring a presentation from Daniella Sanader on Lisa Steele’s artist’s book The Ballad of Dan Peoples, published by Art Metropole in 1977. Through Steele’s book—and accompanying videotape—Daniella will reflect on the shared rhythms between family memory, archival research, and close reading as a practice.

Reactivating the Archive expands Art Metropole’s past lecture series Activating the Archive, which ran from 1989–1995. A part of the celebrations for Art Metropole’s 50th anniversary, this reanimation puts forward a series of artist talks and performance lectures by artists and curators responding to works published by Art Metropole over our 50 year history.

Daniella Sanader is a writer and reader who lives in Toronto. For over ten years, she has been writing about (or, alongside) artists’ practices, contributing texts to a number of arts publications, galleries, and artist-run spaces across Canada and internationally. Currently, Daniella is a PhD candidate in Art History and Visual Culture at York University, where her doctoral research on artists’ writing is supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship.

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The Ballad of Dan Peoples, Lisa Steele, cover.