This publication brings additional interpretation to artworks by Dylan A.T. Miner, Tania Willard, and Jana Winderen that were first installed at UTM in summer 2021: Nicole Latulippe considers responsibilities and accountabilities in Willard’s Liberation of the Chinook Wind; Danielle Boissoneau reflects on rematriation and personal histories in response to Miner’s seven platforms; and Ella Finer considers site, acoustics, and listening through Winderen’s Spring Bloom […]. The booklet also includes a campus map and installation documentation.

Since 2021, the Blackwood has presented Living with Concepts, the first cycle in an ongoing exhibition series presented in public spaces, primarily outdoors, on UTM campus. With the support of the University of Toronto Mississauga, over a three-year period installations by contemporary artists animate the campus. These artworks respond to the context of the site in Mississaugas of the Credit territory (Treaties 22 and 23, 1820), engage the university community, and activate open spaces to foster educational encounters across disciplines. 

First presented during the Blackwood’s unprecedented 2018 contemporary art festival The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, three installations have been reconfigured to span ten sites across UTM campus. Engaging themes of environmental crisis, climate change, and resilience, artworks by Dylan A.T. Miner, Tania Willard, and Jana Winderen provide multi-sensory experiences which attune us to the local environment; reflect on histories and futurities; and bridge international ecologies.

Throughout the three-year exhibition, each of the artworks are shaped by the campus: Miner’s platforms will be used for regular public programs and events; Willard’s wind poetry responds to local weather data; and Winderen’s audio composition is played at different times seasonally to respect animal migrations and mating cycles.

Free print copies of Living with Concepts are available for pickup at the Blackwood's publication stand near the entrance to the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre and Library. Contact the Blackwood to request additional print copies.