Exhibition
Jon Sasaki: Killing One Bird with Half a Stone
26 Sep 2020 – 20 Dec 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:30
Address
- 4th floor, 1011 9th Ave SE
- Calgary
Alberta - T2G 0H7
- Canada
Esker Foundation presents three solo exhibitions by Liz Magor, Samuel Roy-Bois and Jon Sasaki this fall from 26 September to 20 December. This trio of exhibitions considers our complex relationship to the things around us.
About
Jon Sasaki’s multidisciplinary practice delves into the potentially generative outcomes of failure and futility. Sasaki’s solo exhibition at Esker Foundation will centre around a selection of his videos from the past decade that depict the artist’s persistent, sometimes reckless refusal to accept the obsolescence or inadequacy of everyday objects.
Improvised Travel Adapters (2018-ongoing) documents an ongoing series of temporary sculptures comprised of repurposed objects, jury-rigged to serve as adapters for international electric sockets. Well-intentioned warnings placed in hotel rooms urging travellers to avoid using multiple devices at once are scorned as Sasaki engineers travel adapters by jamming safety pins, paper clips, or nail files between a plug and a socket.
Through this flirtation with failure – and possible electric shock – Sasaki evokes the disorientation of arriving somewhere new and being confronted with the need to improvise and make do, heightened by our intense dependence on electronic devices.