Artists Animate the Expo 67 Archives: Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley)

"Artists Animate the Expo 67 Archives” will highlight artists’ processes of working in/with archives by presenting discussing, and reflecting on three artists research-creation processes: Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley), and Althea Thauberger with Danica Evering. These artists are contributing to "In Search of Expo 67" at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (June 21 to October 8, 2017) co-curated by Lesley Johnstone and Monika Kin Gagnon, an exhibition of new works and several archival multi-screen films.

Leisure take as their point of departure, the ‘Environment for Creative Play and Learning’ in the Children’s Creative Centre at Expo 67, an adventure playground designed by the innovative Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Hahn-Oberlander. Panning For Gold / Walking You Through It explores Oberlander’s alternative methodological approach to design, which considered and incorporated child-care and professional practice.