An open reading salon and conversation in response to Susan Hiller's exhibition Altered States, hosted by Amy Kazymerchyk and cheyanne turions as part of No Reading After the Internet, a roaming series that encourages collective discovery through the sharing of ideas.

This group reading and discussion will focus on writing selected by Susan Hiller that relates to her interest in creative processes and art-making as being motivated by uncertainty, mystery and doubt. We will discuss philosophies of “negative capability”, a concept introduced in 1817 by the Romantic poet John Keats that cultivates empathy by questioning singular truths. We will also read selections of Hiller's own writing, and explore links to works in the exhibition. Texts will be provided, no pre-reading required.

Amy Kazymerchyk is the Curator of the Audain Gallery, part of SFU Galleries. Her curatorial commitments have focused on moving-image practices in dialogue with the formal and conceptual spaces and histories of the cinema, black box and art gallery. From 2010 to 2013 she was the Events and Exhibitions Coordinator at VIVO Media Arts Centre and the Programmer of the Signal and Noise Media Arts Festival. In 2008 she inaugurated DIM Cinema, a monthly evening of artists’ moving images at the Cinematheque, which she programmed until 2014.

cheyanne turions is an independent writer and curator concerned with art's capacity to provoke otherwise possibilities. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include projects with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Audain Gallery (Vancouver), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Mercer Union (Toronto) and SBC galerie d'art contemporain (Montréal). She has published widely, including with Afterall, the Banff Centre, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Hyperallergic and the Vera List Center. In 2017, she participated in documenta 14. She is currently the Director of Education and Public Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and sits on the board of directors for 221A

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