Earl Miller presents

We are glad to invite you to the public presentation of the resident of Nest Residency, Canadian art curator and art critic Earl Miller.

I will be talking about the current research I am engaging in while in Yerevan at the Nest Residency vis a vis the Art Commune residency. My residency research concerns migration politics, particularly the ethics surrounding making and displaying art about migration and how such art can effect change. I start the discussion noting Christoph Buchel's controversial installation at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Barca Nostra, as problematic for turning the death of Black migrants into a spectacle. This critique launches a discussion about what constitutes ethical migration art and how ait can be best poised to elicit change. Finally, I propose combining aesthetics and public activism as an ideal but yet-to-be-realized methodology for migration art.

Earl Miller is an independent curator and art writer based in Toronto. He has curated exhibitions and written catalogue texts in Canada and internationally. His essays have also appeared in books including The Communism of Forms and Seeing Sound, and he has contributed to numerous visual arts periodicals including Art in America and Flash Art. He is a member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)