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Good Job Arcade

Good Job Arcade
May 26
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Jul 1
2009 10 Ave SW, Calgary AB T3C 0K4
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Free

Date & Time

Fri, May 26, 7:00 PM - Sat, Jul 1, 8:00 PM

Description

TRUCK Contemporary Art is pleased to announce our Summer 2023 exhibition—Good Job Arcade by Teresa Tam! 

EXHIBITION DATES / May 26 - July 1, 2023

⁠TRUCK is located at 2009 10 Ave SW. We are  open Wednesday - Saturday from 1 PM - 8 PM⁠

Admission is free!⁠ Go to www.truck.ca/accessibility to learn more about our space. 

OPENING RECEPTION / Friday, May 26 @ 7 PM⁠

Free to attend and all are welcome! 

Snacks will be served and beverages (sober and otherwise) will be available for purchase. ⁠


Good Job Arcade is a Teresa Tam led project that utilizes work and play to explore themes of asynchronicity experienced by some diaspora individuals and communities that form into nostalgia. Together with a team of 9 artists and writers, the project delves into a longing that is rooted in what diasporic individuals have either lost or never had.

On one hand, those who briefly return to their familial home reminisce on how they barely recognize it—faces of people are unfamiliar, spaces reshaped—and how they can no longer see themselves being able to permanently return. On the other hand, some have only ever dreamed of places their families have existed for generations, only to be shown that these places are imaginary, far removed both physically and from reality. 

The Arcade is a space to navigate these nostalgic places that no longer exist or may have never existed at all. Games, in their algorithmic and recursive nature, can convey complex experiences in everyday life. Playing them helps the individual escape from the anxieties of life and into the reverie of familiarity and fantasy; momentary spaces away from every day where they can feel a sense of accomplishment and belonging.⁠

⁠In the Arcade, visitors can expect a variety of games and machines to engage with: from in-house produced video games to specially rigged claw machines to fishing to a room dedicated to heal one’s body. Visitors will have the chance to engage in all of their senses here, with many little treasures and moments to find. 

Hope you enjoy your visit!⁠


ABOUT THE ARTIST / 

Good Job Arcade was envisioned by Teresa Tam, whose practice utilizes spaces and experiences that are familiar and then alters them into something a bit foreign through re-interpretation and re-creation. She specializes in digital platforms, functional installations, all things shaped in paper, and body-based exchanges and objects. She graduated from AUArts in 2014 and is one half of Yolkless Press.

She brought on collaborators to form the Good Job Team: Alia Shahab, Danny Luong, Jack Michielsen, Jadda Tsui, Jessica Szeto, Joleen Toner, Jordan Baylon, Pan Priebe, and Vicki Chau. Together, the team brings creative practices and skills in electronics, 3D modelling, sound design, installation, writing, programming, textiles, illustration, poetry, sculpture, concrete-making, graphic design, and photography. The team is made up of artists with their own varying relationships to the notion of diaspora, weaving together to form our own small community. While some collaborators call home in different regions, the team is gathered on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, also the home of Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.


ABOUT TRUCK / 

TRUCK Contemporary Art is a nonprofit artist-run centre that has operated for the past 38 years in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta), supporting the development and presentation of artworks by local, national, and international contemporary artists in the Treaty 7 Region. Our mission is to provide opportunities to artists fostering innovative art practices, while engaging our local communities in critical dialogues through contemporary art. 


May 26
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Jul 1
2009 10 Ave SW, Calgary AB T3C 0K4
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Free