Liam Black 

Liam J Black (b.1998) is a visual artist based in Treaty 7 Territory (Mohkinstis/Calgary, Alberta) 

I explore how assemblages made of found materials and images generate a form of slowness and disruption through redistribution of their materiality and narrative. This is an act of resistance against the speed at which capitalism drives the current social, political and economic climate of the everyday. Doing so I confront the anxiety I face and at the hand of this speed by applying friction to its force through participation in nothing.

Nothing being an action that fits outside of a capitalist’s view of productivity while simultaneously being enjoyable. Riding a bike, looking out the window or sitting in a park with the sunshine warming your face for example.

Im proposing through my work that we invest time into both one another and the materiality that surrounds our everyday as a strategy for resistance, I aim to generate space for nothing to take place. I work exclusively with objects and images that I define as contributing nothing to capitalist logic via their association with my own process of participating in nothing. By doing this I open up a space for reflection on the everyday outside of its current speed while advocating for a defensive stance towards ourselves, each other and everything that is left that we hold dear.

He is currently completing his Bachelors of Fine Arts at the Alberta University of the Arts.

Ljblack@shaw.ca