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<h1 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">MFA Thesis 2022:
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<h1 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Julie Hall & Jacob Irish<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Presented by University of Waterloo Fine Arts and UWAG</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">May</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> 5-21</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">O</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">pening Reception: Thursday May
5, 5-8 PM*</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">*Visitors are required to show proof or vaccination and comply with campus safety guidelines</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><img width="803" height="449" style="width:8.3645in;height:4.677in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D85A57.B84824E0"></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Julie Hall & Jacob Irish</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Borrowers and Bullies</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Central to this work is our understanding of a habit as not just a set of repeated behaviours but as a central, life-configuring
scaffold for building and maintaining relationships to one another, the built environment, and the land. During the summer of 2021, we harvested materials, documentation, and experiences from settler-colonial greenspaces in Southern Ontario and The Maritimes,
while asking ourselves: What was our social muscle memory in our home, our neighbourhood, our nation? And do these habits inform our ethics?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">We
see our art practice as an opportunity to manifest anti-colonial and anti-capitalist ethics by tugging at relationships between subjectivity and materiality.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Borrowers and Bullies</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is
an exhibition with its eyes turned to the colonial-capitalist enclosure of time and land, and how that enclosure configures the knowable, the thinkable, and the imaginable.
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<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Julie and Jacob are a collaborating couple working in video, audio, and sculpture. They work seasonally: collecting materials in
warm weather, and synthesizing their haul when winter comes. This methodology emerged from their first four years collaborating while at NSCAD University and continued through the next four years moving around Southern Ontario.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>They
make sculptures that explore the materials that build our psychological, social, and economic realities.
<a href="http://www.jacobirishjuliehall.com">jacobirishjuliehall.com</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please join us in celebrating the thesis work of our MFA candidates in-person!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
East Campus Hall, Room 1239<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 33575<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/">Website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uwag.waterloo/">Facebook</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CONTACT</span></strong><br>
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 46741<br>
<a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">HOURS</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Wednesday to Friday 12-5 pm</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Or by appointment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MOBILITY</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ground floor entry</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Automated doors available at Fine Arts entrance</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Accessible washrooms on ground level</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">DRIVING</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo<br>
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Campus
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/map/">map</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PARKING</span></strong><br>
Visitor Parking is available in Lot B beside Engineering 6 (E6) for a flat rate of $5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Campus
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/map/">map</a><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MAILING</span></strong><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
200 University Avenue West<br>
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><img border="0" width="550" height="100" style="width:5.7291in;height:1.0416in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D85A57.B84824E0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Image Credit:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Julie Hall & Jacob Irish,
<i>a policy of neglect</i> (video still), 2021, single channel video and stereo audio, 6:37 min. Image courtesy of the artists.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Description:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> A woman wearing a blue cap carefully sharpens a scythe using a wet stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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