“I think these are the reasons this form of making is so interesting to me. It’s a connection to a rich canon of cultural production and a conversation with history. […] I’m never exactly sure where the work will take me, at least conceptually. I am more concerned with the process(es) and ultimately the rhythm of the work.”
Timothy Yanick Hunter
Timothy Yanick Hunter is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Toronto, Canada. Hunter’s practice employs strategies of bricolage to examine non-neutral relationships relating to Black and Afro-diasporic experiences as well as concurrent strategies of decolonization. His approach alternates between exploratory and didactic with a focus on the political, cultural, and social richness of the Black Diaspora. Hunter’s work often delves into speculative narratives and the intersections of physical space, digital space, and the intangible. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at Cooper Cole, Gallery 44, A Space Gallery, Toronto; Oakville Galleries, Oakville; Centre Clark, Montreal; 92Y, New York; Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph; and PADA Studios, Barreiro; among others. Hunter lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
“Rather than a singular, verifiable truth, we understand the production of knowledge as occurring through a series of encounters. For this issue, we extended an open invitation to seven contributors to respond to the themes of art, archives and the environment.”
Working in many forms from performance installation, music/sampling, poetry, video collage, to experimenting with artificial intelligence, Hunter creates portals: openings that collapse time and unite the past with the future to reflect divergent spaces of respite.
