Sin Wai Kin, The Time of Our Lives, 2024, two-channel video, film still. Colour, sound, 27’58’’. Initiated by Accelerator and co-produced with Kunsthall Trondheim, Canal Projects, and Blindspot Gallery, supported by Vince Guo. Courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery.
Together with Canal Projects, Kunsthall Trondheim has the pleasure of welcoming you to an artist talk with Sin Wai Kin on February 1, 2025, at Canal Projects in New York City. Free RSVP here
On the occasion of Sin’s new film, The Time of Our Lives, currently on view at Kunsthall Trondheim and Canal Projects, artist Sin Wai Kin joins Summer Guthery (Artistic Director Canal Projects and curator of Sin’s show in New York) and Adam Kleinman (Director Kunsthall Trondheim and co-curator of Sin’s show in Trondheim) to explore how storytelling constructs reality rather than merely represents it.
Through the lens of Sin’s work and their interest in quantum physics, circular time, and the performance of authenticity, the panelists will consider how various binaries—such as fantasy/reality and individual/context—dissolve and reconstitute themselves in our collectively authored present.
In their expanded practice, the artist sits with and within diverse mediums—from advertising tropes to sitcom genres to multiple character embodiments—revealing a spiraling universe of interconnected relationships and intra-connected agencies. Building on these elements, the panel explores how repetition and performance in media shape identity, both forming and disrupting conventional narratives around nature, reality, and consciousness. Through engaging these cyclical processes, the artist suggests how social paradigms might gradually unravel through their performance, emerging as systems that seemingly “play themselves.”
When: February 1, 22:00–23:00 (CET) / 16:00-17:00 (EST)
Where: Canal Projects, 351 Canal Street, NY, NY 10013
The event will be located in Canal Projects' ground-level gallery, which can be accessed by a small flight of stairs or an ADA-accessible lift.
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Bios:
Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Toronto, CA) brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of binary categories, their work realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.
Summer Guthery is the Artistic Director of Canal Projects. Prior to joining Canal Projects, Guthery was the Executive Director and co-founder of the nonprofit gallery JOAN in Los Angeles, California, a non-profit exhibition space focusing on emerging and underrepresented artists. Her practice is commitment to access, diversity, and community-oriented programming.
Adam Kleinman is dedicated to curating exhibitions, programs, and events that inspire trust and mutual understanding by presenting art reflecting individuals’ and communities’ daily realities and lived experiences. He aims to cultivate diverse avenues of access and enhance the joy of everyday life by bringing people together to share relevant ideas articulated with power.