Artist Talk: “The Time of Our Lives”
Saturday, February 1, 2025, 4–5pmArtist Talk: “The Time of Our Lives”
February 1, 2025, 4-5pm
Canal Projects, 351 Canal Street, NY, NY 10013
Please join us on Saturday, February 1, 2025 for an artist talk with our ground floor artist Sin Wai Kin. On the occasion of Sin’s new film, “The Times of Our Lives,” currently on view at Canal Projects and Kunsthall Trondheim, artist Sin Wai Kin joins curators Summer Guthery and Adam Kleinman 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.”
This talk will be held at Canal Projects, 351 Canal Street, 10013. The event will be located in our ground level gallery, which is accessed by a small flight of stairs or an ADA accessible lift.
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.
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.