Poster for Mother Ladder Night. We see two people with film gear next to a car on the open country road.

Mother Ladder Night

October 30 - November 10, 2023

In their collaborative work, Aylin Abbasi and Adam Ash Barbu explore intersecting political, familial, and art historical perspectives to propose new models of inheritance and becoming. Together, they think through artistic creation in times of extended crisis, weaving together narratives of global feminisms and trans/queer politics. Their interdisciplinary research develops a dialogic approach to video, photography and performance. For Abbasi and Barbu, self-portraiture is not an individual act but rather a relational process that always already gathers from other lives. These projects measure the weights and freedoms of names, identities, and origin stories. Language is questioned as a pathway to movement in which to travel distances of physical and emotional proportions. Staging sequences of continuously alternating positions, they negotiate the line between fiction and non-fiction, director and directed, and incident and objecthood.

Mother Ladder Night

Aylin Abbasi and Adam Ash Barbu

2023

Single channel video, 48:55 minutes

About DARC Microcinema

DARC Microcinema is a venue powered by the Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC), located in Ottawa, Canada. The space is uniquely configured to present installations, screenings, and performances by contemporary artists working within the field of media art and the moving image. The opening of DARC Project Space in January 2018 was part of a major expansion project for DARC, and represents a significant addition to its long history of nurturing and championing experimental practices.

Opening Hours*

Monday to Wednesday

Thursday & Friday

Closed Saturdays & Sundays

10am-5pm

10am-6pm

Tuesdays & Wednesdays  10-5pm
Thursdays & Fridays  10-8pm
Saturdays & Sundays  10-5pm
Mondays  Closed