Sunday, March 16th | 6 – 9PM
Dana Buzzee, Hazel Meyer, and Morgan Sears-Williams
Curated by Issy Cabral
On view for one-night only! Join us Sunday, March 16th from 6–9PM for (un)bounded, an installation featuring artists Dana Buzzee, Hazel Meyer, and Morgan Sears-Williams.
(un)bounded unifies works that explore the ambiguity of the experience and perception of queer sex, highlighting tensions between freedom & resistance, past & future, and pain & pleasure. It is in these spaces of complex ambivalence that preconceived notions of gender, sexuality, and (relationship) dynamic begin to render themselves into something entirely new – something that a normative world cannot conceive of having the language for. When we cannot find the right words, we often find alternative avenues to express how we feel. With an emphasis on the body, methodologies such as kink and radical care have the power to encompass and fulfill complex desires.
Curated by Issy Cabral with support from Eli Nolet and Emma Eichenberg.
Documentation from the (un)bounded installation by Eli Nolet. 
Documentation from the (un)bounded installation by Eli Nolet. 
Documentation from the (un)bounded installation by Eli Nolet. 
Documentation from the (un)bounded installation by Eli Nolet. 
Documentation from the (un)bounded installation by Eli Nolet. 
Documentation from the (un)bounded installation by Eli Nolet.
About the Artists
Dana Buzzee (b. 1986) is a visual artist currently based on Treaty 7 land in Southern Alberta. Rooted in queer hauntology and materialism, Buzzee’s interdisciplinary practice engages an exploration of consumer fetishism tied to extractive capitalist economies, serving as a narrative medium for deep-time storytelling and speculative futurity. Buzzee’s recent exhibitions span solo and group shows at: Orchid Contemporary in Hamilton (2023), HOT*BED in Philadelphia (2022), Ditch Contemporary in Springfield (2022), and Eugene Contemporary (2021). Previous exhibitions encompass The Plumb in Toronto (2021), Xpace in Toronto (2020), Harcourt House in Edmonton (2019), and Stride Gallery in Calgary (2018). Buzzee’s artistic endeavours have been recognized and supported through grants from the Calgary Arts Development Authority, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts. In addition to their exhibition history, Buzzee has participated in noteworthy residencies, including those at the Banff Centre (2021), the Icelandic Textile Center in Blonduos (2019), and Artscape Gibraltar Point (2016). Buzzee holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design (now the Alberta University of the Arts) in Calgary (2012) and an MFA from the University of Oregon in Eugene (2022).
Hazel Meyer works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Her work recovers the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics, and chronic illness. Recent exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary (DE), Dunlop Art Gallery (CA), La Ferme du Buisson (FR), Glasgow International Art Biennial (SCT), Libby Leshgold (CA), and Tale of a Tub (NL). In 2023 Hazel was the recipient of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award. She lives on unceded and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, in Vancouver.
Morgan Sears-Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and cultivator based in Toronto and Vancouver. Her practice reflects themes of feminist queer histories and collective memory while speaking to larger societal structures of power, oppression and social constructions of space. Investigating the use of analog film both as a form of projected image and as a sculptural material, Morgan’s art practice focuses on how lived experiences inform queer aesthetics and articulations of memory and gender. Considering space and queerness through analog technologies, she creates experimental topographies through photographic film and moving images. Using organic film developers (also known as eco-processing) necessitates the artist to work directly with the film, resulting in an intimate collaboration among material, concept, and aesthetic. Integrating analog equipment into her installations, she challenges the masculinist fetichizing of these machines and insteads sees them as co-conspirators, objects that have their own agency, speaking to analog histories, and questions of access and sexism. Bridging eco-processing, experimental film and queer history (both personal and political) she aims to create intimate experiences for viewers to expand their ideas of queer space and time. Morgan’s efforts in queer place-making through experimental practices question contemporary and historical views of gender and sexuality within visual culture.
About Factory Media Centre
Factory Media Centre is Hamilton’s not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre for film, video, new media, installation, sound art, and other multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region.