The Futurity Race

The Futurity Race

February 28 – March 18, 2025

Emily DiCarlo

Opening Reception: Friday, February 28th, 6-8pm

Art in Dialogue—Emily DiCarlo in conversation with Elena Soterakis: Friday, March 14, 6-7 pm

NARS Project Space

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NARS Foundation is pleased to present The Futurity Race, a solo exhibition by Emily DiCarlo. The Futurity Race immerses viewers in the sensory world of Canada’s largest pigeon racing event, “The Young Birds Futurity.” Using bird-equipped body cams, dronefootage, modulated field recordings, collaged video stills and an architectural environment, the installation explores themes of technological competition, ecologicalprecarity, and more-than-human intelligence.

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Emily DiCarlo is a NARS International Residency Alumni from 2023.

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About the artist:

Emily DiCarlo (b. 1985) is an artist, researcher, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice considers site, temporality and collaboration as the foundational principles of meaning-making.Evidenced through video, installation, text and performance, her work connects the infrastructure of time to the intimacy of duration.

She has exhibited most recently at the Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa, Canada), NARS Foundation Yamaguchi University(Japan), Main Gallery (Brooklyn, USA), Art Museum (Toronto, Canada), and SÍMGallery (Reykjavik, Iceland). Her practice is supported by the Canadian SocialSciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canada Council for theArt. Vtape, Canada’s largest video art distributor, and the Canadian FilmmakersDistribution Centre (CFMDC) represent her work.

She writes alongside her visual practice, analyzing the sociopolitical implications of dominant time structures on marginalized temporalities through feminist phenomenology, queer time theory, and more-than-human ontologies. Her writing has appeared in The SociologicalReview magazine and Krono Scope journal, and her chapter, “MeasuringUncertainty,” will be featured in the forthcoming volume of The Study of Time 18 (Brill Publishing). She lives between Tkarón:to/Toronto,Canada, and Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, USA.

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