Patrick Cruz, Sameer Farooq & Jared Stanley

Edge Effects

Join exhibiting artists Patrick Cruz, Sameer Farooq and Jared Stanley in the Gibson for an informal tour through their contributions to Edge Effects with Director and project curator Kimberly Phillips.

Patrick Cruz will speak to his new installation Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (In the Claws of Light) that weaves together three ongoing bodies of Cruz’ work, and explores the spiritual dissolution and delineation of boundaries within his artistic practice.

Cruz will also reflect upon his remote viewing practice that led to the work 49.279001, -122.914881 / 49.2789195, -122.9149733 / 49.2789985, -122.9148885. By invoking a methodology that lies beyond the threshold of accepted academic research practices, Cruz points to the works’ energetic presence and autonomy, as well as other possible paradigms for connection and study.

Longtime collaborators Sameer Farooq and Jared Stanley will discuss their sculptural installation Bring it Up from the Dark, which developed out of the artists’ research in and with the collections and archived materials of the SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Their work together often contemplates the lyric possibilities of the museum, proposing a counterbalance to the ways these dominant institutions have sought to order and narrativize the world. Farooq and Stanley are particularly interested in the time that museum objects spend in storage, rather than on display. Bring it Up from the Dark imagines the museum not as a storehouse, endlessly accumulating belongings, but as a woven archive—a tapestry of dissimilar things brought together through touch.

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Artists

Patrick Cruz

Sameer Farooq

Jared Stanley

Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition, and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs healing, meditation, divination, exorcism and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy, magic, and the occult, and their syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.

Sameer Farooq is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between sculpture, photography, documentary film, and anthropological methods, he investigates strategies of representation to expand the ways through which museums have looked at the past through traditional forms of collection, interpretation, and display. Farooq foregrounds community-based models of knowledge production and an array of contemplative practices in order to suggest new ways of narrating our cultural histories. He has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including the Jaou Biennial Tunis (2024), Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023).

Jared Stanley is a poet and writer who often collaborates with artists. He is the author of four collections of poetry, So Tough, EARS, The Weeds, and Book Made of Forest, as well as many chapbooks and pamphlets, most recently The Blurry Hole (with Sameer Farooq, Artspeak, 2022), and SHALL, (Black Rock Press, 2019). Jared’s awards include The Saturnalia Prize, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship (with Sameer Farooq), and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.