u
remote artist talk
November 2025
u: remote artist talk, ECHO-ECHO, November 2025, installation view (left to right: project space, Felix Rapp and u, packing tape, empty: 2” x 6” x 4”, 2025– ; project space, Natasha Katedralis and u, packing tape, empty: 5” x 10” x 5”, 2025– ) Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Thanks to the artist, and all who came out to meet u at the mid-exhibition celebration on Saturday, November 15, 6–8pm. Thanks also to the people of People for hosting us for lunch the next day.
u: remote artist talk, ECHO-ECHO, November 2025, installation view (left to right: remote artist talk, u, single channel video, 10’58”, 2025; project space, Steve Hubert and u, packing tape, empty: 2” x 6” x 6”, 2025– ) Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
And, thanks to everyone who visited in November, with a special thanks to Emily Hermant's SCLP 310 class, Thinking and Making Through Sculpture, for visiting in early November.
u: remote artist talk, OHCE-ECHO, November 2025, installation view. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
A floorplan and list of works can now be downloaded as a PDF.
u: remote artist talk, ECHO-ECHO, November 2025, detail view (remote artist talk, u, single channel video, 10’58”, 2025) Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
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According to u, “u is part artist, part arena,” and “a transferable personal alias and a social space for collaboration”—a project, and, as u’s, a project space, that has invited artists to collaborate in and on project spaces since 2019.
u: remote artist talk, ECHO-ECHO, November 2025, detail view (project space, Felix Rapp and u, packing tape, empty: 2” x 6” x 4”, 2025– ) Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Starting as the letter “u” in the word “Current” on the website of 67 Steps, Los Angeles, after that project ended (2017–2018), u’s was a project space in Calgary (2019–2020), and u’s hut is now under construction in Diamond Valley, Alberta, while u has organized exhibitions in various off-site locations across Foothills County and rural Alberta (since 2020).
u: remote artist talk, ECHO-ECHO, November 2025, detail view (project space, Steve Hubert and u, packing tape, empty: 2” x 6” x 6”, 2025– ) Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
u has also organized or taken part in exhibitions and artists’ projects in Portland, Calgary, London, Toronto, Los Angeles, Warsaw, and Montreal, and u’s project spaces have been exhibited at Centre Village Mall, Lethbridge, an off-site project for The Southern Alberta Art Gallery / Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin (project spaces, 2022–2023), and at Backrooms, organized by Otto Bonnen for Kunsthalle Zürich (new project spaces, 2024), with a publication to complete the former exhibition (in 2024).
u: remote artist talk, ECHO-ECHO, November 2025, detail view (project space, Natasha Katedralis and u, packing tape, empty: 5” x 10” x 5”, 2025– ) Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
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An online screening preceded the exhibition, on Sunday, October 26, at 9am pacific, hosted by sleep and her brother death.