In the Middle Of Everywhere Opening Weekend | In Photos

To celebrate the opening of In the Middle of Everywhere: Artists on the Great Plains, Remai Modern hosted a weekend program featuring artists from the exhibition and a special performance featuring artists from the region. Explore photos from Carey Shaw capturing the entire weekend below. See the exhibition at Remai Modern throughout 2022.

*In the Middle of Everywhere,* Installation view, Remai Modern, 2022. Photo: Carey Shaw. Work by Leon Polk Smith.

Gathering on the rooftop

As part of opening weekend festivities, artists, performers, community members and Remai Modern supporters gathered on Remai Modern’s rooftop patio to meet one another and celebrate the opening of the exhibition.

*In the Middle of Everywhere* opens with a reception on Remai Modern’s rooftop. Photo: Carey Shaw

Exhibition Preview

On Friday evening, a public preview of In the Middle of Everywhere was held on Level 3 of the museum. Members and the general public were invited to be the first to see the exhibition in person.

Installation view, *In the Middle of Everywhere,* Remai Modern, 2022. Photo: Carey Shaw

Members and the public gather for the opening of the exhibition In the Middle of Everywhere. Photo: Carey Shaw

Lyndon J. Linklater introduces speakers at the opening of In the Middle of Everywhere.

Curator Tarah Hogue and farmer/photographer Ted Douglas attend the opening of In the Middle of Everywhere.

Artists Marie Lannoo and Hanna Yokozawa Farquharson  attend the opening of In the Middle of Everywhere.

Artists Marigold Santos and Stephanie Kuse attend the opening of In the Middle of Everywhere.

Knowledge Keeper Linda Young offers a prayer before the opening of *In the Middle of Everywhere*. Photo: Carey Shaw

(Left) Elmer Tootoosis, Poundmaker Cree Nation. (Right) Allan Bonaise, Littlepine First Nation. Photo: Carey Shaw

Brenda Jackson DJs the *In the Middle of Everywhere* reception. Photo: Carey Shaw

Installation view, *In the Middle of Everywhere,* Remai Modern, 2022. Photo: Carey Shaw. Works by Cannupa Hanska Luger  (left) and Marie Lannoo.

Installation view, *In the Middle of Everywhere,* Remai Modern, 2022. Photo: Carey Shaw. Works by Dana Claxton, Ted Douglas, Agnes Martin (background) and Grace M. Waters  (foreground).

Artists in the Galleries

On Saturday afternoon, exhibiting artists Marie Lannoo, Mindy Yan Miller, Hanna Yokozawa Farquharson and Ted Douglas were present in the Marquee Gallery for a series of rotating artist talks. Each artist spoke about their work in the context of the exhibition In the Middle of Everywhere and took questions from the public.

Ted Douglas and curator Tarah Hogue discuss his works on view at Remai Modern. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Artist Marie Lannoo (right) speaks to visitors to Remai Modern. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Artist Mindy Yan Miller speaks to visitors to Remai Modern. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Curator Troy Gronsdahl stands in front of a work by Dana Claxton. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Artist Hanna Yokozawa Farquharson speaks to visitors to Remai Modern. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Saturday Night performances

The final event celebrating the opening weekend of In the Middle of Everywhere featured a performance by Tristen Durocher, Michel Boutin, and Matthew Cardinal and Stephanie Kuse.

Tristen Durocher (left) performs in the SaskTel Theatre. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Michel Boutin performs in the SaskTel Theatre. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Matthew Cardinal and Stephanie Kuse perform in the SaskTel Theatre. Photo: Carey Shaw.

In the Middle of Everywhere is part of an ongoing inquiry that seeks to trace the physical, social and psychological contours of the Great Plains. The work of the participating artists helps us to bring this outline of place into focus. They reach across time and location, working in a wide variety of media, and with distinct voices. Their work connects around themes that recur across the exhibition: the geography of the Great Plains; histories of movement and migration; living with the land; the prevalence of the grid in Plains culture; and the Nēhiyaw concept of Wahkohtowin (kinship). Following topographical features rather than political boundaries, this exhibition reorients the museum to the Great Plains and asks: What makes this place itself?

See the exhibition at Remai Modern throughout 2022.

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Publish Date — June 23, 2022

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