Workshop – The Un-magic Lab

The Un-magic Lab Workshop

In this hands-on, behind-the-scenes workshop, Deirdre Logue invites participants into the living process of installing her work for Haptic Horizons. Un-magic Lab demystifies the exhibition as Logue walks through how the work comes together in real space/time, what decisions are made, what problems emerge, and what the architecture itself has to offer.

Together, participants will explore practical and conceptual strategies for working with multiplicity, including how to hold many works in a single environment while still allowing each piece room to breathe. Logue will speak to the challenges and creative opportunities of working outside traditional institutional or gallery contexts, sharing concrete approaches alongside the thinking that drives them.

Central to the workshop is Logue’s commitment to resisting master narratives. Many of the works discussed remain intentionally fragmentary or incomplete, opening flexibility for future iterations as new information, contexts, and encounters emerge. Participants will be invited to consider how incompleteness can function as a generative artistic strategy.

Attendees should come prepared to briefly introduce their own work or current questions so the session can be shaped responsively. Open to artists, students, and the curious, Un-magic Lab offers practical tools, candid insights, and a generous sharing of the artist’s strategies in clear, accessible language that reveals how the magic gets made.

Workshop Facilitator Bio

Deirdre Logue is a Canadian film and video artist and activist with over two decades of experience working with artist-run organizations dedicated to media arts exhibition and distribution. Her solo work, grounded in performance for the camera, focuses on the self as subject, exploring anxiety, queerness, vibration and the limits of ability through single-channel works and multi-channel installation. Her compelling self-portraits investigate what it means to inhabit a queer body in an age of anxiety.

Logue co-directs the Feminist Art Residency (FAR) alongside her partner and collaborator, artist Allyson Mitchell, somewhere in Ontario. Deirdre and Allyson also produced the iconic Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House between 2013 and 2019. She is currently undertaking a PHD at Queen’s University.

Website: Deirdre Logue