Artist Talk: HOT 4 THE MOMENT & Molly JF Caldwell

Artist Talk:
SLUTS, SOULMATES AND HONOURING THE LEGACIES THEY LEAVE US

HOT 4 THE MOMENT | Molly JF Caldwell

March 31, 2024 | 12 PM (MST), 3 PM (AST) | Online Zoom Meeting

Presentations:

• PROMISCUITY AS PRAXIS (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being A Massive Slut) by Molly JF Caldwell
• Yes Bestie! by HOT 4 THE MOMENT

PROMISCUITY AS PRAXIS (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being A Massive Slut)

Steal your man kind of shit, fuck your dad kind of shit,

take your bitch kind of shit, slap my ass kind of shit,

suck your dick kind of shit, fuck your bitch kind of shit,

OnlyFans kind of shit, don’t need hands kind of shit.

Molly JF Caldwell is a Yonsei textile artist interested in soft materials, soft experiences, soft approaches, and soft futures. Graduating from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2017, she lives and works in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, AB). She is passionate about Marxist feminism, dogs, and Mariah Carey.

NOT A GIRL, NOT YET A WOMAN (I Used To Think I Had The Answers To Everything)

Yes Bestie!

Drew Pardy and Georgia Dawkin are the two halves of the friendship heart necklace that is HOT 4 THE MOMENT. HOT 4 THE MOMENT is a creative collective that uses love, silliness, play, and humour to explore themes from feminism, care and play, to “women’s work” under the patriarchy. Artist duo Drew Pardy and Georgia Dawkin both use play within their art practices as a means to explore difficult topics and humor as a vessel for change. Georgia and Drew are currently based in St.John’s, NL, and have received their BFA from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.

With their first body of work as HOT 4 THE MOMENT, Georgia and Drew use playfulness, humour, and softness as an act of resilience and protest against systems of oppression within professional spaces as THE FIX-ITS. In collaboration, they dissect these themes through performing soft and hard labour while skill sharing.

FIXED IT