© Summer Emerald
Session 34
Summer Emerald
On November 23, 2023 at 7 pm
— Facebook event
For Session 34, Summer Emerald positions her audience as the target market of her new wellness product; its way to a healthy lifestyle is intentional sensory overload. The product, which consists of rapid TikTok scrolling, is first exhibited to the consumers in a video, then followed by a performance. While demonstrating its use, she extols its benefits and makes scientific claims, then leads into a Q&A with the audience. Enter the pseudo-spiritual pyramid scheme of Salesforce Child…
Summer Emerald is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from a small dairy farm in southern Ontario, now based in Montréal. She primarily works in oil painting, pencil drawing, video, and performance. Conscious of the corporate landscape in which her work circulates, Emerald is interested in how social and ecological anxieties are exploited for profits thereby intensifying unsustainable consumerism. Amplifying this contradiction, her work invites viewers to question and reevaluate their own roles within a capitalist society. Salesforce Child, the alias of Summer Emerald, has established a following on Instagram of over 20,000 users by creating comedic, satirical, and highly topical content that often explores the relationship between social media, technology, and life under technocapitalism. Though her creative presence is predominantly online, where her work can be found in tidbits throughout mainly Instagram and Twitter, she continues to engage live with different communities.
Dazibao thanks the artist for her generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples. Guided by ethics of respect, listening, and awareness, Dazibao commits to a continued reflection regarding the deep-rooted and systemic challenges tied to accessibility and inclusivity in the arts and beyond, and endeavors to apply such reflections to all aspects of its activities and governance.