Feeling Along the Edges of Uncertainty
Alanna Veitch, Wor(l)ds writ large(2), 2024, Smooth Fine Art Matte Print. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Alanna Veitch
Project Room
March 3–May 9, 2026
In Feeling Along the Edges of Uncertainty, Veitch finds significance in liminal spaces, in edges, the in-between, the not-yet. There is significance in the spontaneous photographs she didn’t intend to take, but that nevertheless appear—living, still, blurred. She is affected by change and the uncertainty of things, the way a melody shifts just when you think you got the hang of its rhythm; when the needle slides out of the groove because you and your partner bought a scratched-up record and are now worried about the investment you made. This exhibit is part of a larger research project which takes shape along the edges of the uncertainty generated by economic insecurity and socio-political disablement. Veitch brings her poems and photographs together to give shape to an affective economy of disability where uncertainty is endured and hope is imagined anew.
ALANNA VEITCH
Alanna Veitch is an emerging and interdisciplinary disabled poet-scholar based in Katarokwi-Kingston, where she is completing her PhD at Queen’s University. Her work grapples with disability, the politics of female embodiment, aesthetics, affect, crisis, and hope. Veitch brings her poetry and photographs together to register the ways emotions circulate, are felt, and bind us to one another through moments that endure, even in their spontaneity. She has presented at local events, inviting her audience to tread gently into her work.
THANKS + ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
From the artist: “Gratitude to Dr. Sailaja Krishnamurti for your care and for believing in this project, to Dr. Rachel da Silveira Gorman and Dr. Trish Salah for your time and attention, to Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek and Dr. Katherine McKittrick for your wisdom, to Dr. Jen Rinaldi for your unending encouragement, and to my colleagues, friends, and family. Please know how crucial you are to this work. Many thanks also to the artist community here in Katarokwi-Kingston, and especially to UG Directors Morgan Wedderspoon and Haley Sarfeld, and those at Union Gallery for entrusting me with this space and helping make this exhibit possible. I am ever grateful.”
This exhibit draws on research funded by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship.
Stay tuned for more information about this student exhibition and parallel programming in March!