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La Biennale di Venezia 2026

1. "The Attention" / @faigahmedstudio / Azerbaijanian Pavilion 
2. pigeons always
3. 2pm @ SEAWORLD VENICE / @floholzinger and her "sisters" / Austrian Pavilion 
4. PISS 
5. "IT NEVER SSST" / @miet_warlop / Belgium Pavillion
6. "Things to Come" / @habitual_body_monitoring2 / Danish Pavilion 
7. "The Silence of the Mole" / @jakub.jansa @selmecikockajusko / Czechian and Slovakian Pavillion
8. talon door knocker
9. "The Ear is the Eye of the Soul" / @soundwalkcollective / Holy See Pavillion 
10. Libreria Acqua Alta 
11. "Baby I'm Yours, Forever" / @janisrafa / CANICULA @fondazioneinbetweenartfilm 
12. "Terminal lucidity" / @p___staff / CANICULA
13. "450XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound" / @lawrenceabuhamdan / CANICULA 
14. "Wishful Thinking" / Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk / CANICULA
15. Sant'Elena vaporetto station
16. "The face of desire is loss" / @lotuslkang / Bvlgari Pavilion 
17. "Liquid Tongues" / @bogna_burska @kotowski.daniel / Polish Pavillion 
18. "Entre chien et loup" / @abbasakhavan / Canadian Pavilion taken in Venice, Italy by @emilydicarlo
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Salviamo la Sarda | Cagliari, Sardinia taken in Cagliari Sardegna Italia by @emilydicarlo
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A Thousand Motes of Dust (In Every Cubic Inch), 2026.

A collaboration with @justinekohleal, the multi-channel video traces the route coal and the Saskatchewan River took through Rossdale, a decommissioned power station in Edmonton, Alberta. Conceptualizing dust as a unit of relation and a marker of time, the work captures what writer Bridget Crone describes as the "turbid-image." The floating motes produce a reflective surface, mediating a "more-than-visual" document of inhabiting the site.

The work's first iteration made its debut at @museomuacc. Co-curated by @82lale and @diconodioggi and supported by @simona_campus_ and @ritapamela, the group exhibition was part of the  @studyoftime 19th Triennial Conference at @univca, where Justine and I also presented our research.

The exhibition also received a full-page spread in Sardinia's national newspaper L'Unione Sarda, written by journalist Franca Rita Porcu.

We want to thank @canada.council for supporting our project, allowing us to travel for the conference and exhibition. by @emilydicarlo
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3 months ago
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May Day 2026 

On May 1st, @lowfantasy and I eloped at 6BC botanical garden in the east village, NYC. 

A performance-based event score to guide our ritual, glass hand bells to be the rings with which we wed, and a few close friends to officiate and support us as our chorus. 

These are just a few moments from that perfect day... by @emilydicarlo
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Three years in the making, and I am honoured to finally see my work, The Propagation of Uncertainty (2020), on the cover of Time and Measure, a volume series from @studyoftime published by @degruyter_brill In my chapter, "Measuring Uncertainty," I expand on my ongoing research into the material infrastructures and processes that create Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

My work, The Propagation of Uncertainty (2020), is a three-channel video installation filmed in Canada's official time lab. The title is named after the statistical method used to calculate UTC: an equation that accounts for error in every value. Using the four uncertainties that underpin UTC's mathematical equation as a conceptual framework, my chapter examines the broader implications of 24/7 global timekeeping through the lens of time-based art, science, labour, history, and, most importantly, the temporal variability of human experience.

The chapter is a roaming network of ideas, connecting the infrastructures of time with the intimacy of duration. It is divided into four sections, each corresponding to one of the four uncertainties that underpin UTC's mathematical equation: "The Instability of the Standard Itself" (Taylorism and the Methods-Time Measurement system as a predecessor for the working pace in the Amazon warehouses); "The Drift" (the fallacy of scientific objectivity, William James's specious present, and Michel Siffre's circadian rhythm cave experiments); "The Interference in the Process" (Jonathan Crary's proposal for "intimations of sleep" as protest); and "The Unknown Effects of the System as a Whole" (the rare case study of Japan's official time lab's system failure and how it "borrowed" time in 2011).

A big thanks to the editors: Stephanie Nelson, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Walter Schweidler. I'm in good company with contributors: Raji Steineck, Lanei Rodemeyer, Walter Schweidler, Paul Harris, Fredrick Turner, Arkadiusz Misztal, Kerstin Cuhls, Ritsuko Matsumura, Daniela Tan, Xiaoshi Wie, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Sanyogita Singh, Jo Alyson Parker, and Karen Heald. by @emilydicarlo
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7 months ago
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From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, South Carolina by @emilydicarlo
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a year ago
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My exhibition, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚, continues at @labandevideo until June 1st! 

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚 (2025) invites viewers to immerse themselves in the sensory world of Canada's largest pigeon racing event, a lucrative sport where hundreds of birds fly home from racing stations more than 500 kilometres away, the winner's trainer receiving a significant monetary prize. 

In the installation at La Bande Vidéo, DiCarlo documents "The Young Birds Futurity" in North Bay—a race-in-reverse, where adolescent pedigree pigeons undertake their first-ever competition, each fitted with a digital ID "futurity band" on their ankle — a unique electronic identification tag. Over the course of a three-hour journey, the birds mysteriously navigate their way home, using magnetoreception to sense the Earth's magnetic fields, effectively "calculating time" and determining their location in order to find their way back. In this way, pigeon murmuration can be understood as a living GPS network system.

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚
2025
Three-channel video installation
11:02 min loop with sound
Photo credits: Ricardo Savard taken in La Bande Vidéo by @emilydicarlo
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a year ago
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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚 opens tonight at 5pm!

Thank you so much to @labandevideo for your support with this exhibition. You have been a dream to work with!

Un grand merci à La Bande Vidéo pour son soutien à cette exposition. Travailler avec vous a été un vrai plaisir! taken in La Bande Vidéo by @emilydicarlo
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a year ago
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"Subaltern Temporalities"
Kronoscope: Journal for the Study of Time @studyoftime 
Vol. 24 No. 02 @brillpublishing 

Guest Editor: Emily DiCarlo

Contributors: Ameen Ahmed @ameenonscreen, Kush Badhwar, Estee Klar & Adam Wolfond @dis.assembly, Paula González León, Jasmine Liaw @jasmineliaw_, Isabella Martin @isabella.r.martin, Sue Scheibler, Jamie Stephenson, John Streamas, Mehrnaz Rohkbakhsh @mehrnaz.rohbakhsh 

Book Reviews by Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard, Rosemary Huisman, Lance Strate

"Time, as lived experience, emerges through the interplay of identity and power structures, where factors such as gender, class, race, neurodiversity, and sexuality shape distinct temporal sensibilities. This special issue of KronoScope, "Subaltern Temporalities" gives voice to the plurality of temporal experiences that resist dominant time structures while exploring strategies of reclamation. True to the inclusive and interdisciplinary spirit of KronoScope and the International Society for the Study of Time, the contributions span diverse professional and personal perspectives, featuring a selection of cross-disciplinary scholars at various career stages. Through critical essays, poetry, ethnographic research, and visual art, this issue examines the nuances, intersections, and complexities of the uneven cultural politics of time." - Excerpt from Introduction, Emily DiCarlo by @emilydicarlo
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𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙛𝙩 (𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠)
2025
site-specific architectural intervention
lumber, pigeon trap doors, aluminum security fencing, bird migration window film, natural light, unregistered futurity ID bands

𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙛𝙩 (𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠) was a site-specific installation at @narsfoundation, featuring dovecote-inspired architecture, a window intervention, natural light interactions, and unregistered ID bands. 

In competitive pigeon racing, thousands of birds are gathered and transported more than 500 kilometres north, where they are released from designated racing stations to embark on an hours-long flight back home. 

Dovecotes, or pigeon houses, have long symbolized the interspecies relationship between humans and pigeons—structures that have existed for over a millennium across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Doubling as spectator gallery seating, the sculpture is accented by "bob wire" trap doors—unidirectional mechanisms which pigeons push through to trigger the "finish line" timing device during a race.

Installed on the gallery window were bird navigation and anti-collision decals, which, throughout the day, refracted a travelling prismatic light across the gallery floor. Before sunset, the light would briefly enter the structure before continuing its path again back outside.

Though still not fully understood, pigeons use magnetoreception—the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic fields—to triangulate their location and "calculate time" as part of their homing instinct. In this way, murmuration can be considered a kind of living GPS network.

On the gallery windowsill, a cluster of unregistered "futurity bands" rested in wait. These electronic ID tags are typically purchased before a racing pigeon is born and later used for tracking during training and competition. Here, the unregistered bands served as a symbol of potential freedom—an escape from the race-in-reverse’s predestined loop of eternal return. Visitors were invited to take a band from the exhibition, "releasing" it back into the world.

Deep gratitude to @jaredrishikof for playing a key role in fabricating the dovecote sculpture. taken in NARS Foundation by @emilydicarlo
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2 years ago
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Join me this Friday, March 14 at 6 pm for the @narsfoundation where I'll be in conversation with @elenasoterakis Executive Director at @biobat.artspace. 

We'll met in the NARS 2nd Floor Project Space to talk about my exhibtion, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘦, which is on view through March 18.

The event is free and open to everyone. The NARS Galleries are open M-F, noon-5 pm. More info about the exhibition in bio. taken in NARS Foundation by @emilydicarlo
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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚 runs until March 18 @narsfoundation (2nd floor, M-F 10am-5pm).

To request an artist-guided tour, please email: info@narsfoundation.org.

I would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. taken in NARS Foundation by @emilydicarlo
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