Extraordinary General Meeting
A project of the Disquiet Foundation
February 5 – March 7, 2026
Reception: Tuesday, February 10 | 6 – 8 PM
Audain Gallery at the SCA
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Extraordinary General Meeting marks the official incorporation of the Disquiet Foundation, an artwork in the form of an emergent non-profit organization that seeks to make space for critical thinking in association with the challenging feelings of dread and grief. Making space for sitting idly, so as not to sit idly by, the Foundation seeks to map the unprecedented affective terrain of escalating polycrisis, by creating an institution that is equally intended to endure so as to be ephemeral. Inspired by lineages of institutional critique that appropriate the tools of the bureaucratic landscape, the Disquiet Foundation sees the document, the office, and the non-profit society as generative media forms that can invite new relational and poetic processes. The Foundation pursues its research through the holding and organizing of exhibitions, performances, concerts, lectures, symposia, voyages, musings, psychic projections, protests, wakes, excursions, experiments, laments, meals, and other activities.
Extraordinary General Meeting is presented by Jonathan Middleton & Sasha J. Langford with collaborators: Edie Fake, Kevin Romain, and others to be announced. The exhibition operates as an initial presentation of the Foundation’s key documents and serves as a platform for events, lectures, discussions, and performances that will unfold over the course of the exhibition. These events will be announced through SFU School for the Contemporary Arts’ promotional channels, as well as the Disquiet Foundation’s website, disquiet.ca.
Biographies
The Disquiet Foundation was initially developed by Sasha J. Langford, Jonathan Middleton, and Chloe Payne, in response to readings and prompts encountered in Noé Rodríguez’s CA 812 IDS Graduate Studio class at Simon Fraser University in autumn of 2025.
Jonathan Middleton is an artist, curator, and publisher working between Vancouver and Toronto. His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed at OHCE-ECHO, VIVO Media Arts, Plaza Projects, Dazibao, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver International Film Festival, InsideOut, Chicago International Film Festival, the No Soul For Sale Festival (at Tate Modern), and Slakthusateljéerna (Stockholm). Middleton has an extensive history working in artists’ organizations, serving in curatorial and directorial roles at Western Front, Or Gallery, Art Metropole, and the Bodgers’ and Kludgers’ Cooperative Art Parlour, among others.
Sasha J. Langford is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of sound, writing, performance, and social practice. Her solo and collaborative sound work has been presented at YPAM (Yokohama, Japan), Ehkä-Kutomo (Turku, Finland), FestivALT (Kraków, Poland), Lines of Flight Festival of Experimental Music (Dunedin, New Zealand), and Ende Tymes (Brooklyn, NY), among other venues. Her writing has recently appeared in the Norient publication on place and sound Home Is Where the Heart Strives (2025), as well as the edited collection Lacan and the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Sasha is Faculty in the Communication department at Columbia College, where she teaches courses on communication theory, media history, and popular culture.