SESSION: Extended Hours takes up the spatial proposition in artist Danielle Dean’s exhibition Out of this World, which transforms Mercer Union’s gallery space into a community centre. In Dean’s commissioned film Hemel (2024) and its central reference Quatermass II (1957), the setting of the community centre emerges as a site for dialogue, convergence, and rupture for a community that is grappling with the logic of its construction.


This program series invites practitioners from various disciplines to share the ideas and urgencies driving their work in the sociospatial transformation of our city. For two consecutive Wednesdays, on June 5 and June 12, Mercer Union will remain open with extended hours. Each evening will open with a screening of Hemel, then feature guest-led workshops and discussion.