Anthony Kiendl is the director of Visual Arts and the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre. He is also the director of the Banff International Curatorial Institute. In 2002, he served as Acting Director of the Dunlop Art Gallery at the Regina Public Library, where he had been curator since 1997. His curatorial practice has theorized weakness, pathos, failure — and related sentiments such as nostalgia — as responses to modernism. This strategy has been manifested in diverse forms including the exhibition Little Worlds (1998), an exploration of diminutive environments by artists; Fluffy (1999), a research project on the aesthetics and meaning of cuteness; Space Camp 2000: Uncertainty, Speculative Fictions and Art (2000), an inter-disciplinary festival of speculative fictions and alterity; and Godzilla vs. Skateboarders: Skateboarding as a Critique of Social Spaces (2001). His upcoming projects include Big Rock Candy Mountain, a creative artist residency, exhibition, and publication on the cultural meaning of candy in North American society (co-curated with Dr. Jeanne Randolph). He is also working towards a feature-length film project with Joanne Bristol, entitled Comfy Hostage, and is gallerist of Spacer, an alternative mobile exhibition space.