Art and Art History Graduate Exhibitions Meeting Part Two

Art and Art History Graduate Exhibitions Meeting Part Two


Tuesday, January 13, 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

All graduating students wishing to participate in our two graduate exhibitions at the Blackwood Gallery in March 2009 should attend this meeting with Blackwood Outreach Coordinator Karen Kraven.

The exhibitions will take place between March 4 – 29, 2009.

At the meeting we will check in on the organization of the shows. Here are the assigned tasks:
· Canadian Art ad design and coordination, signage and show title design, invitation design, Matt Hoffman, Drew Lesiuczok, Andrew Nguyn
· Artist statement editors, press release writing and distribution, Michelle Johnson and Claudia Ciornei
· Reception coordinator, food, Steve Shupak
· Installation coordinators for first exhibition, includes creating list of works in the exhibition (note installations occur on a Monday/Tuesday), Ryan Lord and Jackie Quaresma
· Installation coordinators for second exhibition, includes creating list of works in the exhibition, Michelle Johnson and Raneem Meknes
· Installation strike coordinators for first and second exhibitions, Ricardo Antonio Conte-Oro De Arco, Laura Momeau, Kora Bakier
· Web communications coordinator, Facebook page, Shelley Williams

Contacts
Jackie Quaresma
Robert Fones
Karen Kraven

Review: Drifting, Slowly: Four Artists Deep in Labour by John Armstrong

Following is an on online review in Canadian Art of 1996 Art and Art History alumna Rhonda Weppler’s 2008 fall show at Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto, written by faculty member John Armstrong.


Drifting, Slowly: Four Artists Deep in Labour

Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto Sep 6 to Oct 11 2008

by John Armstrong

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Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky Music of Chance 2 2008 Detail Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto

Over the past five years, collaborative Vancouver artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky have travelled across Canada creating exhibitions with centrepieces of cars “cast” in aluminium foil. During this process, the artists have created embossed impressions of vehicles that they’ve reassembled as surprisingly accurate and somewhat droopy sculptural renditions. They’ve engaged in this labour-intensive process for each exhibition and, once the shows have ended, they’ve had the automotive shells crushed into balls.

For “Drifting, Slowly,” Weppler and Mahovsky brought along a box of bric-a-brac to cast over a five-day period at Pari Nadimi Gallery. Music of Chance 2 is an unbroken piece of aluminum foil that links impressions of an ornate metal box and a number of silver-coloured bits and pieces that the box once contained, such as a hash pipe, a harmonica, a hinge, an Eiffel Tower key fob, a fancy hand-held mirror and so on. A set of 30 or so such items is repeated five times over the 17-foot length of the sculpture. As with the auto casts, the artists’ great industry here offers a paradoxical quandary. These modest objects have been painstakingly reproduced, reconceived as budget-rate silver plating and put on repeat. The title of the work alludes to the 1990 Paul Auster novel that chronicles hidden and pointless labour. Weppler and Mahovsky’s labours, although executed on site prior to the exhibition’s opening, result in a delicate sculpture vulnerably set out on the gallery floor. The artists even foresee keeping this sculpture intact. Where big-ticket cars may fall prey to planned obsolescence, cheap knick-knacks, whether cast for posterity or not, tend to stick around.

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Weppler and Mahovsky invited two other artists to participate in “Drifting, Slowly,” Vancouver’s Andrea Nunes and Santa Barbara’s George Legrady. Both of these artists treat the persistence of things in the crush and bustle of time. Nunes’s recent three-crayon drawings depict a splash, a cozy campfire with two lawn chairs, a geodesic dome, a textile surface—all of which float in the middle of the paper and evoke transient, post-1960s moments.

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Legrady too is concerned with the mid–20th century: his 1993 work An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War is an interactive CD-ROM projection that uses a floor plan of the former workers' movement museum in Budapest as a matrix for viewers to navigate a conflation of authoritative and personal histories. Legrady juxtaposes photographs, home movies and other documents chronicling his family’s life in both Communist-era Budapest and 1950s-and-beyond Montreal. In one slide, we see a 1930s photograph of a family group in a dining room with a decorative ceramic jug on a corner shelf in the background. In an accompanying image, we see the same jug as clinically re-photographed in the 1990s.

The artists in “Drifting, Slowly” all use laborious techniques to marshal the bric-a-brac of everyday life into associative networks—an aluminium-foil chain, a grid of drawings, an endlessly variable digital archive. These entwined workaday things worryingly imitate the way many such phenomena stick to and ensnare us.

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"Drifting, Slowly" 2008 Installation view Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto

DEBUTANTE BALL: OLIVER HUSAIN WORKSHOP

Free Screening! Takashi Ishida in person

Free Screening!
Takashi Ishida in person
December 3 at 7:00pm
Curated and presented by Chris Gehman.
Renowned Japanese artist Takashi Ishida, winner of the prestigious Goto Commemorative Culture Award in 2007, has been creating new work here in Toronto over the past several months. As his year-long residency draws to a close, we are delighted to welcome Takashi Ishida to present a selected retrospective of his films and videos (and perhaps something brand-new as an added bonus!). More...

L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette
Director: André Forcier
December 6 at 9:00pm
This Québécois classic by the province's former reining enfant terrible is set in a rundown tenement in Montréal. The film centres on a ruthless loan shark named Polo as he plans a birthday celebration for himself. Unfortunately for him, his enemies aren't as cowed as he believes. More...

Restored 35mm print!
Touki-Bouki
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
December 9 at 9:00pm
The picaresque Touki-Bouki, made by one of Africa's greatest filmmakers, follows the adventures of two restless lovers as they ride through Dakar on a motorcycle accessorized with a pair of cattle horns. The anti-heroes of this legendary, French New Wave-inspired film feel alienated from society and long to escape to Paris, where they expect to find freedom. More...

Free Screening!
Restored archival print!
Limite
Director: Mário Peixoto
December 10 at 7:00pm
Widely considered one of the best Brazilian films of all time, Limite is Mário Peixoto's one and only film, an enthralling work of pure cinema with stylistic affinities to Fritz Lang, Murnau and Man Ray. Inspired by an arresting André Kertész photograph, the film exudes an ecstatic Expressionism in its high contrast, elliptical depiction of three castaways battling unforgiving waters on a rickety boat. More...

For complete schedule, visit cinemathequeontario.ca . Order your tickets online or call 416-968-FILM.
All screenings take place at AGO's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West, McCaul Street entrance.
Cinematheque Ontario is supported by Bell, RBC, the Ontario Media Development Corporation and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Visa† is the only credit card accepted by Cinematheque Ontario.

BARRY DOUPE SCREENING OF PONYTAIL

Ponytail

A Feature by Barry Doupé (in Person)

Saturday, November 29, 8pm

CineCycle,129 Spadina Ave.

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Join us for the Canadian premiere of Ponytail ( 2008, 90 min, computer animation on video). This feature-length video follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. A series of entropic scenarios held together by an attraction to failure and its spectacle describe the characters’ malfunction — their inability to fulfil personal desire. Compelled by the consequences and rewards of their attempts they question their own trajectory. Using elements of melodrama, performative monologue and traditional narrative structure Ponytail presents a unique society of characters that destroy the distinction between memory and invention. (BD)

Ponytail

Ponytail

Ponytail

Ponytail

VTAPE: TALES FROM THE CRYPT

Please join us at Vtape for the first in an occasional screening series entitled TALES FROM THE CRYPT*.

FROM FOUNDATION TO FIXATION:
video art and the face

curated by
KAITLIN TILL-LANDRY

Screening and curator's talk
Friday, November 28, 2008
Screening @ 6 & 7:30pm
Curator's talk @ 7:00pm

This programme will be available on request through
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Self-Portrait (Made-up), Alice Evensen

For over a decade, Vtape has developed an intensive and multi-faceted intern training programme for students and members of the interested public. With this programme - FROM FOUNDATION TO FIXATION: video art and the face - Vtape offers a showcase for the curatorial talents of one of our recent interns.

Some background: In 2006-7, Kaitlin Till-Landry worked as a technical intern at Vtape. During this period of time, she managed the restoration of the early video artwork of Martha Wilson, the founder of Franklin Furnace (New York) and a pioneering feminist artist whose works from her time at NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax) have become part of the canon of early feminist video art. Kaitlin Till-Landry, still a student herself, worked directly with Martha Wilson to ensure that the restoration conformed to the artist's standards.

This process solidified Till-Landry's interest in the connection that many of her contemporaries have with the idea of "the face" as a site for their explorations of identity and engagement. As a result, she put together this programme that combines the works of artists from the early 1970s with works from the immediate present.

Landry's thoughts on this intriguing programme: "In the 1970s, many artists approached the face as a focal point within the unlimited possibilities of video as a newly accessible medium. Largely, in the 80s and 90s video work stepped back from this tight framing. Over thirty years later, a resurgence in video works that center on the face incorporate advances in post-production and accessibility providing a basis for investigation into the way artists interact with the medium within this intimate framing."

*TALES FROM THE CRYPT is one of Vtape's curatorial mentorship programmes that provide opportunities for emerging curators to work with media artworks in creative and challenging ways. With TALES FROM THE CRYPT, Vtape encourages our interns to develop programmes centred around the works that they (the interns themselves) have restored or researched. Often, their efforts have brought works of historical importance back into circulation, both as artworks and also as documents of historically significant events. TALES FROM THE CRYPT will allow the public to engage with these re-discoveries.

TALES FROM THE CRYPT.
FROM FOUNDATION TO FIXATION:
video art and the face

The Contest, Liz Knox, 2:45min. 2004
Deformation, Martha Wilson, 8:00. 1972
Pryings, Vito Acconci, 6:00. [excerpt from 21:00min.] 1971
Self-Portrait (Made-up), Alice Evensen, (silent) 6:00min. 2005
The Art of Autobiography: Redux I, Dana C. Inkster, 5:00min. 2006
full effect, Jeremy Bailey, 2:00min. 2005
Kiss. Robert Bowers, (silent) 5:30min. 1971
Self Portrait, Nolan Natasha, 1:45. 2003

Vtape
401 Richmond St., #452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
416 351-1317

Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12-4pm
For more information, contact info@vtape.org

www.vtape.org

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: INTERACCESS CURATORIAL INTERNSHIP

Call for applications: Curatorial Internship at InterAccess, Toronto
Deadline: Friday, January 9, 2009

InterAccess is seeking an organized and motivated student or recent graduate for our annual Curatorial Internship.

InterAccess is dedicated to expanding the cultural space of technology. We fulfill our mandate through our internationally renown exhibition programmes, media production studio and innovative educational activities. A unique centre in the country, InterAccess has been at the forefront of electronic and new media arts in Canada since 1983. For more information about InterAccess visit www.interaccess.org .

Nature and Scope of Position

Reporting to the Director and supervised by the Assistant Curator/Public Programmes Manager, the Curatorial Intern is given the opportunity to learn about all aspects of programming within an artist-run, media arts centre environment. This unpaid internship is ideally 7-14 hours per week from February through April, approximately 7-10 hours per week from May through August, and extended hours during the weeks leading up to the exhibition, and is slated to begin February 2009.

This Curatorial Internship programme began in 2001 and is an ideal placement for an undergraduate student in his or her final year of study. Students may also use this internship for independent study credit. Past Curatorial Interns at InterAccess have gone on to work in such institutions as the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto, Xpace Gallery in Toronto, Space Media Arts in London UK, FACT, Liverpool, Transmediale in Berlin, Germany, and many go on to complete a masters in curatorial studies.

The primary responsibility of the Curatorial Intern is the development of the annual Emerging Artist exhibition. The intern will develop a coherent and relevant theme for the exhibition, select approximately five works from graduating new media students within Southern Ontario and Canada, assist in drafting an exhibition budget, develop promotional strategies, write a curatorial statement and manage the installation of the exhibition in July 2009. The 2006 Emerging Artist Exhibition, Press Play, received a rave review in the Toronto Star, and the 2007 exhibition, 2 Steps Back, received a glowing review in the Globe and Mail. The curator also publishes a 1500 word essay in the InterAccess brochure series. This opportunity provides wide exposure for both the curator and the artists.

The Curatorial Intern also assists with other duties at InterAccess. He or she is an invited participant on the InterAccess Programme Advisory Council (PAC). Additional duties may include organizing submissions for review, assisting with distribution of listings and other communications duties, assisting with installation and event set-up, researching materials for upcoming exhibitions and events, general office assistance and gallery sitting.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will be in his or her final year of study in a related programme at a post-secondary institution in the GTA (or within commuting distance). Recent graduates will also be considered.

He or she will possess:

• Strong knowledge of contemporary media and visual art practices, especially within Canada.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills (Mac environment).
• Superior organizational skills.
• The ability to deal with diverse public audiences; must be friendly and tactful.
• The ability to work in a self-directed manner as well as in a team environment.

This unpaid internship offers a small curatorial honorarium upon successful completion. This internship may be used for course credit, if applicable to the intern's programme of study.

How to apply

Submissions must include:

• Your CV.
• A cover letter (maximum 2 pages) detailing your experiences and interest in media arts.
  
• A short statement of a possible theme to be explored for the Emerging Artist exhibition (250 words).
  
• Names and contact information for two referees, preferably one academic and one professional.

Please send submissions to:
Dana Samuel, Director
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario Canada
M6J 2Y8

InterAccess does not accept email proposals. Please send your application via post. Thanks!

We thank all applicants for their time and interest in InterAccess, however please understand that our application process is highly competitive. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Colin Campbell and Gareth Long @ Oakville Galleries

Please join us for our winter exhibition openings on Friday 5 December from 7:30 to 8:30 pm at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. A reception will follow from 8:30 to 10 pm at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens.

A bus to both receptions will depart from The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West, Toronto) at 6:45 pm, returning downtown at 10 pm. $10 per rider.

People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell
6 December 2008 - 22 February 2009
at Centennial Square

Colin Campbell, The Woman from Malibu, 1976

Pioneering Canadian artist Colin Campbell used video as a flexible and accessible medium for storytelling; his oeuvre is about characters and their words. Campbell's homespun tapes are a perverse collage of tall tales, rumours, conversations and daydreams gleaned from his everyday life. Ever the great collector, Campbell would borrow a bon mot here, a dirty joke there, a dash of tabloid eccentricity and voilà: an unforgettable story, an unforgettable character. Through videotape, he gossiped with and about his real social circle and created a new one, a group of fictional personas who became tangibly real once their tapes were watched, loved (or hated) and talked about.

People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell surveys the artist's video career from early tapes like True/False (1972) to his final work, Que Sera Sera (2001). It is the first major exhibition of his work since his death in 2001.

Curated by Jon Davies, this exhibition will tour Canada accompanied by a bilingual catalogue.

This project has been made possible in part through a contribution from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.

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Gareth Long
Second, Third, Fourth
6 December 2008 - 22 February 2009
in Gairloch Gardens

Gareth Long, Video Solid (detail), 2006

The work of Gareth Long tends toward conceptual gestures that play with formal ideas of translation, narrative and medium-specificity. His projects frequently turn video into material objects in an effort to explore video's value as infinitely reproducible. Such translations result in pieces far-removed from their source, often barely resembling the original in their new, compromised object form. In crafting modes of video that extend outside the limits of single channel screening, he has generated artworks that not only expand the category of video, but also of animation, sculpture, installation and performance.

This exhibition was programmed to coincide with the Colin Campbell retrospective at Centennial Square; as Campbell's former student, Long's clever experimentations with video are a timely testament to Campbell's ongoing influence.

Equipment for this exhibition has been graciously provided by Ambo Technologies.

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Oakville Galleries has two locations:

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square is located at 120 Navy Street in downtown Oakville. Open Tuesday to Thursday: 12 - 9pm; Friday: 12 - 5pm; Saturday: 10 am - 5pm; Sunday: 1 - 5pm.
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens is located at 1306 Lakeshore Road East, 2 km east of downtown Oakville. Open Tuesday to Sunday: 1 - 5pm.

Media inquiries contact Tracey Shepherd, 905.844.4402 ext. 28 or e-mail communications@oakvillegalleries.com.

For more information about Oakville Galleries, our exhibitions or programmes, please call 905.844.4402 or visit http://www.oakvillegalleries.com

New admission fees: Adults $2; Youth 12-16 (with ID) $1; Members (Friends of Oakville Galleries) and children under 12 are free.

Oakville Galleries acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Corporation of the Town of Oakville along with our many individual, corporate and foundation partners.

PRINT MEDIA SALE NOVEMBER 27th

Vanessa O'Rielly Lecture: Thursday November 27 (B124)

JAMES CARL OPENING @ DIAZ: NOVEMBER 22

James Carl
jalousie
22 November 2008 to 17 January 2009
Opening Saturday 22 November from 5 to 8

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present new work by James Carl, in his first commercial solo exhibition in Canada. Carl is known for his uncommon use of common materials. In this series of works, his exploration of the material world takes on new visual form.

jalousie is the working title for a series of sculptures that Carl began making in 2005 in Paris. The works are constructed from venetian blinds - referred to as "jalousie" in colloquial French and German. As with much of Carl's work, these sculptures explore the possibilities for visual encounter: probing the normal, the moral, and the all-too-common, in a spirit of compliance and conversation.

In conjunction with this exhibition, the first major survey of Carl's work will be exhibited at three galleries. Entitled do you know what, this survey will be shown at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto (22 November to 25 January), the Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square (17 January to 1 March) and the MacDonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph (17 January to 22 March).

Red Bull Projects Opening: Dave Dyment, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Alana Riley, Tony Romano

You Don't Really Care For Music, Do You?

Dave Dyment
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Alana Riley
Tony Romano.
Curated by Catherine Dean

November 20 to December 20, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, November 20, 6-9pm
Special Performance: Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay sings Jimmy Somerville, 6PM

Gallery walkthrough with curator Catherine Dean and artists Dave Dyment and Tony Romano: Saturday, December 6, 3pm

Red Bull 381 Projects presents a major exhibition of four Canadian artists whose work is ingrained in the cultures, lifestyles, thought processes, and at times bizarre and eccentric outgrowths of music enthusiasm: Dave Dyment, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Alana Riley and Tony Romano.

The exhibition draws its title from Dyment's video Pop Quiz, which features a stream of questions culled from the artist's extensive record collection. Cheeky and provocative, the question might initially come across as a jab at the viewer, but in the context of these four artists' work it reveals layers of meaning that address music's cultural, emotional and transformative qualities. While viewers might feel compelled to defend their investment in music, careful consideration of the show's title begs further questions: What does it mean to "care for" music? Can music care for us? Is it possible to care too much? Combined, these works reveal a web of associations ranging from fandom, cult obsession, nostalgia, existential rumination and the archival impulse.

For more information on the artists and downloadable images of their work, visit www.redbull381projects.com

Red Bull 381 Projects
381 Queen St. W (Queen & Peter) 2nd Floor
Hours of Operation: Wed - Friday 12pm - 5pm, Saturday 12pm - 6pm

upcoming screeing at cinematheque ontario

Toronto Premiere!
New 35mm restored print!

The Exiles
Director: Kent Mackenzie
November 18, 2008, at 7:00pm
November 19, 2008, at 8:45pm

"Enthralling and breathtakingly gorgeous"
-The New Yorker

Hailed as "miraculous" by the New Yorker, The Exiles is a lacerating portrait of the isolation and hardship endured by the Native American community living in the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles, a once-prominent neighbourhood reduced, by 1960, to decrepitude and poverty. More...

Co-presentation with the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

Free Screening!*

Patrick Rumble presents Paolo Gioli
November 19, 2008, at 7:00pm
Paolo Gioli is surely one of the most significant experimental filmmakers Italy has ever produced. All the films in this programme offer meditations on technical innovations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, photography and cinema - and on related issues of visual perception. More...

*This free programme is curated and presented in person by Patrick Rumble.

Allan King introduces
A Married Couple
Director: Allan King
November 24, 2008, at 7:00pm

One of Allan King's finest early works and a cornerstone of the cinéma-vérité movement.

Antoinette and Billy Edwards are a middle-class couple whose marriage is experiencing tough times. A Married Couple captures every awkward and unsettling moment as they bicker over money and ultimately power. More...

Don Owen introduces
The Ernie Game
Director: Don Owen
November 30, 2008, at 6:00pm

Best director and best film.
- Genie Awards, October 4, 1968

Ernie Turner attempts to survive in a world where he's perceived as a nuisance by everyone. Newly released from an asylum, Ernie grows increasingly alienated as his fragile mental state declines. More...

For complete schedule, visit cinemathequeontario.ca . Order your tickets online or call 416-968-FILM.
All screenings take place at AGO's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West, McCaul Street entrance.

Cinematheque Ontario is supported by Bell, RBC, the Ontario Media Development Corporation and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Visa† is the only credit card accepted by Cinematheque Ontario.

Art and Art History Presents Tilo Schulz: November 20

Tilo Schulz Thursday, November 20, 2008
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124 Tilo Schulz will speak on his recent exhibition project I WAS SHOT IN THE BACK currently on view at the Blackwood Gallery, UTM, until January 11, 2009. Schulz’s work intermingles the conventions of art, handicrafts, architecture and design — and queries accepted ideas of high and popular culture. Questions of presentation and representation, of individual perception and the social or political instrumentalization of art are recurrent central issues in his works and exhibitions. The artist, who has also frequently worked as a curator, devotes as much attention to the mise-en-scène of the visitor’s course through the exhibition (of visual axes and spatial sequences), as to the visitors themselves, who are taken into account from the earliest planning stages. Schulz sometimes invites visitors to become agents in his exhibitions, a process the artist calls “activation.” One characteristic feature of Schulz’s oeuvre is his engagement with the formal language of modernism. His interest in the historical debate between the politically instrumentalized art of the former totalitarian systems of the Eastern Bloc and the supposedly free art of the West — a debate his works often critique — is rooted in the artist’s biography; he was born in the former East Germany. Born 1972 in Leipzig, Schulz lives and works in Berlin. Over the past two years, he has shown his artwork at the Secession in Vienna, Magazin4 in Bregenz, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig. Image: Tilo Schulz, homemade (ideology unit_02) (2006)

RACHEL GOTILEB TALK AT SHERIDAN: TUESDAY NOV. 18

TILO SCHULZ PERFORMANCE SUNDAY NOV. 23

MARC BELL OPENING TONIGHT!

Marc Bell - "Illustrated Cartoon Videos"
Join us for the Grand opening!
Event InfoHost:
Paul Bright Contemporary Art Gallery
Type:
Music/Arts - Exhibit
Network:

Time and PlaceDate:
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Paul Bright
Street: 1265 Bloor St. W
City/Town: Toronto, ON

Mike Kelley Screening

Mike Kelley

Day Is Done

Saturday, November 8, 8pm

Latvian House, 491 College St.

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We are very excited to be presenting a rare screening of Los Angeles art star Mike Kelley’s (born 1954) recently re-edited feature Day Is Done (169 min, 2006), an epic investigation of the mythic archetypes and carnivalesque folk culture of America. This self-described musical – with lyrics by Kelley himself! – assembles a loose narrative out of thirty-one performative vignettes which the artist has dubbed “extracurricular activity projective reconstructions.” Each is a live-action recreation of a photograph of an “extracurricular activity” found in a high school yearbook, referencing such homespun spectacles as school plays, talent shows, pageants, theme dress-up days, holiday festivities, religious services and hazing rituals. Through these highly circumscribed institutional displays, we are treated to thugs and mimes, hillbillies and heartthrobs, even a duo of horses who dance in the climactic final procession. A chubby Christian and a svelte Jewess face off at a candle-lighting ceremony, egged on by two rapping neo-Nazis. A singles mixer degenerates into a war between the black kids, the metalheads, the witches and a hick as they fight over the relative merits of R Kelly, Gene Simmons, Brandon Lee and Garth Brooks. An innuendo-spouting barber terrorizes a young blond boy in a grotesque Freudian primal scene. Despite it being filmed in the immediately recognizable environs of a high school, everything in Day Is Done is slightly askew: the acting hammy, the dialogue perverse. Many characters are practitioners of the dark arts, with a wizard and ghoul who wander the woods, and a slew of goths and vampires. A sleazy, foul-mouthed, stand-up comic Satan takes a prominent place as the film develops, as does the Virgin Mary (and her “hag” doppelganger), Joseph, some angels and the players in a Nativity scene. Who will triumph, good or evil? Or maybe the mousy girl in the back row?

Day Is Done

Day Is Done

Day Is Done

SETH IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS WARE

CATHERINE SICOT LECTURE

Art and Art History Presents Catherine Sicot
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Catherine Sicot is currently Director of Education and Public Programmes at Oakville Galleries. She developed her interest and expertise in engaging audiences with modern and contemporary art practices through working at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris and through teaching in different contexts in Paris and region from 1994 to 1999. Since living in Toronto, she has served on the Boards of 4Unity productions youth media association and Mercer Union. At Mercer Union, she has undertaken international residencies and curatorial projects, exploring community-based and relational practices. Image: Teen project led by Olia Mishchenko at the Oakville Youth Development Centre (2006)

A&AH GRADUATE EXHIBITION MEETING

Art and Art History Graduate Exhibitions Meeting
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

All graduating students wishing to participate in our two graduate exhibitions at the Blackwood Gallery in March 2009 should attend this meeting.

The exhibitions will take place between March 4 – 29, 2009. Artsweek at U of T will be March 19 – April 3. It might be advantageous to have the second opening on the 19th.

At the meeting we will assign tasks to students to assist with the organization of the shows. Some of the tasks will include the following:

· Signage design and show titles
· Canadian Art ad design and coordination
· Press release writing and distribution
· Artist statement editor
· Reception coordinator
· Installation coordinator for first exhibition, includes creating list of works in the exhibition
· Installation coordinator for second exhibition, includes creating list of works in the exhibition
· Installation strike coordinator for first exhibition
· Installation strike coordinator for second exhibition
· Web communications coordinator, Facebook page

We may consider placing work in outdoor and indoor public spaces throughout the campus. Given that this would take some time to negotiate with the administration, we should think of a deadline well in advance, say six weeks before. That would bring us to mid January.

EXHIBITIONS AT OG2

Coming up at Oakville Galleries

People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell
6 December 2008 - 22 February 2009
at Centennial Square

Colin Campbell, The Woman from Malibu, 1976

Colin Campbell's videos are as much an oeuvre of words as they are of images. This retrospective exhibition considers the manner in which the artist cultivated a myth around himself and his personae through trafficking in stories, rumours and fables as culled from the goings-on of his everyday life. In blurring truth and lies, real life and artifice, Campbell's video works suggest links between storytelling, self-construction and star power.

This exhibition will travel to Oboro in Montreal and Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Curated by Jon Davies. This project has been made possible in part through a contribution from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.

Gareth Long
Second, Third, Fourth
6 December 2008 - 22 February 2009
in Gairloch Gardens

Gareth Long, Video Solid (detail), 2006

Long's work tends toward conceptual gestures that play with formal ideas of translation, narrative and medium-specificity. His projects frequently turn video into material objects in an effort to explore video's value as infinitely reproducible. Such translations result in pieces far-removed from their source, often barely resembling the original in their new, compromised object form. This exhibition was programmed to coincide with the Colin Campbell exhibition at Centennial Square; as a former student of Campbell's, Long and his work are a testament to Campbell's ongoing influence.

Opening reception for both exhibitions: Friday 5 December from 7:30 to 8:30 pm at Centennial Square. A reception will follow from 8:30 to 10 pm in Gairloch Gardens.

Oakville Galleries has two locations:

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square is located at 120 Navy Street in downtown Oakville. Open Tuesday to Thursday: 12 - 9pm, Friday: 12 - 5pm, Saturday: 10 am - 5pm, Sunday: 1 - 5pm. Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens is located at 1306 Lakeshore Road East, 2 km east of downtown Oakville. Open Tuesday to Sunday: 1 - 5pm.

Admission is: Adults $2, youth 12-16 (with ID) $1, members (Friends of Oakville Galleries) are free and children under 12 are free.

For further information on Oakville Galleries, our exhibitions or programmes, please call 905.844.4402 or visit http://www.oakvillegalleries.com

Media inquiries contact Tracey Shepherd, 905.844.4402, ext. 28 or e-mail communications@oakvillegalleries.com

Oakville Galleries acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Corporation of the Town of Oakville along with our many individual, corporate and foundation partners.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART Presents DIVINO CORPO Temple of improbable and invisible causes

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
Presents

DIVINO CORPO
Temple of improbable and invisible causes

Performance artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña,
Violeta Luna and Roberto Sifuentes.
Photographed by Zach Gross, 2007

An interactive performance by La Pocha Nostra
Guillermo Gómez-Peña Violeta Luna Roberto Sifuentes
(U.S.-Mexico)
With Jessica Wyman, Mark Rush, Gale Allen, Ulysses Castellanos and performance students from York University
(Canada)

Friday November 7th, 8 p.m. Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

ADMISSION: $10.00 AT THE DOOR. NO ADVANCE TICKET SALES. LIMITED CAPACITY.

Since the early 1990s, Mexican performance artist and writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his colleagues Violeta Luna and Roberto Sifuentes from the San Francisco-based performance troupe La Pocha Nostra have been exploring the way museums represent cultural Otherness by experimenting with the colonial format of the "living diorama." They have created interactive "living museums" that parody various colonial practices of representation including the ethnographic tableau vivant, the Indian Trading Post, the border curio shop, the porn window display and their contemporary equivalents. These performance/installations function both as a bizarre set design for contemporary enactment of cultural pathologies, and as a ceremonial space for people to reflect upon their attitudes toward other cultures. Recent museum interventions by La Pocha Nostra include the Tate Modern, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, LACMA and the Guggenheim.

As part of their ongoing Mapa/Corpo series, Divino Corpo continues to examine the brown body as a site for radical spirituality, memory, penance, activism, stylized anger and corporeal reinvention. Divino Corpo was premiered at the National Review of Live Arts in Glasgow earlier this year. Posing as living saints and madonnas of unpopular causes (border crossers, disease, the rights of undocumented migrants, sex workers, prisoners, gang bangers, and the displaced invisible Others), the artists create a performative temple where the sacred and the profane intertwine with provocative contemporary issues. They invite audience members to engage in ritualized interactivity and embrace a new form of radical faith - the faith in art as a personal and political transformative force. In the process, the intimate human body becomes the transformative site against a backdrop of global despair and war.

Gómez-Peña, Luna and Sifuentes will be in residency in Toronto from November 2nd to November 8th. This latest presentation of Divino Corpo will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art on Friday November 7th and will feature several Toronto-based performance artists working together with La Pocha Nostra.

All MOCCA programs and activities are supported by Toronto Culture, the Ontario Arts Council, BMO Financial Group, individual memberships and private donations.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art 952 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J1G8
Public Information: (416) 395-0067. For media information contact Camilla Singh: (416) 395-7430 or csingh@toronto.ca

CALL FOR EMERGING ARTISTS

Deidre Logue Lecture

Art and Art History Presents

Deirdre Logue

Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Deirdre Logue’s film, video and installation work focuses on self-presentation, the body as material, confessional autobiography and the passage of ‘real’ time. Logue’s projects include Enlightened Nonsense (a series of ten short performance films about repetition), a twelve-channel self-portrait Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes, and a continuous counting project Rough Count. Logue’s work addresses how it is that women organize their images and identities for mass consumption, and how this reflects or distracts from our knowledge of the individual.

Solo exhibitions of Logue’s work have taken place at Oakville Galleries, YYZ Artist Outlet, Neutral Ground, the Images Festival – where she won both Best Installation and Best of the Festival – the Berlin International Film Festival, Beyond/In Western New York, Ottawa’s Video Art Biennial, Art Star and Articule in Montreal. Recent group exhibitions include Traumatic Landscapes at the Centre for Art Tapes, Achtung Baby presented at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Buenos Aires, Haptic Contemporary Art Forum, Conversation Pieces at Kingston’s Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Ceremonial Actions at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre.

Over the past eighteen years, Logue has organized independent film, video and new media festivals and participated in forums and symposiums on the future of independent artistic practice and film and video distribution. She was a founding member of Media City in Windsor, the Executive Director of the Images Festival from 1995-1999, the Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre from 2001-2006, is currently the Development Director at V Tape. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

PAUL WONG LECTURE AND EXHIBITION

VIDEO ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ON PAUL WONG

Artist Talk and Reception: PAUL WONG
November 10, 2008, 7 pm - 9 pm
MIST Room CCT Building, University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North

WONG-MO-BILE-A-GO-GO: Movies and Mischief aboard a free shuttle bus
Departs at 6 pm from the 401 Richmond Street West parking lot to the University of Toronto Mississauga campus with en-route screenings. Returning at 9 pm.

Reel Asian Canadian Artist Spotlight on PAUL WONG.
Since his teenage years, Paul Wong has used video as mirror and probe, both to discover his own identity and to interact with the world at large. Based in Vancouver, he is a video art pioneer and recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. He is known for his tough engagement with issues of race, sex and death. A poignant and infectious speaker PAUL WONG will be in attendance at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, in Toronto and Mississauga, to contextualize his practice as video artist for over 30 years.

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival celebrates the 12th annual festival Nov 12- 16th, 2008. For more information go to www.reelasian.com .

For more information or to reserve seating please contact Blackwood Gallery at 905-828-3789.

Presented by the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Office of Arts and Culture of the City of Mississauga and the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, with the assistance of the Malton Public Library and Community Centre.

Events Schedule

Exhibition | Nov 1 - 30 | Malton Public Library and Community Centre | 3540 Morning Star Drive, Mississauga| FREE
CLASS OF REFUGEES, 2008, 4:00

Exhibition | Nov 3-19 | CCT Building | University of Toronto Mississauga | 3359 Mississauga Road North | FREE
Blackwood Gallery Video Wall Installation: RUNNING IN A MAZE, 2007, 3:00

Artist Talk and Reception | Mon Nov 10 | 7 pm | MIST Room CCT Building | University of Toronto Mississauga | 3359 Mississauga Road North | FREE

Feature Presentation | Fri Nov 14 | 4:30 pm | Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave @ St. George
Reel Asian Canadian Artist Spotlight: Paul Wong Retrospective
ORDINARY SHADOWS. CHINESE SHADE, 1988, 89:00

Shorts Presentation | Fri Nov 14 | 6:30 pm | Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave @ St. George
Reel Asian Canadian Artist Spotlight: Paul Wong reMASTERED
A selection from Wong's body of work including the newly re-mastered versions of 60 UNIT: BRUISE; 7 DAY ACTIVITY and IN TEN SITY, as well as Wong's new works from his UNPLUGGED compilation, SALLY, CHELSEA HOTEL ROOM 207, PERFECT DAY and DOG EAT DOG.

william huffman award

Art and Art History Program


William Huffman Award

In preparation for the Awards Ceremony on Thursday, November 13, 2008, Huffman will judge student work for the William Huffman Award after 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 6, 2008. Please assemble your work for viewing in either your cubicle or in the Annie Smith atrium area.

The Award recipient will participate in an exhibition curated and promoted by Huffman in a Toronto gallery. Last year’s recipient of this award was Jackie Quaresma.

Mr. Huffman, a program alumnus (1991), is Associate Director at Toronto Arts Council.

John Mccartney Exhibition Opening Thursday October 30

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

INSTALLATION + NEW MEDIA + LIVE IMAGES > 2009
GTA Student Media Arts Exhibition

GUIDELINES & REGULATIONS

XPACE Cultural Centre and the Images Festival are co-curating a student media arts exhibition
for the upcoming Images Festival (April 2 – 11, 2009) and we are seeking proposals from local
undergraduate media arts students.

Our goal is to exhibit challenging and refreshing media arts installations from the Ontario
College of Art & Design, the University of Toronto (Downtown, Mississauga and Scarborough
campuses), Ryerson University, and York University for an exciting counterpart to the annual S is
for Student screening, one of the Images Festival favourites. This is an excellent opportunity for
students to exhibit their work at a supportive, professional space with internationally renowned
festival exposure.

The Images Festival annually exhibits a selection of film and video installation, media-based
performance works and new media as part of the festival. XPACE Cultural Centre is an artist-
and student-run centre dedicated to creating space for emerging art and design.

More information can be found at:
www.imagesfestival.com
www.xpace.info

PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Thursday October 23 - Sunday November 2, 2008

Nightly events at XPACE Cultural Centre
Daily events at Toronto Free Gallery
Up to the minute updates at 7a11d.blogspot.com

7a*11d is pleased to present the seventh International Festival of Performance Art from October 23 to November 2. Daily and evening performance art events take place at XPACE Cultural Centre and Toronto Free Gallery; with special events taking place at The Gladstone Hotel and the Fleishman Gallery at WonderWorks.

7a*11d is proud to announce our forthcoming 7th International Festival, a culmination of 11 years of working together as an artist-run collective. In order to celebrate this accomplishment, the 2008 7a*11d festival is nothing less than an international survey of global live art - progressive and provocative new performance works by over 30 local, national and international performance artists. The festival hosts residencies, performance art events, panel discussions, artists' talks, video/performance screenings, and workshops in 11 jam-packed days.

Artists participating in this year's festival include: Tomomi Adachi (Japan), Gustavo Alvarez (Mexico), Warren Arcand (BC), Francis Arguin (QC), Annette Arlander (Finland), Marilyn Arsem (USA), Sylvette Babin (QC), Natasha Bailey & Danielle Williams (Toronto), John G. Boehme (BC), Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia), Ulysses Castellanos (Toronto), Simla Civelek (Toronto), BBB Johannes Deimling (Germany), Chaw Ei Thein (Burma), Angelika Fojtuch (Poland), Nicola Frangione (Italy), Randy Gagne & Stacey Sproule (Toronto), Sini Haapalinna (Finland), Alejandra Herrera (Chile/USA), Mahan Javadi (Toronto), József R. Juhász (Slovakia), Essi Kausalainen (Finland), Risa Kusumoto (Toronto), Norbert Klassen (Switzerland), Will Kwan (Toronto), Glenn Lewis (BC), Jason Lim (Singapore), Pia Lindy (Finland), Joost Nieuwenburg (Netherlands), Robin Poitras (SK), Martin Renteria (Mexico), Don Simmons (Toronto), Tonik Wojtyra (Toronto) and Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan).

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FESTIVAL include:

OPENING NIGHT!
Thursday October 23, 8:00 pm
XPACE Cultural Centre (58 Ossington Avenue)
Warren Arcand, Will Kwan, Joost Nieuwenburg, Randy Gagne & Stacey Sproule

THE RESIDENTS
In honour of our anniversary year, we have invited 7 artists of exceptional merit to come to Toronto for an 11-day performance super residency; taking over storefronts, studios, galleries and the street to create large and small scale durational actions and new performance works. The 2008 festival Residents are Canadians Robin Poitras, Glenn Lewis, Warren Arcand, and Sylvette Babin, and international artists Chaw Ei Thein (Burma), Gustavo Alvarez (Mexico) and Norbert Klassen (Switzerland).

SPECIAL FOCUS: Finland
A special program featuring the work of four of Finland's most innovative female performance artists, women who mix high tech with the highly physical: Annette Arlander, Sini Haapalinna, Essi Kausalainen and Pia Lindy.

d2d.4 = direct to documentation 2008
Wednesday October 29, 7:30 pm
The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West)
Screenings of video/performance for the camera from around the world right to your front stoop - join us for Granny Boots at the Gladstone Hotel featuring our fourth d2d screening program and other surprises!

FADO Performance Art Centre
Offers a special 5-day intensive performance art workshop entitled What is Important? with Berlin-based artist and educator BBB Johannes Deimling. Workshop takes place from October 17-21, followed by a public performance by the participants. FADO is also pleased to present the work of Angelika Fotjuch (Poland), BBB Johannes Deimling (Germany), Will Kwan (Toronto) and Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan) during this special festival year. For details, go to www.performanceart.ca

Festival Closing Panel
Terms of Engagement: Presence and the Performative
Sunday November 2, 12:00 pm
XPACE Cultural Centre (58 Ossington Avenue)
With Annette Arlander, Paul Couillard, Johanna Householder, Tanya Mars (via Skype). Intervention: Norbert Klassen.

7a11d.blogspot.com
Do it everyday! Visit our blog for festival coverage by Andrew J. Paterson & Elaine Wong.

For a complete schedule: www.7a-11d.ca
Get on the mailing list: info@performanceart.ca
Festival Hotline: 416-822-3219
Catalogue available at festival venues from October 13

7a*11d would like to acknowledge the support of our funders and the generosity of our partners: Canada Council for the Arts (Inter-Arts, Visual Arts and Japan Canada Fund), Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto Free Gallery, FADO Performance Art Centre, FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange), Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto, ProHelvetia, Stroom Den Haag, CIUT 89.5FM, Beehive Design, Twig Design, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Art Festival, Gladstone Hotel, Vtape, Coleman Lemieux & Company, wonderworks and Fuse Magazine.

Image Credit: Francis Arguin, Attempts to leave the ground, 2007, photo: Valarie Lavoie

SPECIAL SCREENING OF JOHN ARMSTRONG'S FOUR SISTERS

John Armstrong & Paul Collins will be holding a special screening of Four Sisters on Friday October 10, 2008
Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue (Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway)
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., screening at 7:00 p.m.



Four Sisters is a silent, 77-minute video sequence shot on Toronto's waterfront Gardiner Expressway during a
late afternoon rush-hour commute from east to west and back again. The video looks inland, towards the city centre before turning to look out, towards and across the lake.
A band of text runs through the video, recounting 23 anecdotes in English or French. These incidental narratives look at life in Toronto and Paris, travel, coincidence and minor revelatory moments in the lives of both artists.

In the tradition of silent cinema, Paul will perform a live musical accompaniment to the video.

Jean-Paul Kelly @ TPW October 16th

And fastened to a dying animal
Jean-Paul Kelly

October 16 - November 15, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, October 16, 7-9pm

Touching, smart and witty, Jean-Paul Kelly's idiosyncratic vision explores narrative structure as a mediation of everyday anxieties and anticipated grief. His works are developed using a hybrid aesthetic language shaped by home movies, cinema, art history, cartoons, digital compositing and performance. And fastened to a dying animal continues Kelly's process of using home-video documents featuring the artist, his parents and their pets, as reference material for the production of a new video installation and digital animation, accompanied by a body of illustrated and photographic works.

Based in Toronto, Jean-Paul Kelly's work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals across North America, Japan, and Europe, including Art-Action: Rencontres Internationales 2006 in Paris, Berlin, and Madrid. He is a memeber of the Pleasure Dome experimental film and video programming collective. Kelly has also worked as an instructor in the Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto and in the Integrated Media program at OCAD University.

An essay by Jon Davies accompanies the exhibition.

Image Credit: Jean-Paul Kelly, Cat (Mom), ink drawing, 2007

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-5pm
Media Contact:
Kim Simon
Curator

Gallery TPW
56 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, ON. M6J 2Y7
p: 416.645.1066
f: 416.645.1681