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

HARRELL FLETCHER SCREENING @ THE POWER PLANT

FILM / The Sun Shines for You Today
Thursday, 16 October / 7 PM / $4 Members, $6 Non-Members
The Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
A screening of tapes by Harrell Fletcher interspersed with films and videos by other international artists who work with everyday people. Employing media as a catalyst for social performance, storytelling and adventure, these works find moments of beauty in the mundane while investing value in the activities of "amateurs."

Featuring Fletcher's Blot Out the Sun (2002), The Sound We Make Together (2003, excerpt) and The Forbidden Zone (2000), as well as works by other artists including Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy (desperate optimists)'s film Revolution (2004) and Johanna Billing's Magical World (2005).

DANIEL BARROW LECTURE @ INTERACCESS

Special Artist Talk: Daniel Barrow

Thursday, October 16, 8pm
Join Barrow as the artist speaks about his work and performs excerpts from his overheard projector performances.

Kelly Mark's Horridor

A new work created for Scotia Band Nuit Blanche 2008, Horroridor is a 6-channel dvd installation utilizing found footage from various genres including horror-thriller-sci/fi-action-drama-comedy. The installation examines Hollywood’s construction of the reaction to the unknown. Horroridor strips away narrative to a non-articulated response of fear, horror, pain, madness, rage and frustration, by isolating men and women screaming to unknown forces that threaten existence.

Links to video captured at Nuit Blanche

youtube video captured & posted by gloomygrrl
youtube video captured & posted by XYChromosome

PERFORMANCE ARTIST LINKS

Shauna Dempsey Lorri Millan http://www.fingerinthedyke.ca/
Tanya Mars http://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2008/01/tanya-mars.html
Adrian Piper http://www.adrianpiper.com/art/gallery.shtml
Nobuo Kubota http://www.ccca.ca/videoportrait/english/kubota.html?languagePref=en&
Paul Pfeiffer http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/pfeiffer/clip1.html#
Nikki S Lee http://www.tonkonow.com/lee.html
Ryan Trecartin http://www.ubu.com/film/trecartin_family.html
Michael V. Smith http://www.michaelvsmith.com/counterculture/default.htm
Yves Klein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnCUYACM8F0&feature=related
C. Schneeman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpCGKqTOJo
Lisa Steele http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/artists/media_detail.html?languagePref=en&mkey=53709&link_id=264
Martha Rosler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zSA9Rm2PZA
Marina Abromovic http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&pwst=1&resnum=0&q=abramovic&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
and
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&pwst=1&resnum=0&q=abramovic&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#q=abramovic%20ulay&hl=en&emb=0
Chris burden http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/nyregion/08rockefeller.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Nancy Garcia http://www.nancygarcia.org/blog/?page_id=187