artist lecture: lee goreas

Art and Art History Presents
Lee Goreas
Thursday 5 February 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124



Toronto artist and Art and Art History professor Lee Goreas maintains a multi-disciplinary practice with a focus on drawing and installation. His work questions the persuasive authority of both popular and institutional culture. Goreas's recent work, entitled Pars & Stars, is currently on view at Hallwalls Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Exhibition curator John Massier: "In what often turns out to be the telling equation in Goreas' work, what at first appears ludicrous eventually blossoms into entirely unexpected but fulsome significance. By collapsing the art and golf worlds, Goreas is mocking neither art nor golf, but recognizing their shared attitudes - either can be aggressive, elegant, frustrating, or sublime."

Goreas completed a MFA at York University and a BFA at the University of Victoria; he also holds a Diploma from UBC Okanagan. He has been a practicing professional artist for 19 years, and exhibits locally, nationally and internationally. Goreas is represented by BirchLibralato in Toronto.

BLK: 1st and 2nd year exhibition

exhibition: daryl vocat

lecture: cheryl sourkes

Art and Art History Presents

Cheryl Sourkes

Thursday 27 January 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Cheryl Sourkes is a lens-based artist, writer and curator. She studied psychology and biology at McGill University before moving to Vancouver in 1967. There, she became involved with Intermedia, a Dadaist artist organization that prefigured Canada’s artist-run movement. Presently, she divides her time between Toronto and Manchester, England. Sourkes’s work investigates the visual dimension of technology, especially social and cultural developments that have arisen with Internet webcams. Selections of this work, Public Camera recently toured to The National Gallery of Canada. Sourkes is represented by Peak Gallery in Toronto, Division Gallery in Montreal and twenty + 3 projects in Manchester, England. Cheryl Sourkes also curates the project space at akau.

electronic shamanism

"It is through the flesh that we will make the metaphysical manifest in our spirits."
- Antonin Artaud

ELECTRONIC SHAMANISM
Jackson 2bears & Ted Hiebert, Joseph Lefevre & Martine Koutnouyan, Geoffrey Pugen and Alyce Santoro

Curated by Min-Jeong (M.J.) Kim.

Alyce Santoro's Satellite Dish Hat

Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 8pm
Exhibition runs January 23-February 28, 2009
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, 9 Ossington Ave, Toronto

InterAccess is pleased to present Electronic Shamanism, an exhibition of four interactive electronic media art works from Victoria, Toronto, Montreal and Texas that incorporate kinesthetic interaction and a wide range of sensorial engagements to examine the similarity between the shamanic experience and our interactions with high technology. The works in the exhibition also consider technology as a vehicle and mediator of shamanistic experiences, bringing spirituality and technology together, combining age old rituals and emergent media.

Please join us on Friday, January 23 at 8pm for a special opening reception, with an interactive performance by Victoria based artists' Jackson 2bears and Ted Hiebert.

More about the works in the exhibition:
Bringing together contemporary techno-cultural studies and indigenous teachings, 2bears and Hiebert's (Victoria) performance Electronic Shamanism is a study in the manifestation of an alternative self through the application of technology and trance. The performance incorporates experimental sound and video, brainwaves, neurofeedback and hardware self-hypnosis techniques to create an ever-looping process of self evaluation and activation.

Joseph Lefevre & Martine Koutnouyan's (Montreal) The Shaman's Space is an interactive web installation that prompts gallery goers to take on the role of shaman: they wander through this cyber realm, meet spirits of the past, become friends with a family of Siberian bears, beat on caveman drums and float through the air. This uncanny yet welcoming world converges with reality through links acting as mediators connecting the human and the sacred, the real and the imaginary.

Toronto's own Geoffrey Pugen's Aerobia is a whimsical interactive piece that seeks to identify a person's inner animal and manifest it spiritually and physically. Participants enter a lycra-enclosed cocoon-like structure where they are prompted to discover their inner animal through a video that is reminiscent of a 1980s instructional workout video. This playful piece promotes the rediscovery of human beings' primitive urges to revisit their deepest subjective animal desires.

Finally, Texas based Alyce Santoro plays with notions of past lives and other world life. With Sonic Dress, communication with the past is made easy through this playful piece created out of woven audio cassette tape that, when rubbed with a special glove, culls forth voices of other times. Likewise, in Satellite Dish Hat, the participant is able to connect with otherworld beings through pseudo scientific interaction. For Santoro, anything in our everyday life can be interacted with as a sacred object that inspires us spiritually and connects us with the spiritual world.

For more information about the exhibition, please go to: www.interaccess.org.

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Y8
Canada
T +1.416.599.7206
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help(dot)me(at)interaccess(dot)org

nelson henricks: exhibition and artist talk

Trinity Square Video presents
Map of the City
Nelson Henricks

Exhibition:
January 16 - February 14, 2009
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 16, 2009, 5 - 8pm
Artist Talk:
Saturday, January 17, 2009 2 - 4pm

Trinity Square Video is pleased to present the Toronto premiere of Map of the City by Montreal-based artist Nelson Henricks. Initiated during a six-month artist residency in Rome, Henricks was inspired by chapels and cathedrals that are three-dimensional representations of biblical texts. From the central concept of a "building-as-book", Henricks builds a vision of the urban environment as a library that requires both readers and writers.

Map of the City is constructed as a sequence of exuberantly colourful still images interspersed with text written by Henricks and culled from The Gospel of Thomas and The Bible. Echoing themes in Jorge Luis Borges' short story The Library of Babel, Henricks presents himself as a dutiful librarian classifying and preserving the endless images he encounters in the city.

Bio: Nelson Henricks teaches at Concordia and McGill Universities. He is a graduate of Alberta College of Art and Design (1986) and Concordia's Film Production Program (1994). His works have been presented at galleries, museums and festivals worldwide and are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Museo des bellas artes Buenos Aires. Henricks was awarded the Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art.

Trinity Square Video Gallery
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 376
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
416 593-1332
www.trinitysquarevideo.com

Exhibition hours:
M - F 10am - 6pm, S 12 - 4pm

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MEDIA CONTACT
Roy Mitchell
Executive Director
Trinity Square Video
roy@trinitysquarevideo.com
(416) 593-1332

a night of performance

Call for Submissions

Both/And: What is Beyond Multiculturalism?

Call for Submissions
The University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge is now
accepting submissions for the following upcoming juried
student exhibition: ‘BOTH/AND: WHAT IS BEYOND
MULTICULTURALISM?’

Submissions guidelines:

All Ontario students are invited to submit up to three artworks
related to the topic ‘Both/And: What is beyond
multiculturalism?’ We believe that today’s experiences of
constant crossing of cultural and geographic boundaries
intensify exchange and make people open to others’ values,
beliefs and worldviews. Inter-cultural experiences can have a
transformative effect that is central to this exhibition that asks:
what is beyond multiculturalism? Entrants should include a
brief statement explaining how their artwork explores these
concepts. We welcome paintings, photographs, sculptures,
video art, body art, performance art, wearable art, and
installations. All artwork must be ready-to-hang or present.

How to Submit
All submissions must indicate the artist’s name, institution,
phone and email contact. Submissions must be accompanied
by Jpeg image(s) of the work(s) along with the statement of
how the work explores the ideas above. Please forward entries
under the title “multiculturalism submission” to
sunny.kerr@utoronto.ca.
Visual Art Contest and Exhibition
University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge
February 3 to March 3, 2009
Art.lounge

Submission deadline: January 15, 2009 at 12PM.
Selected artists will be notified shortly thereafter by mail, email and the
list of accepted entries will be posted on the Student
Exhibitions page of the UTAC website:
http://www.utac.utoronto.ca

Criteria
An art lounge curatorial committee will choose the works for
exhibition. The following criteria will be applied: exploration of
the topic, control of the chosen media, originality, and overall
quality. Separate judges will evaluate each artwork to award
prizes in categories to be announced.
About the University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge
About the University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge
Located at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, at 15
King’s College Circle, UTAC’s mission is to offer a space where
young talent can show and discuss their work in an energetic,
original and inclusive way. The art lounge is home to UTAC’s
student exhibition program. The program aims both to
encourage rigorous aesthetic exploration and to reflect the
diverse practices in visual art at the University. The art lounge
accepts proposals from student artists to exhibit their own
work, and curators to exhibit the work of other students; we
also collaborate with U of T clubs and divisions on open call
juried or curated student shows - and with faculty on projects
that use the lounge and adjacent spaces.

exhibition oppurtunity for art and art history students

Chancellor’s Exhibition
University of Toronto Chancellor David Peterson has confirmed an opening date for this year-long exhibition: Monday, March 30, 2009. This event will be part of the U of T Festival of the Arts 2009. Approximately 20 students are chosen from each of the University of Toronto’s three campuses for this show. There will be a monetary prize awarded this year – being split $500, $300, $200- for 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively.

Sunny Kerr (Coordinator of the UofT Art Lounge) will curate the exhibition.

The Chancellor’s Offices are on the St. George Campus in Room 100 at Simcoe Hall, 27 King’s College Circle — just north of Convocation Hall.

In order to submit your work, please include the following: your name, UT student number, contact info, short bio, info about your piece (title, date, size, media) and digital image. This can be left on the table on the Annie Smith Mezzanine with the submissions for BUFF.

SUBMISSION DATE IS TUESDAY 2O JANUARY AT 9:00 A.M.

Fill out the Buff form on the table on the Annie Smith Mezzanine and write Chancellor’s Exhibition on it. This way you can apply to two events simultaneously!

exhibition: Right Frame, Wrong Film Hans Gindlesberger and Nicholas Knight

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond St West, Suite 120
Toronto, Ontario

Right Frame, Wrong Film
Hans Gindlesberger and Nicholas Knight

January 9 – February 14, 2009
Opening: Friday January 9, 6-9pm
Artist talk: Friday January 9, 6-7pm




Gallery 44’s first exhibition of 2009, Right Frame, Wrong Film, challenges the viewer’s expectations about photography and seeing. Premiering in Canada, Hans Gindlesberger’s I’m in the Wrong Film explores the story of a character lost in suburbia, through cinematic photographs. Nicholas Knight, a New York based photographer, has created site-specific trompe-l’oeil installations that question the ways that photography frames its subjects. James D. Campbell, the exhibition brochure writer, states: “Gindlesberger and Knight are seasoned archaeologists of the seeing and the seen. Knight excavates the conventions of photographic practice in pursuit of a fully decoded aesthetic; Gindlesberger unearths potent psychological artifacts and tropes that imply much about place, non-place, belonging and alienation.” The full text is available on our website and exhibition brochure.

Exhibition programming

Artist talk: Friday January 9, 6-7pm
Join the artists for a walk-through of the exhibition and a discussion of the artist’s practices. A reception will follow.

Biographies

Hans Gindlesberger, originally from Toledo, Ohio, is interested in exploring issues of locality and displacement in theatre, silent film, and photography. His work has been exhibited and published in North America and abroad. He is currently based in Buffalo, New York, and Huntington, West Virginia, where he is Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Marshall University.

Nicholas Knight lives and works in New York City. He attended Indiana University, where he studied painting and the history and philosophy of science. He has exhibited his work throughout North America, including solo exhibitions in Chicago, San Francisco, and Marfa, Texas. He was artist-in-residence in 2007 at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Bignan, France.


Image Credit: Hans Gindlesberger, Untitled, from the series I’m in the Wrong Film, archival inkjet print, 55.88 x 101.60 cm, 2006



Media contact:
Melissa Bennett, Exhibition Coordinator
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
melissa@gallery44.org
(416) 979-3941

Gallery 44 is open Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
www.gallery44.org

lecure: Haema Sivanesan

Art and Art History Presents
Haema Sivanesan
Thursday 29 January 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Haema Sivanesan is a curator and Executive Director of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) a non-profit artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation and promotion of contemporary South Asian Visual Art.

From 1996-2004 she was the Assistant Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a leading state museum in Sydney Australia. She has curated several independent projects including a major project for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival in Melbourne, Australia (2006) and more recently, was a zone curator for Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2008. She is a specialist in the area of contemporary and historical art from South and Southeast Asia.

Sivanesan will talk about a range of recent SAVAC projects, and the organization’s unique contribution to the Canadian cultural landscape.


Image: Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali (2008) “the heart that has no love/pain/generousity is not a heart” detail, multi-media, dimensions variable

lyla rye: reception

Join us for the Opening Reception of Kiosk
By Lyla Rye
Commissioned by Cadillac Fairview
for the Encounters with Art series

January 15, 2009 6-9 pm

Spring Rolls Restaurant
Fairview Mall
1800 Sheppard Ave. East (Don Mills)
TTC: Yonge-Sheppard subway line, Don Mills station

Lyla Rye: Kiosk 2008. www.lylarye.com

Kiosk is a video sculpture designed to resemble an empty mall kiosk. Although empty of objects for sale, it is filled with desire in the form of two projected videos. In these videos, a woman arranges objects for display in increasingly unusual ways provoking questions about why we choose to display only certain objects. The manner of filming causes her to merge with the kiosk.

Kiosk is on exhibit on the Lower level of Fairview Mall near H&M until April 12, 2009. Fairview Mall is directly accessible by the Yonge-Sheppard subway and attracts 15 million visitors annually.

Commissioned as the inaugural installment of the Encounters with Art series, Rye's Kiosk was selected from a shortlist of artists by a panel including curatorial advisor, Gordon Hatt. The Encounters with Art series presents contemporary art to the general populace within the framework of a shopping centre. By commissioning site specific work within a familiar setting, the series challenges people's perception of art.

Generously supported by Cinema Stage, Sanyo, and Spring Rolls by Thai Pan.

Info Contact: Mary Pan at 647-868-6989 | mary.pan@sympatico.ca
www.fairviewmall.ca

january 20: amos latteier lecture on models

Art and History Lecture Series Amos Latteier lectures on Models Tuesday January 20 @ 12:30 ROOM B124


"Model Notes" is a short lecture/performance that explores the idea of "models", from fashion models, to the Copernican model, to model citizens, to the Domino theory, to Wild West shows, to the Marshall plan, to urban planning, to feng shui.

Amos Latteier is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist who creates interactive public art using technology and performs PowerPoint lectures. He has performed lectures across North America and in Europe. His recent public art projects include a location-specific haiku by sms project, a telephone-operated karaoke protest song project, a pigeon condo, cell phone-operated nature tour, a 500lb potato battery, and a chainsaw-powered walking machine. For more information visit http://latteier.com/

max dean performance

Max Dean

January 8 to 31, 2009
Reception for the artist: Thursday January 8, 6 to 8pm
Artist talk: 7pm
Saw Box performance: 6:30, 7:00 and 7:30 pm





As visual artists, we put something in a room and we walk away from it. I wanted to extend the viewing experience. I see these things fundamentally as an idea and secondly as a machine. – Max Dean

This first exhibition of Max Dean at Nicholas Metivier Gallery surveys over twenty works from 1971 to 2008. Dean, known for the Robotic Chair, uses boxes, tools and furniture as extensions of the body. Many of the works are interactive and respond to the participation of the viewer; some involve other senses such as sound and touch. The handmade quality of the works confounds a straightforward reading as machine, inviting us to explore and experience ideas of agency, trust, and control.

The opening reception features a ONE NIGHT ONLY screening of "Mist", three performances of "Saw Box" and a talk by Dean at 7pm.

Max Dean’s work was exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale and is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

http://www.metiviergallery.com/exhibition.php?exhibition=dean_2008

http://www.roboticchair.com/


Nicholas Metivier Gallery
451 King Street West
Toronto, ON. M5V 1K4
416-205-9000

art and art history graduate meeting

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

artist lecture: richard mongiat

Art and Art History Presents Richard Mongiat
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Richard Mongiat has been exhibiting his paintings in public galleries, commercial spaces and collective exhibitions for the last 25 years. An artist/curator in the painting collective From*A*Pit, Mongiat brought together 17 painters for the True to Form exhibition at the Dufferin Mall in 1995 and organized 9 Painters and a Magazine at College Park in 1997. In 2000, Mongiat and artist Catherine Beaudette co-founded Loop Gallery on Queen Street West in Toronto. In 2008, he completed the first part of The Underpass Project, a mural under the bridge at Bloor Street West and Lansdowne in Toronto. Part two is scheduled for 2009.

Mongiat is represented by Delong Gallery in Toronto. He also works in the theatre, painting backdrops and scenery for Opera Atelier, Canstage and the The National Ballet of Canada and has been teaching scenic painting at Ryerson University.

For more information visit www.delonggallery.com , www.loopgallery.ca , www.ccca.ca

artist lecture: anthony burnham

Art and Art History Presents Anthony Burnham
Thursday 22 January 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Anthony Burnham studied at Concordia University and currently lives and works in Montreal. His solo exhibitions include Superbia (Darling Foundry, 2002) and Overlap and Rewind (Clark Gallery, 2004). Over the past few years he has exhibited his work in groups shows in Québec, Spain, Austria, and France. In 2008, he took part in the Québec Triennial, Nothing Is Lost, Nothing Is Created, Everything Is Transformed (Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal).

Exhibition curator Katie Bethune-Leamen:
Through paintings and drawings, Anthony Burnham presents work of a pared-down plasticity. His paintings are representations of sculptural constructions that he builds, models acting out ideas. His images are a representation of what brings him to painting. They present a world that is soft, morphing, made up, volatile. Observing the invisible, his practice works through ideas of slippage, manipulation and transformation.


Image: Anthony Burnham, Maquette of Wall and Floor (2008), oil on canvas 152.5 x 184 cm

artist lecture: christof migone

Art and Art History Presents Christof Migone
Tuesday 10 February 2009 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. Migone co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and his writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, etc. He has released six solo audio cds, has appeared on numerous compilations and runs the diminutive label, squintfuckerpress. A monograph on his work, Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM presented a retrospective on his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Christof Migone - Trou. Migone currently lives in Toronto and is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Image: portrait of Christof Migone by Crys Cole