call for submissions

artist lecture: Vid Ingelevics

Art and Art History Presents

Vid Ingelevics

Thursday 10 September 2009

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124

Vid Ingelevics on his work: My art practice has followed a number of formal threads over the past two decades – moving between and across the media of photography, video, sound and installation. The subject matter, also diverse, has included: a study of post-WWII displaced persons camps in Germany; an installation work at Toronto’s City Hall that examined the demise of the Metro Toronto’s city halls that existed prior to amalgamation; a contemplation of the complications of translating bird song into human language as found in birding guides; an impersonation of a museum staff photographer who made “documents” that should have, but never were, commissioned; a complete full-scale reconstruction of a forgotten exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art based only on its documentation; and, currently at Oakville Galleries, studies of deer hunting platforms and woodpiles under the title, hunter/gatherer. What underlies many of these disparate-seeming works is my concern with problems of representing the past – i.e., issues around documentation - and the inherent tensions between our desire to remember and our need to historicize.

Vid Ingelevics is a Toronto-based artist, independent curator and writer. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate students at Ryerson University within the School of Image Arts. His artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited across Canada, Europe and in the United States. His writing has appeared in publications such as Canadian Art, C, Blackflash and others internationally. Currently, he is at work on several projects – a study of the economy of family-run stores on a particular street in Toronto and, in collaboration with artist Blake Fitzpatrick, a North America-wide search for fragments of the Berlin Wall, one of the world’s largest mobile ruins. Excerpts from the latter work-in-progress will be exhibited this fall to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the German consulate, Toronto and the Canadian Embassy, Berlin.

Image: Woodpile #7 (2006), C-print

artist lecture: peter maccllum

Art and Art History Presents

Peter MacCallum

Thursday 24 September 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan B124

Peter MacCallum on his work: My documentary photography series currently on view at Oakville Galleries surveys the unique memorial landscape created by artists, architects and gardeners at Vimy Ridge in northern France to commemorate Canada’s losses in the First World War. The series centres on the recently completed restoration of Walter Allward’s great limestone monument at the highest point of Vimy Ridge. Prefiguring Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D. C., Allward’s monument combines sculpture and landscape architecture in a powerful and enduring image of loss. Other photos in my documentary series show the preserved battlefield topography of the Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, as well as the sublime landscape architecture of nearby Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries, where many Canadian soldiers are buried.

MacCallum is a self-taught, Toronto documentary photographer whose work is primarily concerned with social, architectural and industrial subjects. In his Concrete Industries series of 1998-2004, he examined sites in Southern Ontario related to the production and consumption of concrete and cement. This project is featured in his 2004 monograph, Material World. In 2005, he documented the Lakeview Generating Station, the first of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants to be shut down for environmental reasons. Also in 2005, he began his series at Vimy Ridge in northern France, which he completed in 2008. Since 2006, he has documented the commercial architecture of Toronto’s lower Yonge Street, which will be published in an upcoming monograph.

MacCallum’s photographs have found a home in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Oakville Galleries, Art Gallery of Mississauga, City of Toronto Archives, Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Henry Morgentaler Toronto Clinic, as well as other corporate and private collections. MacCallum is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto.


Image: Vimy Ridge Monument (2008), gelatin silver print

exhbition: kelly mark and kim tomczak

Kelly Mark: It's Just One God Damn Thing After Another

3 September to 10 October 2009

Opening Thursday 3 September from 6 to 9

Artist in attendance

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present new work by Kelly Mark, in her first exhibition with the gallery. For years, Mark has been known for her witty critiques and wry sense of humour. Influenced by minimalism and conceptualism, Mark explores themes related to work, repetitive labour, and time. Her work often focuses on the banal facets of everyday life, and comments on contemporary culture. In this exhibition of primarily new work, Mark will show a range of media, including: drawings, text pieces, video- and light-based works. In a series of new letraset drawings, Mark employs this long-outdated desktop publishing tool to create elaborate designs in black and white; meanwhile, several neon and light-based works employ the self-reflexive, self-deprecating humour that she is known for.

Toronto-based Kelly Mark received her BFA in 1994 at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. She has exhibited widely across Canada and internationally at venues including the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal), Ikon Gallery (UK), Lisson Gallery (UK), and the Physics Room (NZ). She is a recipient of numerous Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council grants, as well as the KM Hunter Artist Award (2002), and Chalmers Art Fellowship (2002).

Kelly Mark gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak: The funniest thing...

3 September to 10 October 2009

Opening Thursday 3 September from 6 to 9

Artists in attendance

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present new work by Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak. Steele & Tomczak have worked exclusively in collaboration since 1983, producing videotapes, performances and photo/text works. Visually elegant and technically sophisticated, their work addresses universal social realities, family histories and repressed memories. They have profoundly influenced developments in video and media art in Canada since the early 1970s through an intimate and subjective approach to investigating and documenting society. Continuing this approach, for the past several years, Steele & Tomczak have been asking young people questions in various Western countries. In this series of work, these short interviews are inscribed as texts onto hybrid images of young individuals in front of institutional doorways. These photo-text works speak to the deep solitude of youth while never abandoning the current social environment within which each person exists.

Toronto-based Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak have shown their work in numerous film festivals and exhibitions worldwide. In September 2009 they will be showing a new piece entitled Speak City for Projections, part of the Toronto International Film Festival. Steele & Tomczak have received numerous grants and awards including the Governor General’s Award for lifetime achievement in Visual & Media Arts (2005). They are also co-founders of Vtape, a Toronto media arts centre, and both teach at the University of Toronto, where Steele is the Associate Chair of the Department of Art.

For more information, please contact:

Laura Rovinescu,

laura@diazcontemporary.ca

Diaz Contemporary

100 Niagara Street

Toronto, ON M5V 1C5

416.361.2972

www.diazcontemporary.ca

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 to 6 or by appointment

exhibition: showcase 09

SHOWCASE.09
Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square + Preston

September 12 - October 25
Opening Reception: Saturday September 12, 2:00-5:00 pm
Opening comments at 2:30 pm at Queen's Square

Three exhibitions opening on one afternoon!
Showcase.09 (at both Queen's Square + Preston) shares an opening reception with Roula Partheniou: Circular Logic (in the Queen's Square Library), and The Art of Wallpaper (at Design at Riverside).

FREE ART BUSES DEPARTING TORONTO, WATERLOO + KITCHENER * (details below)

SHOWCASE.09 is the third installment of Cambridge Galleries' emerging artists biennial. Co-curators Sara Knelman, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Cambridge Galleries Curator Ivan Jurakic looked at 138 submissions by artists from across Central, Southern and Southwestern Ontario. Their final selection features an exciting group of 13 up-and-coming artists working in a range of media ranging from photography, painting, video, fibre, bronze and mixed media.

This year's exhibition features recent works by: JULIA BELTRANO (London), KRISTIN BJORNERUD (Hamilton), FAUSTA FACCIPONTE (Mississauga), STEFANIE FIORE (Woodbridge), MARTIN GOLLAND (Toronto), LAUREN HALL (Kitchener), JEAN-PAUL KELLY (Toronto), DAVID R. HARPER (Toronto), ANDREW MACDONALD (London), DAVID MCDOUGALL (Toronto), SASHA PIERCE (Toronto), NATHALIE QUAGLIOTTO (Kitchener), and ALEKS WOSZCZYNA (Toronto). Showcase.09 will be on display concurrently at both the Queen's Square and Preston galleries.

Cambridge Galleries are supported by membership, the City of Cambridge, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

* FREE ART BUSES:
TORONTO: Departing from Ministry of the Interior (80 Ossington Ave.) at 1:00 pm.
WATERLOO REGION: Departing from the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (25 Caroline St. N.) at 1:00 pm, and Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (101 Queen St. N.) at 1:20 pm.

Please note: First come first seated!

For info contact K. Jennifer Bedford at 519.621.0460 X119.

CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES QUEEN'S SQUARE
1 North Square
Cambridge, ON
N1S 2K6

Gallery Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9:30 am - 8:30 pm,
Friday & Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm

CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES PRESTON
435 King Street East
Cambridge, Ontario N3H 3N1
T 519.653.3632

Gallery Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 12 noon - 8:30 pm,
Friday & Saturday: 12 noon - 5:30 pm, Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm

MEDIA CONTACT:
K. Jennifer Bedford
jbedford@cambridgegalleries.ca
519.621.0460 ext. 119
www.cambridgegalleries.ca

IMAGES (left to right): Fausta Facciponte, Walter for $5.00, 2009, digital print mounted on Plexiglas. Kristin Bjornerud, Nightmare Keeps Her Safe, 2008, watercolour and gouache on paper. David McDougall, Gasmask Guy, 2008, bronze.

UTAC: CALL FOR STUDENT RUN WORKSHOPS AND ARTWORKS

The University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2009 exhibition: Rochdale College

All Ontario students are invited to submit class proposals.

What is Rochdale College? Rochdale College is an experiment in education, cooperative living, and juvenocracy. It opened in 1968, at the corner of Huron and Bloor Streets, to 850 students who were Toronto’s young new radicals in participatory democracy, ready to rethink pedagogy and redesign the institution. Rochdale was as buoyed by late sixties counterculture revolution as it was burdened by its free spirits and drug culture. With the clampdown on the hippie haven of Yorkville in 1969, Rochdale’s population more than doubled with squatters, blurring the line between educational cooperative and flophouse, and causing the experiment to be shut down in 1975.

The exhibition does not claim to present a complete historical portrait of Rochdale, but instead prepares a historical collision in which Rochdale never stopped. The fragments of the wreckage will allow us to recontextualize Rochdale in all its forms: is Rochdale still relevant? Was it a failure? What is the possibility or value of alternative education? What does counterculture mean to you today? While the class can be on any subject, entrants should include a brief statement explaining how their class proposal relates to the ideas implied by the exhibition.

Classes are an important part of the exhibition in keeping with the emphasis on participatory education. We are not looking for experts to coordinate classes. All that is required is openness and a willingness to participate. Classes can be proposed on any topic and approached through a wide range of styles: from the most activist urgency to the most irreverent, absurd or exploratory style.


How to Submit

All submissions must indicate the artist’s name, institution, phone and email contact. Submissions must include a statement outlining how the proposed class touches upon the ideas above. Please forward entries under the title “Rochdale College submission” to sunny.kerr@utoronto.ca. NEW Deadline: July 29, 2009.


Criteria

An art lounge education committee of students and staff will choose the classes for the exhibition. The following criteria will be applied: how well the project speaks to a current condition, meets a perceived level of artistic and/or curatorial merit, and falls within UTAC’s ability to host appropriately.


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Call for artworks


The University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2009 exhibition: Rochdale College
All Ontario students are invited to submit art works as part of an exhibition entitled Rochdale College that will participate in Nuit Blanche 2009.

The exhibition does not claim to present a complete historical portrait of Rochdale, but instead prepares a historical collision in which Rochdale never stopped. The fragments of the wreckage will allow us to recontextualize Rochdale in all its forms: is Rochdale still relevant? Was it a failure? What is the possibility or value of alternative education? What does counterculture mean to you today? Experimental pedagogy is an important part of the exhibition in keeping with Rochdale’s emphasis on participatory education, as are reevaluations of failure and the role of counterculture. Entrants should include a brief statement explaining how their work relates to these questions and strategies.

How to Submit

All submissions must indicate the artist’s name, institution, phone and email contact and a maximum 2 megabyte jpeg. Submissions must also include a statement outlining how the project explores the ideas above. Please forward entries under the title “Rochdale College submission” to sunny.kerr@utoronto.ca. NEW Deadline: July 29th, 2009.

Criteria

An art lounge curatorial committee will choose the works for the exhibition. The following criteria will be applied: how well the project speaks to a current condition, meets a perceived level of artistic merit, and falls within UTAC’s ability to host appropriately.

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 artists can show and discuss their work in an energetic, original and inclusive way. The art lounge student exhibition program aims both to encourage rigorous aesthetic exploration and to reflect the diverse practices in student visual art. 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.

Sunny Kerr
Student and Education Program Coordinator
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
416-946-3029

CANADIAN ART WRITING PRIZE

CANADIAN ART WRITING PRIZE
Designed to encourage and discover new writers on contemporary art

Submission deadline is June 26

The Canadian Art Writing Prize launches in conjunction with
Canadian Art’s 25th anniversary

First prize is $3,000
Two honourable mentions will receive $1,000 each.

The jury for the prize includes Richard Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art, Ray Cronin, director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Nancy Tousley, art critic at the Calgary Herald.

The winning submission will be published in Canadian Art magazine.

Go to http://www.canadianart.ca/foundation/programs/writingprize/ for full submission guidelines

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