LOCATION³
Gallery Hop 2011 Toronto
Gala Dinner & Auction September 21
Tours & Talks September 24

This September, the Canadian Art Foundation—celebrating its 20th anniversary as Canada’s ultimate portal for the exposure of visual arts—invites art lovers to join our annual Gallery Hop. Under the theme of Location³, this two-part event celebrates the best and brightest on the Canadian art scene. On Wednesday, September 21, the Gallery Hop Gala Dinner and Auction will take place at the Carlu. Saturday, September 24, Gallery Hop Day, features a panel, gallery tours and a magazine launch, all of which are free.

I’m excited to share that my work is included in this year’s auction (Lot 12)!

Untitled [black+grey], 2011
Single channel video, 4:22 minutes, looped, Edition 1/10
Includes one Blu-ray DVD and one standard NTSC DVD

Find out more at the Canadian Art Foundation website.

Preview all of the art work up for auction at the Location³ Gallery Hop 2011 Toronto website. Other artists include Owen Kydd, Micah Lexier, Wanda Koop, An Te Liu, and Roula Partheniou.

Opening event:

August 19 | 9pm – 1am
Gallery hours:
August 20-21 | 11am – 5pm

In Memory is the final installment of The (Re)Collection Project, a three-part art series that investigates how people remember the PAST, experience the PRESENT and think about the FUTURE.

“It isn’t so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember,
as the number of things I can remember that aren’t so.”

– Mark Twain

“In Memory: Something that happens after then, and before now” is an exhibition that examines the instability of remembering.

What is memory? A mental note. Something that changes and degrades over time. A vague recollection. Something palpable. A taste. A smell. A lie?

Over the period of six weeks, pairs of artists are asked to take on the challenge of working together to create a collaborative art installation that uses “remembering” as part of the creative process, and memory (or memories) as material.  Artists are encouraged to examine the relationships between memory, documentation and truth, and to explore ways of re-imagining or reinterpreting the past.

Artists will be creating installations for specific spaces inside 717 Queen Street East, an old decommissioned funeral parlour.

Artists:
Adam Stenhouse & Vanessa Arnold
Annie Onyi Cheung & Risa Kusumoto
Annie Tse & Van L. Ching
Bishara Mohamed & Marino Imperio
Celine Marks & Lindsay Small
Chris Willes & Julia Male
Deborah Peterson & Huss Elassal
Denise Ing & Kathryn Ward
Gram Shmalz & Brian Sasaski
Jessica Thalmann & Noelle Wharton-Ayer
Kyra Green & Jasmyn Fyffe
Laura Mendes & John Loerchner
Maggie Flynn & Maggy Flynn
Nurielle Stern & Nancy Jo Cullen
Vasa Gatiance & Alex Shaw

I am curating In Memory with Labspace Studio Co-Directors, Laura Mendes & John Loerchner.

I will be working with Laura Mendes and John Loerchner (co-directors of Labspace Studio) to curate Zone 2 for Art of the Danforth, an annual month-long art festival, upcoming in May 2012.We will be launching an open call for submissions this fall, asking artists (particularly those based in Toronto-East neighbourhoods) to propose installation, performance, and/or sculpture projects that can engage the community, and will change, evolve, move, or grow, over the month-long festival. Watch for the upcoming call for submissions!

Art of the Danforth is dedicated to bringing arts & cultural activities to Toronto’s Danforth East community.

Moments Intercepted: Exhibition and Sale

A series of four photographic prints of my work will be on sale this weekend, along with work by many other talented artists who participated in the collaborative art project, Moments Intercepted, by Labspace Studio. Four stills taken from my video Turn and Spin are included as part of Labspace Studio’s upcoming show and sale. Join us at the opening reception on July 22, or stop by the gallery over the weekend to see the new work!

Labspace Studio

Opening party Friday, July 22nd – 7pm to 1am

Show runs from July 22-24

2A Pape Avenue (at Eastern Avenue)

[Gram Schmalz and Annie getting ready to race. Photograph by Suzan Cheung.]

See a few more photos from today’s performance, Knowhere, on the project page. Knowhere is  a new interactive performance work presented as part of Eat, Sleep, Breathe (and Shit) curated by Maggie Flynn in association with VSVSVS.

Many thanks to performers Gram Schmalz and Tad Hozumi for sweating it out with me; Thank you to Maggie Flynn and Suzan Cheung for their coordination support, and Rick Saulnier for documenting the performance. Finally, a very special thank you to those audience members who participated to help get their drivers across the finish line!

I’m excited to announce that Untitled [black+grey] from the Snow Days series is currently being made into single-channel DVD edition of 10.

Untitled [black+grey]
Video: 4 min 30 sec
Edition: 10
Includes: 1 Blu-ray disc + 1 Standard NTSC disc

video still from Untitled [black+grey], 2011

Artsu Matsuri July 7-24

Risa Kusumoto and I will be installing breath composition: wood, cloth and gold II as part of Artsu Matsuri, exhibition and sale. Along with the exhibition we will also be participating in the PechaKucha Night taking place on July 21 – 7pm.

Exhibition opening: July 7 – 7pm (on view until July 24)
PechaKucha night: July 21 – 7pm (a series of 7 min. – 7 image presentations)

Description: An open exhibition & sale, a celebration of Japanese Canadian art installed salon-style, a cornucopia of visual delights, a community event from July 7 – 24, 2011 at the JCCC Gallery. Everyone is invited.
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 7, 7:00pm to 9:30 pm.featuring shoyu-weiners & bbq treats by Chef Shoji, cash bar, and sporadic, remarkable performances. No speeches. Meet the artists. All welcome!
PechaKucha Night: Thursday, July 21, 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Curated by Bryce Kanbara. Organized by the JCCC Art Committee and JCCC Heritage Committee.

I will be presenting a new interactive performance entitled ‘Knowhere’ as part of ‘Eat, Sleep, Breathe (and Shit)’, a performance event. This event consists of over 10 performances by various performance artists that will be held at the VSVSVS Studio and surrounding area, curated by Maggie Flynn.

I’m excited to announce that artists Gram Schmalz and Tad Hozumi will both be performing in this work with me! Special thanks to them, and Rick Saulnier for documenting the event.

Knowhere (Interactive Go Kart Performance):
Arrive early to get a chance to participate as an audience member!
Sunday, July 10th
12:30 PM is Go Kart show time!
Interactive Performance! Come Play!

DO NOT ASK TRACK STAFF ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE. ALL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO ME.

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Knowhere

This competitive exercise in communication draws from popular gaming frameworks that utilize the instability of communication, language, and expectation between 2 individuals. This interactive performance pushes participants and performers to engage in a real and physical race, while adapting to certain displacement, both physically and perceptually.

We will be having 2 car races at the track, beginning at 12:30pm sharp.

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Audience members are invited to participate:
We will be running a series of 2-car races (approx. 5-6 races between 2 cars–or however many we can fit into 1/2 hour).

For more information about the performances, artists, and the event visit:

Eat, Sleep, Breathe (and Shit) Official website

Eat, Sleep, Breathe (and Shit) Facebook event page

I’m excited to co-curate the final installment of Labspace Studio’s (re)collection project
with Laura Mendes and John Loerchner, the co-directors of Labspace Studio.

“In Memory: Something that happens after then, and before now” is a collection of collaborative art installations created by pairs of artists who have been asked to recall, reinterpret and recreate a past memory, together.

Call for Proposals [from pairs of artists] closes July 5th.

More information on the show and submission guidelines on the official (re)collection project website.

Collaborative work with Risa Kusumoto is now posted in the projects section.

This performance project was produced for the 2011 Subtle Technologies Festival as part of ‘The Toronto Observation, Lines of Sight’ performance art event, curated by Willy LeMaitre.

Please see breath composition (1 hour durational performance) and breath composition II (related installation project) for details.