TERM PROJECTS
Deadline-driven installations by multi-tasking artists

Dear Toronto, (Petrina Ng and Shannon Phair), Zeesy Powers, Fedora Romita and Jennifer Sciarrino
Curated by Gabby Moser

XPACE
58 Ossington Ave., Toronto
Tuesday-Saturday, noon-6

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 14, 7-10 pm
Featuring the Zeesy Powers Grant Awards Ceremony at 8:30 pm and music by DJ WMD
August 14 to August 23 2008

On a tight timeline, with the clock counting down, five artists assign themselves seemingly impossible experimental projects. Enforcing their own limitations of time, space, and materials, artists explore the paradoxical relationship between restrictions and creativity. This "end-of-term" rush of deadlines, intensive research and exhaustive preparation will culminate in remarkably inventive solutions.

Working together on a collaborative community art project called Dear Toronto, Petrina Ng and Shannon Phair invite visitors to write a letter to Toronto. Fedora Romita documents the awkward nature of mimicry and costuming through a performance and video project. Zeesy Powers offers her "I Will Tell You Exactly What I Think of You for $5" service Wednesdays from 3-6 pm and Fridays and Saturdays from 12-6 pm. Jennifer Sciarrino creates an improvised sculptural animation in the gallery on Thursdays and Fridays from 3-6 pm and Saturdays from 12-6 pm.

Panel discussion: Saturday August 23, 4 pm
Join panelists Sally McKay (artist, writer, curator and former editor of Lola magazine), Nicholas Brown (writer, curator and contributor to the AGYU's Studio Blog) and exhibition artists as they discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of creating work on the fly.

With a screening of Jennifer Sciarrino's new animation

- sally mckay 8-11-2008 10:10 pm

I grabbed a copy of this poster too when I saw it on gabby's site. I love it to tiny pieces.
- L.M. 8-11-2008 10:56 pm

It's fabulous! Made by Gabby's sister, Bridget Moser.
- sally mckay 8-11-2008 11:12 pm

*drool*
- jennyhead (guest) 8-11-2008 11:23 pm

everything I do is on the fly, it's as if Gabby was reading my mind!
- Nicholas Brown (guest) 8-12-2008 12:02 am

Thanks for the shoutout, guys! I'm currently covered in teal paint and cursing myself for setting up such a crazy situation for the artists and myself where we have to frantically make something happen over the next ten days (we're installing this week), but I think it's slowly coming together.

And there are going to be mini black and white versions of BMo's poster inside the little catalogue that's being printed - so you can take your own home.
- Gabby (guest) 8-12-2008 12:51 pm