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The digifest and Harbourfront Centre Mods and Rockers show I curated is still on until July 9th. I hope you all get a chance to see it. I have posted some documentation from the show below. The exhibition is in a long and well-trafficked hallway, right across from the ice cream stand. These images show a lot of reflection which is much worse here in the documentation than it is in real life. The work is vibrant and eye-catching, even in the middle of the day. Scroll down for stills/details and all the artists' statements. While I was documenting, everyone passing by stopped to look, and kids especially seem to really dig it. Two little tykes were dancing and laughing to Tom and John's piece while I was there, and I've had reports that kids have also been spotted dancing along to Chandra and Andy's videos. One little girl, being hurried by her dad, dug in her heels at Myfanwy and Lorna's windows exclaiming "but these one's have a story!" And, of course the Sideways Circus windows are covered in fingerprints, which is sure sign of popularity.
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Chandra Bulucon and Andrew J. Paterson RODS AND MOCKERS, 2006 Mods and rockers Rods and mockers Odds and sods And leather weather Zoot suit, fruit loops Chrome and chains in our brains Look to the future The future is ancient The future is static There is no future So do it all now Do everything now Speed speed speed That's all I need Riding and leaping Driving and crashing Fights on the beach Sex out of reach Rave up and roll back And speak with a stutter! The artists wish to thank Lynn, Scoot, and Bella at EXILE, Rebecca Diederichs, Scott McLeod, Trinity Square Video, Sally McKay, and Kevin Couch |
 Myfanwy Ashmore HΩ, 2006 HΩ is a video landscape exploring a return to a place of early memories - a familial circuit - where the beginning and the end collide and the current is immeasurable but still flowing. |
 Lorna Mills Report to All, 2006 With Google-assisted omnipotence, triumphant narcissism and a rockin' rhythm, planet earth is scanned for divine modifications. |
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Sideways Circus photos by Rob Cruickshank Rob Cruickshank and Veronica Verkley Sideways Circus, 2006 STEP RIGHT UP! YOU WONT BELIEVE YOUR EYES! COME ONE COME ALL! SEE THE MOST AMAZING SHOW ON EARTH! IT'S THE SIDEWAYS CIRCUS!! MARVEL AT THE ALL-POWERFUL STRONGMAN! INCREDIBLE TRAINED SEALS! BEAUTIFUL DARING TRAPIEZE ARTISTS! JUNGLE CATS LEAPING THROUGH FIRE! HILARIOUS JUGGLING CLOWNS! AWESOME BALANCING ACTS! "Toys forced to do things they were never designed to do- stripped bare of their cuteness, right down to their modular parts, and MODDED to power the world's most ROCKIN' Sideways Circus ever- where up is right and left is down!" more photos... |
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Tom Moody and John Parker Rodmocker, 2006 Rather than have some kind of face-off, or rumble, we are merging sensibilities. The collective inner Mod is the high tech influence in the form of some sophisticated audio software and a newish laptop used to edit and burn the video, and the inner Rocker is the low tech source material: 8-Bit-style tunes on an old Mac (some originally composed in the '80s) and animated GIFs by Tom based on MSPaint versions of Web images of John's work. We're trying for some sort of parity between the audio and visual material. Pixels and square waves are both medium and subject. see them go... |
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Shimera by Tyler Clark Burke is better than Grizzly Man, in fact it is the best show about bear attacks I have ever seen. The protagonists are Standing Bear and Trepanation Man. Their tender narrative adventure is finely wrought, 3D, in a series of spinning glass blocks. Says the artist:
These miniature cubes have become the perfect avenue for my death obsession. I love the idea of fleeting energy locked into glass--blocks which capture phantasms forever. Their glass is my brain, with laser beams melting and displacing molecules to leave little scars as memories of heat.I have been puzzling about the cultural myth of bear attacks for most of my life. Am I the only person who finds it somehow comforting when I hear in the news that a human has been killed by a wild animal? And if it's only me then why do we consistenly put teddy bears in babies' cribs? Tyler Clark Burke is all over this myth with her own delicate death wish. The format may be souvenir kitsch but the story is transcendent. Shimera is deft and lovely, and it is on view at Katharine Mulherin Gallery (upstairs) until July 1st.