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Jon Davies' top ten 2007
These are all Canadian and in no particular order:
Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-Fashioning @ The Power Plant
Rightfully Yours, @ Justina M Barnicke Gallery
Pleasure Dome shows:
Feb. 10 Guy Ben-Ner
Mar. 24 Barry Doupé
Nov. 24 Shary Boyle
Harrell Fletcher lecture @ The Power Plant
Oliver Husain's Two Half Reasons @ Gallery TPW
Biennale de Montréal
Thomas Hirschhorn 's Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake @ Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
Fastwürms ' Donky@Ninja@Witch @ Art Gallery of York University
Guy Maddin and Bill Morrison show and tell, closing night gala @ Images Festival
Ron Mueck @ National Gallery of Canada
Sally McKay's Top Ten things that made me excited about doing art projects in 2007
1. Andrea Fraser's performance Official Welcome, seen at Power Plant as part of Auto Emotion: Autobiography, emotion and self-fashioning (link is to youtube...Fraser's performance is all there)
2. Amos Latteier's performance as Master of Ceremonies at this year's Subtle Technologies conference. Over the two days, he delivered a whole lecture about "Figures" in tiny 2-5 minute chunks between presentations.
3. Kara Hearn's video, One Thing After Another
4. Halil Altindere's video installation, Dengbêjs at Documenta
5. Michael Belmore's installation at Tree Museum (sorry, no pics)
6. L.M.'s gifs
7. Richard Hill's lecture/presentation on his exhibition World Upside Down
8. Tangerines in a Red Net Bag
9. The activity room at the Bay Area Maker Fair
10. Hanging out with GVB
bonus: Mr. Wilson's December 25th drawing at the Arboretum is a sad and lovely bleak midwinter moment
L.M.'s Top Ten List of 2007 art things.
1. Fastwürms, DONKY@NINJA@WITCH @AGYU
What the fuck's wrong with Harwood, he has them at number four on his list and Sandra Rechico doesn't do much better by giving them a number three spot. And what other Canadian artists can draw so many people to their opening, that you actually have to avoid half of the crowd, ...because ...well ...it's complicated, trust me ...very awkward.
I really thought enough time had passed. ...I suppose I'm expected to apologize.
2. Rebecca Diederichs in Persona Volare's Granite Club, The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Ontario.
Whenever I was in her studio this past summer, she would show me a humungous amount of painted clothes pins, and yammer on about something or other to do with the painting of a humungous amount of clothes pins. I'd nod a lot, and wonder what the hell is she doing anyway. The finished installation was gorgeous. (I am not worthy to even hold her ladder steady, only Chantal Rousseau is.)
3. Julie Voyce at Tom Thomson in Owen Sound, Ontario
Even though she's all grown up now and no longer frames her work with mismatched dollar store materials held together with drywall screws and staples, the crazy still shines through with the rigour.
4. Chris Ashley's HTML Drawings.
5. Favourite jpegs that have appeared on this site (finally side by side as they should be)
(It looks to me like Allyson Mitchell's Hungry Purse has totally vanquished T's Michael the Archangel)
6 The Walrus for publishing and PAYING for work from amazing artists like Kate Wilson and Shary Boyle among many others, plus their recent issue on the Arctic was brilliant in every way.
7. Artfag
Tangerines in Red Net BagSimpleposie
8. The Royal Winter Fair plus Rob Cruickshank's GIF of our sexy friends at SEMEX™
9. I continue to love VVORK.
10. My Fucking Dog, yes my fucking dog.
Who turned out to be even more fun than this image of him that I first saw on a Lab adoption site six months ago. Bigger too. (and his breath doesn't stink anymore)