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Sunday - t.A.T.u. with Russian Army Choir (Eurovision Semifinal)
Brian Hobbs from Persona Volare: EXPO
Brain Hobbs - Decorative Riot Sticks 2009 hand carved baseball bats paired with Monica Tap - Momento 2002 oil on canvas
Momento (detail)
Decorative Riot Sticks (details)
Douglas Walker at Nicholas Metivier Gallery, 451 King Street West, Toronto ON. May 28 to June 20, 2009
Opening: Thursday, May 28, 6:00 to 8:00pm
A-499 ‘M.O.T. building, Parkdale Avenue’ (International Style series) 2009 oil on panel, 43 x 31 inches
Sarah Milroy can really nail it and make me laugh, from her review of the Montreal Biennial (which I haven't seen this year, but have loved so much in the past):
"One room, organized by Montreal artist Melissa Mongiat, is filled with bits of paper stuck to the wall, scribbled on by gallery visitors invited to share their best compliment ever, some good news, a word of advice, and the like. The work is called The Good Conspiracy , and aims to “transfuse the city with positive energy,” but contributions are sadly bland: “I'm Pregnant.” “Eat carrots.” “Be Yourself.” The problem with public interface is that the public may – how to put this delicately – underperform."
Entry for Week Three of REPLYall presented by Art Metropole and SAVAC:
Sunday - Spencer Davis Group
I'm a Man
Gimme some lovin´
"Somebody Help Me" and "Sittin' And Thinkin'" on German TV (Beat Beat Beat)
had to make an homage gif to go with post below...
One Night Stand Invitation
The Cat Came Back: Films from the Kate Craig Archive
Kate Craig Films:
The Pink Poem (1977), Shark Fin Dance (1975), Flying Leopard: Episode Six (1975)
Special guest Hank Bull in conversation with Mollly Sigalet aka Rose Bee
Sun. May 31 2009 from 8:00 – 10:00 pm
At the Beehive: 92 Amelia St. Cabbagetown, Toronto
The Woodn't Bees cordially invite you to The Cat Came Back: Films From the Kate Craig Archive. The event features three short films by Kate Craig that have been recently uncovered from her apartment at the Western Front where she lived and worked for over twenty years. Artist Hank Bull, Craig's partner and collaborator, and Kate Craig scholar Molly S. (Rose) will animate a selection of three short films. The Pink Poem (1977), Shark Fin Dance (1975), and Flying Leopard: Episode Six (1975) highlight Craig's practice as a performance artist, her use of clothing and costume as a medium, her sewing expertise and her early experimentation with film.
Craig was a multidisciplinary artist who worked in mediums including video, textile, performance, clothing and costume. In 1973, she co-founded the Western Front Society in Vancouver with eight other artists. At the time, Craig was better known as Lady Brute, her altar-ego performed in collaboration with her then husband Eric Metcalfe, also known as Dr. Brute. Craig became Lady Brute by dressing up in leopard print clothing and accessories from her collection of over 100 pieces. After a five-year performance as Lady Brute, Craig began to accumulate pink clothing, accessories, and household items that culminated in an extensive collection titled The Pink Poem. During the time of The Pink Poem, pink became a part of Craig’s everyday attire.
The Woodn't Bees are a collective that hosts an array of One Night Stand events that frivolously cross visual, audio, performative, tactile, taste, nasal and movement based modes of production in the bedroom of a Cabbagetown Victorian townhouse known as the Beehive.
Please R.S.V.P. by contacting the Woodn’t Bees at woodntbees@gmail.com. Guests are encouraged to wear their favorite leopard print and/or pink fineries. We will be serving pink desserts. Please bring a beverage of your choice.
E : woodntbees@gmail.com F : Woodn’t Bees on facebook Blog : woodntbees.weebly.com (under construction)
Special thanks to our sponsors : Sigalet & Company and Sheila Dawson Knight
An alternate version of my entry for Week Two of REPLYall presented by Art Metropole and SAVAC:
Email from Chantal Rousseau:
In response to the magnificent wolf t-shirt comment thread (via Treehouse)
Email from Fastwürms:
Andrew Harwood at the truck stop
Clean up your room.
Then spread the Syphilis. (such a pretty word)
Sunday - Pictures of Matchstick Men
Status Quo Original version
Ozzy Osbourne AND Type O Negative
REVERSED!
Space Alien
An alternate version of my entry for Week One of REPLYall presented by Art Metropole and SAVAC:
Check out Daniel Barrow's Prank Phone Call, it's brilliant.
Did anyone else get one of these in their email? I sent back one of the crabbiest emails I have ever written.
my response:I am very concerned that you have set up a Luminato profile for me, NOT at my request, and without my permission. I sincerely hope that the profile is not visible to anyone before it has been activated, and if it is I must insist that you remove it immediately. An invitation to participate on your site would be one thing, but this assumption that I would want to spend my time promoting Luminato online is overly presumptuous and, frankly, disrespectful.
their response:Sorry for the misunderstanding. Your profile will not be live on the site unless you activate it. We've just created a blank template with your name to help get you started, if you decide to participate. You can use your page to tell your friends which events you are interested in attending this year in your own words but of course we don't assume that everyone would necessarily want to spend their time doing so.
Two sites I've been enjoying lately:
Murray Whyte's Untitled: Contemporary art in Toronto and beyond (He's currently posting a photo a day during the Contact Festival, and he posts his images at a decent size) (I'm much too lazy to click on small blog pictures to see a larger version)
And my friend, mr. anchovy's blog about his Landseer Newfoundland puppy, Memphis. (because: AAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!)
(sometimes you have to taser the puppy to get any work done. Don't judge him.)
Once they're full grown, vodka in the water bowl.
I am Making Art(courtesy of Chantal Rousseau)
Sunday - Dolly Parton Ph.D.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Those memories w/ Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
Spiritual Medeley w/ Cher
From Johannes Zits for Persona Volare EXPO
John Boyle - Face Off at Devil's Elbow 1982 Oil on canvas
Johannes Zits - Wrestling With Abstraction 2009 collage and acrylic on a digital output
Start by reading Marc Mayer's disingenuous defense of the closure of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography: This is a chance to end the segregation of our photography in the Globe and Mail (Jeff Wall's career has suffered horribly from this very segregation) and perhaps wonder why a director of a Canadian Institution advocates the closure of another cultural space.
Read some of the responses including this choice comment by the photographer Rafael Goldchain:
Mr. Mayer has been building an impressive career over the years and in my personal experience seems to care little for things that he does not perceive as directly beneficial to him. To absorb CMCP into the NGC would implement administrative streamlining making budgets available for the programming he is truly interested in. It comes down to art-ideological differences. The NGC collects photography internationally and seeks to find its place within the international scene. CMCP collects and nurtures a wide range of Canadian photographic modalities and genres much of which would never reach the stratosphere of the international art scene and would not be purchased or shown by the NGC. However, this work as deep and lasting value for Canadian nation and culture building. It speaks to us of ourselves and our specificity as Canadians. We are interested in this work. The rest of the world and its art scene may not be, and why should we care? We need our photographic museum, with a mandate to collect, show, publish and nurture Canadian photography that speaks to Canadians! Mr. Mayer, you are back in Canada after your stint in Brooklyn. The international art scene is a very small part of what we should think of culture and cultural expression, your mandate is to build a Canadian national institution, not mainly your own career.Then go read the articles and links on Save the CMCP assembled by our friend Andrew Wright and Adrian Gollner
For the record I have not visited the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, so to have an opinion on this issue, according to Mayer, is unconscionable. By that calculation I should also support the closure of the building that houses the National Gallery of Canada since I don't get up to Ottawa much. (Sally and I would be delighted to convert the NGC collection to on-line animated GIFs - for a price).
From my installation for Persona Volare EXPO
Lorne Wagman Figures in the Meadow 1987 Oil on canvas - Collection of The Tom Thomson Art Gallery
(all found and altered animated GIFs)
Lorna Mills - Me too, Only More So 2009 installation view at Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Sally & Joe's Family owns Owen Sound: A Photo-Essay by Lorna
And that is their Yacht.
- The End.
All is back to normal.
(found)
Sunday - BADFINGER (courtesy of Kate Wilson)
Come And Get It
Day After Day
Baby Blue
Q: who is it?
"No other entertainer I've invested myself in has ever struck the balance between awe-inspiring technical proficiency and utter nonsense so well. She has the paradoxical effect of a retarded genius. I've repeatedly written about my obsession with ambiguous intent in pop culture. There's nothing more satisfying to me than something that doesn't announce itself as intentionally or accidentally hilarious, something that slips through that crack of decidedness and tickles my brain as it dissipates into multiple receptors."A: check out this mind boggling animated gif homage at fourfour.
"....she traveled on her upward trajectory during the late '70s and early '80s, like a witch who took a good half decade to learn how to use her broom..."
"...she was a one-woman non-stop show of extreme human behavior..."
"...she certainly predicted my interest (as well as the world's?) in the one-of-a-kind behavior that keeps even the glaringly untalented around on reality TV. There's something about her unpredictability and willingness to do whever the fuck that seems so relevant to my taste right now...."
Andrew J. Paterson now has a fantastic new website with an archive of his works, video clips, writing, and more.
Fringe Online has archived sites for a whole pile of Canadian media artists: Sarah Abbott, Roberto Ariganello, Phillip Barker, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Christina Battle, Deanna Bowen, Colin Campbell, Aleesa Cohen, Donigan Cumming, Mary Daniel, Daniel Dugas, Franci Duran, Ellie Epp, Richard Fung, Vincent Grenier, Rick Hancox, Nelson Henricks, Philip Hoffman, Clive Holden, Mike Hoolboom, Istvan Kantor, Richard Kerr, Valerie Leblanc, Helen Lee, Deirdre Logue, Alex MacKenzie, Peter Mettler, Kent Monkman, Monique Moumblow, Midi Onodera, Andrew Paterson, Paulette Philips, John Porter, John Price, Steve Reinke, Gerald Saul, Steve Sanguedolce, Barbara Sternberg, Ho Tam and Wayne Yung. It's a really great resource.