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Part of Paradise Lost, Fly Gallery's final exhibition.
This just in from Fly...
After 12 years Fly Gallery is packing it in. Our mandate has been to keep art accessible and contribute to the cultural life of the street. Since 1999 the development of this stretch of Queen St. has changed the dynamic of that culture. One may call this development ‘Gentrification’. Often associated with negative connotations it is a reality of many urban neighbourhoods. Whether the development is a good or bad thing, it is a factor in why Fly is leaving Queen West. Is this Paradise Lost or a new beginning? The spirit of Fly will live on and we have invited artists to say goodbye with us. Paradise Lost June 24 - Aug. 13 Fly Gallery (a window for art) 1172 Queen St. W. Participating artists: Shinobu Akimoto, Dave Anderson, Myfanwy Ashmore, Adam Brown, Tara Bursey, Julia Burton, Rita Camacho, Maureen Carruthers, Scott Carruthers, Carlo Cesta, Mark Connery, Rob Cruickshank, Rebecca Diederichs, Michael Enzbrunner, Matt Evans, Sybil Goldstein, Clint Griffin, Libby Hague, Katharine Harvey, Kathleen Hearn, Robert Hengeveld, Gordon Hicks, Sanja Huibner, Tina Huibner, Marcia Huyer, Matt James, Michelle Johnson, Rae Johnson, Kristiina Lahde, Mark Laliberte, Gary MacLeod, Allison McCall, Gavin McMurray, Lorna Mills, Caroline Mosby, Katharine Mulherin, Lisa Neighbour, Stephen Niblock, Sandy Plotnikoff, Warren Quigley,Tanya Read, Kat Roy, Rupen, Lyla Rye, Lisa Deanne Smith, Fiona Smyth, Phil Taylor, Michael Toke, Jason Van Horne, Ehrling White Fly Gallery group exhibition in conjunction with Paradise Now/This is Paradise Fly Gallery is a storefront window, offering a free alternative exhibition space for artists. Tanya Read and Scott Carruthers are the co-directors. |
 Installation view of STOP.LOOK.LISTEN, 2011. Harbourfront Centre. Photography: Tom Bilenkey The second installment in my Report From the Academy series is now live at Art Fag City. For this episode I talked with Harbourfront Centre's Patrick Macaulay about the challenges of curating for broad audiences, his relationship with The Power Plant, and how a serious work injury has given him a new sense of curatorial purpose. |
Sunday - Della Reese
If I Never Get To Heaven
It Was a Very Good Year
Precious Lord
| The word "provincial" is usually used in a derogatory context, but those of us who live in the Canadian province of Ontario might revel in the capital-P-provincial aspects of Bruce MacDonald's Pontypool. It's an Ontario zombie movie. The premise: language is a virus --- more specifically, the spoken English language is a virus that's taken hold in small-town Southern Ontario, and the Quebéçois militia are circling in helicopters and gunning infected people down. In true zombie-movie form, the real enemy is a mysteriously contagious disease of epidemic proportions, only this time the subtext isn't AIDS, it's Alzheimers. Scary like 28 Days Later, classicaly Western, conservative, and indulgently post-apocalyptic like Omega Man, Pontypool's neuroscientific veracity leaves Inception in the dust and surpasses even neuro-geek Charlie Kauffman's Synedoche New York by leaps and bounds. I mean bonds…, uh, bonding. Um..I mean bounding.. and leaps. I mean leaks….. Three thumbs up! (wait...how many thumbs do I have again? Maybe we should count this in tomatoes, I know I have three tomatoes...) SPOILER ALERT: Pontypool has typo in its name, plus the letters p o n o l (in no specific order) (with a captial T and that ryhmes with P and that stands for pool...or something...okay, this isn't really a proper spoiler...). It is a real place. |
VB's Sunday Prog-Rock Assortment
Van Der Graaf Generator- A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
I just wanted to say the title of this song.
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Swell yodelling solo.
Soft Machine - I Should've Known
Featuring a young Robert Wyatt on percussion and vocals. Nice light show.
COS (Classroom) - Achille
Obscure Belgian jazz-math, set to clever found footage.
RM Vaughan writes (scroll down) about Crepuscular Fenêtre at Fly Gallery, by Jean McKay (alias M.Jean). Dioramas on view until June 17.    |
| Check out Art Fag City for a Q&A I did with curator Lisa Myers. This is my first post at AFC. The series is called Report from the Academy. Blogging can be fraught for academics because they are understandably proprietorial about their research, and many bloggers have a hate-on for academics because they sometimes use terrible jargon. Academics have the luxury of not needing to be up-to-minute with all the latest news, and they have permission to really sink into an idea or topic, and examine issues that aren't part of the artworld buzz. But blogging needs to be short and sweet and footnotes are generally frowned on. I like the tension of trying to straddle both worlds. The interview with Lisa is about her curatorial approach to power (among other things). Next month I'll be talking to Patrick Macaulay from Harbourfront Centre. After that, I'm going to nerd out on some art & science theory. Many thanks to Paddy for the opportunity! And especially thanks to Lisa for her patience, generosity and hard work in putting this first interview together. |
COMMON PULSE Multi-Arts Festival and Symposium Friday June 10 to Sunday June 12, 2011 at Durham Art Gallery, 251 George Street E., Durham ON
Ken Gregory: Lick My LEDs
Kim Assendorf - Mountain Tour
Brandon Jan Blommaert - A Poorly Punctuated Story About Astroids at ANI GIF
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FEAST 02 Toronto at XPACE Cultural Centre 58 Ossington Ave, Toronto
From their facebook page:
FEAST is happening Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at XPACE Cultural Centre from 7-10 PM.
What is FEAST?
FEAST (Funding Engaging Actions with Sustainable Tactics) Toronto is a series of community dinners and micro-funding events. During each dinner, artists, designers and groups are invited to present proposals for art- or design-based projects. Everyone attending the dinner votes on which project they would like to fund, and the project with the most votes is given a grant from the money raised from the ticket sales.
The ticket cost for the locally-sourced, vegetarian dinner is a sliding scale of $20-30 (and $10 for students with valid student ID).
FEAST works on the basis that the more that people can share, the larger the grants are that we can provide. At our last FEAST event we were able to fund two fantastic projects by Sean Martindale and Matt Moreland.
Toronto’s FEAST is in its infancy. With your support we hope to see this event continue to grow.
How it works:
Buy a ticket for the dinner on June 15, 2011 at XPACE Cultural Centre
Enjoy dinner and conversation with your friends and community
Over the course of dinner artists present project proposals for your consideration
Everyone votes for which project they would like to fund
The project with the most votes is funded from the money raised from ticket sales
Tickets are first come, first serve so get your tickets now! Available online at bookwhen.com/feast. For any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact us at info@feast-toronto.com.
(if I was hosting FEAST, I'd try to make it look like this)
Laurel Woodcock - note to self at MKG127, 127 Ossington Avenue Toronto. Until June 25, 2011.
