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Darren O'Donnell - Mistaken City part of Out of Site 2011. Curated by Earl Miller for Nuit Blanche.
From Earl Miller:
Already known for his Nuit Blanche night events and installations, this year O'Donnell has mounted four illuminated signs in nearby store windows displaying the official City of Toronto logo, each rendered with a small spelling mistake: the word "Toronto" spelled as "Tornoto," "Torotno," "Tonroto," and "Tortonto." The piece hilariously raises key critical questions concerning Toronto's identity. Is, for instance, Toronto's flaunting of its "world class" status a mistake?
Locations: Jeans West, 465 Queen St. West; Freshly Baked Tees, 550 Queen St. West; Outer Layer, 577 Queen St. West; West Camera, 514 Queen St. West
Bear And Cat Marine Balls
Mary Catherine Newcomb - Souvenir at Cambridge Sculpture Garden, Grand Avenue South, Galt City Centre, Cambridge, ON. Until Oct. 2, 2011.
Items May Shift, a solar-powered site-specific sound exhibition curated by Earl Miller with Sarah Peebles, Anitra Hamilton, Mike Hansen,
Gordon Monahan. Ken Gregory, and E.C. Woodley at The Tree Museum, Doe Lake Road, Muskoka
Ken Gregory Sun Suckers 2011 mixed media
An earlier post of Sarah Peebles' Audio Bee Booths.
The Limits: Tracing Time and Seeing Space at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 101 Queen Street North Kitchener, Ontario.
With Kristan Horton , Spring Hurlbut, Lani Maestro, Jani Ruscica, Alyson Shotz, David Spriggs, and Kerry Tribe
Curated by Crystal Mowry
Opening: Sept. 23, 2011
Kristan Horton - History of the First World War
Sunday - Cheikh Hamza Chakour
Bonus: Sheikh Habboush and his whirling Dervishes
Who doesn't love Sufis?
I have run out of disk space.
Francoise Gamma
Odes to George Kuchar
Alex McLeod - Distant Secrets at Angell Gallery, 12 Ossington Avenue Toronto. Until September 24, 2011
Blood Clouds 2011 C-print, 40" × 60"
Red Sea 2011 Giclee print, 40" × 60"Sunday - Captain Beefheart
Tropical Hot dog Night
Diddy Wah Diddy
American Bandstand Phone Interview June 18, 1966
from wikipedia:
"Van Vliet wanted the whole band to "live" the Trout Mask Replica album. The group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in their small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles. With only two bedrooms the band members would find sleep in various corners of one, whilst Vliet occupied the other and rehearsals were accomplished in the main living area. Van Vliet implemented his vision by completely dominating his musicians, artistically and emotionally. At various times one or another of the group members was "put in the barrel," with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician collapsed in tears or in total submission.[61] Drummer John French described the situation as "cultlike"[62] and a visiting friend said "the environment in that house was positively Mansonesque."[5] Their material circumstances were dire. With no income other than welfare and contributions from relatives, the group barely survived and were even arrested for shoplifting food (Zappa bailed them out). French has recalled living on no more than a small cup of beans a day for a month.[27] A visitor described their appearance as "cadaverous" and said that "they all looked in poor health." Band members were restricted from leaving the house and practiced for 14 or more hours a day.
Physical assaults were encouraged at times, along with verbal degradation. Beefheart spoke of studying texts on brainwashing at a public library at about this time, and appeared to be applying brainwashing techniques to his bandmembers: sleep deprivation, food deprivation, constant negative reinforcement, and rewarding bandmembers when they attacked each other or competed with each other. At one point Cotton ran from the house and escaped for a few weeks, during which time Alex Snouffer filled in for him and helped to work up "Ant Man Bee". French, who had thrown a metal cymbal at Cotton, ran after him yelling that he too wanted to come. Cotton later returned to the house with French's mother, who took him away for a few weeks, but he later felt compelled to return, as did Cotton. Mark Boston at one point hid clothes in a field across the street, planning his own getaway.
John French's 2010 book Through the Eyes of Magic describes some of the "talks" which were initiated by his actions such as being heard playing a Frank Zappa drum part ("The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)") in his drumming shed, and not having finished drum parts as quickly as Beefheart wanted. French writes of being punched by band members, thrown into walls, kicked, punched in the face by Beefheart hard enough to draw blood, being attacked with a sharp broomstick,[63] and eventually of Beefheart threatening to throw him out of an upper floor window. He admits complicity in similarly attacking his bandmates during "talks" aimed at them. In the end, after the album's recording, French was ejected from the band by Beefheart throwing him down a set of stairs with violence, telling him to "Take a walk, man" after not responding in a desired manner to a request to "play a strawberry" on the drums. Beefheart replaced French with drummer Jeff Bruschel, an acquaintance of Hayden. Referred to as 'Fake Drumbo' (playing on French's drumset) this final act resulted in French's name not appearing on the album credits, either as a player or arranger. Bruschel toured with the band to Europe but was replaced by the next recording."
Douglas Walker - Other Worlds at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery,72 Queen Street, Civic Centre, Oshawa. Curated by Corinna Ghaznavi and Peter Dykhuis.
Opening: Sunday, Sept. 11 at 1pm
This just in from Libby Hague... Sympathetic Connections and the sea battle of Dan-no-ura September 11, 3 pm, AGO, Toronto. For the closing of Sympathetic Connections, Von Bark & The Zen Existential Puppet Theatre and Libby Hague will create within the sculpture installation a retelling of the sea battle of Dan-no-ura, a story of courage, loyalty and suicide. Andrew Paterson will be the narrator, in the role of Hoichi the Earless, the bard who sang for an audience of ghosts and Smadar Peretz will help make it all work out. The performance space will be standing-room-only and will allow for an audience of about twenty five people with audience participation. Those of you with video phones are welcome to film and the different clips will be edited into an on-line version. Meanwhile, for an unimpeded view go to the Young Gallery at the AGO. It is next to FRANK and open whenever the Frank restaurant is open. Libby Hague: Sympathetic Connections is presented as part of the AGO’s Toronto Now series, which inhabits the Young Gallery, a free, street-level space adjacent to FRANK Restaurant. Toronto Now is generously supported by The Contemporary Circle. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported the Canada Council for the Arts. AGO’s Toronto Now series is curated by Michelle Jacques. |
John Dickson
Sunday - borafor
Singin' in the Construct w/ Gman
The Neverending Tribute
Andrew Benson at ANI GIF
Sterling Crispin has uploaded the works from the most recent Berlin Speed Show: "Becoming, Not Being" (that I participated in.)