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The Mods and Rockers opening last night went great, and so did the performative lectures! THANK YOU THANK YOU to artists and performers Myfanwy Ashmore, Chandra Bulucon, Susan Bustos, Rob Cruickshank, Amos Latteier, Lorna Mills, Tom Moody, John Parker, Andrew J. Paterson and Veronica Verkley for all your excellent, excellent work! The lectures were both fanstastic, and the art show (which stays up now for almost two months) really sings. For Tom and John in New York, who couldn't attend, tons of people came out and the vibe was grand! I was too high strung to take any pictures, but I will post some soonish (no fear) and I'll make a fuller report next week.
There is a lot happening at Harbourfront Centre this Friday evening (May 12) and you can see it all! Come for the opening reception (7-9pm) of all of York Quay Centre's spring exhibitions including Mods and Rockers with collaborations by Myfanwy Ashmore & Lorna Mills, Chandra Bulucon & Andrew J. Paterson, Rob Cruickshank & Veronica Verkley, Tom Moody & John Parker.
Then at 9pm, saunter down the hall to the Brigantine Room and settle in your seats the (free!) entertaining performance lectures by Susan Bustos and Amos Latteier. Also, a special guest appearance by Von Bark on monosynth. Tell your friends, its' gonna be good.
Both events are guest-curated by me as part of digifest at Harbourfront Centre.
More details here.
Inky Circus, a neato website about "life in the girl nerd world," has posted a really nice blurb about the performance lectures by Susan Bustos and Amos Latteier this Friday.
Thanks Inky Circus!
Mods and Rockers teaser posted by Rob Cruickshank.
Rebecca Diederichs, FLICK, 2004/2005 (laminated digital print, 128 X 197 cm). Image taken from here.
Rebecca Diederichs is a close friend. She is also one of my very favourite artists. Her work is lush and eye-popping, yet she exercises such intuitive discernment that there is also tons of tension. Borrowed fragments are magnified and re-composed with precision. Her appropriations (these stripes above, for instance, are from the packaging on a box of tissues) tease us with the vague sense that they come from somewhere familiar, offering full-on colour-blasts of visual satisfaction but dodging the "ah-hah" of recongition that would collapse them into quotes. In her recent work, Rebecca introduces language, and treats it as yet another piece of the world. Text-in-art can be a deplorable device, but Ruscha-like, Rebecca pulls it off. The words adopt shapes, dissolve into form, but do not lose their sense nor their readability. Here the word "flick" and the concept of "stripe" carry about the same amount cognitive weight, so the piece rolls and folds and interacts with your neurons in a bunch of different ways. It's good for savouring.
Rebecca Diederichs has an opening tomorrow night at 8:00pm at YYZ Artists Outlet. She will be installing a new work called BLAZE. I'm looking forward to the exhibition, which also includes a show by Christian Giroux and Daniel Young, and another by Jeanie Riddle.