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E.V.E. Absolute Matrix, a 60 minute looping video installation by Gunilla Josephson in collaboration with Eve Egoyan at Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond St West, 3d floor, Suite 376, Toronto, ON. until May 2, 2009.
Closing Reception: Saturday April 18, 7 - 10pm for ANDREW HARWOOD's "Psychic Friends" and JANET MORTON's "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day" at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen St W., Toronto, ON
We are approaching the final week of these two exhibitions and have scheduled a closing "salon" to enable more friends of the gallery to participate in a psychic reading with Andrew Harwood's performance persona, Madame Zsa Zsa, and to meet with Janet Morton who will be coming to Toronto for this closing event.
That's the official version, the real reason is that there isn't enough attention in the universe for Harwood.
But go anyway, and cuddle with Paul Petro's cute little doggy.
This in from Liav Koren
(click it to see the animated ogg file)
Images of Kristin Lucas's work from Deadpan Exchange's current incarnation in Izmir, Turkey:
Sholem Krishtalka loved this video, as do I.
Ben Coonley - Valentine for Perfect Strangers
Cory Arcangel and Hanne Mugaas' performance/lecture at Images last Friday was an unfortunate event for several reasons.
1) Most artists I know do have some self-doubt about what they are doing. Arcangel prefaced his performance by declaring the possibility of its failure, and a history of its past failures. Unfortunately, it didn't come across as self-doubt, it came across as an attempt to inoculate the audience against a subsequent failure.
2) uhhmmm ok ....ummm...ok...OK...no....uhhhhhhhhhmmmmm..ok...um...wait...ok... A few more nouns and verbs were needed. Or else just click on the youTube links a bit faster. I'll argue that it's not brave or interesting to surf in real time while speaking to an audience. (We all figured that out a long time ago during phone conversations with our mothers.)
3) Do not mistake the email links that you and your friends sent each other in 1997 and 1998 as an early universal web meme experience. That could actually be a perfect definition of a local experience. (For Christ sake, Vera Frenkel and Michael Snow were in the audience, he wasn't a 15 year old performing for 12 year olds)
4) I was a little confused by the proposition that an old dance clip's appearance on youtube was a direct influence on a later Beyonce music video. In the past I have been guilty of assuming that dancers and choreographers weren't the brightest bulbs, but I think it's safe to assume that they all know who Bob Fosse is. (it's not an obscure youTube reference that some choreographer discovered from an email link in 1997 - 1998.) [eta: Tim Comeau provided this link from NPR that does state that Beyonce learned about the Fosse choreography from a youTube video: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97356053. I stand corrected - L.M.]
5) The premise of the evening was that he would dealing with a clash between the art word and art on-line, that's a great subject, but that's not what was presented there. (as one friend in the audience pointed out it was a squandered opportunity) Again in the preface, he asked the question about whether it should be done at all? Obviously the audience was there to hear about it, so the question we have to ask back: are you the one equipped to present this?