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Sunday - The Sonics
Psycho a Go-Go
Strychnine
Boss Hoss
Carlo Cesta @ Art School (Dismissed), Old Shaw Street School at Argyle and Shaw, Toronto, ON.
Until 8:00 pm Sunday, May 16.
Milk and Cookies 2010 installation detail from his tower of chrome plated milk crates
I love big artist run site-specific projects. The quality isn't too uneven, a few duds, but more surprises than I expected. Heather Nicol's sound & light piece, In the Trenches, is exquisite and makes great use of a small arched opening that reads as a gravestone made out of negative space. (no photo will do it justice).
Paulette Philips' Bridge of Sighs is another jewel that can't be photographed well enough to post here. (I tried)
R.M. Vaughan previewed the exhibition for the Globe and Mail.
And if you like your art info sprinkled with adorably clueless doe-eyed wonder, check out VOCA's post for such treasues as
"It has also become popular for artists, collectives and independent curators to mount exhibitions in abandoned spaces.
And, it seems that performance and related interdisciplinary works have replaced painting, sculpture and drawing – even ‘conceptual’ works – as the art form du jour."
Lisa Neighbour @ Art School (Dismissed), Old Shaw Street School at Argyle and Shaw, Toronto, ON.
Until 8:00 pm Sunday, May 16.
Kopf in den Wolken 2010 (that's my discarded plastic glass of lemonade in the bottom of the top image, sorry Lisa, didn't notice the viceo at first)
Gwen MacGregor & Lewis Nicholson @ Art School (Dismissed), Old Shaw Street School at Argyle and Shaw, Toronto, ON.
Until 8:00 pm Sunday, May 16.
Waxed 2010 Crayon (installation detail)
Colette Laliberté and Sandra Rechico, 2 > 1, (installation details)
I snuck into the press preview of Art School (Dismissed) yesterday and it's a really good show. Friday-Saturday-Sunday, 12:00 to 8:00. go see it.
Curated by Heather Nicol in the old Shaw Street School building at Argyle and Shaw.
With Debbie Adams, Luigi Ferrara & Company, Paulette Phillips, Lois Andison, Catherine Heard, Ed Pien, John Armstrong & Paul Collins, Gordon Hicks, Rambunctious, Johanna Householder, Karin Randoja, Barbara Astman, Alexander Irving, Lyla Rye, Barbara Balfour, Michelle Irving, Rick Sacks, Wende Bartley, Shelagh Keeley, Holly Small, Mark Crofton Bell, Stan Krzyzanowski, Fiona Smyth, Yael Brotman, Henry Kucharzyk, Chrysanne Stathacos, Ian Carr-Harris & Yvonne Lammerich, Colette Laliberté & Sandra Rechico, Phil Strong & Laurel MacDonald, Lyn Carter, Nina Levitt, Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak, Susan Cash, Pamila Matharu, Carlo Cesta, David McClyment, Safety In Numbers, Moira Clark, Lisa Neighbour, Monica Tap, Nicole Collins, Lewis Nicholson, Ker Wells, Tara Cooper, Gwen McGregor, Jane Wells, Christine Duncan, Heather Nicol, Michèle White, Peter Freeman, Luke Painter, Jay Wilson.
Rob C. put me onto this crazy stuff about "imaginary" colours. As a result of our subsequent conversation he sent me this most excellent gif. It's based on a drawing by René Descartes.
I actually read Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy not that long ago. It was really worth it...especially because I had no idea that the whole thing is awkwardly framed as proof of the existence of God!! Poor guy. It sucked to be into science back then. The first section of the book is a letter to the Dean and Doctors of the sacred Faculty of Theology at Paris asking for endorsement.
I have always thought that two topics — namely God and the soul — are prime examples of subjects where demonstrative proofs ought to be given with the aid of philosophy rather than theology. For us who are believers, it is enough to accept on faith that the human soul does not die with the body, and that God exists; but in the case of unbelievers, it seems that there is no religion, and practically no moral virtue, that they can be persuaded to adopt until these two truths are proved to them by natural reason.He didn't get the money.