There is a huge influx of dance events, manifested in myriad forms, at this year’s Nuit Blanche. I’ve already published my picks for Zone A, Zone B and Zone C, but if you’re a fan of dance — be it watching or participating — be sure to check out the programs highlighted below. (Images and [...]
Zone C (South/West) curator Makiko Haro has titled her zone, Urban Disaster/Catastrophe/Survival Actions. The three projects recommended below certainly make good on the theme by facilitating nebulous people-sculptures, mobile dwellings, and collective architecture. Zone A recommendations here. Zone B recommendations here. (Images and descriptions lifted from the Nuit Blanche website.) It all starts on October [...]
This year, for the second year in a row, I am choosing TPFF over TIFF. There isn’t any particular reason why I began this tradition, except that last year, $50 got me into 10 TPFF screenings and it seemed like an incredible deal for festival action. I wasn’t sure what the quality of the festival [...]
New York City-based Michael De Feo‘s career spans an impressive number of years and an even more impressive array of media. His paintings–drippy, abstract self-portraits painted on maps–are on exhibition alongside Alex McLeod‘s 3D renderings (read my interview with McLeod here) at Angell Gallery until August 29th. Although some may question why the summer group [...]
The Images Festival, “Toronto’s 2nd oldest film festival and North America’s premiere integrated media arts festival,” has launched their 2009 website, and their extensive list of programming looks fantastic and daunting. Take a look at their calendar for a complete list of exhibitions, art talks, parties, satellite shows, tours and more. Images run from April [...]
I must say, this has got to be one of the cooler things to happen to me lately. I was standing outside of my school on McCaul St. when all of a sudden Steve Mann starts rolling down the street in a steamy tub! He was playing the hydraulophone (which he invented), and inviting others [...]
In November 2008, at the invitation of Andrew Hunter, I co-curated a small exhibition at the Harbourfront Centre. Along with Ben Bruneau, Kasey Hinton and Carlyanne Mersereau, we used four vitrines to trace the evolution of particular locations in Toronto: Garrison Creek/Trinity Bellwoods Park; the spot where the SS Noronic caught fire; the waterline between [...]
Not long ago, I raved about Nicholas Knight’s photography-based installation at Gallery 44. Here the artist answers some questions about process and content, and how the space at Gallery 44 led to an iteration of his work that may never have been executed otherwise.
I think my new favourite artist is Nicholas Knight, whose work is on exhibition at Gallery 44 until February 14th. Despite his work being relegated to the smaller gallery in the space (as well as the vitrines,) it packs a pretty wicked punch. Knight, in his seemingly site-specific installations, takes the mechanics of photographic display [...]
Toronto’s annual photography festival, CONTACT, has begun and I thought I’d take a minute to recommend some shows that I’ll be checking out between now and the end of the month. This year’s incarnation is built upon the subtitle, “Between Memory & History”, which I must admit is sort of an obvious theme. I mean, [...]
