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Screenings WORLD PROCESSOR Ingo Günther, Artist, Germany/USA This exhibition is a selection representing the photographic counterpart to the ongoing sculptural/installation project that Günther started in 1988. It has grown to more than 300 diversely themed illuminated thematic globes that address global issues. The resulting imagery offers a wide audience immediate, palatable, and synoptic access to otherwise abstract data and reveals the often harsh constituents of our planetary conditions. www.worldprocessor.com This installment of images of World Processor is supported by the Goethe Institute. |
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ON MY KNEES: A Public Divorce Ceremony Cathy Gordon, Artist, Toronto eight hours / eight installations @ eight stations a celebration of eight years of marriage crawling on her hands and knees through the streets /crawling to the water With a team of over 30 helpers including 3 videographers, an assistant director, a driver, a runner, 4 bridesmaids, 8 Station Captains and 1 ex-husband, Cathy began her epic crawl. Beginning in Kensington Market at 11:30am, she chopped off her long hair then crawled her way through the streets of Toronto (almost 8K) to a small west end beach on Lake Ontario, arriving on time at 7:30pm (the hour of her wedding ceremony). Of the eight installations along the way, highlights included Station 5, when Cathy and her ex Steve Marsh finally signed the divorce papers, Station 6 (event headquarters ˆ The Gladstone Hotel) where Cathy danced on her knees to a remix of their wedding song as composed by Steve, and the Station 8 where Cathy shed the wedding dress, rose to her feet and walked naked into the water. www.cathygordon.com Cathy Gordon Biography |
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IS LIFE Henk Hofstra, Artist, Netherlands In April 2007, the Moleneind, a road in Dratchen. The Netherlands, is painted blue to symbolize the water. It is 1000 meters long, 8 meters wide. It was created to form an urban river and recreate the path of a waterway that used to be where the road currently runs. They will start to dig a new canal here in 2008. The text WATER IS LEVEN is written on the blue road. The water will bring life again in the centre of Drachten. www.henkhofstra.nl/project.asp |
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VISUALIZING THE INVISIBLE Liam Johnstone, Artist, Toronto Liam Johnstone Biography |
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HAPPENS | A DECLARATION OF INTER_DEPENDENCE Isabelle Rousset, Beal Institute, Toronto This site-specific installation appraises human culture's impact on natural systems by recontextualizing a ubiquitous icon of modern consumptive behaviour as the kind of 'core sample' that is scientifically determined via the retrieval of archeological evidence. Bottled-water and melting ice mass provide the backdrop for an investigation into a societal blind-spot through the meaning and implications of coded messages or 'cores': core as nuclei, encapsulation of seed and message central to organic life, core as the heart of the matter or argument, and core as fundamental and underlying issue. Insight into the core of matters typically difficult to perceive from the embedded perspective of humans in the natural world are dispatched as a 'message in a bottle' which true to form conveys an urgency of sorts but in this instance also an optimistic message of empowerment and encouragement. Isabelle Rousset Biography |
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Discussion PERCEPTIONS OF DISASTER Cathy Gordon, Melissa Shiff, Liam Johnstone, Isabelle Rousset, moderated by Greg Van Alstyne Toronto artists in dialogue on the subject of disaster, from the personal trauma of divorce to environmental catastrophe, to expose the positive possibilities that can emerge from tragedy. |
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Keynote Speaker CATASTROPHE, CREATIVITY, AND THE RENEWAL OF CIVILIZATION Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, professor and author of THE UPSIDE OF DOWN, Toronto Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization The Upside of Down sets out a theory of the growth, breakdown, and renewal of societies. It argues that today’s converging energy, environmental, and political-economic stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. But there are things we can do now to keep such a breakdown from being catastrophic. And less severe types of breakdown could open up extraordinary opportunities for creative, bold reform of our societies, if we’re prepared to exploit these opportunities when they arise. www.homerdixon.com Thomas Homer-Dixon Biography |
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 |
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Presentation NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AA Bronson, Artist, Toronto and New York AA Bronson lived and worked as one of the three artists of General Idea from 1969 through 1994, when his two partners both died of AIDS-related causes. Using images of works from 1987 through to the present, he will talk about his experience from the late 80s, when AIDS became their milieu, the very air they breathed, through his partners' illness to their deaths... followed by the fallow period in which he was unable to produce new work, and then the work that immediately followed, first addressing death itself, and then more generally trauma. "Negative Thoughts" is the title of his memoir, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, from which he will also read excerpts. www.aabronson.com AA Bronson Biography |
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Exchange 234 Bay Street Toronto, ON, M5K 1B2 Canada Phone: 416-216-2119 www.dx.org Click here for directions |
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H2O nuovi scenari per la sopravvivenze supported by |
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