Confessions of Love • Daisuke Takeya & Tad Hozumi
February 12 – March 13, 2010 • Opening Reception: Friday, February 12, 7-10PM
In Japanese popular narratives such as anime, manga and dorama (season length soap operas), telling someone you love them is called a ‘kokuhaku’ or a confession in English. The moment of the confession is considered an apex of emotion that is powerful and transformative. For this two-person show, Daisuke Takeya and Tad Hozumi present new and revised multimedia works inspired by ‘kokuhaku’ that revolve around the subject of love and communication.
Read the essay on “Confessions of Love”
Disco
February 12 – March 13, 2009 • Opening Reception: Friday, February 12, 7-10PM
A playful mashup of The Wizard of Oz and the Bee Gee’s Stayin’ Alive, Disco (like its namesake) is all about repetition. A makeshift dance floor, lo-fi sound system, and silver clad disco dancing figures invite you to get in the groove.
Window Space Installation by Marie-Michelle Deschamps
February 12, 2010 – March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, February 12, 7PM-10PM
“Figures” is an installation by that aims to explore landscape as a cultural notion, an ambiguous concept whose meaning slides between the actual and the virtual, the real and the represented.
February 12 – March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, February 12 at 7 PM
It is a period of civil war. Ed Video striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil XPACE Cultural Centre. The last in our video exchange series, selections by Ed Video in Guelph rebel against the program from XPACE Cultural Centre.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
BRING YOUR QUESTIONS: What’s Next?
A Panel Discussion
Friday, 19 March 2010 at 6 PM
Come out to this panel discussion to gain insight and ask questions about the current art environment and how to start out as an artist or designer in the city.
Artists/Designers Xenia Benivolski, Jesjit Gill and Wil Kucey will speak
about their approaches to art & design practice in Toronto!
BROUGHT TO YOU
Saturday, 20 March 2010 12- 4 PM
Stop in to this meet n’ greet and get to know your local arts organizations! Representatives from the following organizations will be at XPACE to give you information on opportunities they provide for students and emerging artists as well as answer any other questions you have.
- AWOL – Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts – 52 McCaul – Mercer Union – Gallery 44 – Vtape – Charles Street Video – Gallery 1313 – FADO Performance Centre – The White House – + More TBA!
These events are presented as a part of Wing Ding Fridays and Assembly Required.
XPACE Cultural Centre 58 Ossington Avenue (north of Queen Street West) Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7 416.849.2864
