AGO First Thursday
At The AGO 317 Dundas Street West
Thursday March 6th 7 to 11
Contemporary Art Is…
On March 6, the AGO celebrates all things contemporary with a lineup of Toronto and international artists whose work stretches boundaries and distorts the familiar, in celebration of the new large-scale exhibition ‘Elevated: Contemporary Art in the AGO Tower.’
Featuring XPACE’s VERY OWN
Alicia Nauta: ‘A Stone Is Nobody’s’ presents a large-scale wallpaper project placed in dialogue with Janice Kerbel’s Incredible Feats. Referencing a poem of the same title by Russell Edson, the work speaks to domesticity and belonging but deals with this material in new and unexpected ways.
Featuring a headlining performance by Egyptrixx with visuals by the Berlin-based artist A.N.F.; projects by Toronto-based artists Laura McCoy, Alicia Nauta and Lili Huston-Herterich; a performance by experimental musician Prince Nifty; plus talks, interactive art-making, food, drinks and DJs. The event promises to be an unforgettable celebration of the artists and works that shape our culture today.
Other programming highlights include Jordan Tannahill, of the Toronto storefront performance space Videofag, speaking about the legacy of General Idea; a special focus on Joseph Beuys in this month’s Out of the Vaults exhibition; plus a delectable menu including fried chicken sandwiches, souvlaki and a new premium food station in Galleria Italia serving up grilled skirt steak and creamy mashed potatoes.
And, after their packed talk on feminism at the January First Thursdays event, After School and Hazlitt return to present a talk with documentary filmmaker, writer and musician Astra Taylor.
Long Winter Year 2 Volume 5
Friday March 7th at 7:00
The Great Hall 1087 Queen Street
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This is it! The last one of the season and we’re gonna blow winter out big time.
MUSIC
S.H.I.T.
Ravi Naimpally
And more /ϟ/HUREN/ϟ/
DJs:
DJ Cell Memory
DJ L Rock
KARAOKE:
“Golden Throats Karaoke” hosted by Jenny Omnichord
Peep the songlist here: http://labelfantastic.com/karaoke/
ART etc:
Collusion Club – Positive Feedback Loop
Gillian Wilson
Vanessa Rieger and Brandon Dalmer
Adrienne Crossman
Quang Le
Michael Vickers and Oliver Pauk – Spectra Logic
Melissa Fisher
Mina Sewell Mancuso
Jenn Kitagawa
Marcel Ramagnano
Pick-Up Cardists: Cards for you and me and everyone we know
Di Palma Bros. – It’s Not Ours: Black Foothills
FULL FACEBOOK EVENT https://www.facebook.com/events/526751397440956/
March Programing at Xpace Cultural Centre
2- 303 Lansdowne Ave
March 7th 7 -11
Please join us for the Opening Reception of our three on-site gallery spaces! There will be snacks, drinks and the artists in attendance.
Window Space
March 8- April 4
Live & Active Moirés
Jacob Horwood
Curated by Alicia Nauta
Jacob Horwood has screenprinted images onto plexiglass to create active moirés that shift and change. A moiré pattern is created when two identical and usually transparent patterns are overlaid yet slightly displaced, producing an optical affect. A wobbly linear pattern was printed using high gloss ink in different colours, and separated into layers. The application of the print into multiple layers on plexiglass physically separates the images and causes interactivity between them. The small distances between each piece causes real motion in the work that is effected when the viewer moves around the work.
Main Space
March 8- March 29
FADO’s 2014 Emerging Artists Series: 11:45PM
Curated by Kate Barry
Artists: Anthea Fitz-James, Emma-Kate Guimond, Jessica Karuhanga, Arkadi Lavoie, Lachapelle and Rah
Durational performance is a mode of live art where the artist works directly with the medium of time. Over the course of hours, days, or longer the performer and the audience can experience a physical, mental, spiritual and/or emotional transformation. Durational performance functions to bring the performer and the audience into the moment; time is made palatable and visceral. Artists like Tehching Hsieh, Alastair MacLennan, and most famously, Marina Abramovic, demonstrate how durational performance art can use mental and physical endurance to challenge the commoditization of art by offering an experience of art that is ephemeral by nature. 11:45PM provides the platform to five emerging artists to create performance art works of long-duration from several hours to several days long.
For a full schedule of performances please see: http://xpace.info/exhibition-event/fados-2014-1145pm/
and https://www.facebook.com/events/408756949261899/
Project Space
March 8- March 29
Mancave: Great Failures Of Sports Culture
Matt Moreland
Mancave is an installation that addresses sports culture and its unavoidable connection to privilege and discrimination.
The Project Space is made to look like a sports enthusiast’s basement or “Man Cave”, with all aspects of the stereotypical sports den included. Each component comments on the inherent connection of sports culture to: racism, homophobia, sexism, rape culture, violence, bullying, drug culture, and animal rights.
External Space (located on OCADU campus in the Learning Zone)
February 25- April 2
SemiCycle
Juliane Foronda
A collection of common objects and scrap materials are brought together. As the objects are arranged one after another in the Learning Zone, they gradually accumulate to form a construction. SemiCycle is continuously changing as the objects are strung together, and the structure deconstructs as quickly as it was built.
11:45
March 8th to March 29, 2013
At Xpace Cultural Centre 2-303 Lansdowne Ave
Curated By: Curated by Kate Barry Co-presented by: Xpace Cultural Centre Artists Involved: Anthea Fitz-James (Toronto), Emma-Kate Guimond (Montréal), Jessica Karuhanga (Toronto), Arkadi Lavoie, Lachapelle (Montréal) and Rah (Ottawa)
Durational performance is a mode of live art where the artist works directly with the medium of time. Over the course of hours, days, or longer the performer and the audience can experience a physical, mental, spiritual and/or emotional transformation. Durational performance functions to bring the performer and the audience into the moment; time is made palatable and visceral. Artists like Tehching Hsieh, Alastair MacLennan, and most famously, Marina Abramovic, demonstrate how durational performance art can use mental and physical endurance to challenge the commoditization of art by offering an experience of art that is ephemeral by nature. 11:45PM provides the platform to five emerging artists to create performance art works of long-duration from several hours to several days long.
SCHEDULE
Anthea Fitz-James
Unraveling the Daughter’s Disease: Secrets, Knitting and the Body
March 8, 12pm – 6pm
March 9, 1pm – 5pm
Emma-Kate Guimond
digestion/liquidation
March 16, 12pm – 8pm
Jessica Karuhanga
The trip, and the fall, and the lost heap of longing
March 19 – 22, 1pm – 5pm daily
Arkadi Lavoie Lachapelle
6 hours 6 minutes 6 seconds
March 28, 6pm – 12am
Rah
Ululation
March 29, 12pm – 6pm
For more information about the artists, and to read their bios, please visit: www.performanceart.ca
It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This
March 14th at 7 – 10
At Videofag 187 Augusta Ave
March 14-16, 2014 at Videofag
Featuring work by: Chris Dupuis, Jessica Karuhanga, Daniel Cockburn, Arkadi Lavoie Lachapelle, Catherine Polcz, Juliane Foronda, Kirsten McCrea, Brette Gabel and Vikki Dziuma
Curated by Amber Landgraff
The exhibition It wasn’t supposed to be like this asks the question: what can be learned from failure? Embracing the messy, mistaken, or misshapen, It wasn’t supposed to be like this explores how we might learn more from the times when things didn’t work out, than from those times that they did.
Opening Reception: March 14, 7-10 pm
With an opening night performance of Daniel Cockburn’s Heist Gone Wrong at 8:30 pm
Gallery Hours: March 15-16, 11-5 pm
Full Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/716086701769184/