exhibition oppurtunity

Hart House Art Committee visit to Sheridan to find art (painting, drawing, print, design, sculpture and photo) as well as performance works to present in Hart House

Thursday 28 January 2010

12:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Christopher Régimbal from the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House will visit both the Annie Smith Arts Centre and Hover, the 1st and 2nd year student exhibition, on Thursday 28 January from noon on. He will bring three members of the Hart House Art Committee with him, and they would like to do individual studio visits. Please sign up below.

call for submissions

Finalists Will have Their Films Seen By 2 Million People a Day! All filmmakers, young and old, established and aspiring, are invited to submit 90-second silent videos to the Every Day Heroes Film Competition. Enthusiastic. Remarkable. Inspiring. These are just a few words that describe the individuals and groups across Canada that are doing amazing things to reduce their impact on the environment in large and small ways. They've taken the three R's and made it a way of life. They're every day heroes whose stories need to be told. Inspire Canada this Earth Day. Tell the story of your every day environmental hero and their dedication to support of a healthier environment. Finalists will have their videos screened in Ivanhoe Cambridge Shopping Malls across Canada, on the Onestop Network of 270 monitors on the subway platforms of the Toronto Transit Commission, as well as hosted on Earth Day Canada's website and YouTube channel. Prizes will be awarded in four categories: Best of 'Under 18' years of age-13 inch MacBook Pro Best of '18 and Over'-13 inch MacBook Pro Best of Competition-Two economy airline tickets to any destination in North America with two nights Hotel accommodation AND two tickets to the Earth Day Canada Gala, including travel to Toronto and hotel accommodation for the nights of June 8th and 9th, 2010. The People's Choice Award-Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System. We encourage all genre of film, video and animation, and accept subtitled work. Judges include: Judy Gladstone (Executive Director of CTV's Bravo!FACT), Jennifer Baichwal (Award winning Documentary filmmaker and director of Manufactured Landscapes), Sharon Switzer (Media artist, curator, and founder of Art for Commuters), Keith Treffry (Director of Communications for Earth Day Canada and unabashed movie enthusiast). THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 15, 2010. Submissions received prior to February 15, 2010 will be entered into the raffle to win a Panasonic 60GB HDD/SD Camcorder. Visit www.earthday.ca/film for more details and a submission form.

artist lecture: Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

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The Ontario College of Art & Design presents:

Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30 p.m.

In their presentation Talking Back, Dempsey and Millan discuss the power of art and stories as resistance to violence, war and various stupidities that comprise the modern era. Talking Back includes live performance and video excerpts of recent works.

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, otherwise known as Finger in the Dyke Productions, are internationally celebrated for their strident, irreverent and humourous performances. Collaborators since 1989, this Winnipeg-based duo gained national attention with the controversial performance piece We’re Talking Vulva. Since then, they have toured extensively having screened in venues as far-ranging as women's centres in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Their most recent concerns include fragile lesbian ecosystems as evidenced in their recent publication Lesbian National Parks & Services Field Guide to North America.

Ontario College of Art & Design
Auditorium (Rm 190), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
416-977-6000 | www.ocad.ca

All are welcome; admission is free. Limited seating available; guests are advised to arrive early.

Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series continues with a talk by Ian Connacher, including a screening of his film Addicted to Plastic, on Wednesday, February 3, 6:30 p.m. Other speakers include Jamelie Hassan on Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m., and Ryan Rice on Tuesday, March 9, 7 p.m.

Media inquiries:
Sarah Mulholland, Media & Communications Officer, OCAD
smulholland@ocad.ca , 417-977-6000 Ext. 327 (mobile Ext. 1327)

artist lecture: april hickox

Art and Art History Presents

April Hickox

Thursday 28 January 2010

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

April Hickox is a photographic artist, teacher and independent curator who has been practicing for over thirty years. Her photography, film and installation work often take the form of narrative to explore personal histories, the significance of gesture and environmental change.

Her work has been widely exhibited across Canada, most recently Revealing the Subject (Oakville Galleries), Peele Point (Art Gallery of Windsor), Landscape, and Memory (Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto). April is an active community leader and founding member and director of Gallery 44 Centre For Contemporary Photography, Tenth Muse Studio, and Artscape. She also continues to curate exhibitions for Contact Festival of Photography, which in the past have included: Illumination, Personal Stories Recent Photography, Film and Video, The Horizon is a Line, New Borders, A Small Dark Room, Modern Narratives and Other Tales, and Autobiography and the Work of Verant Richards.

April Hickox is the recipient of numerous awards including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.

call for submissions

Academia Through the Senses

April 8- April 26, 2010
University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge

Do you do research that requires the ‘senses’ to create with and be responsive to all of life?

The University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge will be holding an exhibition and discussion for those engaged in, or interested in finding out about, University of Toronto students using the senses in their research to be responsive to life.

Some call this arts based research as a formal discipline. However the exhibit is open to any genre invented or otherwise.

Do You?
Do research that uses or borrows from art
Present your research as sensual
Do professional art that asks research questions

Questions We Can Ask:

• How do the senses allow your research to move amidst disciplines and in life inclusive of the ‘other than human’?
• How do the senses help eliminate cultural structures of power and segregation by being revelatory and co-creative?
• How do the senses make your research answerable to the researcher, participant and those using it?
• Is this research a requirement within your discipline or making demands on it?

Practicalities

• The exhibition is open to any format including performances (with restrictions set by the gallery staff). You don’t have to hang your work on the walls. The exhibition will be accessible through its use of space and by referencing the exhibit aurally.
  

• All submissions will be referenced in a text at the exhibit. Those chosen for inclusion in the Lounge exhibit will be varied in type and clearly representative of the research they are carrying out.
  

• A round table discussion and sharing session with presenting researchers is planned. If there is a lot of interest other sessions of researchers could be set up for presentation and discussion.
  

We accept submissions as: jpg photos, photos on paper, graphics, aural or video recordings with an abstract of up to 500 words and a few lines of biography
Send to susan.aaron@sympatico.ca

Deadline: February 14, 2010

Sunny Kerr
Student and Education Program Coordinator
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
Telephone: 416-946-3029
http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/student-programs <http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/studentprograms>


Portrait of a Patron:

The Dukszta Collection

19 January - 13 March 2010

Presented with the support of the Scott Griffin Foundation, Peter Allen, Lead Supporter of UTAC’s Art with Insight program and many friends and family of Janusz Dukszta

fado performance

TallBlondLadies Potential Fertility Rite

Today at 11:45am

Monday, October 26, 2009
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

FADO Performance Art Centre presents
TallBlondLadies
Potential Fertility Rite

Monday October 26, 2009
5PM - 10PM
FREE

Hosted by YYZ Artists Outlet
140-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Two nearly identical tall blonde women, wearing white folklore blouses, grey leather short and white moon boots strapped into traditional wooden snowshoes manipulate large red exercise balls, enacting a traditional invocation rite by utilizing non-traditional gesture, action and costume. In this 5-hour performance movement, TallBlondLadies repeat a ritualized synchronized dance using modern day props, in time to the sound of snowshoes. Established in 2003, TallBlondLadies is a collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson (Sweden) and Irina Runge (Germany).

"TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations." Artists Space, New York, 2007

FADO is pleased to present TallBlondLadies in association with Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. For more information about Hysteria Festival, go to: www.artsexy.ca

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Established in 2003, TallBlondLadies is a collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson (Sweden) and Irina Runge (Germany).

"TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations.� Artists Space, New York, 2007

About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their on-going support of our endeavors.

For more information about the artists and FADO
www.performanceart.ca

XSPACE: call for submission

To Whom it May Concern:

XPACE Cultural Centre and the Images Festival are co-presenting a new media student group exhibition for the upcoming Images Festival (April 1 – 10, 2009) and we are seeking proposals from local undergraduate new media students.

Now in its second year, this collaboration is hoping to expand on the success of last years Inner and Outer Spaces. This energetic exhibition featured work from students at York University, the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the University of Toronto.

XPACE and Images are seeking challenging and refreshing new media installations. Our goal is to combine work from OCAD, the U of T campuses, Ryerson and York for an exciting counterpart to the annual S is for Student screening, one of the Images Festival favourites. This is an excellent opportunity for students to exhibit their work at a supportive, professional space with internationally renowned festival exposure.

On behalf of XPACE, I would be delighted to answer any questions about this project and encourage you to contact me. Please feel free to forward this call for proposals to interested parties – attached is the application form. All proposals must be received by November 13^th, 2009; note that only hardcopy proposals will be considered. Class talks regarding this project and about XPACE Cultural Centre can also be arranged.

Thank you and warmest regards,
Matthew Williamson
Programmer
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave.
xpace.info