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Fairview Mall - Home | Call for Proposals
Cadillac Fairview and Fairview Mall are inviting proposals for new or existing works that engage the public spaces at Fairview Mall. Works in all media will be considered including sculpture, performance, video, audio, installation, photography, painting, drawing and digital media.
ALL MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2010
The McIntosh Gallery has produced its first online and print-on-demand catalogue for the exhibitions, Fiona Kinsella: the wilderness and Daniela Sneppova: I think I love you but I have chosen darkness. This catalogue can now be viewed as a PDF by clicking here. *Please note that your pop-up blocker must be temporarily disabled before clicking on the preview. (via www.mcintoshgallery.ca )
Ulla von Brandenburg & Julie Favreau
January 12th to February 6th 2010
Finissage: Friday, February 5th from 8 pm
TORONTO, January 11th, 2010 – Guelph goodwater and Pavilion Projects are pleased to present the work of Ulla von Brandenburg (Paris) and Julie Favreau (Montreal). Featuring a single video work by each artist, this exhibition is brought together through the artists’ shared interest in the correspondence between reverie and place.
Participating in the SNAP! 2010 Elevator Digital Photo Competition makes a real difference in the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS.
galleryDK : Contemporary Urban Photography
EVAN TYLER: MY GIRLS | Feb 4th to 28th | Reception Thursday Feb 4th 7-10pm The luring sound of house music engulfed my ears in the shopping mall and soon my body drifted effortlessly toward an upscale clothing store. From a distance I spotted a woman sitting on top of a display table which presented a fine array of clothing. Her hair was so lustrous and her brilliant clear complexion projected a unique glow to her presence. She was dressed very fashionably and her line of sight seemed somewhat distracted, yet sophisticated. I realized upon closer inspection that I was gazing at a very life-like mannequin. I was quite stunned, and I became conscious of several divisions and cliques of beautiful plastic women who were standing all around the store. (via galleryDK - Contemprary Urban Photography)
Public Acts, Public Arts: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Ethnic Studies
Harvard University
Committee on Ethnic Studies
Friday, April 9, 2010
Proposals due: March 8, 2010
Hosted by the Committee on Ethnic Studies, Harvard University
The founding assumption of ethnic studies was that there was a disconnection between the interests of the academy and the concerns of the public. In recent years, in anniversary celebrations for pioneering ethnic studies programs and books like Mark Chiang’s Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies, there has been a call to reengage and reexamine this unfortunate distance. To whom is our scholarship addressed? What are the “practices” that comprise ethnic studies in a global age? What histories remain unwritten? How do art and ideas find their publics? How might our inherited notions of ethnic studies be expanded to accommodate the sphere of human rights? How have approaches to mobility, diaspora, migration, or indigeneity adapted to new configurations of interests and identities?
The Committee on Ethnic Studies invites papers for its annual spring conference that consider and/or embody, celebrate and/or critique the varied “practices” and “publics” that comprise ethnic studies. Our keynote address will be delivered by Professor Robert Warrior, director of the American Indian Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. For his address, Curating “Beyond the Chief”: Hating Art in Public, Professor Warrior will discuss “public art” and his recent experiences curating the “Beyond the Chief” installation in Illinois.
We seek presentations from graduate students, community activists, artists, and scholars of approximately 20 minutes. We encourage a broad, expansive interpretation of our conference theme, “Public Acts, Public Arts.” Possible presentation topics include (but are not limited to): new approaches to identity and community; migration, displacement and diaspora; globalization studies and ethnic studies; the “post-racial” and Obama; popular culture and performance studies; museum and material culture studies; and studies on “practice” and public culture.
Please submit a proposal of no more than 300 words to harvardethnicstudies@gmail.com by March 8, 2010. Please include your name and affiliation.
Founded in 1993, Mammalian Diving Reflex is a research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, theoretical texts and community happenings. (via Mammalian Diving Reflex | about us )
FABULOSITY
Paintings by Jane Martin
February 3-27, 2010
Reception Saturday, February 6, 2-5 pm
The 18 oil paintings in this exhibition are collectively titled with a quotation from Martin’s late husband Ewen McCuaig: The roses are just moving into Fabulosity. Half the paintings in Fabulosity are of roses grown in the garden at 21 Rose Avenue: Half are portraits of Ewen. While painted in 2009 they are of a time when he, like the roses, was just moving into fabulosity.
All filmmakers, young and old, established and aspiring, are invited to submit 90-second silent videos to the Every Day Heroes Film Competition. (via Earth Day Canada: Every Day Heroes Film Competition - )
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.
Paul Petro Contemporary Art | Special Projects Space
Toronto based artist Vessna Perunovich will transform Queen Street?s Paul Petro Special Project Gallery into a studio/residency site specific space. Enclosed within the Gallery space and exposed to pedestrians through the gallery window, Perunovich will practice her art under the scrutiny of the public eye. For the entire month of February, the audience will have a unique opportunity to experience the artist’s creative process as a public display, rather than an intimate enclosed experience.
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival
CONTACT 2009 examines how each significant innovation in photography’s evolution has radically altered the creation and consumption of images, irrevocably changing the history of visual representation.
THE POWER PLANT | CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY HARBOURFRONT CENTRE | CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
11 December, 2009 - 7 March, 2010
Recent Snow: Projected Works By Michael Snow
Opening On The Artist’s 81st Birthday, ‘Recent Snow’ Is An Exhibition Of Seven Projection Works That Includes The World Premiere Of Two New Installations.
February 4-March 6,
547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor (suite 500)
Hrs: 1-6 pm
NY, NY 10001
Opening Feb. 4 6-8 pm
What will you offer?
Participation Installation Project
“But, art as a practical precedent is forever young and physically here with us. Works of art, as theoretical constructs, hold their place in a field of knowledge. As historical artifacts, they speak of ancestry and parental origins. As practical precedents, works of art are orphans, ready to be adopted, nurtured and groomed to the needs to any astonishing new circumstances.”—Dave Hickey, “Orphans,” Art in America, January 2009
Orphans Offered Up is participation installation in a space that was formerly an art gallery that is now empty.
Orphans that I’m offering up are a series of conceptual oil paintings that are very small, 4” x 4”, and intimate. They are fragments that appear to be abstractions. They are offered up in several different ways.
Offer is defined as: act of worship or devotion: sacrifice; to present for acceptance or rejection; to propose or suggest; to try or begin to resist; to threaten; to make available; to present in performance or exhibition; to propose as payment; to make an attempt; to present itself; to make a proposal.
What will you offer me? Offers will be document accepted. Some will be accepted. Suggestions: Stocks, bonds, a house, another painting, a manuscript, or something else? Something that is much less tangible? What are you willing to sacrifice? If you insistent on money, then the price will be determined by random walk, and that price will be a number between one and five hundred, that will be generated randomly by RANDOM.ORG, Trinity College. They provide a “random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise.”
The inspirational sources for the paintings are the invisible engraving marks found in old postage stamps that belonged to my late father. These painting were first started in 2002. They are not studies. They are not miniatures. They are finished paintings. I have completed more than fifty.
Or simply suggest a name. Come by and post it during the exhibition. Names maybe also submitted by email. Peter Selz has already done just that.
I would like to thank the Pinetree Group for the offer of the space for this project.
Holly Crawford, NYC 2010
OCCCA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art presents
The Inexpressible
Artists: Dalibor Polivka, Rob Mintz, Guillemette Buffault, Chau Thuy
April 3- May 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3-2010, 5:00-11:00PM
at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 117 North Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
; 714.667.1517, www.occca.org
Inexpressible is an exhibition of works by the important French contemporary artist Guillemette Buffault, orchestrated in space brought to life by the graphic and installation interventions of Dalibor Polivka, with wall texts by Rob Mintz presented by master Vietnamese calligrapher Chau Thuy. In a spiritually-charged atmosphere, gallery-goers will discover the inexpressible within themselves. This exhibit seeks insight into the nature of a mysterious, shared universe described by mystics, philosophers and physicists. A creative alliance between artists from different countries, it will be a model of contemporary practice, a hybrid with exalted aims.
Dali Polivka
No form an artist might use is equal to the unbounded void where the phantoms of memory arise. To represent the absolute in a manner that does not instantly betray its transcendental meaning is the challenge that motivates Dalibor Polivka. The beauty and depth of the historic cultural traditions of his native Slovakia inform a restless pursuit of the underpinnings of perception, across contemporary disciplines, in painting, sculpture, installation, performance, digital imaging and graphic design.
Rob Mintz
Rob Mintz’s writings are influenced by the history of the avant-garde in all its manifestations. Evolving spontaneously and organically with a series of decisions that embellish or obliterate each line, they exude subjectivity, authenticity, anxiety, and the drift of autonomous introspection, the philosopher’s first step.
Guillemette Buffault
The “fold” (le pli) is the structure at the center of Guillemette Buffault’s research, taking form in paper, cloth, metal, sheets of lead, woven polyester, graphite, bronze, and glass, depicted in prints, or captured in photographs. The fold is both an object and a means of investigation. In her hands it becomes paradoxical, material and immaterial simultaneously. The fold is a connective discontinuity. When multiplied, its implications become metaphysical. Like apparitions, Buffault’s art oscillates between the opaque and the transparent.
Châu Thuy
Inspired by the Vietnamese calligraphic tradition, Châu Thuy’s popular and widely-exhibited work incorporates stylized figurative elements to symbolically express personal, historical and spiritual themes.
More details about Inexpressible at www.daliborpolivka.com/inexpressible
