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The Arts & Ideas Society presents poet Trevor Laalo
culturshoc gallery, 1205 Queen Street W, Toronto
Sunday, May 16th from 14:00 to 14:30
+ Tea, cookies, current group exhibit and site-specific window drawing installation on view
Guerilla + National Gallery = action-packed night of culture
Featured in Guerilla #23, Portrait of my Father bronze sculpture by Anna Williams photographed by Jonathan Lorange
If there are any stubborn souls clinging to the long-dead notion that there’s nothing to do in Ottawa after 5 p.m., the one-night cultural jam being co-hosted Thursday, March 25th by Guerilla magazine and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) will put the issue to rest.
Headlined by one of Ottawa’s all-time favorite live bands—The Hammerheads—this unique evening is an NGC ArtSparks event and a GuerillaLIVE launch party fused into one. The result will be a stunning line-up of local entertainment and interactive cultural activities.
“Our GuerillaLIVE events have already developed quite a following for a cross-cultural vibe that’s different from anything else in town,” said Guerilla editor Tony Martins. “Now that we’ve partnered with the National Gallery of Canada, this March 25th event will take that vibe to a whole new level.”
Slated for 7 to 11 p.m. in the NGC tour lobby and adjacent spaces, the event includes:
The event will feature a cash bar and the price of entry is $12 ($10 for NGC members). For tickets call 613-998-8888 or pay at the door.
“The Hammerheads alone are well worth the $12 cover charge,” said Martins. “Add in everything else that’s in store and I challenge you to find another one-night event that offers more cultural impact.”
Besides promising so much for those who attend, the event also represents an important form of development forGuerilla.
“Though the magazine’s viewpoint on culture will always be ground-level, we are thrilled to be building relationships with organizations such as the National Gallery of Canada,” said Martins. “While the Gallery brings so much global arts energy to Ottawa and to Canada, we’ve seen how reaching out to our community is a priority for the NGC as well. We are honoured and excited to be part of that.”
Can the integrity of video artwork shown on the Web or on television be compromised? Transmitted out of the control of their author, to what fate are these works devoted? Izabel Barsive, visual artist, independant video maker and professor, questions the fragile relationship she maintains with the broadcasting industry and its platforms, in her exhibition Une minute pour un carré blanc (One minute for a white square), presented at Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle from March 13 to April 20, 2010.
With one-minute excerpts of transformed videos (by censure processes, for example), she examines the role played by television and Web broadcasters, as well as the role of the artist. According to her, the latter can consent to all kinds of compromises in exchange for one or many minutes of glory, glory inexorably ephemeral since also subjected to oblivion in the hubbub of virtual images polluted by advertising.
Come and meet the artist at the opening reception, which will be held Saturday, March 13, at 1 p.m., at Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, located at 81 Beechwood Avenue, in Vanier. The gallery’s regular hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., from Tuesday to Saturday.
Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle thanks the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage and the City of Ottawa for their support.
www.voixvisuelle.ca
