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Make Yourself At Home: Apartment Galleries and You

In early December, Chicago arts and culture blog Bad at Sports ran a series of article on the persistence of what they call “apartment galleries” (obviously galleries run out of peoples apartments and studios). These texts were mostly put together for a publication by Floorlength and Tux (who’ve made the rest of the texts available [...]

XWEB

Some people may have noticed a new section appear on the XPACE website over the summer. XWEB is our semi-new project in which we feature web-based art and design on our homepage.

Motel

MOTEL
A collaboration by:
Alison S. M. Kobayashi and Gintas Tirilis
Curated by Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot and Su-Ying Lee
June 26 – July 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 26, 7 – 10 PM
Panel Discussion: Saturday July 4, 2PM
Yard Sale: Saturday, July 25, 9AM – 2PM

Deathwatch and NOW Magazine

Deathwatch (June 17 to 20 at XPACE) picked by NOW Magazine as “one to watch” find out more at on their blog.

Draft 4 (a bring-your-own-headphones event)

June 3 – 6, 2009
Performances start promptly at 8pm each evening
Reception: Saturday June 6th, to follow performance
Draft Four is a collaborative performance between Choreographers Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner and invited writers Daniel Cockburn, Norah Franklin, Simon Rabyniuk and Caylie Staples. Through performative and spoken investigations into movement and action these artists question our relationship [...]

OCAD and XPACE artist in the news

Reena Katz, who’s lullaby lullaby shot at form sleep showed in XBASE earlier this year, is in the news with her new project. Read all about it in the Toronto Star and then website for the project each hand as they are called

Alternative Tentacles 4

Alternative Tentacle 4

May 16 – 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, May 22, 7 – 10 PM
You can’t escape the grasp of Alternative Tentacle 4, a gripping exhibit by artists from nine Alternative Secondary Schools!

OCAD FILMFEST 2009: INTM LIKES THIS.

Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: The Royal Theatre
Street: 608 College St.

OCAD Graduate Exhibition

Starting next week at OCAD is the annual graduation exhibition. This public event will feature work by artists and designers from all programs of study, including some people who have exhibited at XPACE in the past few years. Come out and see what OCAD grads have to offer!

It’s like a revolution!

Six graduating Photography and Integrated Media students from the Ontario College of Art & Design respond to a call for revolution – the resulting exhibition focuses on its more subtle definitions: that of aspiring, pondering, turning, orbiting, cycles and measures of time. Curated by students from OCAD’s Graduate and Undergraduate Criticism and Curatorial Practice program, [...]