Friday, February 12, 2010 by
Edison
0182 = jpeg - Lisa Moses
Gallery 1313 has been supporting emerging artists for twelve years. Although twelve years might not seem like a long time, it is enough time to have some sort of history. As part of Gallery 1313’s programme, curator Phil Anderson has put together a sex show that has been running for six years. This show went from being titled “High Libido” to “The Sex Show”. Coincidentally, February (2010) is also the month when the second Cadmium edition celebrates a similar subject. So here is a short interview with Phil Anderson from Gallery 1313 in which he offers insights into some relevant issues that are embodied in the “The Sex Show”.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by
Edison
JMB Gallery is offering an attractive educational program for free (February 15 – 20).
For more info go to:
http://extra-curricular.info/?page_id=96
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by
Edison
Examining the role of formal education during some free time over the holidays, I came to a conclusion, be it a flexible conclusion, that the success of formal education is largely dependant on its external enhancements. In that light, I have come to the point of my life where there are a lot of educators— institutional and non-institutional ones—trying to cultivate a sense of socio-political awareness amongst students and faculty alike.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by
Edison
"A Piece of the Pie" Edward Lin and Kira Varvanina
The weekend of the 21st to the 24th of January marked the launch of the Toronto International Design Festival. During the festival contemporary local and international design gets a spotlight in various venues around Toronto in the form of exhibitions, lectures and symposiums; an exciting cultural-platter for the community.
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Monday, February 1, 2010 by
Liam
I post the excellent Richard Condie short above for a couple of reasons. First, because people should be aware of the increasing amount of NFB content being made available for free online. This stuff was my bread and butter during days home sick when I was a kid. Don’t ask me how I saw them, but I figured the chances of seeing any of this fantastic material again was lost once our family vault of badly dubbed VHS tapes went the way of the dodo.
Secondly, I was asked to join the roster of folks blogging for XPACE through the XBLOG way back in october sometime, and have quite frankly not contributed until now. Perhaps it was a little stagefright and an unexpectedly busy last semester at OCAD, though I think Condie’s short nails the sentiment quite well.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by
Matthew
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 as a pdf on their website).
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Monday, January 18, 2010 by
Edison
In a prolific effort to further expand and educate citizens of the world, the creators of internet-based educational project, The Pinky Show, offered a panel discussion at the Toronto Free Gallery this Saturday, January 16.
More details to come…
Saturday, January 16, 2010 by
Ginger
Of/By/For: A Dialogue on Representation @ OCAD Graduate Gallery
1 December 2009
Taras Polataiko, Bonnie Devine, and Leah Sandals moderated and organized by Rose Bouthillier
From the burgeoning curatorial talent in the Curatorial Studies graduate programme at OCAD came a substantially in-depth programme. The evening event involved the screening of a couple of Taras Polataiko’s video works including “In the Land of the Headhunters” (2008) which is composed of documentation of audience members from the Kwakiutl Band Council in Fort Rupert, B.C. in a community viewing of Edward Curtis’ 1914 film by the same title.
Video still. "In the Land of the Head Hunters". 2008. Single channel video, 20 min 50 sec, b/w
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 by
Ginger
Hal Foster and Glenn Adamson at the Ontario College of Art and Design
Nomadic Residency and President’s Speaker Series
Even in Toronto, the country’s largest city (and by default, occasionally considered the cultural capital), my modest Canadian sensibilities still always induce surprise upon the visitation of significant international speakers along the lines of Hal Foster (writer, critic, and foundational theorist for post-modernism) and Glenn Adamson (Head of Graduate Studies, Victoria & Albert Museum). Read more
Thursday, December 3, 2009 by
Matthew
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.
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