Saturday October 12, 12 pm
401 Commons, 4th floor 401 Richmond Street West
Sponsored by Vtape
In conjunction with God Play, Vtape’s video exhibition featuring Tanya Mars and Andrew James Paterson (this year’s 7a*11d Éminences Grises), join us for a conversation between Andrew James Paterson and Bridget Moser. Paterson will share anecdotes from his personal history as a key contributor to Canada’s artist-driven culture and talk about his works in the exhibition, which runs from October 1-19 at the Bashir Yerex Presentation Space.
Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist living in Toronto, Ontario. His work engages in a playful questioning of language, philosophy, community and capitalism in a wide range of disciplines, including video, performance, writing, film and music. Now a senior artist, Paterson has contributed to artist-run discourse for nearly four decades — serving on the boards of Trinity Square Video, A Space, and YYZArtists’ Outlet. He has curated media-arts and other programmes for these organizations as well as Cinematheque Ontario, Mercer Union, Images Festival, Pleasure Dome, and Available Light in Ottawa. He has edited and co-edited books for YYZ’s publishing program; and contributed to anthologies published by Gallery TPW and to periodicals such as FILE, IMPULSE, FUSE, and Borderlines. Between 2011 and 2017 he worked as coordinator for the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival. His media-arts works have shown locally, nationally, and internationally over three and a half decades — in Seoul, Bangalore, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Paris, New York City, and many other centres. Paterson’s artist’s book Collection Correction was published in 2016 by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse of Milan. His novelette Not Joy Division was published by IMPULSE B in Toronto in early 2018. In 2019, Paterson received a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts.
Bridget Moser is a Toronto-based video and performance artist and friend and fan of Andrew James Patterson. She has presented work at Remai Modern, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Western Front, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Esker Foundation, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Mercer Union. She has been shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award and was the 2023 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Visual Arts Award.
