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By Natalie Loveless Moon For Sale! Buy Now! Brian Connolly, of Northern Ireland, calls out to the passers-by in the streets of Toronto’s Kensington Market on a Saturday afternoon. Have you a favorite centimeter? You ...

By Natalie Loveless I am walking to Toronto Free Gallery to see the beginning of an eight-hour performance by US artist Jeffery Byrd. It's 12:30 pm and he is thirty minutes in. As I approach ...

Friday, October 22, 2010—Union Station 9 am - 5 pm at the top of the stairs leading to the main mall of union station there is a sign. the sign says: "see something suspicious? say ...

By Natalie Loveless We are gathered outside, forbidden access. The storefront windows are dressed with pastel balloons. All four performers—Adriana Disman, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Hélène Lefebvre, and Johnson Ngo—work together offering a ritualistic opening between performer, ...

By Natalie Loveless This time I approach from the other side and spot karen elaine spencer, sitting, eyes closed, hoodie partially hiding her from the world. She is sitting in the same set of chairs ...

Thursday, October 21, 2010—Union Station 9 am - 5 pmupon entering union station from front street you will see a row of red seats. these seats are for the 'red caps,' and they won't like ...

By Natalie Loveless Seven white pillows lie in a semi-circle, and a knife on each one. On the floor in the middle of the semi-circle, filled with black ink, is an aquarium. A red glove ...

By Natalie Loveless I enter the back room at Mercer Union, and in the dim light see Norway’s Stein Henningsen lying on the floor, weighted down by a four-hundred-pound block of ice. It is strapped ...

By Natalie Loveless Prelude: Identical twins enter from opposite sides of the space, meet in the middle with a ritualistic gesture, and begin the performance. Moving to separate video cameras that offer a live feed ...

By Natalie Loveless karen elaine spencer, Sittin' 7a*11d 2010 PHOTO Henry Chan It is 2pm and I am wandering through Union Station to find karen elaine spencer, who is performing a durational piece called sittin' ...