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 can own it today! Limited Edition: 1 of 100! I approach and survey his wares: A Star Map Umbrella, Second …
Performance Art DailyToronto Free Gallery | 1277 Bloor St WArtist Talks: October 23Jürgen FRITZ, Kaori HABA, and Jolanta LAPIAK, moderated by Laura NANNIPresented by Toronto Free Gallery in collaboration with 7a*11d Performance Art Daily is a noon-hour artist talk show series featuring many of the festival’s visiting artists in conversation with local artists. The shows …
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 the gallery I first notice a rainbow of pastel Post-Its in the top third of one of the windows, each …
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 something! call union station security…” -karen elaine spncer
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, glass, and audience. At one point they all stand, hands and lips pressed to the glass. A bizarre performance art …
Performance as Encounter: Toronto Free Gallery, Friday October 22, 2010 (NL) Read More »
Performance Art DailyToronto Free Gallery | 1277 Bloor St WArtist Talks: October 22Jeffery BYRD, Helge MEYER, and Gwendoline ROBIN, hosted by Berenicci HERSHORNPresented by Toronto Free Gallery in collaboration with 7a*11d Performance Art Daily is a noon-hour artist talk show series featuring many of the festival’s visiting artists in conversation with local artists. The shows …
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 as yesterday. I skirt around silently to take a seat a little way down from her and watch. She opens …
karen elaine spencer: sittin’, Union Station, Friday, October 22, 2010 / Day Two (NL) Read More »
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 it if you sit there. -karen elaine spncer
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 floats on top. Another aquarium is suspended from the ceiling upside-down, a little off center. Walking in a circle around …
Helge Meyer: Pneumatic Vision: Cut, Mercer Union, Thursday, October 21, 2010 (NL) Read More »
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 to his back. He lies forehead to ground and hands tucked in underneath, presumably to help support his shoulders and …
Stein Henningsen: Untitled, Mercer Union, Thursday, October 21, 2010 (NL) Read More »