THE CLASSROOM
Thursday, October 1, 2009
6:30-7:30pm
Bruce High Quality Foundation
Explaining Pictures to a Dead Bull
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's 45-minute presentation, "Explaining Pictures to a Dead Bull," claims that institutionalized art education, by being willfully indebted to the art market, has limited art's agency within the market and, by extension, limited art's ability to educate. The presentation charts a course through the advent of the credit card, the GI Bill, The 1973 Scull Sale, the Post-Studio class at CalArts, and the contemporary MFA market to propose a new approach to art education.
Friday, October 2, 2009
12pm – 1pm
Bongout Gallery
Zeitgeist
Gallery and printmaking workshop, Bongout, presents a new silkscreen book, Zeitgeist. Owners/artists Christian "Meeloo" Gfeller and Anna Hellsgård describe the printing and creation process of the work and during the presentation, also discuss the dynamics of Bongout, including book publishing, silkscreen printing, the gallery and the design studio.
1-2pm
Joachim Schmid
Bilder von der Straße (Pictures from the Street)
Joachim Schmid discusses an archive of found images that his has accumulated since 1982 and has started to reproduce in his print-on-demand publishing project. The project Pictures from the Street has been an ongoing endeavour since 1982 and has seen Schmid reclaim over 900 lost or abandoned photographs. The collection has been exhibited widely but only once in its entirety and this is the first time it is printed as a complete set, published within four volumes. Almost all of the images contain people in them and more than half are photographs that have been ripped or defaced in some manner. The act of destruction, or of throwing away a picture denotes an attempt to eliminate memories of specific moments. These particular photographs within the collection encourage us to try and build a story behind the persons depicted within the photograph and raise questions about what emotionally charged event could have happened to warrant such a destruction. As a social documentary project Schmid have approached this venture in a systematic manner, thus creating an inventory of lost photographs and lost memories that hint towards the mysteries of people's private lives and how they chose to document it through photography.
2-3pm
Michalis Pichler
Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance)
Michalis Pichler (Berlin) presents his book, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance) published 2008/09 in Berlin. The work is a close copy of the 1914 edition of the french symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text. Pichler has also produced an edition of this book as a pianola role. The presentation of the work will include a screening of the pianola roll in action.
3-4pm
Daniel Barrow
The Face of Everything
The Face of Everything is a "live animation" that tells a story based very loosely on the life experiences of some of Liberace's most notorious boyfriends. "Hillbilly" is a poor, dejected teenager, who travels to the "big city" (mid-1970s Las Vegas) to discover love, vision and identity in a much older, outrageously superficial nightclub entertainer.
Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written, pictorial and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing and collecting. Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book narratives to "manual" forms of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors.
Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. Recently, he has performed at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, The Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum and the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago). Barrow has supported acts such as Antony and the Johnsons, The Hidden Cameras, and Miranda July.
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts.
4-5pm
Red76
The Pop-Up Book Academy
Red76 hosts their own Zefrey Throwell to discuss his project "The Ecstacy of St. Patrick;" a photo and broadsheet project looking into "deviant behavior," group voyeurism, and the division between artistic adventurism and the law.
In the heart of Midtown, Manhattan, whilst a hundred thousand revelers drunkenly caroused and the marching bands dueled in clashing shades of kelly green, high above the fracas, in a dance of their own, a couple stole away from the crowd. Surrounded by some of the world's tallest skyscrapers on all sides, witness the drama of St. Patrick's day unfold and hear the story that takes you from an ancient Irish ritual to mind numbing heights, perilous get aways, police chases, jail cells, court houses, and of course, the ultimate passion itself.... The Ecstasy of St. Patrick.
5-6pm
Three Star Books in conversation with Haim Steinbach.
Object
6-7pm
Ellie Ga
The Fortunetellers
Ellie Ga presents "The Fortunetellers" (2008), a performance with a series of chapters, connecting contemporary and ancient forms of predicting the future as a metaphor for the past and future of the Arctic landscape. After spending half a year on an expedition boat, frozen into the ice of the North Pole, Ga blurs the borders between present and past, memories and myths, using superimpositions in both sound and image to represent the dualism in the abstract notion of time: “We called polar time the amount of time it took to do things (hours to move one kerosene drum from point A to point B, a week to drag frozen parachutes onto the boat) and I guess also the eternal darkness.”
Thursday, October 1, 2009
6:30-7:30pm
Bruce High Quality Foundation
Explaining Pictures to a Dead Bull
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's 45-minute presentation, "Explaining Pictures to a Dead Bull," claims that institutionalized art education, by being willfully indebted to the art market, has limited art's agency within the market and, by extension, limited art's ability to educate. The presentation charts a course through the advent of the credit card, the GI Bill, The 1973 Scull Sale, the Post-Studio class at CalArts, and the contemporary MFA market to propose a new approach to art education.
Friday, October 2, 2009
12pm – 1pm
Bongout Gallery
Zeitgeist
Gallery and printmaking workshop, Bongout, presents a new silkscreen book, Zeitgeist. Owners/artists Christian "Meeloo" Gfeller and Anna Hellsgård describe the printing and creation process of the work and during the presentation, also discuss the dynamics of Bongout, including book publishing, silkscreen printing, the gallery and the design studio.
1-2pm
Joachim Schmid
Bilder von der Straße (Pictures from the Street)
Joachim Schmid discusses an archive of found images that his has accumulated since 1982 and has started to reproduce in his print-on-demand publishing project. The project Pictures from the Street has been an ongoing endeavour since 1982 and has seen Schmid reclaim over 900 lost or abandoned photographs. The collection has been exhibited widely but only once in its entirety and this is the first time it is printed as a complete set, published within four volumes. Almost all of the images contain people in them and more than half are photographs that have been ripped or defaced in some manner. The act of destruction, or of throwing away a picture denotes an attempt to eliminate memories of specific moments. These particular photographs within the collection encourage us to try and build a story behind the persons depicted within the photograph and raise questions about what emotionally charged event could have happened to warrant such a destruction. As a social documentary project Schmid have approached this venture in a systematic manner, thus creating an inventory of lost photographs and lost memories that hint towards the mysteries of people's private lives and how they chose to document it through photography.
2-3pm
Michalis Pichler
Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance)
Michalis Pichler (Berlin) presents his book, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance) published 2008/09 in Berlin. The work is a close copy of the 1914 edition of the french symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text. Pichler has also produced an edition of this book as a pianola role. The presentation of the work will include a screening of the pianola roll in action.
3-4pm
Daniel Barrow
The Face of Everything
The Face of Everything is a "live animation" that tells a story based very loosely on the life experiences of some of Liberace's most notorious boyfriends. "Hillbilly" is a poor, dejected teenager, who travels to the "big city" (mid-1970s Las Vegas) to discover love, vision and identity in a much older, outrageously superficial nightclub entertainer.
Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written, pictorial and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing and collecting. Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book narratives to "manual" forms of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors.
Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. Recently, he has performed at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, The Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum and the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago). Barrow has supported acts such as Antony and the Johnsons, The Hidden Cameras, and Miranda July.
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts.
4-5pm
Red76
The Pop-Up Book Academy
Red76 hosts their own Zefrey Throwell to discuss his project "The Ecstacy of St. Patrick;" a photo and broadsheet project looking into "deviant behavior," group voyeurism, and the division between artistic adventurism and the law.
In the heart of Midtown, Manhattan, whilst a hundred thousand revelers drunkenly caroused and the marching bands dueled in clashing shades of kelly green, high above the fracas, in a dance of their own, a couple stole away from the crowd. Surrounded by some of the world's tallest skyscrapers on all sides, witness the drama of St. Patrick's day unfold and hear the story that takes you from an ancient Irish ritual to mind numbing heights, perilous get aways, police chases, jail cells, court houses, and of course, the ultimate passion itself.... The Ecstasy of St. Patrick.
5-6pm
Three Star Books in conversation with Haim Steinbach.
Object
6-7pm
Ellie Ga
The Fortunetellers
Ellie Ga presents "The Fortunetellers" (2008), a performance with a series of chapters, connecting contemporary and ancient forms of predicting the future as a metaphor for the past and future of the Arctic landscape. After spending half a year on an expedition boat, frozen into the ice of the North Pole, Ga blurs the borders between present and past, memories and myths, using superimpositions in both sound and image to represent the dualism in the abstract notion of time: “We called polar time the amount of time it took to do things (hours to move one kerosene drum from point A to point B, a week to drag frozen parachutes onto the boat) and I guess also the eternal darkness.”