Harbourfront Centre launches into the fall with stimulating visual arts exhibitions. York Quay Gallery presents The Tree Museum Collective: An Alternate Site, an exhibition in which artists complex relationship with nature as both theme and material is a consistent influence...
Harbourfront Centre launches into
the fall with stimulating visual arts
exhibitions. York Quay Gallery
presents The Tree Museum
Collective: An Alternate Site, an
exhibition in which artists complex
relationship with nature as both
theme and material is a consistent influence. Uncommon
Objects showcases The Purse, a celebration of that
oh-so-chic fashion necessity the handbag. Kinematics
features objects which move, pulsate, flicker or expand in
Case Studies. Summit of the Americas, Quebec 2001 at
The Photo Passage highlights the spontaneous protests by
the public.
York Quay Gallery presents The Tree Museum Collective:
An Alternate Site, featuring installations in a variety of
media including video, photography, drawing and
three-dimensional work. Photographic documentation of
the installations at the Collective's permanent Gravenhurst
site is also presented to illustrate the groups' activity since
its inception in 1998.
Participating artists: Isaac Applebaum, Jocelyne Belcourt
Salem, J. Lynn Campbell, Wilson Chik Wai Chi, Ellen Dijkstra,
Dieter Hastenteufel, Francis LeBouthillier, E.J. Lightman,
Gwen MacGregor, Anne O'Callaghan, Janice Pomer, Barry
Prophet, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Lyla Rye, Tim Whiten,
Robert Wiens and Badanna Zack.
The Tree Museum, located near Gravenhurst, Ontario, is an
outdoor gallery of site- specific sculptures established to
support and promote contemporary art. The Tree Museum
provides the community with free access to a museum
without walls and is an environmental synthesis of
innovative art and landscape. Visitors can wander along
the paths of this outdoor gallery and explore the hidden
artworks produced for this remote site, deep in the forest
of the pre-Cambrian shield.
Case Studies features Kinematics, the work of eight artists
who all have an interest in kinetic art. Their pieces display
old technologies and new technologies and illustrate the
science project and the artist as inventor. Curated by
Patrick Macaulay. Participating artists: Doug Back, Michael
Buchanan, Peter Gazendam, Lee Goreas, Jen Hamilton,
Gordon Hicks, Marla Hlady and Devon Knowles.
Uncommon Objects showcases The Purse, a celebration
and reinterpretation by eight artists and designers of the
handbag. As an object of desire and utility with hidden and
often mysterious depths, the individual handbag is
undergoing a resurgence in a myriad of styles, materials,
and meaning.
The individual perspectives of Barbara Klunder, Lisa
Leahey-McIsaac, Rachel MacHenry, Reba Plummer of Push
the Envelope, Annie Thompson of Annie Thompson Studio,
Nicole Van Der Oord of Fleurtje Bags, Joy Walker of Work
Textiles and Kathryn Walter of FELT illustrate what role
and shape the purse is taking at the start of the 21st
century.
Many artistic movements, trends and political upheavals
over the past 100 years, have strongly influenced the look
of the purse. The beaded evening bags adored by carefree
flappers of the 20s were inspired by Art Deco, jazz and the
far east; the utilitarian, pared down military-looking canvas
and leather bags appeared during WWII; commodious
catch-alls inspired by camping gear, bike-courier and
messenger bags were carried by women (and men) during
the latter part of the 20th century and today. The purse
still defines occupation for both women and men and
expresses numerous personal styles encompassing
high-end fashion, one-off art creations, working-bags and
street savvy cool. Curated by Melanie Egan.
The Photo Passage presents Summit of the Americas,
Quebec 2001, an exhibition from a photo collective
featuring Benoit Aquin, David Barker Maltby, Ethan
Eisenberg, Jennifer Gauthier, Laurent Guerin, Jean-Francois
Leblanc, Jo-Anne Macarthur, Goran Petkovski, Peter
Sibbald, David Smiley and Larry Towell. Organized by Ruth
Kaplan.
Following the end of the Summit of the Americas, this
group of photographers from French and English Canada
assembled their work to provide an alternative description
of an event more narrowly covered by the mainstream
media. Focussing on the spontaneous public protests, this
exhibition attempts to give a street-level perspective of a
gathering unique in recent history.
The Summit of the Americas in April 2001 was a meeting of
leaders from thirty-four countries to discuss globalization
strategies and the establishment of an expanded
free-trade zone throughout North, Central and South
America and the Caribbean. In the wake of public reaction
to similar events in recent years, the organizers chose to
erect a barricade encircling much of old Quebec City.
Viewed by some as a symbolic barrier to democratic
process, the fence became a magnet and focal point for a
variety of dissenting individuals, collectively labelled
protesters, who converged on Quebec in order to express
certain dissatisfactions with the closed nature of
negotiations.
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