October 19 – 31, 2009
Marion Nicoll Gallery | ACAD
Reception | Oct. 29, 2009 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Aisling Macken’s work references elements of the Fibonacci Sequence, specifically the numbers of this mathematical formula which are continuously observed in natural forms. This repetition of numbers is echoed in the construction of each piece of needlelace; the numbers of the sequence have been counted within each section of knots, determining the design of the lace. The works have been created with white silk, which along with the small scale of the needlelace technique, creates a subtle yet powerfully engaging appearance. via ACAD website
Join Anik See, Aritha, Romy, and Chris Tenz at Cantos Music Foundation for a fun, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary evening. A wine and cheese reception will follow the readings. This is a free event and open to the public.
Wednesday, October 7 at Cantos Music Foundation, 134 11 Ave SE, 2nd Floor Calgary, AB
Exhibition opens at 7:00 p.m.
Anik See is coming to Calgary all the way from Amsterdam to launch her new collection of short fiction, Postcard and Other Stories. To celebrate, Freehand Books has invited a trio of Calgary-based artists to respond to and engage with Anik’s work in various mediums. Aritha van Herk, renowned scholar and author, will be performing a special reading response, textile artist Romy Straafhof will expand on Anik’s interrogation of place in a visual exhibition entitled strata, layers and strands, and electronic musician Chris Tenz will provide a fitting soundtrack to the evening – soundscapes inspired by postcard and other stories.
The Canadian Art Foundation presents Art Talks: Canadian Art International Speaker Series in collaboration with venues across the country. Glenbow Museum is pleased to host famed Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui who will present a slide lecture outlining his storied career. El Anatsui’s amazing metal-cloth series and important sculptures in wood, ceramic and mixed media will be part of his first-ever career retrospective, which will have its world premiere next fall at the Royal Ontario Museum Institute for Contemporary Culture. The exhibition will then travel to New York for the landmark reopening of the Museum for African Art.
The talk is at 7:00 pm, October 2 in the ConocoPhillips Theatre at the Glenbow Museum. Admission is free!
Read about El Anatsui HERE
View Dana Roman’s WEBSITE
Visited The New Gallery yesterday with a friend and encountered this fascinating work by Myriam Bessette and Robin Dupuis.
The audio installation Conciliabule (2006-2009), a collective work in progress, explores the nature of the acoustic object and the transmission of complex voice messages through an electric signal. Starting with voice samples, the artists have filtered out all references except for very low inaudible frequencies. The almost silent audio installation creates its own materiality in the form of vibrations that become visible on the speakers. It isn’t the captured voice whispering in the visitor’s ear, but the quivering of the device that animates the piece. The multi-track work invites visitors to perambulate through an auditory visual architecture and to enter into a conciliabule with the materiality of sound.
Conciliabule is at The New Gallery until August 1
www.thenewgallery.org
Eau Claire Market, 200 Barclay Parade SW
Calgary, Alberta
installation view Carole Baillargeon, Winter
Poplar Gallery.Online showcases the work of craftspeople and artists working in all disciplines.
Poplar is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions of original work. Craftspeople, artists, curators and studio collectives are encouraged to submit proposals. Two spaces are available for alternating six-week exhibitions. Submissions of critical writing and reviews will be considered for ArtClothText, a forum for textile, fibre and mixed media artists.
For information on how to submit your work, contact curator Mackenzie Frere at info@mackenziefrere.com
Domestic Mobility is a social intervention performance that will take place on the streets of Calgary, Alberta on Friday, June 26 from 4 – 9pm, and Monday, June 29 from 12 – 3pm.
Donning the role of a hyper feminine 50s housewife, local artist Jasmine Valentina, will pull a car-sized bungalow down Stephen Avenue and other central downtown streets, parking the sculpture intermittently to interact with the public. The social intervention/performance aims to re-contextualize femininity as a symbol of strength and protest the male dominant, destructive culture of the city––one that hinders community development. While occupying parking spaces around the city, Valentina will interview bystanders on the subject of sustainable living in Calgary.
The sculptural ephemera and interviews will be exhibited in the Stride +15 Window from August – September, 2009 with an opening on August 6th from 7 -8pm.
TONIGHT Valentina will discuss this project on Yeah What She Said on CJSW 90.9FM at 8:30. Listen live at cjsw.com or download the episode later from YWSS’s BLOG
About the artist
Jasmine Valentina is invisible. Not unlike a super-hero, she can pass through walls and permeate social borders without ever being distinguished as The Other. As a queer feminine woman, she occupies a theoretical space in which she can exercise different ways of thinking and being while appearing to conform to the prescribed female gender role.
Contact the artist jasmine.herron@acad.ca
Land Sentence: Arbour, Woven Tapestry, 2009, 83 x 205 cm
A sentence is the basic unit of communication, a meaningful statement. In this series sentence also references the punishment imposed by mankind on the environment.
Aerial and satellite photographs provide beautiful yet unnerving images of pollution, erosion, deforestation and infestation; technology that records our complex and destructive relationship to the world around us.
Through the slow and intimate process and flawed language of tapestry weaving I am reinterpreting and rewriting the dispassionate certainty of these technological sources to refocus on our complicity in the sentencing of the world we live in.
To view more of Kidd’s work visit her new website www.janekidd.net
+15 Window Project Special Call DEADLINE: June 16, 2009
“Worlds of inversion, of contamination and crudeness, are controlled within the dollhouse by an absolute manipulation and control of the boundries of time and space.
The house is meant to be viewed from a distance, with attention upon one scene and then another…” (1)
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary invites you to consider the small things in life, with this call for miniature artwork. For the months of August and September of this year, we will be turning our +15 window space into a curio cabinet of sorts, compartmentalizing the space and providing a venue for small works.
Work submitted can be created in any medium (including new media and video works), with the only stipulation that is be able to fit into a small compartment sized 1′ wide by 1′ high, and 3′ deep.
Your submission should include:
1. Proposal (maximum of 1 page): Clearly describe the proposed work. Provide details about any special requirements, including equipment needs.
2. Artist Statement (maximum of 1 page): Contextualizes the work submitted within your artistic practice.
3. Curriculum Vitae (maximum of 3 pages): Describe your artistic background (e.g. education, grants, scholarships or awards recieved, professional status, previous exhibitions or performances, commissions, professional memberships, articles, etc.)
4. Images/Support Material: Maximum of 10 JPEG images and/or DVD for video. All images must be numbered and labeled to match the corresponding image list. Please ensure that file sizes are less than 1MB each.
5. Image List: Please provide title, dimensions, materials, and date of production of each work.
Please send submissions to:
Welcome to the Dollhouse
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary
Grain Exchange Building (lower level)
815 First Street SW
Calgary, AB T2P 1N3
PLEASE NOTE: While TRUCK does not usually accept submissions by email, due to the imminent nature of this deadline, we will be accepting email submissions for this particular call.
(1) Stewart, Susan.
On Longing: Narratives on the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. Pg 63
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