Curator's talk: Thursday, August 5 at 8pm
As the title of this exhibition suggests, its purpose is to present works of a performative nature. While it is true that all of these pieces depend to some extent on the participation from the public, it is the exclusive performance of the objects in this case (away from their authors, or those on the receiving end), that stipulate a new kind of responsibility for their function.
Built as an argument for a broader understanding of performance art as a discipline, the pieces in this exhibition are all open to evaluation of “how well” they behave in their assigned roles. And although the majority of art, if not all, should have some kind of function or at least an inherent sense of motivation, this body of works provides easy access to the assessment of their purpose. Some may argue that these may be too literal and perhaps too easy in some aspects, but the joy of these works is particularly this simplicity that allows them a bodily sensibility, and characteristic performance-like behavior within the objects themselves.
Curated by Iga Janik
Hengeveld is an installation and multi-media artist whose work explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, and where we find ourselves within that relationship.
He is currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. He completed his MFA at the University of Victoria in 2005 and received an AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design. He continues to exhibit his work across Canada and internationally. He recently received grants from both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council. Some of his recent and upcoming exhibitions include It’s One Louder, Power Plant; flicker’n hum, Luminato; Veracity, CAFKA and exhibitions at Interaccess Artist Run Centre, Galarie Sans Nom and Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects.
http://www.roberthengeveld.com/
Nathalie Quagliotto was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1984.
She received an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Waterloo in
2009 and a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University in 2007. In the
summer of 2008, she worked with conceptual artist Martin Creed in
London, England. She has exhibited sculpture in Canada, the United
States, and Australia.
Nathalie Quagliotto’s conceptual and relational practice involves
reconfiguring everyday pre-fabricated public objects associated with
childhood by disrupting their proximity, placement and color to the
point in which their social significance has been altered. Her work
focuses on the experience of play as an aesthetic form and how the act
of playing can be a method for people to work something out.
http://nathaliequagliotto.com/
Doug Back has shown his work in Vancouver, Banff, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. Internationally he has shown in Holland, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, New York, Chicago and Mexico City. He has been Technical Director at Trinity Video, a founding member of the YYZ Gallery and Inter-Access in Toronto and an advisor to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
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