PUBLIC (or) cracks in the sidewalk
ARTSPACE is proud to present PUBLIC, a series of new performance works by national and international emerging artists. The series rests at the intersection of community, collaboration and artistic production and seeks to explore the boundaries of performance, audience and venue. Artists and works have been selected based on visual impact, spectacle and the potential for participation and engagement.
All performances are offered free of charge and will occur in physically accessible, open-air downtown locations (weather permitting).
Vincent Chevalier (Montreal) will perform Cover. Playing with two definitions of the word “cover,” Chevalier performs a version of a song by hugging a set of speakers against his body while the music plays. This gesture changes the sonic character of the music to produce a “cover” of the original, raising questions surrounding performance, authenticity and control. Cover will be performed on Saturday September 10th and Sunday September 11th.
In addition, Chevalier’s video work So, When Did You Figure Out You Had AIDS? will be installed at ARTSPACE and will début as a part of our upcoming exhibition Lung Capacity (also featuring the work of Andrew McPhail and Lisa Lipton). Please join us at the opening on Friday, September 16th at 7pm, refreshments served.
Katie Waugh and Eric Mercer (Chicago) explore authority, social protocol and cultural habit through performance, video, drawing and textile sculpture. Joint erformances by Waugh and Mercer will occur on Saturday September 17th.
Visual works by Katie Waugh and Eric Mercer will be installed in the lower ramp at the Art Gallery of Peterborough as a part of the curated show Craft in Binary. Please join us at the opening event on Thursday, September 15th at 7pm.
Ryan Ringer (Toronto) will perform Let’s Get Together For Coffee. Playing the role of the “social barista,” Ringer “drives” a foot powered coffee truck around cityscapes, opening up unique communication zones – spontaneous eruptions of speakeasy spaces in parks and on street corners. Look for the cart on Friday September 16th and Saturday September 17th and get yourself some free coffee and conversation.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Saturday, September 10
1pm: Vincent Chevalier Cover (In front of ARTSPACE)
2pm: Vincent Chevalier Cover (In front of the Garnet)
3pm: Vincent Chevalier Cover (In front of Pappas Billiards)
Sunday, September 11
1pm: Vincent Chevalier Cover (In front of ARTSPACE)
2pm: Vincent Chevalier Cover (In front of the Garnet)
3pm: Vincent Chevalier Cover (In front of Pappas Billiards)
Friday, September 16
3 – 5pm: Ryan Ringer Let's Get Together For Coffee (Hunter & Simcoe)
7pm: Opening Reception at ARTSPACE: Lung Capacity (Andrew McPhail, Lisa Lipton, Vincent Chevalier)
Saturday, September 17
11am – 1pm: Ryan Ringer Let's Get Together For Coffee (Hunter & Aylmer)
11am: Eric Mercer and Katie Waugh The Five Steps (Millennium Park)
12pm – 2pm: Eric Mercer Useless in Tension (downtown sidewalks)
2:30pm: Katie Waugh Foreshore (Del Crary Park, near the Art Gallery of Peterborough)
Additional Events: Join us at the opening reception for Craft in Binary: Technologies of Community (Eric Mercer and Katie Waugh, curated by Fynn Leitch) on Thursday, September 15, 7pm at the Art Gallery of Peterborough and look for impromptu performances by Andrew McPhail on Friday September 16th and Saturday September 17th.
Vincent Chevalier is a Montreal-based artist employing the performative qualities of disclosure as his primary medium. His projects often consist of repetitive and endurance-based tasks that attempt to bring the private into the public, the latent into view. These actions range from the quotidian to the theatrical, and take place in a variety of public settings including on the street, within the gallery, or on the web. He has exhibited locally and internationally at various festivals and galleries including Galerie La Centrale Powerhouse, the FOFA and CIRCA galleries in Montreal; the ANTI-Contemporary Art Fesitval in Kuopio, Finland; and the XVI Annual International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, and his work has been written about in No More Potlucks. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia/Cyberarts at Concordia University in 2011.
Ryan Ringer strives to discover unknown territories of individual and collective being. To this end, collaboratively and independently, he incites liminal experiences – psychological and metaphysical subjective states, conscious or unconscious, of being between disparate planes of existence – offering opportunities for one to find oneself by getting lost in the world. To embrace the strange and singular of one’s existence; to explore alchemical possibilities of the imagination; to live more intensely and freely in the here-and-now.
Katie Waugh is a multi-disciplinary artist working with ideas of performativity, social protocol, and aspiration. She has exhibited throughout the United States, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
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