What’s the Noise Project? ArtSyncTV host Mike Hansen talks in-depth with Labspace Studio Curator Laura Mendes about this messy, exploratory, active, urban interdisciplinary art project.
Watch their 15-minute interview here.
The Noise Project brings together a loose network of artists, producers, designers, urban thinkers, young students, and the public, to examine the concept of “noise” from a citizen’s perspective.
(Part of Capital One’s Corporate Art Program)
Artists: TIMEANDDESIRE, Jenna Faye Powell, Ben Stansfield, Isaac Weber
Curated by: Labspace Studio
Labspace Studio Co-Directors, John Loerchner & Laura Mendes, embark on a personal art project/challenge/experiment to do 365 new things in 365 days (like bake a pie from scratch, bungee jump, build a robot, fly a box-kite, churn butter, learn to knit, canoe down river rapids, and own an ant farm, to name a few).
If you’d like to view the entire project visit: 365 Things in 365 Days. This project ran from January 14 2012 – January 13 2013. It’s officially finished! Check out the wrap-up video below.
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Part social experiment, part public intervention, Confessions Underground is a video based art project that gives willing participants the rare opportunity to record a private on-camera confession and broadcast it publicly over 300 of Toronto’s digital subway platform screens. Project by: Laura Mendes & John Loerchner, Co-Directors of Labspace. Commissioned by Pattison OneStop and Art 4 Commuters.
For full details check out the website: www.confessionsunderground.com/
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R.M. Vaughan of The Globe and Mail just reviewed our most recent curatorial project, A Piece of a City. He had some nice things to say…
A Piece of a City is a neighbourhood-based curatorial initiative commissioned for Toronto’s Art of the Danforth Festival.
The project brings together a group of emerging and established artists to envision a series of site-specific installations and performances that address the interlocking themes of locality, community & contemporary art practice. More…
Homework: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices is a four-day residency, two-day conference, and collaboratively-written publication produced by Windsor-based arts org, Broken City Lab.
We’ll be presenting a short talk at this year’s conference as part of Homework’s “Collaboration” panel.
For conference schedule & registration details, visit the Homework website.
In Memory is a collection of collaborative art installations created by 15 pairs of artists who have been asked to recall, reinterpret and recreate a past memory, together.
The exhibition will be at 717 Queen St East (Queen & Broadview) in an old, abandoned funeral parlour.
Curated by Annie Onyi Cheung and Labspace Co-Directors, Laura Mendes & John Loerchner. More…
From June 6 – July 6th, collaborators from across North America (Toronto, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, LA, Halifax, Calgary, San Francisco, etc), took part in a month-long series of random & impulsive creative challenges; responding, documenting & transforming their everyday moments into miniature art projects.
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