Labspace Studio Co-Directors, John Loerchner & Laura Mendes, have just embarked 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, climb a mountain in Tibet, and own an ant farm, to name a few).
If you’d like to follow their progress, you can tap into the project at any time via their 365 Things in 365 Days Blog from January 14 2012 – January 13 2013.
A Piece of a City is a neighbourhood-based curatorial initiative commissioned for Toronto’s Art of the Danforth Festival (May 2012).
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.
Participating Artists:
Adam Herst, Alex McLeod, Amy Barnes, Brian Cauley, Denise Ing, Gram Schmalz, Isaac Weber & Creative Works Studio, Aesthetec Studio, Nobuo Kubota, Take Picture Don’t Steal, TIMEANDDESIRE, Will Kwan, Willy Chyr & Cara Spooner
Curated by Annie Onyi Cheung, John Loerchner & Laura Mendes.
For complete details, visit our project website.
Wishing everyone a safe & happy holiday full of good food and winter reading.
We’ll be closing shop till the new year. New projects on the horizon.
Book tree photo compliments of the Altoona Public Library.
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.
Opening event:
Aug 19 | 9pm – 1am
Gallery hours:
Aug 20-21 | 11-5pm
In Memory is the final instalment of The (Re)Collection Project, a three-part art series that investigates how people remember the PAST, experience the PRESENT and think about the FUTURE.
Curated by Annie Onyi Cheung and Labspace Co-Directors, Laura Mendes & John Loerchner.
Artists: Adam Stenhouse & Vanessa Arnold, Annie Onyi Cheung & Risa Kusumoto, Annie Tse & Van L. Ching, Bishara Mohamed & Marino Imperio, Celine Marks & Lindsay Small, Chris Willes & Julia Male, Deborah Peterson & Huss Elassal, Denise Ing & Kathryn Ward, Gram Schmalz & Brian Sasaski, Jessica Thalmann & Noelle Wharton-Ayer, Kyra Green & Jasmyn Fyffe, Laura Mendes & John Loerchner, Maggie Flynn & Maggy Flynn, Nurielle Stern & Nancy Jo Cullen, Vasa Gatiance & Alex Shaw.
Press for In Memory:
BlogTO Review
Inside Toronto Article (Interview: Installations in old funeral parlour explore the instability of memory)
The Grid (Interview: Art show at the Undertaker’s)
Must See- Mentions:
Canadian Art (Top 5 Featured Shows in Canada of the Week)
National Post (Top 5 Things to do this Weekend)
Now Magazine
BlogTO
Torontoist
‘StarryLunch’ by Andrea & Rodman Spilling
Challenge 6: Make your next meal a work of art
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.
Big moments, small moments, private moments and public moments have been shared and collected, one by one, and made available here in our digital archive for all to see.
*Visit the Moments Intercepted exhibition at Labspace Studio from July 22-24 (Opening Party on Friday July 22nd, 7pm-1am).
What happens when the worries of 100 individuals are presented in a collective? When the act of worrying, a deeply personal and private behaviour, turns public?
Join us for the Opening Reception of I Worry, the inaugural exhibition of
The (Re)collection Project.
Show runs: June 24-26, 2011
Opening Reception: June 24, 7pm-1am
(installations / interactive zone / light catering & cash bar /guest DJ at 10:30pm)
Location: Labspace Studio, 2A Pape Ave
Gallery Hours: 10-5pm, Sat & Sun
Visit the
I Worry Site for complete details.
Throughout Spring & Summer 2011, Labspace Studio launches the (re)collection project: a three-part series of creative projects & social experiments that investigate how people remember the past, experience the present, and think about the future.
Visit the re(collection) website for complete details and info on how you can join the project.
