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.
For full details check out the website: http://confessionsunderground.com/
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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, Take Picture Don’t Steal, TIMEANDDESIRE, Will Kwan, Willy Chyr & Cara Spooner
Curated by Annie Onyi Cheung, John Loerchner & Laura Mendes.
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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.
Press
Inside Toronto newspaper article (published Feb 06, 2012)
Global Television interview (aired Feb 23, 2012)
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.
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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.
Details...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.
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.
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.
Press
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
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Torontoist
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?
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.
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