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Daniel Barrow - Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008 4:00 pm at the Signy and Cleophee Eaton Theatre in The Royal Ontario Museum, Bloor & Avenue Road, Toronto (Enter via the Loblaws School Entrance, at the south end of the Museum.
Andrew J. Paterson performed a damn fine poem for the Department of Culture's "Gone In 30 Seconds" video campaign.
See them all.
West Side Story Medley
Downtown and Baby Love Medley
California Dreaming
Christ.
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Jamelie Hassan - Al Jazeera/Prisoner 345 2008 neon and metal, Collection of Salah J. Bachir, Photo: Patrick Lacass
From ImagiNation: New Cultural Topographies
Lucie Chan, Gerard Choy, Julie Faubert & Héloïse Audy, Jamelie Hassan, Frank Shebageget, Henry Tsang and Jin-me Yoon
Curated by Ming Tiampo, Nicole Neufeld and Caroline Vanderloo
Carleton University Art Gallery, St. Patrick’s Building, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON.
Until 2 November 2008.
From a CBC report on Hassan's piece:
"A neon sign that reads "Shame on you" in Arabic now greets students approaching Carleton University's journalism building."
Margaret Atwood kicks Harper's ass. She's one celebrity who dang well deserves it. Thanks for the link, Nanmac!
Oh my golly this is the best CERN-inspired internet artifact I've seen so far. Many thanks to Charles for the link.
You've seen this...
...and you've seen this...
...now see them mashed together at ARCADE (+ three working Phenakistoscopes)
ARCADE
John Dickson, Panya Clark Espinal, Alex Geddie, Gordon Hicks, Annie MacDonell, Sally McKay
Partnership between Harbourfront Centre and the Ontario Science Centre
York Quay Gallery at Harbourfront Center
September 28 to November 9, 2008
opening reception: Friday September 26, 6:00 to 10:00 pm
Participating artists transform de-commissioned exhibit experiences from the Ontario Science Centre into art with a new life and purpose.
With new writing by Robert J. Sawyer on the idea of transformation presented in partnership with Authors at Harbourfront Centre, part of an ongoing interdisciplinary focus.
more info (scroll down)
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Sunday Devotionals - Richard Wright (1943-2008) (as suggested by G.V.B.)
"While not as prolific as Roger Waters or Syd Barrett, Richard Wright was just as talented of a songwriter, if not better."
-Von Bark, our resident prog-rock authority.
Fuck. And true that. (via simpleposie)
To see subtitles, turn the captions "on" by clicking on the arrow button at the bottom right of the screen, then hover over the CC symbol and turn the captions "on".
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Vera Frenkel - Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive at Akau Inc. Project Space,
1186 Queen Street West, Toronto
Opening:Friday, Sept. 19, 7 – 9 pm, until Nov. 22nd, 2008
"Cities have their cycles and we’re approaching the high-speed end of ours."
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Who's better: humans or animals?
(excerpts from readings for school)
The animals other than man live by appearances and memories, and have but little of connected experience; but the human race lives also by art and reasonings. Now from memory experience is produced in men; for the several memories of the same thing produce finally the capacity for a single experience. - Artistotle
We presuppose labour in a form that stamps it as exclusively human. A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. - Marx & Engels
Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence, a step which is conditioned by their physical organisation. - Marx & Engels
No single trait, not even tool-making, is sufficient to identify man. What is specially and uniquely human is man's capacity to combine a wide variety of animal propensities into an emergent cultural entity: a human personality. - Lewis Mumford
It is highly unlikely that we, who can know, determine, and define the natural essences of all things surrounding us, which we are not, should ever be able to do the same for ourselves — this would be like jumping over our own shadows. Moreover, nothing entitles us to assume that man has a nature or essence in the same sense as other things. In other words, if we have a nature or essence, then surely only a god could know and define it, and the first prerequisite would be that he be able to speak about a "who" as though it where a "what." - Hannah Arendt
Sunday Devotionals - Wichita Lineman
OC Smith, Glen Campbell, The Dels and Danny Chilean
Jeannie Thib - Schema at Leo Kamen Gallery Suite 406, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto
Opening: Saturday, September 13th, 2-5pm, runs to Oct. 12
Canadian Art Gallery Hop talk with Micah Lexier Saturday, September 20th, 2:30pm
Inlet 2008 acrylic multiple - 11" x 36"
Michael Maranda - Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard: Livre at Art Metropole, 788 King Street West 2nd Floor, Toronto
Book Launch: Saturday Sept. 13, 2008 1-3 pm
SUPER-COLLIDER!
SUPER-DUPER-COLLIDER!
"Three quarks for Muster Mark" yelled the boson's mate
friggin' in the riggin' bedevilled by a jaguar.
The eight-fold way unfolded, multifoliate
in the rosy dawn of the November Revolution.
Twiggy and the K-mesons sauntered down the runway
with insousciance.
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In a dark and smokey bar H*ggs and H*wking drank.
(in a robot voice): "Black holes ain't so black,
and by the way, you M--F-- your heavy particle ain't worth S--"
(reply): "Well, you M--F--C--r, think you know everything?
The boson's mate has a right to exist, the boson's mate is on the payroll.
We have a heavy particle (which will not collapse the earth)
you M--C--F--"
(in a robot voice):
"Put your money where your mouth is M--F--
I bet you one hundred dollars that you are full of F--S--"
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The placid hills of Switzerland, yodelling milkmaids, invisible gnomes.
Beneath these green verdant meadows seethes the speed of light.
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Ten billion dollars, we have made many monuments
costing far more, achieving much less.
There are worse things you could spend your money on...
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- The HADRONSONG by VB (posted via SM)
John Dickson - Black and White at KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
1086 Queen St. W. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Opening: Thursday, September 11, 7-10pm - Oct 18, 2008
Lockheed Electra 2006 wood, fiberfill
Black and White 2008 installation detail
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Sunday Devotional - Ode to Billy Joe
Bobby Gentry 1964
Tammy Wynette
Susan Jacks pure vintage CBC craptasticness
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Naomi Klein (one of our national treasures) addresses the Department of Culture Town Hall
(via simpleposie)
Sent to Joe McKay:
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TOWN HALL REGARDING CUTS TO CULTURAL AND HERITAGE GRANTING PROGRAMS
Organized by FUSE magazine
Who should come? Everyone concerned about the Federal Government's blatant contempt for arts and culture.
Who will be speaking? Representatives from Government, visual arts, film, video, performing arts
What will we be doing? Strategizing on how to get our voices heard in the next election
Why is this important? Because the wave of cuts and policy changes are radically changing Canadian society.
Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008 at 7pm.
The Theatre Centre
Wednesday, September 3 2008
1087 Queen Street West, (South East Corner of Queen and Dovercourt)
Since taking power in 2006, the Conservative Government has eliminated over $34 Million from Cultural and Heritage Granting Programs. The programs affected were designed to assist artists, arts institutions and not for profit charitable organizations in the creation, development, promotion and
dissemination of Canadian art both nationally and internationally.
The most recent cuts:
. The PromArt Program, 4.7 million (administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs)
. Trade Routes, 9 million, Department of Canadian Heritage
. Stabilization Projects and Capacity Building, of the Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program
. Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, 1.5 million
. National Training Program in the Film and Video Sector, 2.5 million
. $300,000 to the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, for programs archiving important film, television and musical recordings.
With the anticipation of more cuts to be announced next week, we are inviting members of the arts and the broader community, MPs and the media to attend a town hall meeting. This meeting is intended to discuss the funding cuts, the ideological and inappropriate comments made by government about recipients and to brainstorm a plan of action.
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Wikipedia says:
Labour Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in Canada since the 1880s. The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to April 14, 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week. The Toronto Trades Assembly (TTA) called its 27 unions to demonstrate in support of the Typographical Union who had been on strike since March 25. George Brown, Canadian politician and editor of the Toronto Globe hit back at his striking employees, pressing police to charge the Typographical Union with "conspiracy." Although the laws criminalizing union activity were outdated and had already been abolished in Great Britain, they were still on books in Canada and police arrested 24 leaders of the Typographical Union. Labour leaders decided to call another similar demonstration on September 3 to protest the arrests. Seven unions marched in Ottawa, prompting a promise by Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald to repeal the "barbarous" anti-union laws. Parliament passed the Trade Union Act on June 14 the following year, and soon all unions were demanding a 54-hour work-week.It's time to go to the parade!
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The Calibration of Chance - Michael Graham, Alison Rossiter, Laurel Woodcock and Shirley Wiitasalo
from Sept. 4 to Oct.18, at Susan Hobbs Gallery, 137 Tecumseth Street, Toronto.
Curated by Claire Christie.
Opening: Thursday September 4th, 7-9 p.m.
Laurel Woodcock - Conditions 2005 video still