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Since attending the performance Little Big Man Remix by The Contrary Collective's Terrance Houle, Ulysses Castellanos and Cathy Gordon at the Toronto Free Gallery on June 28th, I keep thinking about how the performance ended up being an endurance piece for both the artists and the audience. The deafening gunshots and repetitive re-enactments of violence, betrayal and redemption melded with the nauseating heat, the flying dirt, the water, and the sweat, all culminating in a drone cacophony of guitars and Cathy Gordon strung up on the ceiling. Riffing off the film Little Big Man, the performance Little Big Man Remix is a powerful critique of colonization that examines the role of the traitor while complicating the portrayal of indigenous peoples.
My little drawing can't cover the whole two hours, and I really think you had to be there, but here are a few moments from the evening.
The Contrary Collective will perform Little Big Man Remix on August 24th at the Central Library Gallery in Regina.
Leiflet
Opens Tonight!
NOT SO FAST, Curated by Lisa Myers. With Christian Chapman, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Bev Koski, Jean Marshall, Tania Willard, Luke Parnell, and Maika'i Tubbs.
Today's gif from http://suergif.biz/ (group tumblr)
Video Violence. optional commemoration and the future at the Kunsthaus Dresden.
This and this were curated into the show.
Helen Adamidou - Up against the wall at the Widget Art Gallery curated by Chiara Passa
Sunday - Paul Young
Oh Girl
Come Back and Stay
Peter MacCallum's solo exhibition of photographs titled Massey Hall/Guitar Stores is a trip through the inner workings of long-standing music establishments in Toronto. As noted by Rebecca Diederichs in the Introductory essay to MacCallum's book Material World (2004), his work explores places that are often "hidden from view" while offering "an opportunity to linger and reminisce on places visited and remembered." His current exhibition continues in this vein by exposing the technical, mechanical and material aspects of Toronto's music scene as not simply backstage gear, but as key elements of its social fabric. The Massey Hall series took me back to the anticipation of being an audience member at this grand concert hall and relit my longing to play there. Looking at the Guitar Stores series, I stood mesmerized amid the swirl of guitars, amps and cases, and I found it strangely comforting to just feel that I'm upstairs at Capsule without being told where I am. Peter, thanks for that.
Massey Hall/Guitar Stores runs until July 7th at Diaz Contemporary. This is my drawing of one of Peter MacCallum's photographs.
Leiflet
Suergif (group tumblr)
Cross Border art trades! Happy 4th of July!
(courtesy of R.M. Vaughan)