|
Lorna Mills and Sally McKay
Digital Media Tree this blog's archive OVVLvverk Lorna Mills: Artworks / Persona Volare / contact Sally McKay: GIFS / cv and contact |
View current page
...more recent posts
All-Santa Xmas Crèche by RM Vaughan.
Snapshot courtesy of L.M.
Andrew Harwood's Top Fifteen 2006
1) Kent Monkman's, Salon Indien, installation at TIAF, sponsored by MOCCA, Kent stop it ~ your killing me ~ it was perfect!! I smell Ven-ass Biennale!!
2) Unholy Alliance: art + fashion meet again, curated by David Liss at MOCCA
3) Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, curated by Bennet Simpson, The Power Plant, The most relaxed show I have ever seen at the PP.
4) Kim Adams: Bugs and Dragons, AGO/Little Miss Sunshine
5) Allyson Mitchell, Vagina Dentata in Late Capitalist Society, her farewell to the Gladstone room at TAAFI/ Drag Strip, Vaginal Creme Davis & Gartina @ TAAFI
6) Bruce La Bruce's Wedding to Antonio at Toronto City Hall, I am a crusty bitch & cried me eyes out!!
7) Fatwurms, Honky Town, Paul Petro Contemporary Art
8) Stephen Andrews, Lives of the Saints, Paul Petro
9) Lorna Mills Steve Irwin Memeorial Pumpkin, at RM Vaughan's Halloween Party
10) Toronto Island, Hanlans Point, Nude Beach, June, July, August 2006/ Venice Beach, Los Angeles w Allyson Mitchell and Keith Manship September 2006
11) Sandra Rechico's Art + Gossip, Anywhere any time!!
12) David Liss's Hair, Anywhere any time!!
13) Strip-O-Rama, Gallery TPW Fundraiser at The Gladstone Hotel, Props to Enza Supermodel!!
14) Patrick DeCoste's simultaneous nervous breakdown, come back and great painting show @ Spin Gallery and many, many other locations!! 50% real - 50% PR scary and beautiful!!
15) Finnbogi Pétursson, Sphere, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, OMG! Ravey and atmospheric all at once/Jubal Brown's all night Halloween party at the Brickworks - it was the best and worst party I have ever gone to - party kids were trading smokes for plastic grapes from my head-dress - it was pretty Mad Max once the water ran out at 6 am!! Don't do poppers & pot in fall-themed drag in unlit abandoned buildings ever!! Pic attached (below).
Tino's top 10 (In no particular order)
Art hits the Street in 2006: While most art stays indoors I think we need to celebrate public art equally. This year was an especially fascinating and inspiring year for public art.
1. Best Street Art
Toronto's StreetArt Crews and Guerrilla artists (Stencils & PasteUps) Join the Street Art Scanvenger Hunt.Toronto Stencil Art Archive (Highlight)2. Best Community Art Project
Toronto PasteUps Art Archive (Highlight)
Another link with more excellent Toronto Street ART work documented ... http://flickr.com/groups/torontograffiti/
Inspiring and likely the most photographed art object in Toronto last year was the Kensington Community Car Project (since then it has been removed) http://photo.tino.ca/junkflower/
3. Best Public Space Performance Art
Who had the most fun doing public performance art in 2006? NewMindSpace
4. Best Public Community Event meets performance Art
Toronto PUblic Space Committee's Human River (TPSC)
We are the river - The river is us
5. Last year for Splice This!
Nine years of astounding film and passion and art... http://www.splicethis.com/photowall.php
6. Crosswalk - Paulette Phillips
Lovely video art of people crossing a downtown street while constantly looking into the camera. (Currently at the Power Plant as part of the exhibition We Can Do This Now) http://www.thepowerplant.org/current.html
7. Luis Jacob & Amos Lattier
Public Art so good it made City Hall squirm in their seats ... Pigeon Condo "If you had wings, you'd be home by now" http://pigeoncondo.com/
8. Michael Brown's 'Harbourfront Graffiti Transformation Projects'
Empty walls say nothing. Michael and his crew do something about it with consistently beautiful and deeply meaningful results. http://www.miguelmarron.com/communityart.htm
9. Bicycle Polo - Royal Society of Adventurerology
Activism meets performance art meets campy fun in downtown park. The revolution will not be motorized. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSdpqcBqcyE
10. The Clever Street Art Award
Recently, The Star, a newspaper in Toronto did a fashion layout using some of Poster Child's posters as a background. To let them know that he was watching, he put the model up on the same wall as a stencil in the same scale as the photograph. http://www.woostercollective.com/2006/10/stencil_to_newspaper_to_stencil.html
Michelle Allard
Michelle Allard Flourish (recently exhibted at Mercer Union)
Michelle Allard Greenscape (recently exhibited at eyelevel gallery)
Michelle Allard In Transit (currently on display at Diaz Contemporary)
Gordon Hicks
Gordon Hicks Organelles 1999 steel, rubber, custom electronics
(each ‘organelle’ is approx 10 in. across)
Gordon Hicks Organellessteel, rubber, custom electronics
(each ‘organelle’ is approx 10 in. across)
Gordon Hicks SCHEMA (detail) 2002 worked steel, coloured pencil on prepared wall
(8 ft. x 23 ft.)
Gordon Hicks Large Field 2005 acrylic sheet, aluminum paint, fluorescent
light fixtures (7 panels, 30 x 30 in. each)
Gordon Hicks Untitled (loop_01) (video stills, installation view) 2005
projected DVD image (2 ft. diameter) quicktime loop
Sandra Alland's Top Ten Art List for 2006
1. hands down, it's Tanya Tagaq throat-singing (and dancing) at Lula Lounge with her trip-hop-inspired DJ!!!!!!! you were a fool to miss it (http://www.tanyatagaq.com)www.blissfultimes.ca
2. The Lactation Station, performance art (breast-milk taste-test performance art!) by Jess Dobkin in FADO's Five Holes: Matters of Taste (http://www.jessdobkin.com/)
3. Thousand Mile Voice, an experimental, independent multi-genre music and poetry CD by Gein Wong (http://myspace.com/geinwong)
4. Esther & Rivkah's Latke Party at Katharine Mulherin's Sideshow (okay I'm cheating it's tomorrow but how can it not be top ten material?)
5. Gorey Story by The Thistle Project (interdisciplinary performance based on Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, at Artists Play Studio, www.thistleproject.ca)
6. the crazy music-performance collaboration between Sook Yin Lee (www.myspace.com/sookyinlee), John Kameel Farah (www.johnfarah.com/) & others at Xpace in Kensington for I Want To Go To Africa and Other Tales of High Adventure (this actually took place in the last two weeks of '05, but let's pretend okay?)
7. the DVD of Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July) and Miranda July's short story in McSweeney's #21 (frankly, anything Miranda July does http://mirandajuly.com/) 8. Tracy Wright & Caroline Gillis in Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View (theatre)
9. d'bi.young's wacked poetry-dub-reggae-punk high-energy performance with Dubbin' Gangsta Allstars at her book launch (Art on Black) at Lula Lounge (http://www.dbiyoung.net)
10. Get Your Lit Out, Pride reading organized by Debra Anderson at Art Metropole (www.debraanderson.ca)