ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES 5
April 30 – May 14, 2010
This show, the result of an ongoing partnership between XPACE and a family of alternative highschools, provides a supportive educational experience for youth to learn and contribute to the local cultural community and serves as a launching pad for young artists to share their unique creative voices with the broader public.
WE ARE WILD
May 21 – June 12, 2010
We are Wild uses photography to explore our connections and disconnection with nature. The artists in this exhibition employ tactics of investigation, manipulation and observation in order to communicate their understand of the natural world.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!
July 2 – July 24, 2010
XPACE will be creating a contemporary carnival as an exploration of the carnivalesque and it’s subsequent subcultures. We are looking to showcase work that celebrates the unique aesthetics and assertions of carnivals, circuses, fairs and parades – and explores how ideas born out of these uniquely rebellious celebrations manifest themselves in contemporary life. We also encourage submissions that addresses the changing dynamics of the carnivalesque’s inherent radicalism, as manifest in mainstream popular culture.
PARTS OF A HOLE
Sep 17 – Oct 8, 2010
A group show of sculptural work from local, OCAD, and international artists, using the legacy and theory surrounding the ready-made made as raw material for their work, resulting in a number of disperate aesthetic manifestation, questions of authorship and craft and function.
UP AND ATOM
May 21 – June 12, 2010
A solo exhibitiom for XBASE Basement Gallery of a series of five screen-prints. Each single edition screen-print features an individual image of an atom, donut, cloud, magnet and ghost. Superimposed on each illustration is a circular target. The prints were used as paper targets at a shooting range, where ten rounds were fired on each.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!
July 2 – July 24, 2010
XPACE will be creating a contemporary carnival as an exploration of the carnivalesque and it’s subsequent subcultures. We are looking to showcase work that celebrates the unique aesthetics and assertions of carnivals, circuses, fairs and parades – and explores how ideas born out of these uniquely rebellious celebrations manifest themselves in contemporary life. We also encourage submissions that addresses the changing dynamics of the carnivalesque’s inherent radicalism, as manifest in mainstream popular culture.
775 KING ST. WEST
Sep 17 – Oct 8, 2010
775 King St. West is a single channel video in which a performer walks the perimeter of the site where a recently demolished building at 775 King St. West once stood. With each lap the performer takes on the site, interior noises depicting the building’s history fade in and out.