CALL FOR SUBMISSION, OPENINGS + EVENTS

Openings / Events

Thursday, February 5, 2015

”A Year in Revenue: Felix Kalmenson

A Year in Revenue proposes an archeology of the formal remnants of late 20th century financial structures and investigates the successive stages of dematerialization born of the late capitalist optimization paradigm. These dematerializations have consequently restructured the built environment and occupational frameworks of finance, radically altering the appearance of the stock market floor; algorithms have replaced floor traders, the stock market floor has been restructured to accommodate computational power, and whole buildings and infrastructural systems have been retrofitted to optimize the flow of data and capital. A Year in Revenue adopts an archaeological strategy, investigating and cataloging the remnants of those systems that were subsequently rendered obsolete by this phenomenon. The show is composed of a series of installation works, employing strategies of critical reconstruction that examine these physical and conceptual structures in a museological setting presenting a troubling narrative of capitalistic optimization and dematerialization.

6pm – 8pm
416 Gallery
Pari Nadimi Gallery
254 Niagara Street, Toronto,
Ontario M6J 2L8
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HERE

A photography exhibit showcasing work from 10 emerging OCAD U artists exploring the self as a performative subject within the photographic frame.

7pm- 11pm
Autumn
478 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto,
Ontario M6R 2N5
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AGO First Thursdays

***PLEASE NOTE: This event is SOLD OUT, and tickets will not be available at the door. Tickets for next month’s First Thursday will go on sale at 10 a.m. on February 6 at ago.net.

We’ve come across fraudulent tickets for previous sold-out AGO events, and we want to help you avoid disappointment, so here is a reminder that tickets for any AGO exhibition or event need to be purchased directly from us. Please be aware that any ticket you purchase from an external agent may be fake, and if it is we will not be able to redeem it on site. Please exercise caution.***

7pm – 11pm
AGO – Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto,
Ontario M5T 1G4
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WEIRD DANCE NIGHT #1
$10 at the door or PWYC
Cash bar and hot apple cider
Come on time – this will be short, intense, awesome, and maybe even weird!

Videofag
187 Augusta Avenue, Toronto,
Ontario M5T 2L4
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Pornothèque X: Boy Pussy & K8

Pornothèque X

Boy Pussy
K8

#acid #house #techno #porno

The Beaver
1192 Queen St W, Toronto,
Ontario M6J1J6
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Friday, February 6th, 2015

FEB 6-15 NEST COLLECTIVE: “INHABITANCE”

Inhabitance is a group exhibition featuring the works of Nest Collective, a group of emerging artists working out of a shared studio in the heart of Toronto. Through Nest we create and embody our collective environment; continually informing and being informed by the changing notions of space, residence and habitance while simultaneously exploring our own individual practices.

7pm – 11pm
#Hashtag Gallery
801 Dundas St. W., Toronto,
Ontario M6J 1V2
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NEØPRENE // FRESH FLESH // HOT MESS // CAM LEE
HOT BEATS
LIVE MUSIC
FRESH FLESH
https://freshflesh1.bandcamp.com/releases
NEØPRENE

DJS’ HOT MESS & CAM LEE!
DANCE FLOOR

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10pm
The Steady Cafe & Bar
1051 Bloor St W, Toronto,
Ontario M6H1M4
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David Spriggs “The Nature of Power” Opening Reception

Over the past 15 years power has been a recurring theme in David Spriggs’ artwork where it is deconstructed, repressed, controlled, and contained in order to transform the concept into an objectified thing for the viewer to analyze. This exhibition brings together a selection of the artist’s works that relate to various forms and symbols of power. Transparency, whether optical or metaphorical, is the key to understanding the intricate relationship between vision and power. Using his signature style of layering images on transparencies, Spriggs has created a hybrid space that exists seamlessly between painting and sculpture to break free from the laws that restrict both two and three-dimensional form. The fragmentary nature of the artist’s medium enables a tension to exist between form and emptiness, creating the impression of physical presence without physicality. Instead, the physicality of Spriggs’ artwork exists in the realm of the visual and in our ability to process concepts of power.

6pm – 9pm
Neubacher Shor Contemporary
5 Brock Ave, Toronto,
Ontario M6K 2K6
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ACID BATH 002 ● GINGY ● SINS

DETH records presents ACID BATH 002.

Extended acid house dj sets by:
Gingy (Turbo ● Clone)
SINS (ϟ†Nϟ) (Deth ● Pretty Pretty)

We are setting up a decent sound system in a dark basement in Chinatown.

NIGHT LIFE GUARD “on duty”

11pm
8-11 gallery in the basement
233 Spadina
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Saturday, February 7th, 2015

AKIN WINTER GALLERY CRAWL

AKIN WINTER GALLERY CRAWL
FEBRUARY 7, 1-6PM.

1. MEET AT MOCCA (952 QUEEN ST.W) AT 1PM.

2. HEAD TO BIRCH CONTEMPORARY

3. HEAD TO GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS

4. HEAD TO SUSAN HOBBS GALLERY

5. HEAD TO DIAZ CONTEMPORARY

6. JOIN US FOR FREE BEER AND TREATS

Please join us for a private tour of the current exhibitions at some of Toronto’s best and brightest galleries and a special walk through of the Douglas Coupland exhibition at MOCCA.

1pm – 6pm
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)
952 Queen St W, Toronto,
Ontario M6J 1G8
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THE TRAVELLING GYPSY MARKET~ Valentine’s Edition

Great Spirit Designs, “Made Through Us, Not By Us”, to host once another POP UP FLEA MARKET in Kensington. Including local artisans/artists, vintage and yummy treats. We call it (pass the loudspeaker with an echo effect) “THE TRAVELLING GYPSY MARKET~ Valentine’s Edition”

Our first show which was extremely welcomed by the Kensington Community was at Scrim4Rent over the December holidays. We’re moving on to the next stop, like most Gypsies do. Kensington’s best fabulous flea market has moved into a BIGGER, and BALLSIER location! Our Next stop is Sublime Espresso Bar with the best vinyl classics in the world, playing right when you walk through the door.

11am – 6pm
Sublime Espresso Bar
219 Augusta Ave, Toronto,
Ontario M5T 2L4
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Silent Dinner with Amanda Coogan and collaborators

>>>>Audience is free to come and go during performance

Visit our video booth and leave your comments and reflections.

FADO Performance Art Centre presents Silent Dinner, an 8-hour performance in which a group of 13 people prepare, cook, and eat a dinner in shared silence, without communicating in their own languages, in front of the attending audience. The participants are a combination of Deaf and hearing artists, performers and non-performers. FADO Director Shannon Cochrane and special guest artist Amanda Coogan (Ireland, CoDA) conceived of this project for the inaugural Progress Festival.

Performance: 1pm – 9pm (FREE)
Post-performance Q&A: 9pm-10pm (FREE)
The Theatre Centre
1115 Queen Street West, Toronto,
Ontario
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Encounters | York University Second Year MFA Exhibition
ENCOUNTERS is the group exhibition of the eleven second year Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts students at York University.

Participating Artists:

Katie Bruce
Miles Collyer
Ashley Culver
Scott Harber
Rebecca Houston
Michelle MacKinnon
Ella Morton
Christos Pantieras
Anna Sarchami
Frances Thomas
Amy Wong

“In the past two years, the eleven artists participating in this exhibition have worked to develop, deconstruct, and redefine their individual art practices within the incubating structure of the MFA program at York University. Having shared workspaces, mentors, and classes together, the graduating artists emerge here not as creative collaborators. Rather, they form a set of singular, potent voices that grow more resonant through the incidental fricatives and harmonies arising in and from encounters with one another.”
-Vanessa Fleet & Megan Toye, excerpt from Encounters Publication Essay, 2015

Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Toronto,
Ontario
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Sunday, February 8th, 2015

La Vallée : Analogue Works by Laura-Lynn Petrick

La Vallée is a visual exhibition by Toronto based analogue photographer and filmmaker Laura-Lynn Petrick. The works are Petrick’s depiction of her psychedelic experiences in the valleys of California. Visions of the sun-soaked landscapes and the heat of the desolate desert. La Vallée is a rare series of new photographs and movie projections by the analogue artist.

7pm – 2am
The Embassy Bar
223 Augusta ave., Toronto,
Ontario
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2015

Chloe Wise: Guest Artist Presentation

Please join us for this exclusive talk with Chloe Wise at the Ryerson School of Image Arts. She is visiting Toronto and spending time at Ryerson to lecture and collaborate with students, in addition to holding this public presentation to speak about art, fashion, her career as a quickly emerging artist and what inspires her unique and experimental work.

7pm
Ryerson University School of Image Arts
122 Bond Street, Toronto,
Ontario M5B 1X8
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Fashioning Life: Wear Your Story

More than a protective skin for hiding or showcasing the body, clothing is a repository for emotion and memory. It is also a powerful medium for communicating and writing a life. Fashioning Life: Wear Your Story explores fashion and clothing as a medium for life writing.

This exhibition features the work of fourteen women. Each was given a simple white dress made of thin canvas and asked to fashion it so as to articulate and illustrate a personal story or experience that shaped her life. These canvas dresses, which reflect the iconic fashion silhouettes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, presented the base garment that the women were encouraged to manipulate and deconstruct as they wished.

Design Exchange
234 Bay Street P.O. Box 18 TD Centre, Toronto,
Ontario M5K 1B2
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SUBMISSIONS

The Mattress Factory
Deadline: February, Friday 6th, 2015

The Mattress Factory is currently accepting submissions to be considered for inclusion in upcoming exhibitions at the museum. Submissions will be accepted now through Feb. 6, 2015. National and international artists are equally welcome to submit.
To be considered, please complete the attached form. Include a brief cover letter, your exhibition history, a selection of your best images of past work and a list identifying them. You may also provide video clips, a professional website link, Vimeo/ YouTube links, and a few publicity items. If attaching video samples directly, keep files to an upload size of 50 MB or less. Only submit examples of recent work that focus on installation art. We want to get a sense of your body of work, background and current art practice.