Pop by XPACE and see our new and uber-fantastic Library

-THE CURATED LIBRARY--Texts curated bi-monthly to coincide with exhibitions 

-NEW XPACE ZINE LIBRARY-- Zines, comics, bookworks, anthologies from local and international artists 

-NEW BOOGIE WOOGIE MIX TAPE LIBRARY-- Curatorial project by Sarah Butterill devoted to cassette tape music and sounds. Participants borrow a tape (each home-made cassette tape has a specific theme) and a walkman of their choice and engage with their surroundings. For more information visit: http://beigecube.de/boogie/boogie.html

No Permanent Address

Opening Reception: Friday April 13, 2012 from 6-8 pm

Images Festival and Gallery TPW are very pleased to co-present work by Mark Boulos. No Permanent Address is a three channel video portrait of the New People’s Army, a Maoist guerrilla group in the Philippines. Shot over several months while living amongst their members, the work speaks to the persistence of communist ideologies at a time in which Boulos suggests “capitalism has begun to lose its sense of inevitability.”

Illustrator Workshop @ XPACE

This Illustrator (and some Photoshop!) workshop will teach you all of the "101" type things you need to know about these Adobe programs. Some specific things we're going to cover is how to set up a document, shape manipulation, photo importing, image processing, what all those keyboard shortcuts do, document layout and more. This workshop is three hours long with a break in the middle. We'll be starting at 1pm sharp, so be sure to get there on time! Bringing a laptop will be extremely helpful to each participant, but it's not mandatory. If you can buddy up with somebody else's computer and take turns trying things out, that would be good, too.


This workshop will take place on Saturday April 14, from 1-4pm @ XPACE Cultural Centre.

Q: What is this good for?
A: Your next gallery show invite, your zines and bookworks, posters, and other publications. It's also extremely helpful to acquaint yourself with Adobe software. A lot of the basic functions are similar and it will be easier to learn other programs if you already know one or two.

Q: What should I bring besides myself?
A: A laptop if you have one (with a mouse!), a notepad, a pen, and some coffee (no spilling).

Q: Can I contact someone if I questions before/after the workshop?
A: Yes, you can e-mail Carolyn here: trippcar@gmail.com



Cost for this workshop is $10. 
Please RSVP by email by April 12th to alicia@xpace.info if you would to attend. 
We will cap the workshop at 16, so be sure to sign up early, as spots with go fast.

Something for the Subway

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contacting Toronto: We're in this Together

'We're in this Together' is opening up a dialogue about Toronto in all its facets, and we are looking for images that explore Toronto in the following ways: the different communities that define Toronto; how personal relationships help make the city more livable; current political and economic realities; geographical boundaries; ecological uncertainties. All accepted images will be seen on over 300 screens across the TTC, with a photo playing once every five minutes all day throughout the month of May, as well as on the project website. A Public Installation of CONTACT; supported by the the Ontario Arts Council. Submissions must be made through Flickr. Submission Deadline: May 30th, 2012. www.contactingtoronto.ca

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)

No talk, just TUFF. The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) returns for a sixth year of spectacular one-minute silent films. Forever the strong and silent type, TUFF takes place September 7 - 17, 2012 on the Pattison Onestop subway screens, reaching an audience of over one million daily commuters. Canadian and international artists are invited to submit work that is of interest to an urban audience. The festival accepts all genres of silent, one-minute film, video and animation. The 2012 guest judge is acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal ("Payback", "Manufactured Landscapes" "Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles"). TUFF is co-produced by Pattison Onestop and Art for Commuters. Submission Deadline: July 15, 2012.www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com

Puzzled, By Certain Things

April 14-May 19, 2012 @ Trinity Square Video

Opening April 14, 2012

Artist's Talk: May 5, 2012, 2pm

Trinity Square Video and the 25th Images Festival are excited to present a process-based installation by renowned Kingston-based artist Gary Kibbins.Puzzled, By Certain Things is created as part of TSV yearly Artist-in-Residence program, which aims to advance video's expanding sphere of experimentation. Beginning with the festival in early April, this year's edition of the program will see Kibbins activate the TSV Gallery with a video-based work that will change over the course of its exhibition.

Drawing on Kibbins' significant contribution the Canadian video art, the exhibition is organized in two parts: Puzzled, By Certain Things and the presentation of two of the artist's revered videos (Cop Out, featured in the first iteration of the Images festival and A Short History of Water, part of the TSV Purchase Collection, 1979-1999). In each work Kibbins uses humour, language games, and explorations of rhetoric and philosophy to exploit video's capacity to break down linguistic and visual distinction. Kibbins new work will further develop on his fascination with shifting structure and meaning in language through sight, sound, and the introduction of spatial form.

Gary Kibbins is a media artist and writer currently teaching at Queen's University. His latest single-channel work is The Unlucky Sailor: 9 Unread Chapters of Finnegans Wake (2011). A collection of his essays and scripts titled Grammar & Not-Grammar (2006) is available from YYZ Books.

neither here, nor there

Thursday March 29, 2012 to Thursday April 12, 2012

Student Exhibition @ Transit Space, 

100 McCaul St, OCAD U

'Neither Here, Nor There' investigates the social construction of place through a series of drawings, paintings, photographs and performances. This theme will be explored in two different but interconnected ways. First, the tendency of self identification though place is addressed by several of the artists. 


These works will reflect on the “inherent” human desire to belong and to have a place that they can call their own. Other works will question these desires through depictions of vacancy and abandonment, and lastly an ongoing performance pice will investigate the construction of the Gallery space it's self. Through these varying depictions, Neither Here, Nor There attempts to understand the very soul of the places we inhabit, as well as how they affect our identity and our actions.

Participating artists: Sarah Rose Turner, Tyler Gillan, Johanna Martin and Kelli Jerome
Curated by Meghan Hunter-Gauthier
In collaboration with the OCAD U Performance Collective

Flow

Emily Schaefer's work Flow focuses on the physical application of medium to surface. Working flat, she pours, spreads, dips and manipulates fluid acrylic paint onto panels. At times this spreading carries the colour over the edge of the panel, validating it completely as part of the painting and not simply a vessel that carries it. She intuitively places each mark, layering the abstract forms, and at times adding a heavy build up of material. Her intense, minimalist paintings capitalize on the smooth fluidity of the paint, with strong contrasts in colour and surface.