XPACE 58 Ossington Ave. Toronto
Opening Reception Thursday, March 20th, 7pm – 10pm
Artist Talks Saturday, March 22, 2pm
Hideous Beast, Leah Glushien & R. Garth Miller
Facilitated by Tejpal Ajji
Featuring
Michelle Bush (St. John's, NL) & Coral Short (Vancouver, BC)
Leah Glushien (Cambridge, MA) & R. Garth Miller - (Bewdley, ON)
Hideous Beast–Charles Roderick (Denver, CO) & Josh Ippel (Chicago, IL)
Jessica James Lansdon (Tucson, AZ) & Lauren Macdonald (Athens, GA)
Hannah Jickling (Toronto, ON), Emi Uemura (Sapporo, JP), Michael Eddy (Amsterdam, NL) and Tamara Henderson (Kitakyushu, JP)
myformerbeauty (ebay seller) & Amy Pelletier (Vancouver, BC)
Doublebounce introduces six artist teams working across geographic distance. Their projects reveal the potential and limitations of mediated communication and challenge what it means to collaborate. Curated by Helen Reed and Maiko Tanaka, the Toronto edition of Doublebounce presents the work of early-career artists who work in collaborative, community-based, and conceptual new media practices to negotiate their various long distance relationships and collaborations.
As a continuation of the 2007 exhibition in Brooklyn, New York, the Doublebounce network covers a variety of cities for the Toronto show: from St. John's to Vancouver; Tucson to Athens; Cambridge MA to Bewdly ON. Using video, field tests, newsletters and more, the works for Doublebounce Toronto highlight the physical and conceptual space between people and places, mediated by everyday activities.
In all, Doublebounce exhibits a cross-section of the practice of everyday artful collaboration inspired by the question, how can we keep in touch in meaningful, productive, and creative ways?
Curators
Helen Reed enjoys company and coworkers. Her work incorporates social activity, collaborative work and public interventions. Recent projects have included an artist residency centre in a tent trailer, landing a senior citizen on the moon and instigating the Saskatchewan pizza riots of 2007.
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Maiko Tanaka is a Toronto-based independent curator interested in collaborative and community-based art practices. Since attaining a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Maiko has participated in an art and social practice intensive at the The Kitchen in New York; led cheerleading performances with Open Engagement at the University of Regina; and curated Instructional Tapes by Artists as part Nuit Blanche 2007 at the University of Toronto's Hart House.
Featured Visiting Artist Talk
Hideous Beast is a collaborative effort between two artists, Josh Ippel and Charlie Roderick based in the United States.Through organizing structured participatory events they attempt to encourage cultural activity outside the bounds of mainstream entertainment and fabricated desire. Critical of the audience as a passive participant, Hideous Beast seeks to coordinate events in which an acknowledged exchange between the event (as entertainment) and the spectator (as collaborator) can generate meanings beyond traditional formalized modes of entertainment. www.hideousbeast.com
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58 Ossington Ave.
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Media Contact
Helen Reed & Maiko Tanaka
doublebounce@gmail.com