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 digifest 2008: Water's EDGE
Friday 28 March 2008
Come join us for an evening of special presentations part of digifest 2008 at Harbourfront Centre!
digifest 2008 is presented at Harbourfront Centre in conjunction with Design Exchange and Ontario Science Centre
Events
World Processor
Ingo Günther, Artist, Germany/USA
6pm - 10pm
Marilyn Brewer Community Space
235 Queens Quay West
Of more than 300 illuminated globe sculptures addressing global issues, this exhibition is a selection representing the photographic counterpart to the installation work. It is in the plethora of information that a differentiated view of the work is offered.
Günther uses data mapping information and representation that correspond to global issues to illustrate the surfaces of these innocently illuminated globes. Arresting imagery provides a stark contrast, often pertain to a harsh reality.
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This installment of World Processor is supported by the Goethe Institute
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© Jose Betancourt / Ingo Günther |
Viva El Malecón!
Rebecca Belmore, Artist, Vancouver
9:00pm
Harbourfront Centre Site
A new performance by artist Rebecca Belmore—Viva El Malecón!—celebrates the famed seawall that protects the city of Havana and its ability to withstand and confront the powerful waves that come crashing in from the north.
Born in Upsala, Ontario, Rebecca Belmore is an artist currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended the Ontario College of Art and Design and in 2005 received an Honourary PHD. Belmore is internationally recognized for her performance and installation art. Since 1987, her multi-disciplinary work has addressed history, place and identity through the media of sculpture, installation, video and performance. Belmore was Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally including two solo touring exhibitions, /The Named and the Unnamed/, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2002); and /33 Pieces/, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga (2001). Her group exhibitions include /Houseguests/, Art Gallery of Ontario (2001); /Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby/, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1995); /Land, Spirit, Power/, National Gallery of Canada (1992); and /Creation or Death: We Will Win/, at the Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba (1991).
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Feast for a Scavenger, 2007. Courtesy of the artist. |
The Wedding Rehearsal
Pierre Allard and Annie Roy, Artists, Montreal
6:00pm - 9:00pm | SOLD OUT!
Brigantine Room
235 Queens Quay West
ATSA's The Wedding Rehearsal presented by the Theatre Centre in partnership with Harbourfront Centre and digifest.
The Theatre Centre and ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable) as part of Digifest invite you to an intimate project performance-dinner.
This meal will mark the beginning of a series of community brainstorm sessions leading to the creation of the group's next large-scale Toronto project entitled The Wedding. This event, much like the larger project is meant to spark discussion and reflection on the human condition and social cohesion.
ATSA was founded in 1997 by artists Pierre Allard and Annie Roy to create urban interventions: installations, performances and realistic stagings that bear witness to our current social and environmental reality.
ATSA's works investigate and transform urban landscape to restore the citizen's place in the public realm, depicting it as a political space open to discussion and societal debates.
ATSA’s approach uses the aestheticism and symbolism of art as tools for effecting social change. It creates works that, through the experiences they offer, provoke thought and bring about action. By grabbing passers-by from their daily worlds and ushering them towards a fiction which strangely resembles reality, the works foster an emotional understanding of the problems at hand and generate positive citizen action.
ATSA’s past works include:
- États d'Urgences [State of emergency], 2007, an urban refugee camp in the heart of downtown Montreal, a recurring intervention since 1998 (view);
- Parc industriel [Industrial Park], 2001, an imitation archaeological site made of discarded objects, provoking thought on society’s over-consumption (view);
- Walls of Fire, (2002), a blazing and irreverent evening and walking tour exploring the history of Saint-Laurent Boulevard (“The Main”) through its fires (view);
- Attention: Zone Épineuse [Warning: Prickly Zone], Oct 2002, an intervention on Mount Royal about the precariousness of our ecological heritage (view);
- Attentat#! [Attack#!] series (nos.1 to 10) against the manufacture of ultra-polluting vehicles for mass consumption (view);
Weathering Architecture
Filiz Klassen, professor, performer, Toronto
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Studio Theatre
235 Queens Quay West
Focusing on the creative potential that emanates from the interaction between built spaces, people, and the atmospheric phenomenon in the context of Toronto’s architectural fabric, this unique piece combines elements of art, design and performance and attempts to break down the static nature of built environments through a live presentation.
Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Research/Creation Grant.
Associate Professor Filiz Klassen holds a Master of Architecture degree in Architectural Design from McGill University (1990) and a Bachelor of Architecture with honours from Middle East Technical University (1987). She has received the NCIDQ certificate. Her research focuses on transportability and sustainability of built environments in a hybrid practice of fashion, furniture, interiors, architecture and industrial design. Her research projects involve the exploration of alternative, lightweight materials and fabrication methods for common design problems in built or made environments. She has presented internationally in Singapore, London, and New York and been a guest lecturer at Delft and Ankara. Her articles were published most recently in a book entitled Transportable Environments II, and in academic and professional journals such as the International Journal of Art and Design Education, Building and On Site Architecture Magazine. She is also an independent curator. Her most recent curation, Home: Mobile, Modular and Light, was on display as part of Digifest at Design Exchange Museum, May 2004. Filiz Klassen is the co-editor of the third book on Transportable Environments by Spoon Press following the conference she co-chaired.
Other showdates included with digifest pass:
Saturday 29 March | 8:00pm
Sunday 30 March | 2:30pm
Presented as part of
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