Roadworks : Performance Festival and Exhibition

Saturday July 13
C. Wells Begun in 1996 as a component within a larger painting practice that asserts the socio-cultural contribution of the line marker; 'the hand loves that which is hard' is an ongoing photo-performance project that involves the re-painting of line markers in situ.		image courtesy Carole Timm
Eleven Statements About Line Markers: 1. Line markers are cultural compass cards, worldly in scope. 2. Line markers are graffiti's distant cousin, a tag in time, if not actually in creative step. 3. Line markers are compliance and familiarity tenuously balanced by vigilance and the unexpected. 4. Line markers are idea trips full of subtle gestures, windows wound down. 5. Line markers seek to communicate in a non-picturesque way, happy to hum rather than sing. 6. Line markers are a street's pop culture signifier, cradling the written word but not the slogan. 7. Line markers are hard emotive currency. 8. Line markers are terra tattoos, bestowed without prejudice and never on a whim. 9. Line markers constitute a pseudo-primary palette with accompanying tones. 10. Line markers are wires for pedestrians and margins for vehicles - all moving, balletic in their unity, choreographed ála Tati. 11. Line markers are common men. C. Wells Recomposed from the textworks, 'eh, dah, be' 1997, 'nay, brr, hood' 1998, and 'nein, teen, 11' 2001. BIOGRAPHY C. Wells has exhibited across Canada and was a contributing artist to the 1994 Expo Arté, in Guadalajara, Mexico through Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg. Selected recent exhibitions include: 1911, McMaster Museum of Art, 'and then we take berlin', Kitchener ArtWorks, Mitchell: Southwest Triennial, London Regional Art and Historical Museum, 1998 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Glenbow Museum/Edmonton Art Gallery. He currently lives and works in Hamilton.
Will Kwan Don't toe the line, or toe your own line paint, performance This street action is an attempt to delineate a temporary space of play and performance among the official lines of the city. BIOGRAPHY Will Kwan is a performance artist and writer interested in public art and street performance. His performance work has been presented on sidewalks and public grounds throughout Toronto as well as at the 7a11d International Performance Art Festival* (Toronto), FADO Performance Art Inc. (Toronto), and the University of Toronto. In the fall of 2002, he will begin his M.F.A. studies at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City. Will was born in Hong Kong in 1978.		Will Kwan, don't tow the line, or toe your own line, 2002 Performance at College and Huron Photo: Audrey Reyes