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IT’S GOING TO BE A DIRTY NEW YEAR’S December 31, 2003
31 December 2003
Join us at Mercer Union’s Dirty New Year’s Eve Party. Dirty martinis, flowing champagne, red lipstick, tight pants, unclean thoughts, tarnished reputations and krunk rock. Music: from Philly Hollertronix (DJ Diplo & Low Budget)(Turntable Lab/Money Studies, Ninja Tune/Big Dada); from Montréal DJ Tim Hecker (Force Inc/Mille Plateaux, Alien8) vs. DJ Long Duk Dong (Vice, Montreal […]
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Lecture by ANNE ELLEGOOD Friday November 14, 7pm @ Mercer Union [Free]
14 November 2003 12am - 12amAnne Ellegood received her MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in upstate New York and is currently the New York-based curator for Peter Norton’s collection. Prior to joining the Norton Family Office in April 2003, she was the associate curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art where she organized the […]
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Platform: Guest Lecture by Montreal artist Maria Sheriff
28 October 2003 12am - 12amTuesday, October 28, 2003, 7 pm @ Mercer Union [FREE] Presented by the Art Gallery of Ontario Montreal artist and filmmaker Maria Sheriff will give an artist talk on her project for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Present Tense Contemporary Project Series, in which she combines sculptural form with the projected image in a new […]
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CONVALESCENCE & FABELTIER
Muriel Toulemonde
Curated by Rhonda Corvese
23 October 2003 - 29 November 2003
Opening Reception 23 October 2003 8pm
Back Gallery: Convalescence Peephole: Fabeltier “For Muriel Toulemonde, the body is a metaphor of the tragic, and the impossible. Interpreted as an allegorical tragedy, Convalescenceand Fabeltier reference primordial relations and philosophical enquiries.” Rhonda Corvese – excerpt from brochure essay A white horse and a black horse — a visual opposition that’s subtext is one of […]
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UTILITY STRUCTURE
Eric Glavin and Robin Merkisch
23 October 2003 - 29 November 2003
Opening Reception 23 October 2003 8pm
Front Gallery: Utility Structure “It’s important in my mind that these images I draw from don’t look designed in a high fashion sort of way and that they are also not museum pieces, that they don’t come off looking like they are exemplary of a certain era. They are active elements in the urban framework.” […]
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Davide Quadrio: Toward A Chinese New Technological Era
14 October 2003 12am - 12amPlatform: Video art in China, with a special focus on the Shanghai art scene, curated by Davide Quadrio. Lecture: Tues., October 14, 7pm (at Mercer Union) Screening: Sat., October 11, 8pm (Latvian House, 491 College Street, Toronto) video programme: Wu Ershan, Open Fire, 2002, 5 min, Beijing Zhao Liang, Untitled, 2002, Shanghai Chen Xianyun, Sorrow […]
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ANDREW’S BIRDHOUSE
Alisdair MacRae
12 September 2003 - 18 October 2003
Opening Reception 12 September 2003 8pm
Peephole: Andrew’s Birdhouse Within the confines of Mercer Union’s PeepHole, Alisdair MacRae will present a birdhouse, whose entrance mirrors the hole in the gallery wall. Brochure Text by Alisdair MacRae What could have taken several more weeks of decision-making came together in a matter of hours. Until moving to Brooklyn, I hadn’t seen Colin Zaug […]
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STACK
Colin Zaug
12 September 2003 - 18 October 2003
Opening Reception 12 September 2003 8pm
Back Gallery: STACK From a cluttered configuration of second hand furniture and other found objects to a smooth white rolling surface, New York-based artist Colin Zaug clashes mediums and aesthetics for his sculptural installation, STACK. The sculpture adheres itself to the architecture of the gallery, dividing the space like a curtain, simultaneously creating two spaces […]
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PORUS
Massimo Guerrera
12 September 2003 - 18 October 2003
Opening Reception 12 September 2003 8pm
Front Gallery: Porous For his first solo exhibition in Toronto, Massimo Guerrera will exhibit Porus an on-going project. Over three years Guerrera has produced and accumulated drawings, photographs and sculptures from monthly visits with a handful of friends, peers and acquaintances. In these, often one-on-one, meetings aesthetic objects become the impetus and markers for social […]
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Platform: Guest Lecture: Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy: Collecting, Chanelling
15 July 2003 12am - 12amTuesday, July 15, 7pm @ Mercer Union [FREE] *As part of Platform Programming we have developed “Curatorial Initiatives from Elsewhere,” an international curator’s lecture series that focuses on curatorial perspectives from ‘elsewhere’ for 2003-2004.*
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EACH THE SAME TO START
Derek Sullivan
3 July 2003 - 2 August 2003
Opening Reception 3 July 2003 8pm
Back Gallery: Each the same to start “There is an ongoing tug-of-war between lo-fi production and hi-end product, and really, these projects feel more like by-products than products per se.” – Janis Demkiw “You know it seems the more we talk about it. It only makes it worse to live without it. But let’s talk […]
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IN SPITE OF THIS
Pam Lins
3 July 2003 - 2 August 2003
Opening Reception 3 July 2003 8pm
Front Gallery: In Spite of This “What is given is a light play — a kind of skit for the gallery — achieved by insisting on improvisational handling. ” – Scott Lyall Pam Lins conducts a formal study of formlessness. For her exhibition at Mercer Union, the formless nature of clouds becomes the material centre. […]
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THE WATER REROUTING INITIATIVE SERIES (WRI)
Adam Frelin
3 July 2003 - 2 August 2003
Opening Reception 3 July 2003 8pm
The Peephole & the Platform: The Water Rerouting Initiative Series (WRI) Adam Frelin‘s public interventions are quick, spontaneous projects executed in public setting, photographed and left running. For his project with Mercer Union, Frelin took over public bathrooms, using duct-tape to redirect the natural flow of water from running sinks to urinals and toilets. Frelin […]
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FIRST PERSON
Rebecca Bournigault, kim dawn, Jonathan Horowitz, Sharon Switzer, Kerry Tribe
Curated by Kim Simon
22 May 2003 - 28 June 2003
Opening Reception 3 May 2003 8pm
“You’re like the invisible friend I had as a kid. Except you dress better.” On my less cynical days, I imagine art galleries as part of the public sphere, social spaces where relations of both affinity and conflict are played out through dialogue and debate. Social spaces where, through an encounter with art, we play, […]
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PUSH PLAY
Marie de Sousa, Michelle Forsyth, Mara Korkola, Melinda Morey
Curated by Katharine Harvey
11 April 2003 - 17 May 2003
Opening Reception 11 April 2003 8pm
In “Push Play”, the artists explore how the time-based motion of video and the stillness of the painted surface inform and inspire each other. The luminance of video is an ethereal realm animated by electricity, offering painting another surface in which to refer. The tactile and static realm of painting inspires the immaterial world of […]
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LUTON
John Wood and Paul Harrison-Luton
27 February 2003 - 5 April 2003
Opening Reception 27 February 2003 8pm
Back Gallery: Luton Paul Harrison (b.1966 Wolverhampton, UK) and John Wood (b.1969 Hong Kong) both studied painting at Bath College, UK and have been working together since 1993. Recent exhibitions include Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things), Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK; Sudden Glory, CCAC Institute, CA, USA; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; 2002. Monitor: Volume One, […]
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SCENES 1
Knut Åsdam
27 February 2003 - 5 April 2003
Opening Reception 27 February 2003 8pm
Front Gallery: Scenes 1 / Psychasthenia 10 series 2 Knut Åsdam (b.1968 Trondheim, Norway) He was educated in London, UK at Wimbledon College of Art (1988-9) and Goldsmiths College (1989-92). Åsdam represented Norway in the 1999 Venice Biennial and the 1999 Melbourne International Biennial and has exhibited extensively in the USA and Europe, most recently […]
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A POSTER PROJECT
Johannes Zits
16 January 2003 - 22 February 2003
Opening Reception 16 January 2003 8pm
Platform: A Poster Project Johannes Zits is no stranger to taking art out into the streets. Utilizing a campaign of billboards, posters and large-scale window images, Zits removes his art from traditional spaces and (dis)places it within the path of the everyday. With this platform project, Zits will plaster the streets of Toronto with a […]
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BUZZSCAPE
Duncan MacDonald
16 January 2003 - 22 February 2003
Opening Reception 16 January 2003 8pm
Back Gallery: Buzzscape For his solo exhibition buzzscape, Duncan MacDonald has created three new audio works. The first two works explore the sonics of mechanisms that create and deliver music: Self-recorded record documents the process of fabricating a blank record; the subtle noises that a cd-player makes as it randomizes through 99 tracks are isolated […]
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SHIFTED ROTATING DOOR
Melissa Laing
16 January 2003 - 22 February 2003
Opening Reception 16 January 2003 8pm
Front Gallery: Shifted Rotating Door Melissa Laing will install in the front gallery a flow control mechanism, a shifted rotating door. Dividing the gallery, the off-centered door is the only access point from one space into another. The door can be swung back and forth in a limited manner and only allows the passage of […]