MERCER

PAST EXHIBITION

Love / More Love

13 December 2007 - 20 December 2007
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am

Love / More Love A Mercer Union Members Exhibition and Sale 13 December to 20 December 2007 Closing Party and Sale 20 December 2007 Doors open promptly at 8PM All works $100.00 Dean Baldwin / Christine Baigent / Katie Bethune-Leamen / Diane Borsato / Krista Buecking / Corinne Carlson / Trudie Cheng / Taku Dazai […]

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Wyrd Visions at Mercer Union

Wyrd Visions at Mercer Union Friday 7 December, 9PM FREE Colin Bergh’s Wyrd Visions will take you on a psychedelic journey through a dark forest filled with droning elven music. Using repetition as its base, Wyrd Visions is essentially stripped down trance music. Songs are composed of chanting and ostinato guitar melodies that reference Scandinavian […]

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Test Reading Series: OANA AVASILICHIOAEI and ANGELA CARR

Thursday November 29th, 2007, 8:00 p.m. OANA AVASILICHIOAEI is a poet and a translator from Romanian and French to English. Her first book of poetry, Abandon (Wolsak & Wynn), appeared in 2005. Her translation of a selected poems of the Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu, Occupational Sickness (BuschekBooks), appeared in 2006. Excerpts from a work just […]

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HALLOWEEN PARTY – Saturday October 27th, 9pm

Get on Board Mercer Union’s Spaced-Out Hallowe’en Bash MOTHERSHIP Saturday October 27th, 9pm Funk and new Wave Sounds by DJ Major Tom Colin Bergh DJ Noah’s Arkweld plus late-night iPod Djs Kelly Mark, Zin Taylor and Alex Snukal $5 Before 11:00pm, $8 After Mercer Union 37 Lisgar Street (one block SW of Queen and Dovercourt) […]

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Test Reading Series: Trevor Joyce and the Max Middle Sound

Thursday, October 25th, 8 pm: Trevor Joyce and the Max Middle Sound Project. Co-founder of the New Writers’ Press in Dublin, Trevor Joyce has published eleven volumes of poetry, including The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976), his working of the middle-Irish Buile Suibhne, and stone floods (1995), which was nominated for the Irish Times Literature […]

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OVERGROWN

Janet Morton

24 October 2007 - 8 December 2007
Opening Reception 24 October 2007 8pm

Back Gallery: Overgrown Artist talk by Michel de Broin: 7:00pm A few weeks after transforming the building at the top of our street for Nuit Blanche, Janet Morton returns to create a dense ivory mass of plush tangled vines a foot deep, clinging to the back gallery wall. With monochromatic materials varying in tone and […]

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SHARED PROPULSION CAR

Michel de Broin

24 October 2007 - 8 December 2007
Opening Reception 24 October 2007 8pm

Front Gallery: Shared Propulsion Car Artist talk by Michel de Broin: 7:00pm The just-announced winner of the 2007 Sobey Art Award Michel de Broin presents “Shared Propulsion Car”, an ’86 Buick Regal stripped of its engine, suspension, transmission and electrical system and outfitted with 4 independent pedal and gear mechanisms. The vehicle retains the illusion […]

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Terrible Noises for Beautiful People

Terrible Noises for Beautiful People Presented by the Misha Glouberman School of Learning Visitors will be invited into a vacant commercial space next door to Mercer Union, where they will make sounds with each other. Terrible Noises is part of Nuit Blanche and runs from sunset Saturday night till sunrise Sunday morning. PLUS: From 1:00 […]

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Instant Coffee: Sunday Nook Dinner

MERCER UNION presents Sunday Nook Dinner Sunday September 23, 7 pm Join Instant Coffee for Sunday dinner and conversation in the Nooks. Limited Seating – 24 only – please RSVP* to Mercer Union by Friday, end of day. Featuring delicious comfort food by Les Louises Catering, complimentary wine or beer with your meal, and a […]

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An informal talk with Joseph del Pesco

20 September 2007 - 20 September 2009

Mercer Union Presents: An informal talk by the peripatetic curator Joseph del Pesco Friday, 20 July 2007, 7PM Joseph del Pesco works as a curator for Artists Space (New York) where his first exhibition “On Being An Exhibition” will open in the Fall. He has also organized independent curatorial projects for the Galerie Analix in […]

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SEAN BONNEY and FRANCES KRUK

The Test Reading Series returns for the fall with readings by SEAN BONNEY and FRANCES KRUK Thursday, 20 September 2007, 8:00 p.m. SEAN BONNEY’s selected poems, Blade Pitch Control Unit, were published by Salt in 2005. Since then he has produced Document:Hexprogress, Black Water and an ongoing set of versions of Baudelaire. His work has […]

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INSTANT COFFEE: NOOKS

Instant Coffee

14 September 2007 - 20 October 2007
Opening Reception 14 September 2007 8pm

Instant Coffee: Nooks Opening Friday September 14th, 2007, 8 pm Please join us on Friday September 14th at 8pm for the launch of our fall season with Instant Coffee: Nooks. The Toronto/Vancouver artist collective Instant Coffee take over the front and back galleries with a sculptural social environment based on a kitchen nook from one […]

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Mercer Union Poster Project

This summer Mercer Union commissioned a series of four colour posters from artists Adam Chodzko (London), Janice Kerbel (Don Mills/London), John Lurie (New York City) and Euan Macdonald (Los Angeles/Toronto). The posters are not available for sale, but will be posted around the city in the coming weeks. Watch for them.

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Art-Book Fair and Sale

Art-Book Fair and Sale Sunday August 19th Noon to 5pm Mercer Union 37 Lisgar St (one block SW of Queen and Dovercourt) Free Admission Publishers, dealers, artists and authors including Art Metropole, Apollinaire’s Bookshop, The Art Gallery of York University, Bywater Brothers Editions, Coach House Books, Mercer Union, Parasitic Ventures Press, YYZ Books and many […]

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Brian Joseph Davis CD Release Party

Blocks Recording Club Summer Release Party! Featuring Brian Joseph Davis and Katie Stelmanis Friday, August 3, 9PM, FREE Please join the Blocks Recording Club to celebrate the release of Brian Joseph Davis’ “The Definitive Host.” The Definitive Host collects the work of sound artist Brian Joseph Davis into one, oversized package, including: Ten Banned Albums […]

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Dorit Chrysler – Theremin Performance and Workshop

Sunday July 29th, 8pm Invented 1919 by Russian electro physicist Lev Sergejewitch Termen, the Theremin generates sound without being touched. Notoriously hard to play, it is one of the first electronic instruments and inspired the creation of synthesizers in future generations. Dorit Chrysler made her musical debut at age 7 at the Graz Opera and […]

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Closing Party in the Minibar

27 July 2007

One Night Only: Arturo P. Handler presents: An Evening Of Pure Entertainment Starring Funnyman Andy Boorman Maybe Baby Mary Milne The Shadowy World Of San Salvador’s Ulysses Castellanos & The Sweet Island Sounds Of Bosco The Steel Drum Wonder A Celebration On The Closing Of The Exhibition Seducing Down The Door With Dean Baldwin, Anitra […]

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Clothing Swap

MERCER UNION’S SECOND EVER CLOTHING SWAP: The Mind-Blowing Legacy of Extreme Awesomeness Continues… Sunday, July 15, 6pm Mercer Union 37 Lisgar Street FREE Sort of almost one year to the day after last year’s triumphant Clothing Swap, Mercer Union is pleased to once again present an exercise in the mutual appreciation of that which garbs […]

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Anitra Hamilton: Beater

WEDNESDAY JUNE 27th at the MOCCA (952 Queen Street W) at 8pm sharp. Anitra Hamilton’s Beater, is a defunct automobile covered in colourful tissue-paper pom-poms and converted into a festive piñata – complete with nacho chips, salsa and tequila- which blindfolded participants are invited to smash with sledgehammers. Part of the group show Seducing Down […]

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SEDUCING DOWN THE DOOR

Anitra Hamilton, Corwyn Lund, Dean Baldwin

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21 June 2007 - 28 July 2007
Opening Reception 21 June 2007 7pm

Please join us on Thursday June 21st at 8pm for the opening reception of Seducing Down The Door, an exhibition featuring new works by Toronto artists Dean Baldwin, Anitra Hamilton and Corwyn Lund. Here their distinct practices subtlety intersect and overlap, particularly through the use of colour, form, charm and play, which serve as a […]

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Stephen Parkinson

Saturday, May 12, 9pm Toronto-based musician, Stephen Parkinson studied composition with Rudolf Komorous, John Celona, Michael Longton, Owen Underhill and Roger Reynolds. He is a founding member of The Drystone Orchestra, an active member of the Toronto improvised music scene, and plays with the experimental salon orchestra Marmots. His piece Desires Are Already Memories is […]

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Test Reading Series: Sandra Alland and Kate Greenstreet

Friday May 11, 7:30 pm Sandra Alland is a writer, multimedia artist and activist. She has published and presented her work in Canada, the US, Mexico, Bermuda, the UK and Spain. Sandra has two full-length collections of poetry: Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan Books, 2004) and Blissful Times (BookThug, 2007). She is currently and perpetually […]

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ART NOW

Thérèse Mastroiacovo

21 April 2007 - 26 May 2007
Opening Reception 21 April 2007 8pm

Front Gallery: Art Now Mercer Union is pleased to present a new two-person exhibition featuring work by Thérèse Mastroiacovo (Montreal) and Corinne Carlson (Toronto). Mastroiacovo presents a series of pencil drawings of art books with the word “now” in the title, in an attempt to addresses the lifespan of the ‘present.’ A sculpture made from […]

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RECORD JACKET

Corinne Carlson

20 April 2007 - 26 May 2007
Opening Reception 21 April 2007 8pm

Back Gallery: Record Jacket Mercer Union is pleased to present a new two-person exhibition featuring work by Thérèse Mastroiacovo (Montreal) and Corinne Carlson (Toronto). At the core of the exhibition are texts appropriated from album and book covers. Carlson critiques gender inequalities and the romantic notion of the (male) genius artist by creating a fictional […]

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ICE STORM PARTY

What Happens at Mercer Stays at Mercer Spring is here! Come out of hibernation and shake what your momma gave you at Mercer Union’s ICE STORM party on Friday, April 13th! The gallery will be transformed into a swingin’ 70s bachelor pad with bean bag chairs, mood lighting, disco balls and 70s cinema. Enjoy custom […]

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Terrible Noises for Beautiful People

Terrible Noises for Beautiful People: Misha Glouberman’s Birthday Party. Improvised sound event. Make noise with other people, then have cake. Latvian House 491 College Street Friday March 28th Doors 7:30, show 8:00 sharp. Tickets $12 at the door, $10 online and at Soudscapes. For more information visit www.schooloflearning.org/birthday/

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Cornelia Lauf Artists Books Lecture

Please join us on Tuesday March 25th, at 7pm, for an informal lecture by curator and Artists’ Books publisher Cornelia Lauf. Born in Germany and based in Rome, Italy, Cornelia Lauf is a curator and editor of Artists’ Books. She has curated exhibitions or published works by or about Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Wim Delvoye, […]

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TEST READING SERIES: Stuart Ross and Rod Smith

Test Reading Series Friday March 16, 7:30 pm: Stuart Ross and Rod Smith Stuart Ross is a Toronto fiction writer, poet, editor, small-press publisher, and creative-writing instructor who has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s. He sold 7,000 copies of his self-published poetry and fiction chapbooks in the streets of Toronto […]

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MAN AT A COMPUTER

Rob Waters

2 March 2007 - 7 April 2007
Opening Reception 1 March 2007 7pm

NOTE: A free shuttle bus will depart from Mercer Union at 6:45 pm to Oakville Galleries for the Monika Napier exhibition mad, mad, mad world. The bus will leave Gairloch Gardens at approximately 9:45 pm and drive passengers back to Mercer Union. Mercer Union presents two exhibitions with new work by Monika Napier (Montreal) and […]

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POWER CORD SERIES: NEXUS

Monika Napier

2 March 2007 - 7 April 2007
Opening Reception 2 March 2007 8pm

NOTE: A free shuttle bus will depart from Mercer Union at 6:45 pm to Oakville Galleries for the Monika Napier exhibition mad, mad, mad world. The bus will leave Gairloch Gardens at approximately 9:45 pm and drive passengers back to Mercer Union. Mercer Union presents two exhibitions with new work by Monika Napier (Montreal) and […]

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Test Reading Series: M. NourbeSe Philip & Hugh Thomas

January 24, 7:30 p.m. M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, novelist, and short story writer. Originally from Tobago, Philip completed a Master’s degree in Political Science as well as a degree in law, both at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. She practised law for seven years in Toronto, before giving it up […]

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EFFONDREMENTS

Diane Morin

12 January 2007 - 17 February 2007
Opening Reception 12 January 2007 8pm

Mercer Union is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions, and the return of the Peephole project space. Artist talks by Kate Terry and Diane Morin: 7:30 Back Gallery: Effondrements By placing explosive powder inside hollow and translucent household objects, Diane Morin orchestrates a series of tiny explosions. Not powerful enough to destroy […]

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WORLD’S LONGEST SOCK DOLL

Seth Scriver

12 January 2007 - 17 February 2007
Opening Reception 12 January 2007 8pm

Mercer Union is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions, and the return of the Peephole project space. Artist talks by Kate Terry and Diane Morin: 7:30 Peephole: World’s Longest Sock Doll In Mercer Union’s newly restored peep hole exhibition space, Seth Scriver will be “continually showing a loop of the world’s longest […]

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INTERFERENCE

Kate Terry

12 January 2007 - 17 February 2007
Opening Reception 12 January 2007 8pm

Mercer Union is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions, and the return of the Peephole project space. Front Gallery: Interference Artist talks by Kate Terry and Diane Morin: 7:30 Using utilitarian craft materials, Kate Terry’s practice mimics the strategies of hobbyists and the manners of a do-it-yourself sensibility. Working with the flimsiest […]

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The Test Reading Series is pleased to present a bilingual reading

Nicole Brossard + Barbara Godard and Sharon Harris (biographical notes below) Wednesday 7 February, 7:30 p.m. Montreal-born NICOLE BROSSARD, poet, novelist and essayist, twice Governor General Award winner for her poetry (1974, 1984), member of l’Académie des lettres du Québec and of La société royale du Canada, is one of Quebec’s most celebrated authors. For […]