part 2 images
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Model for a Public Space,
Plywood construction, Mercer Union, Toronto 2000, Architecture Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg 1999
Petra Bauer and Annette Krauss, still from film Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, 2009. Image courtesy of the artist.
special projects and events part 2
March 1–31
- Adrian Blackwell’s, Model for
a Public Space [knot], 2010
Reading Room, Hart House
Opening Reception: Thursday March 4, 5-7pm
Location: Hart House Reading Room, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle
Public discourses are complex and knotted. They intertwine, affect, antagonize, fold over themselves, and flee in different directions. Model for a public space [knot] is a set of concentric bleachers, which reflects this structure of discourse in its physical arrangement. It provides singular locations for divergent perspectives, while allowing a large number of people to sit and talk comfortably in close proximity to one another. The piece considers both senses of the word model. It is at once a projective idea about how people relate to one another and a temporary maquette. It acts as both an idea or diagram, and a material object, an experiment in the relation between form and social engagement.
knot is located in the Reading Room at Hart House for the month of March. The knotted structure is available for people to sit on whenever the Reading Room is open. In addition to the un-programmed day to day activity, it can be booked by any individual or group interested in engaging in non-hierarchical discussion.
Free Discussion Space Available!
For more information on MPS (knot) discussions click here
Monday, March 8
- 7:00–8:30pm, (Music Room, Hart House)
Keynote Lecture: Annette Krauss
Towards critical links between art, education and activism.
This lecture will discuss and investigate the relation between art, education and activism – and whether the power of the conjunction “AND” (e.g. between art “AND” education “AND” activism) could provide a space for social participation, and ideally become a site for political and social negotiations. Through her practice, she attempts to formulate questions and generate practices that engage the social imagination towards critical links between art, education and activism; and, at the same time, tries to avoid being bracketed within these themes; to move towards synergizing these areas, and out of this develop specific ideas, cases, alliances and practices.
Annette Krauss is working as an artist. In her conceptual-based practice she addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Exploring the possibility of participatory practices, performativity and investigations into educational structures, she is interested in questions of how norms and values control our perceptions, knowledges, and practices in everyday life, and how this contributes towards the development of human relations within specific social contexts. She received her MA in Fine Arts in the Art Academy Malmö, and has participated in the postgraduate Critical Studies Course Malmö, IASPIS Residency program and was part of the conception team of the first children and youth program at documenta 12. She exhibited e.g. in Becoming Dutch, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Hidden Curriculum, Utrecht; Invisible Landscape, Lund Konsthall; Momentum Biennial, Moss; Soft Logics, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Walden, Kunsthaus Dresden.
Co-presented by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries
Saturday, March 13
- Screening: Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given
by Petra Bauer & Annette Krauss
1:00pm-3:30pm
Co-presented by the Gallery TPW
Gallery TPW
56 Ossington Avenue
Toronto ON, M6J 2Y7, Canada
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