Articles from:October 2023

• Join us on Nov. 2 for Lan ‘Florence’ Yee: Sharper Tools for Unripe Fruit

  Sunday, October 29, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Image: Lan ‘Florence’ Yee

  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture and Walker Cultural Leader Series:

  Lan ‘Florence’ Yee: Sharper Tools for Unripe Fruit

  Online and onsite artist talk
  STAC 2P93 — Critical Practice in the Fine & Performing Arts
  Thursday, Nov. 2 from 7 to 9 p.m.

  Spanning media from textiles to signage, Lan “Florence” Yee’s interdisciplinary practice uses text and labour-intensive creation. Inspired by the socio-political and personal history of Cantonese displacement, Lan explores what Desmond Wong calls “the intersection of filiality and arrival.”

  The public is invited to join us in MWS 156 to attend Lan Yee’s virtual presentation or to join us on zoom.
  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts
  Art and Val Fleming Smart Presentation Classroom
  MWS 156, MIWSFPA , 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines

  The presentation is also available to view online,
  please register ahead of time via Zoom.

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• Derek Knight: PLACES, A Flâneur’s Eye opens October 27 at the MIWSFPA

  Monday, October 23, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Photo credit: Derek J.J. Knight, Gaston Lachaise, Floating Figure, 1927 (cast 1935), Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (© dk 2018).

  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture presents

  Derek Knight: PLACES, A Flâneur’s Eye
  October 27, 2023 to January 13, 2024

  Exhibition opening: Friday, October 27 from 5 to 7 p.m.
  Museum in the Hallway / Boîte-en-valise
  (2nd floor by the Theatre entrance), MIWSFPA
  15 Artists Common, St. Catharines

  Museums and galleries draw prestige from their architecture, geographic locale or historical significance, while compelling works of art, performances, and public expressions of creativity galvanize the diversity of art both within sanctioned institutional spaces and the ‘non-spaces’ that have the capacity to take on resonance.

  Derek Knight: PLACES, A Flâneur’s Eye documents Knight’s museum visits over the last decade in North America and Europe.

  Curators: Catherine Parayre and David Vivian
  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture

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• Small Walker Press at Art Metropole, Sat. Oct. 7, 2023

  Friday, October 06, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Photo credits: Annette le Fort; Bernhard Cella

  The Small Walker Press (SWP) was hosted by Art Metropole in Toronto for the launch of the 2023 volumes Touch, and Tender Readings. Books As Archives, and Handmade.  The editors of the SWP, Catherine Parayre and Nicholas Hauck, of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, and David Vivian of the Department of Dramatic Arts, the Director of STAC, were joined by the creators of Handmade, Seth Weiner and Bernhard Cella, via zoom from Vienna, Austria.  In the audience were members of the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective Collective, among others.

  The SWP thanks Sara Maston, Communications & Data Coordinator for Art Metropole, Blair Swann, Associate Director, and Arshdeep Kang, Programs, Publications & Shop Assistant, for their generous hospitality.

  For the 2023 series Books and Archives, four book designers published their reflections on archives.

  Two artists – Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort – visit their local public library, check out a few books, keep these for a few days then return them. The text and black-and-white photographs included in Touch, and Tender Readings. Books As Archives document this trip to the library. They evoke a sensory experience – tactile, visual, and olfactive – and a meditative performance – walking through the stacks, touching book covers, turning the pages of a book. LaBelle and le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.

  

  Handmade is the product of a reflection between two artists whose practice includes book design and curatorial projects.
  For Handmade, Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner wrote together short creative-writing pieces. Each is the facetious description of contents in an imaginary book. They then used these descriptions to generate images of book covers through AI. The images look like photographs of books, although none of these books (none of these covers) actually exists. The book descriptions refer to content that was never written. The result is a catalogue of books that do not exist. Handmade points to the importance of book design and marketing (book descriptions, catalogues).

  Parayre and Hauck also presented the online volume (Im)mobilités, and the many other notable volumes of the Small Walker Press, including Possible Grounds. Redrawing Relations in Toronto, Beneath a Velvet Moon. Early Love Poems and Tewaaraton. La crosse / Lacrosse, seen here on a shelf celebrating indigenous art and artists at Art Metropole.

  Join us for the next SWP event on Thursday Oct. 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Commons of the Brock Library, for another Small Walker Press book launch for Books and Archives, presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and the Walker Cultural Leader Series.

   

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  Small Walker Press book launch: Books and Archives
  Presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and  Walker Cultural Leader Series

  Saturday, Oct. 7 from 2 to 3 p.m.
  Art Metropole, Toronto, https://artmetropole.com/
  896 College Street, Toronto, ON M6H 1A4 +1 416-703-4400

  OUR NEXT EVENT:

  Small Walker Press book launch:
  Books and Archives
  Presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and  Walker Cultural Leader Series

  Thursday, Oct. 19 from 2 to 4 p.m.
  Brock Library, Learning Commons

  Free event, open to the public

  Small Walker Press Catalogue Fall 2023

  Small Walker Press Book Launch two-pager Fall 2023

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