Marco Cibola: Play | Record | Repeat

Image with colourful shapes
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 5:00pm to Saturday, April 4, 2015 - 10:00pm

Play | Record | Repeat
Marco Cibola
IAMD Thesis Exhibition
March 31 - April 4, 1 to 6 p.m. daily
Opening Reception 7 t 10 p.m. March 31

The work on display is born out of an examination of my process of making visual art and my process of making music. Through reflection on the similarities between the two processes, I have developed a system that allows me to spontaneously create visual compositions, which can then act as sketches for further visual work and/or serve as catalysts for new sound work. The work in this exhibition is the outcome of the implementation of the system. Divided by disciplines, the work is displayed in two physical spaces — a sound room and a visual room.

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond Street West, Level G
Email: 
mc12wi@student.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free
Image with colourful shapes
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Searching For No End In Sight...

SEARCHING FOR NO END IN SIGHT... Exhibition Poster
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 4:00am to Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 4:00am

An OCAD U Criticism and Curatorial Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition by Natasha Peterson

Featuring the work of:
PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR
and photographs from the ARCHIVE OF MODERN CONFLICT TORONTO

SEARCHING FOR NO END IN SIGHT . . . is an exhibition that begins with a line -- the horizon. As a fundamental feature of the landscape, the horizon conjures up feelings of infiniteness, longing, and even the sublime. In family snapshots, it marks a division between earth and sky, and provides a backdrop for scenes of leisure and informal congregation. This exhibition examines the horizon as a metaphorical subject and a framing device used by anonymous amateur photographers. By comparing found photographs with numerous others from the Archive of Modern Conflict Toronto, as well as the artwork of Parastoo Anoushahpour, the horizon is reconsidered as a subject with spatial and affective resonances.

Curated by Natasha Peterson

EXHIBITION: 17-21 March 2015, 12-5PM

RECEPTION: 19 March 2015, 7-9PM

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery - 205 Richmond Street West
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/exhibitions/graduate-gallery/current.htm
Email: 
natasha.c.peterson@gmail.com
Cost: 
Free

Sea Change: Artworks from the Perspective of a Transracial Adoptee

Poster of An OCAD U Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design Thesis Exhibition By: Omar Badrin
Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 4:00am to Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 4:00am

An OCAD U Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design Thesis Exhibition By: Omar Badrin

Opening Reception Friday April 10 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Regular Gallery Hours: noon to 5 p.m.

Sea Change: Artworks from the Perspective of a Transracial Adoptee is the title of the thesis exhibition by IAMD MFA candidate Omar Badrin. Badrin, who was born in Malaysia but raised in Newfoundland, uses his own autobiography to explore race and cultural identity. His crocheted artworks act as signifiers for Newfoundland culture by referencing the province’s lively craft tradition. Badrin initially incorporated craft as a way of finding a sense of acceptance into said culture. Over the course of his art-making practice, however, he realized that the desire to belong is perpetual one, with no permanent resolution. As a result, rather than questioning where he belonged, Badrin decided it would be more productive to examine where he is now and to embrace this space as an Otherness.

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Student Gallery, 205 Richmond St. W. Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
omarbadrin@gmail.com
Poster of An OCAD U Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design Thesis Exhibition By: Omar Badrin
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Engaging Ethnography: creative fieldwork in the everyday

Image of a roll of paper
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 4:00am to Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 4:00am

An OCAD U Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design Thesis Exhibition By: Miranda Whist

Opening Reception Thursday April 9th from 6 to 10 p.m.

Regular Gallery Hours: 2 to 8 p.m.

Engaging Ethnography attempts to address the everyday with a more fluid understanding of representation. By allowing the tacit and the intuitive to be components of anthropological research, my intent as artist-ethnographer is to communicate the affective and aesthetic nature of the everyday through more corporeal and visually explorative means.
This attempt to visualize the presence of the everyday has come in the form of audiovisual installations. Through projecting small-scale videos onto objects and spaces, Engaging Ethnography offers new (yet familiar) views of the everyday. I want to see how ethnographic consideration and artist engagement can craft a depiction of the everyday that speaks to its embodied, aesthetic and expressive qualities. Ultimately, these works are an attempt to convey a more experiential and perceptive form of communication; the goal being to highlight those understood or implied, yet not stated understandings that contribute to our awareness of the everyday.

Venue & Address: 
Artscape Youngplace, 110-180 Shaw St. Toronto, Ontario. Room 109
Email: 
mirandawhist@gmail.com, mw13gm@student.ocadu.ca

Navigating Uncertainty

Wooden blocks with text
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 4:00am to Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 4:00am

An OCAD U Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design Thesis Exhibition By: Lindsay Holton

Open Gallery Hours:
Tuesday March 24th from 12 -4 p.m. and
Thursday March 26th from 12 -4 p.m.

Uncertainty can be said to be one of the defining features of the modern era. There is a connection between this uncertainty and the anxiety the artist experiences because of living in the contemporary world. With a series of text-based drawings and installations, Navigating Uncertainty explores the implications of inhabiting an unpredictable universe

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Student Gallery, 205 Richmond St. W. Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
lh08ko@student.ocadu.ca
Wooden blocks with text
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Anthropomorphic Objects

Photograph of a woman controlling a life-sized marionette
Image of two people, one masked, facing each other
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 4:00am to Sunday, April 5, 2015 - 4:00am

An OCAD U Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design Thesis Exhibition By: Ana Jofre

Opening Reception Thursday April 2, 6 to 9 p.m.

Regular Gallery Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

This thesis exhibition is the culmination of an exploration of the uncanny through sculptures that evoke the sensation of a living presence. My sculptures are based on the human form because I believe that figurative imagery constitutes a universal visual non-verbal vocabulary. Though they are human sized, the sculptures function as puppets in that they are posable and can be used for performance, but they are also robotic in that they have some autonomous motion and some reactive motion. Another goal, in addition to conveying the illusion of presence, is to convey character or personality in each sculpture. As such, the works can be described as life-sized puppet characters, and I was able to use these characters to create playful interactive experiences for viewers, experiences that hinged on the uncanny and the illusion of presence.

Venue & Address: 
OnSite [at] OCAD U, 230 Richmond St. W. Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
aj13mj@student.ocadu.ca, dreamsofrevolution@gmail.com
Keywords: 

Transmissions from the Technological Sublime

Image of a car's brake lights at night
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 4:00am to Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 4:00am

An OCAD U Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design Thesis Exhibition By: Michael Trommer

Opening Reception March 19, 7 to 10 p.m.

Regular Gallery Hours: noon to 5 p.m.

Transmissions from the Technological Sublime is an audio-video installation employing 3D animation and multi-channel sound in order to experiment with textured and durational evocations of acoustic and pictorial space. It is a recursive wandering through the darkened landscapes of the technological sublime – the urban conurbations, war machines and vast systems of production and communication that simultaneously seduce and terrify us.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Black Box, 49 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
mt13mm@student.ocadu.ca, michaeltrommer@gmail.com
Keywords: 

Searching For No End In Sight...

Poster with a gun target
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 4:00pm to Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 9:00pm

SEARCHING FOR NO END IN SIGHT. . .
An OCAD U Criticism and Curatorial Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Featuring the work of:
PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR
and photographs from the ARCHIVE OF MODERN CONFLICT TORONTO

SEARCHING FOR NO END IN SIGHT . . . is an exhibition that begins with a line -- the horizon. As a fundamental feature of the landscape, the horizon conjures up feelings of infiniteness, longing, and even the sublime. In family snapshots, it marks a division between earth and sky, and provides a backdrop for scenes of leisure and informal congregation. This exhibition examines the horizon as a metaphorical subject and a framing device used by anonymous amateur photographers. By comparing found photographs with numerous others from the Archive of Modern Conflict Toronto, as well as the artwork of Parastoo Anoushahpour, the horizon is reconsidered as a subject with spatial and affective resonances.

Curated by Natasha Peterson

EXHIBITION: 17-21 March 2015, 12-5PM
RECEPTION: 19 March 2015, 7-9PM

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond Street West, Level G
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/exhibitions/graduate-gallery.htm
Email: 
np13kh@student.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free
Poster with a gun target
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Nebularity

Sculpture of two faces
Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 5:00am to Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 4:00am

An OCADU Criticism and Curatorial Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition

Opening March 5, 7 – 9 p.m.

The pervasiveness of the abject in contemporary art proves that transgression has more to offer than short-lived shock value. For thirty years the abject has continued in the mainstream art sphere as a perturbing thematic that threatens mortality and incorporates bodily fluids. While other types of transgressive art have become accepted and even institutionalized, the presence of abject art remains undertheorized. The question endures: why is abject art still so provocative?

Nebularity presents an updated lens to reconsider the experience and display of abject art in the twenty-first century. Three contemporary artists – Louis Fortier, Jesika Joy, and Kim Stanford – employ abject tendencies that elicit emotional engagement and strong reactions. By confusing boundaries, imposing intimacy, and deteriorating conventional forms, these works demonstrate that the abject is not just another genre of art but a practice of continually challenging structures of subjectivity and knowledge.

Jesika Joy is a Toronto-based video artist who works with deliberately confrontational sexualized scenarios. With a PhD in social and political thought, Joy addresses feminine issues and bodily politics in an unapologetic graphic manner. Her works both repel and attract by drawing viewers into aggressive portrayals of intimate, abject activities.

Montreal-based Louis Fortier engages with malleable wax-like materials to create abject sculptures of facial and body parts. While gesturing towards Greco-Roman portraiture, the mutated forms are at once sensual, tactile, carnal and grotesque. The morphing shapes hint at alien forces that play with human flesh in impossible and monstrous ways.

Kim Stanford is a Toronto-based artist who creates unnerving three-dimensional sculptures and engulfing installations. Though the materials bear a familiar domesticity, they typically are things used and discarded, and so become abject through unnatural accumulation. Her aesthetic carries undertones of ambiguity, vulnerability and the uncanny.

Venue & Address: 
60 McCaul St. (Brinks Building), Toronto
Email: 
<p>mattkyba@gmail.com</p>
Phone: 
<p>647 464 7961</p>
Keywords: 

There Is Always More Than What We Perceive - MFA Thesis Exhibition

There is Always More Than What We Perceive
Friday, March 6, 2015 - 5:00pm to Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 4:00pm

Featured artists:
Michèle Pearson Clarke,
Abdi Osman
Natalie Wood

Thesis Exhibition Curated by Geneviève Wallen (MFA Graduate Student in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice Master's Program)

March 6 – March 14, 2015
Reception, Friday March 6th, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

We’ve been arguing for decades about identity and authenticity and who’s Black and who’s not and I want to yell above the din-Truce! – Touré

There Is Always More than What We Perceive is an exhibition project that explores the ways in which contemporary Toronto-based Black queer artists engage issues of identity, race, sexuality, gender and space in their art works. The selected artists namely Michèle Pearson Clarke, Abdi Osman, and Natalie Wood push against the confinements of an imagined authentic blackness that has been constructed around an assumed patriarchal and heterosexual ideology. There Is Always More than What We Perceive seeks to acknowledge different kinds of performances of Blackness in order to give latitude, freedom, and unbind Black identities.

Please join us for a performance by Natalie Wood on Friday March 6 2015, from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 pm followed by a reception from 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 pm at the Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond Street West (at Duncan), Toronto.

There Is Always More than What We Perceive is made possible by the generous financial support of OCAD University, The State of Blackness, and Akasha Art Projects

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery 205 Richmond Street West, room 104 (Ground Floor)
Website: 
http://m.facebook.com/events/700329433421492
Email: 
gw13ig@student.ocadu.ca
There is Always More Than What We Perceive
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