Recipes for an Encounter

http://www.rev-it.org/projects/recipes.htm

Book Launch: Thursday 11 March, 2010, 7-9 pm (Toronto)

as part of Extra-curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy 2

a symposium curated by Maiko Tanaka

presented by the JMB Gallery

http://www.extra-curricular.info/

Toronto Free Gallery

1277 Bloor Street West, Toronto

with Adrian Blackwell, Dave Dyment, Berin Golonu, Marisa Jahn, Candice Hopkins, Kristina Lee Podesva, and Alex Snukal

 

 

Join artists, writers, and the co-editors to launch the new book Recipes for an Encounter, a compendium of recipes, instructionals, diagrams, scores and texts that function as catalysts for various types of encounters. In Recipes for an Encounter, readers are invited to complete the work by testing out the recipes to yield infinitely varied outcomes. Contributors to the book and other artists will share their recipes in a night of interactive performances. 

Purchase the book at one of the launches or order the book online from Printed Matter's website.

BIOS

Adrian Blackwell is a visual artist, architectural and urban designer whose work has been exhibited across Canada, at the 2005 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen and at the 2006 Nuit Blanche, Toronto. His published texts include Unboxed: Engagements in Social Space which he co-edited with Jen Budney, as well as selected writing published in Urban China, Architecture and Ideas, and Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space. In 2007, Blackwell won the Nathan Phillips Square design competition and is a member of the Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry and the editorial collective of SCAPEGOAT. He teaches architecture and Urban Design at the University of Toronto and has been a visiting professor at Chongqing University and the University of Michigan.

Dave Dyment is an artist, writer and curator and was the Director of Programming at Mercer Union from 2004 to 2008. Prior to that, he spent five years at Art Metropole where he presented small retrospectives of artists such as Yoko Ono, Allen Ruppersberg, Candyass, Dick Higgins, and Jenny Holzer. He has also presented curatorial projects at the Harbourfront Centre, YYZ Artists Outlet and 15+ in Calgary. His writings have appeared in C Magazine, Mix Magazine, Lola and a number of exhibition catalogues.

Berin Golonu is a doctoral student in the Visual and Cultural Studies program at the University of Rochester. As Associate Curator of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco from 2003 to 2008, she curated and co-curated close to a dozen exhibitions. Her feature articles and reviews have appeared in Afterimage, Aperture, ArtinAmericamagazine. com, Art Nexus, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Contemporary, frieze, Sculpture, and Zing Magazine. Golonu holds an MA from the Visual and Critical Studies Program at CCA.

Candice Hopkins is the Sobey Curatorial Resident at the National Gallery of Canada and is the former Director/Curator of Exhibitions at the Western Front, Vancouver and has an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY. Her writing is featured in the journal Leonardo, www.horizonzero.ca, C Magazine, FUSE Magazine and in Reinventing Radio: Aspects of Radio as Art, Campsites, Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture, and Making a Noise! Aboriginal Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and Community.

Marisa Jahn is an artist/writer/activist and co-founder of REV-.

Tianna Kennedy's experiments in transmission began as monthly improvisatory radio broadcasts in Bushwick, Brooklyn and now include performances, installations, sculpture, sound, video, writing and teaching. Kennedy was a founding member of the August Sound Coalition, an autonomous media project, which, in one manifestation, created a popular Art and Action Radio station coincident with the 2004 Republican National Convention and protests in New York City, and subsequently received a Best of 2004 music in Art Forum.  Kennedy is active in the New York experimental music scene both as an organizer and as a musician. According to Time Out her ensembles are 'marked by chance and joy,' and collectively they are 'about as predictable as chimps in a mall.' Tianna has worked with producers such as Dave Sitek and Jim Waters. Her current collaborators and bands include: Stars Like Fleas, Ferrum Virgo, Daniel Carter Quartet, Mike Wexler, Hannah Marcus, Zeke Healy, Foxy Propositions (with Kevin Shea), and Twisty Cat. Kennedy has a Masters in Perfromance Studies from New York University.

Kristina Lee Podesva is an artist, curator, and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. She is the founder of colourschool, a free school within a school dedicated to the speculative and collaborative study of five colours (white, black, red, yellow, and brown) and co-founder of Cornershop Projects, an open framework for engaging with economic exchange in its myriad forms. Her work has appeared in exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In between things, she is an editor at The Fillip Review, a publication of contemporary art, culture, and ideas.

REV- is a non-profit organization that furthers socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. REV- produces projects that fuse disciplines, foster diversity, and vary in form (workshops, publications, exhibitions, design objects, etc.). Engaged with different communities and groups, REV-'s projects involve collaborative production, resource-sharing, and a commitment to the process as political gesture. The organization derives its name from both the colloquial expression "to rev" a vehicle and the prefix "rev-" which means to turn-as in, revolver, revolution, revolt, revere, irreverent, etc.