SPECTACLE AND IMPERMANENCE:  THE STUDENTS RESPOND, SPRING, 2011

A group of graduate students assembled from the two participating faculties, Visual Studies and Architecture, is producing a one evening happening in response to the fall series.   The student happening will take place on the evening of March 4, 2011 from 6pm - 8pm at One Spadina Crescent on the St. George Campus.  The artists and respondents from the fall series will be encouraged to attend along with the broader University of Toronto community.  A reception will be held at the conclusion of the afternoon events on site at One Spadina Avenue.

Participating Students, Visual Studies 

Miriam Arbus, Brett Bergmann, Francisco Granados, Tarnjeev Guram, Matt Macintosh, Faye Mullen, Wanda Nanibush, Katherine Porter

Participating Students, Architecture

Nariman Mousavi, Nelson Cheng, Chris Wanless, Max Berg, Mohammed Soroor

SPECTACLE AND IMPERMANENCE RECAP

The Spectacle and Impermanence Event series has been presented by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design and the Department of Art, Visual Studies Program, University of Toronto.  Co-curators are Tom Bessai, Architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture from the Daniels Faculty and Lisa Steele, Artist and Associate Chair of Visual Studies.  The series has been sponsored by The Jackman Humanities Institute and is part of the JHI Program for the Arts, 2010- 2011 on the theme of Image and Spectacle.

The Fall Event Series, Spectacle and Impermanence engaged students and faculty on all three campuses of the University of Toronto. Prominent Toronto-based visual artists presented small prototypes of larger - often spectacular in size - projects. Each installation/presentation was followed by a discussion session with students and faculty led by a respondent from the Daniels Faculty.  The discussion located these very temporal works within the broader architectural and cultural discourse on public space, identity and the city. 

Nov 5, 2010, UTM

Gordon Monahan:  Space becomes the instrument

Respondent, David Lieberman, Daniels Faculty

Nov 12, 2010, UTSC

Tanya Mars:  Six images in search of an artist

Respondent, Andy Payne, Daniels Faculty

Nov 19, 2010, St. George Campus

Kent Monkman, Gisele Gordon:  Iskootao

Respondent, Scott Sorli, Sessional Lecturer, Daniels Faculty

 

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