Opening Wednesday, 19 January 2011 from 6 – 9 pm

 

Revolutionary Sundays

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The Centre for Incidental Activisms

 

On Wednesday, January 19, ride out there to the opening reception of AGYU’s Revolutionary Sundays and The Centre for Incidental Activisms (CIA) on the award-winning Performance Bus with Anitra Hamilton and her side-kick Scott McGowan! The Jeff Koons Performance Bus departs OCAD at 6 pm sharp and returns downtown at 9:30 pm.

 

Anitra Hamilton is a Canadian-born artist. Her work has been shown here, stateside, and abroad. Her works appear in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is the past recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award and a Chalmers Fellowship.  Retrospective on Parade was presented at the AGYU in 2007. Anitra has upcoming projects in New York and China. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto.

 

 

The Centre for Incidental Activisms (CIA) Inaugural Events

 

Upon arrival at the gallery, visitors are met with a series of one-off situations that inaugurate The Centre for Incidental Activisms (CIA), staged by artists Eugenio Salas, Deanna Bowen, and Public Studio: Eshrat Erfanian + Elle Flanders + Tamira Sawatsky, with Zev Farber and John Kamevaar.

 

Eugenio Salas was born in Mexico City in 1976. His artistic practice is based on performative actions that employ intervention, video, film, animation, photography, slide projection, artist books, and installation media. His single-channel videos have been screened in a number of festivals in Canada, United States, Mexico, Spain, and Italy.

 

Deanna Bowen is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. She received a Masters degree in Visual Art at the University of Toronto (2008) and a Diploma of Fine Arts from Emily Carr College of Art and Design (1992). Recent works have been shown at Diaz Contemporary, The Images Festival, Thames Gallery, and Art Gallery of Peterborough and her solo exhibition Stories to pass on… is touring nationally through 2013.

 

Public Studio

Elle Flanders is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto. She was raised in Montreal and Jerusalem and holds both an MA in Critical Theory and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her work has been screened and exhibited at the Berlin International Film Festival, the MOMA, and festivals worldwide. Flanders is a PhD candidate in the Visual Arts at York University, where she also teaches.

Tamira Sawatzky is an architect and artist working in Toronto. She was raised in Winnipeg and holds a BA in English from the University of Winnipeg and a MArch from the University of Manitoba. She has been working for the award-winning firm MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects since 1998, designing community centres and libraries.

Eshrat Erfanian is a visual artist based in Toronto and a PhD candidate at York University, where she also teaches. She has an MFA from University of Toronto, and is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program in NYC. Her work has been exhibited in the USA, Europe, and Canada.

Zev Farber is an interdisciplinary digital media artist based in Toronto. John Kamevaar is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is sound art. Since 2009 they have collaborated as the electronic/noise audio-visual duo Kaiser Nietzsche.

 

 

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Accolade East Building, Room 116
York University, Toronto

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The Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and our membership.

 

The AGYU is located in the Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele Street Toronto. Gallery hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 am–4 pm; Wednesday, 10am–8 pm; Sunday from noon–5 pm; and closed Saturday. Admission to everything is free.

 

 

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