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33rd Annual Doin' the Louvre
Artcite’s 33rd annual DOIN’ THE LOUVRE Holiday FUN(d)raising®™ exhibition
Fam Artist's Space
Artcite is partnering with Harvesting the FAM this year to serve as an open gallery for visual artists during FAM events.
The Dignity of Work
In defiance of the “erasure” of aspirational images of working people, The Dignity of Work aims to re-affirm the importance of the representation of workers and work.
Margie Kelk: NOWHERENESS
“Margie Kelk’s current work is concerned with issues of pain, rootlessness, and alienation, in relation to online and offline social networking sites. Her ceramic heads – their faces distorted, filled with despair and sometimes hope – are placed among models of disassembled computer components; they become components themselves, victimized or in control.”
Art's Birthday
For Artcite’s 31st year, our annual celebration of ART’s BIRTHDAY (1,000,051st !) we filled neighbouring Phog Lounge with a night of Fluxus Fun, performance and live music.
Jennifer Willet: Natural Science
Jennifer Willet, 2014.
In July 2011, twenty artists, scientists, filmmakers, theorists and students engaged in an art/science research experiment where a diverse set of individuals came together to live and work at a bioart field research station in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. BioARTCAMP was a collaborative art/science project designed by Jennifer Willet and co-produced by INCUBATOR Lab and The Banff Centre. Participants worked to build a portable laboratory in the forest and conducted a variety of scientific, ecological, creative, and theoretical projects. BioARTCAMP served to provide alternative visions of of the biotech future: ecological, embodied and responsible visions of our relations and responsibilities to the other life forms we share our planet and our laboratories with.
In this exhibition, NATURAL SCIENCE, Willet will present an un-natural history collection; a collection of items, life forms, images, and stories resulting from the BioARTCAMP project. In the NATURAL SCIENCE collection traditional hierarchies between what is natural and unnatural are undermined. Lab specimens co-exist with local ecological specimens, cultural artefacts and human subjects. These objects, in tandem with photographic, video, and archival documentation of the camp attempt to recount the BioARTCAMP experience and serve to re-imagine the role of biotechnology in our shared natural history.
BioARTCAMP Participants: Iain Baxter&, Angus Leech, Tagny Duff, Paul Vanouse, Marta De Menezes, Marie Pier Boucher, Kurt Illerbrun, Bulent Mutus, Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks, Jennifer Willet, Jamie Ferguson, Britt Wray, Kacie Auffret, David Dowhaniuk. Additionally, Tokio Webster, Grant Yocom, Louise Baxter&, Joan Linder, Dylan Leech.
Video Direction: Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks
Project Assistants: Billie Mclaughlin, Arturo Herrera, Lauren DiVito, Dianne Clinton, Patrick Bodnar.
Supporters: The Canada Council for the Arts, the Banff Centre, the University of Windsor, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, Hostelling International, Parks Canada, Banff National Park, The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden, Fonds BKVB.
http://bioartcamp.blogspot.com/http://www.jenniferwillet.com
http://www.incubatorartlab.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Incubator/203661772982677
http://bioartwindsor.blogspot.com/
http://leidenbioart.blogspot.com/
Installation and Artcite reception, 2014.