12 Apr 2011

'The Good Host' at Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga

The Good Host
April 17 - May 22, 2011
Curated by Su-Ying Lee

With works by Michael Connor & Heather Keung, Atom Deguire, Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund & Duncan MacDonald

Blackwood Gallery Opening Reception & Bus Tour
Sunday April 17, 12 to 3pm
FREE Shuttle Bus departs from the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West) at 12noon for Blackwood Gallery (UTM), Metro Hall (Toronto) and returning to MOCCA by 3pm. Artists in attendance.

An exhibition taking place in four locations, The Good Host can be experienced as one, or a series of encounters that provoke deliberation. The aim is to unfix the viewer's perception of prescribed uses for urban space and reconsider their own agency within it.

As a proposition on spatial problems in the urban environment, The Good Host draws attention to access to and denial of space, the prescriptive assignment of spaces and the manner in which these conventions shape our consciousness. Project locations and artists: The Middle Zone, Michael Connor & Heather Keung, courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), 952 Queen Street West; Everything I'm Not Makes Me Everything I Am, Atom Deguire, Blackwood Gallery (Kaneff Centre) with a corresponding vinyl and poster intervention on Queen Street West between Dufferin and Shaw Streets; MusicBox RevolvingDoor, Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund & Duncan MacDonald, King Street revolving door (north entrance) to Metro Hall (55 John Street).

SPECIAL EVENTS

FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour
Sunday May 22, 12 - 5pm
Tour starts at 12noon at Blackwood's off-site exhibition at the MOCCA (952 Queen Street West) and then departs for the Blackwood Gallery (UTM), Art Gallery of York University, Koffler Gallery off-site exhibition (Sheppard Plaza), Blackwood Gallery off-site exhibition (Metro Hall) and returning to MOCCA for 5pm. To make a reservation, contact the AGYU at scarte@yorku.ca or call 416.736.2100 ext 44021 by Friday May 20.


Additional support provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the City of Toronto in conjunction with Celebrate 27 Arts Fest.

This exhibition was produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto.
Su-Ying Lee's MVS Curatorial Studies Advisory Panel: Christof Migone, Emilie Chhangur and An Te Liu
Faculty Supervisors: Barbara Fischer and Lisa Steele
Department of Art: www.art.utoronto.ca

Viewing Hours and Locations:

Atom Deguire
Everything I'm Not Makes Me Everything I Am
Daily at the Blackwood Gallery from 12 to 3pm (closed civic holidays)
and on Queen Street West between Dufferin and Shaw Streets 24 hours a day

Michael Connor & Heather Keung
The Middle Zone
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art courtyard, 952 Queen Street West 24 hours a day

Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund, and Duncan MacDonald
MusicBox RevolvingDoor
Metro Hall South Entrance, Wellington Street revolving door entrance to Metro Hall (building address 55 John Street)
Monday - Friday: 7:30am to 9:30 pm
Weekends: 8am to 6 pm
Closed civic holidays