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Reaching 100 (Or The End of an Era) at Parker’s Box, Williamsburg, NY

"Reaching 100" opening at Parker's Box
Entrance to, Reaching 100, with paintings by Philippe Nuell. Photo by Etienne Frossard. Courtesy of Parker’s Box NY

Reaching 100 (Or The End of an Era)
13 April – 5 May 2013
at Parker’s Box, Williamsburg, NY

Artists: Ophir Agassi, Beatriz Barral, Virginie Barré, John Bjerklie, Matt Blackwell, Willard Boepple, Steven Brower, Denis Castellas, Jason Glasser, Patrick Martinez, Philippe Nuell, Bruno Peinado, Mike Rogers, Stefan Sehler, Joshua Stern

This exhibition is dedicated to Nancy Grumbacher (1946-2013)

This will be the gallery’s one hundredth exhibition since it opened its doors in June 2000, and it will be the last in the gallery’s original location on Grand Street in Williamsburg. We hope to re-emerge somewhere soon with a new model, new energy and new ways to promote the best experimental contemporary art.

Parker’s Box has always endeavored to curate challenging exhibitions often involving exploration of some of the more rarefied regions of contemporary art practice, whether in painting, sculpture, video, installation etc. As a commercial gallery, Parker’s Box has always taken pride in making no concessions to that status, in favor of allowing artists a platform of complete freedom on which to experiment.
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Mashrooming at CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö

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Mashrooming
2 – 31 March 2013
at CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö

Artists: Elisabeth Czihak, Catharina Freuis, Markus Guschelbauer, Michael Strasser

The exhibition Mushrooming is showing photographic and installation works by four young Austrian artists. They are all concerned with (pictorial) space – intervening in it, expanding it, opening it up or reconstructing it.

In addition to its designation as a fixed, architectonic construct, these artistic interventions make it possible to experience space as living and mutable. At times the resulting images take on a bizarre, surreal or even uncanny character and all of the works involve irritation in relation to customary ways of perceiving space and architecture or the relationship of humans to space. [read the full text here]
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Opportunities: Call for Curatorial Residents 2013-14 at 221A, Vancouver


Artist talk with Ryu Hankil and Sung-Pil Yoon (September 7, 2012) as part of Translation Services. Courtesy 221A, Vancouver

Call for Curatorial Residents 2013–2014
at 221A, Vanvouver

Application deadline: 24 February 2013

221A is an artist-run centre located in Vancouver, Canada with a mandate to support the advancement of contemporary art that explores design as a subject. Projects presented at 221A address design in its widest sense, which may encompass graphics, products, architecture, or, more broadly, social codes and conventions.

221A is seeking proposals from curators for projects to commence in 2014. Implemented in 2010 the Curatorial Residencies program encourages a diversity of curatorial approaches to the organization’s mandate. Emerging and professional curators, curatorial collectives, which may include recent graduates and practicing artists, designers and architects, are encouraged to submit proposals to be developed over the course of one year. Projects may include exhibitions, performances, publications, talks or workshops. Proposals should discuss a viewpoint, theory or approach that the project hopes to foster in relation to the organization’s mandate.
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Brooklyn/Montréal goes stateside


 

From October to November 2012, Montreal hosted the first installment of “Montreal/Brooklyn”, initiating an exchange in visual art events between the two titled cities, thus capturing important media and audience attention towards the art scene of the Quebecois metropolis. In an interview with M-KOS, Montreal coordinators Claudine Khelil and Yann Pocreau mention their delight at all the positive feedback received in Montreal, but remain alert for the final chapter of the project that is yet to come, over to the state side of the border. As it is now Brooklyn’s turn to host the next part of this event, indicated by the reversed title (Brooklyn/Montreal), the categorical test for Montreal artists will be about how they are received by New Yorkers, their critics as much as their art enthusiasts. Will there be any buzz?
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Institutions By Artists


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As the Frieze franchise churns out its London and Masters series in the UK, bringing hundreds of collectors and art lovers into London to trade or admire US$1.9 billion worth of art, Vancouver is amassing over 65 international artists, curators, critics, and academics on the other side of the globe for Institutions by Artists. By contrast this three-day event is assessing and promoting contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives. Mostly non-profit organisations will here explore and advance the common interests of artist-run spaces and collectives, as a culture for catalysing new as well as alternative perspectives for art today. Using experimental formats, performative frameworks and participatory vehicles, the three day series of events is designed to challenge and generate more thinking about artist initiatives globally, to examine their multiple dimensions whether they be in urban or rural, fixed or mobile, local or regional contexts.
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Montréal – Brooklyn Rendez-vous

Montreal / Brooklyn is a new contemporary art initiative organized by Montreal-based artist-run centre Clark, which aims to establish a cultural exchange between the two cities, to include the participation of 16 institutions and 40 artists. Residing on either side of the US/Canada border and separated by a physical distance of approximately 600 kilometers, coordinators Claudine Khelil and Yann Pocreau have spent two years setting up a network between the different institutions in the respective cities, before turning this rendez-vous into a reality. Pocreau comments: “The main idea of this project was to create a real encounter between two cities, two galleries and artists – it’s very much a communication-based project” *
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Re-writing art history – in conversation with Marie-Josée Jean, artistic director of VOX


Exhibition view from “Art Hisotires” at VOX. Courtesy of VOX.

VOX is a Montreal-based artist-run centre founded in 1985. After relocating many times within different areas over the years, VOX settled in March 2012 to its permanent home, in the brand new culture complex building 2-22, situated at the heart of downtown Montreal. The inaugural exhibition of their new space entitled “Art Histories” was curated by VOX artistic director Marie-Josée Jean and showcases a total of 16 international artists which all in their own way attempt to deconstruct art history and challenge this great institution. Jean talked to M-KOS of the history of VOX and their inaugural exhibition.

M-KOS [MKOS]: Can you start by introducing VOX, its mandate and its decision to move to the most central location of Montréal?

Marie-Josée Jean [MJJ]: The history of VOX is quite long because this is a group that was formed in 1985, and it’s interesting to know that at the onset the original name was Vox Populi. It was a communications collective predominantly using photography as one of many means of communications, but also radio. The origins of VOX were socially quite active, notably to the extent that VOX gave itself the mandate to defend the rights of youths. Over the years the group specialized into an exhibition space for photography. Nonetheless, our origins are clearly associated with social activism. In fact, the son of the founders of VOX, Marcel Blouin and Lucie Bureau, is now one of the key leaders of Québec’s current student protest (Leo Bureau-Blouin) [laugh].
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Art Marathon: Toronto’s vibrant art scene [Updated!]


Scott McFarland’s large-scale photographic mural “Corner of the Courageous, Repatriation Ceremony for Sergant Martin Goudreault, Grenville St., Toronto, Ontario, June 9th 2010” (2012) in the courtyard of MOCCA. Photo by M-KOS

Toronto’s vibrant art scene and exuberant artist community package many artist-run spaces, a number of notable commercial galleries as well as important public and private art institutions. The annual Scotibank Contact photography festival testifies as a case study to the city’s cultural dynamism, currently showcasing over 100 artists under the theme: Public. M-KOS journeyed to Toronto for this occasion and more, featuring the Canadian metropolis within our regular Art Marathon.
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