Where to Park for the 2019 Burlington Art Hop
Erdem Taşdelen, The Characters: Act I (installation view), The Bows (formerly Untitled Art Order), presented in partnership with EMMEDIA, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and The Bows. Photo: Katy Whitt.
An exercise in dramaturgy and dystopian reflection, The Characters: Human action III past Erdem Taşdelen is the final act of a three-function audio installation taking center stage at the AGB when we emerge from the provincial closure. Based on the narratives of 30 stock characters and performed by voice actors from scripts developed past the artist, these fictional characters are recognizable archetypes representing a specific set of behaviours or thoughts. Their defining traits are borrowed from the work of Theophrastus, a Greek author of the 4th century BCE, who produced the first known set of character sketches in history, describing types of people such as "The Pennypincher," "The Faultfinder," and "The Grouch." Especially, all these 30 types, together titled The Characters, depict negative traits. Some scholars have speculated that a supplementary book comprising positive types must also have existed, or at least been planned. In the absence of these, however, Taşdelen'due south reading takes on a comical and poignant quality through its rather dour representation of human nature. Curated past Natasha Chaykowski, the first two acts of The Characters were presented in Calgary, Alberta at The Bows (formerly Untitled Art Society) in partnership with EMMEDIA (2019) and in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at AKA Creative person-Run (2020).
In the Lakeshore Gallery, the houselights illuminate the macrocosm of the universe with Joanna Strong's galaxy of paintings. In a world filled with wonder, Constellations explores how we detect patterns of meaning in the randomness of experience and the potency of objects as artifacts and repositories for stories.
Vita Plumage takes the spotlight in the Perry Gallery with Recognition , a series of new works informed by her research on the beginnings of the AGB. Waiting in the wings since 2019, information technology is the final exhibition of the John Willard Fibre Artist-In-Residency programme. Recognition explores themes of identity, labour, and craft, through a series of digital weavings honouring the people who dreamed of, realized, and continue to serve the studios as a site of creative learning for makers.
Keet Geniza, LGBTQ+ Comic Club, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
The Characters is supported past a chorus of youth-led programs exploring narrative structure and character development. The AGB Digital steps into the limelight with ii new programs in partnership with Reach Out Centre for Kids Stone Hub, Our Community Cares and Positive Space Network (PSN).
ROCK Community Cookbook is a iii-week program led by London Uk-based designer Osman Bari guiding youth through the process of designing, writing, and illustrating a collaborative cookbook inspired by family unit history and cultural traditions shaped by shared experiences of food. These cookbooks will be Risograph printed past Toronto print studio Vide Press, and sold to raise funds for both Stone and AGB programming following the program. Osman Bari is a graphic designer and author. As a Pakistani-born immigrant and settler, he is passionate about design'due south role in the creation and expression of cultural identity, particularly through language and storytelling. He holds a Available of Architectural Studies from the University of Waterloo and started Chutney Magazine, a publication of stories of culture and identity, told by marginalized and misrepresented voices, in 2019. He is currently pursuing an MA in Graphic Advice Design at Primal Saint Martins in London.
LGBTQ+ Comic Gild is a five-week program led by emerging comic artist Keet Geniza inviting participants to explore autobiography, gender identity, and narrative through the creation of their own comic zine. Keet will lead youth through an investigation of how the combined magic of words and images can empower and tell stories and mentor them through the cosmos of their own comics album that will be published at the stop of the program. Keet Geniza is an illustrator and comic artist. Born and raised in Manila, they moved to Toronto in 2006 and have since made zines and comics to certificate their struggles equally a queer immigrant person of color. They recently illustrated the book Kimiko Does Cancer, a graphic memoir by Kimiko Tobimatsu, published by Armory Lurid Press. Find their art on their blog makeshiftlove.com and their Instagram @makeshiftlove.
These programs are delivered to community members through our collaborating service organizations. Please visit our partnering organizations' websites to learn more than virtually them and the communities they serve.
The AGB is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Educational outreach programming is presented in partnership with Accomplish Out Centre for Kids ROCK Hub, Our Community Cares, and Positive Infinite Network (PSN), Burlington and is generously supported by the Halton Region Investment Fund. Erdem Taşdelen would like to acknowledge the generous back up of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the Urban center of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
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