Robin Cameron’s “T-R-U-T-H”
Saturday, 02 June 2012 Art Metropole *NEW location* (1490 Dundas Street West) 2 PM Free Robin Cameron in attendance In conjunction with Art Metropole’s exhibition of Robin Cameron’s T-R-U-T-H, a selection of texts will be read aloud and discussed with the artist within the context of her exhibition at Art Metropole’s new location, which Cameron … Read more
“Helter Skelter” as selected by Basma Alsharif
Thursday, 12 July 2012 A Space Gallery (401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110) 5 PM Free Basma Alsharif in attendance In conjunction with A Space’s exhibition of This Story Begins and Ends with Us, a solo show of the work of Basma Alsharif, this salon will feature selections from Helter Skelter (1974), the true crime classic, which … Read more
Elizabeth Alexander’s “‘Can you be BLACK and Look at This?’: Reading the Rodney King Video(s)” as selected by Deanna Bowen
Tuesday, 03 April 2012 Images at 204 (204 Spadina) 7 PM Free Facilitated by Deanna Bowen and cheyanne turions In conjunction with Gallery 44 and the Images Festival’s co-presentation of Deanna Bowen’s The Paul Good Papers, Elizabeth Alexander’s “Can you be BLACK and Look at This?”: Reading the Rodney King Video(s) has been selected by … Read more
Women Game Players, Characters and Creators
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 Bento Miso (#300 – 862 Richmond Street West, Buzz #800) 7 PM Free Facilitated by Jennie Faber and cheyanne turions The creation and consumption of video games has long been seen as the domain of men and boys. Women and girl gamers are rendered “invisible” by designers and communities, even while … Read more
Excerpts from “Bring the Noise,” “Inside the White Cube” and “The Emancipated Spectator,” selected in conjunction with the main Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 Gandai Workstation (1265 Bloor Street West) 8pm Free Facilitated by cheyanne turions The main Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (mMOCCA)* was founded mostly from wood and old nails in 2011 and exists as a slightly for profit, arms length agency in the City of Toronto. The mMOCCA is relocating all the … Read more
Thomas Bernhard’s “The Voice Imitator: 104 Stories” as selected by Barbara Sternberg
Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator: 104 Stories as selected by Barbara Sternberg Wednesday, 22 February 2012 LIFT (1137 Dupont Street) 7 PM Free Barbara Sternberg in attendance In conjunction with Pleasure Dome’s world premiere presentation of Barbara Sternberg’s in the nature of things (2011) a selection of excerpts from Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator: 104 … Read more
Annie MacDonell’s “Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition)”
Readings inspired by Annie MacDonell’s Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition) Tuesday, 31 January 2011 Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) 7 PM Free Annie MacDonell in attendance In conjunction with Mercer Union’s exhibition of Annie MacDonell’s Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition), a selection of texts will be … Read more
In collaboration with FUSE Magazine: “Occupy” movements in relation to colonial dynamics in Canada
In collaboration with FUSE Magazine Wednesday, 02 November 2011 7 PM LIFT (1137 Dupont) Free Facilitated by Gina Badger and cheyanne turions In collaboration with FUSE, November’s salon will feature readings from the magazine and its library of review materials, focusing on those relating to FUSE’s States of Postcoloniality series. Through group reading and discussion, we will … Read more
Anton Vidokle’s “New York Conversations”
Anton Vidokle’s film New York Conversations (2010, 64 minutes, 16mm-to-video) Wednesday, 28 September 2011 The Camera Bar (1028 Queen Street West) 7 PM $ PWYC Facilitated by Melanie O’Brian and cheyanne turions As a special presentation of No Reading After the Internet, September will feature Anton Vidokle’s film New York Conversations. Following the screening, the … Read more
Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Birth of Tragedy”
July’s reading: An excerpt from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy Wednesday, 13 July 2011 LIFT (1137 Dupont) 7 PM Free Tomonari Nishikawa in attendance In conjunction with the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s summer residency, visiting artist Tomonari Nishikawa has been invited to select a reading in relation to filmmaking practice. Nishikawa’s 2003 … Read more
