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25/10/2005

Open Airway

Spin Gallery, Toronto (ON)

Group Show

Curated by Elle McLaughlin

Toronto, Canada... Fado Performance Inc., in cooperation with SPIN Gallery and Vtape, is pleased to announce Open Airway. The latest installment in Fado's ongoing Emerging Artists series takes place October 26 at SPIN Gallery.

Don't miss this dynamic multimedia evening of new work that explores the successful function of systems through rhythm and organization. Curated by Elle McLaughlin, Open Airway features sound design trio FINGER, Montreal-based Erin Flynn, Lisa Kutsukake + Shanker Bhardwai, Zeesy Powers, and Natalyn + Jocelyne Tremblay + Fedora Romita.

In describing the event, curator Elle McLaughlin writes:

"Open Airway addresses the role of co-operation in fostering continuity. Interconnected elements have the ability to stifle or flourish. Our accepted naiveté of complex systems that operate around and through us, seemingly running on their own, independent of will or thought or purpose are examined and re-interpreted in this performative Petri dish. Under the microscope of the audience's focused eye, the artists learn to cope and avoid system overload through steady negotiation."

About the Artists

Elle McLaughlin

Elle McLaughlin is a Toronto-based independent curator and writer. Her most recent project Longer, Fuller Lashes explored the relationship between domesticity and sexuality. She served as Programming Director of XPACE during its first year of operation. Previously, she operated a private gallery featuring the work of emerging artists.

She is currently in her fourth year at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), incubating concepts that will shape her work as a multidisciplinary artist.

FINGER

Cameron McKittrick + Richard Windeyer + Leslie Wyber

As an ensemble, FINGER creates a supportive space where they feel free to exchange roles and explore voice independent of the constraints of institutionally defined musicians. Although their work together was initially designed to introduce tension to identity negotiation in an institutional setting, they quickly embraced the corollary: that tension is simultaneously introduced to personal identity negotiation.

The spatial and temporal relations of the dynamic negotiation of self are revealed, often as dislocations or as sensory disassociations. Whatever unity is created, regardless of its status as truth or fiction and whatever mechanisms it employs to persist, however transformed, it awaits the next moment of contextual awareness. "Action causes us to glimpse ourselves in the world, and it is always pleasant to have comfort while swallowing it down whole."

Erin Flynn

Montreal based dance artist, Erin Flynn has toured across Canada & Europe with Trip Dance and Le Groupe de la Place Royale. She is currently embarking on her fourth season with Corps Secrets. She teaches at the University of Montreal and is a member of the multi media collective Vertice, which presents the third edition of the Pixel Projects in December. Her performance, Alcove, will be featured in April 2005, at Tangente.

Lisa Young Kutsukake + Shanker Bhardwai

In the tumultuous Toronto of 2003, a Metronome, blinded beneath the glittering ruins of philosophy, was coupled with a Minor Deity, wielding a prism of spectral light. Their union conjures precocious, disidentified offspring, continually bearing little resemblance to the gilded moment of conception they pursue beyond reason. Lisa and Shanker most recently participated in the Annual Alternative Design Event at the Gladstone Hotel where they designed a room along with Luis Jacob and Jade Rude.

Zeesy Powers

Zeesy has been living in a self-created fantasyland for the past two decades. Fortunately, it seems to be working for her. She has worked in a variety of media and formats, all in an attempt to survive off the charity of others. Zeesy has performed in a variety of settings including rock concerts, comedy shows, middle schools and academic lecture series. She has most recently performed at the Drake, is currently exhibiting a hologram at the Ontario Science Centre and will show games, puppet shows and cartoon at the upcoming Canzine, held at the Gladstone Hotel.

Natalyn Tremblay

For the past five years, Natalyn has incorporated film, video, sonic art, performance and electronic installation to create interactive multi-disciplinary art. Her work aims to bridge the gaps between political queer art, feminist theory, environmental and humanitarian activism and contemporary conceptual art.

She has experimented with multiple styles of performance art, from tableaux vivants to spoken word, conceptual work to highly political rants. She has volunteered with Charles Street Video, the Deep Wireless sonic art festival, YAP North York queer youth group and is currently interning at Vtape.

Jocelyne Tremblay

Lured to the Big City by the call of an "Arts" education at OCAD, Jocelyne has since cultivated her sensibilities to develop a multi-faceted palette of media-based work. She has performed mostly solo or in collaboration with her identical twin sister, Natalyn. Duality, and identity politics are concepts which Joce has developed in her performance work. She has organized Integrated Media Cabaret and Media View film screenings on campus, and has volunteered with the Windsor Feminist Theatre's Annie Sprinkle workshop. In 2004, she participated in Lip Service at The Gladstone Hotel.

Fedora Romita

Fedora Romita is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work has been exhibited at Gallery 1313, Harbourfront Centre, and the Toronto Free Gallery. She is a recent graduate of OCAD. Her work focuses on performance installation and is concerned with narrative and space. She uses measurement as a metaphor to explore the language that tells the stories of space.

Acknowledgments

Fado is pleased to acknowledge the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their support of our ongoing activities. This project is co-sponsored by SPIN Gallery and Vtape.

More information: http://www.performanceart.ca

"Art is the demonstrated wish and will to resolve conflict through action, be it spiritual, religious, political, personal, social or cultural."
Alastair MacLennan

Opening: October 26, 8:30 pm

Spin Gallery
1100 Queen Street West 2nd Floor - Toronto

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