On Trespassing
dal 29/4/2002 al 18/5/2002
Segnalato da
29/4/2002
On Trespassing
Fresh Air Media Liaison, Toronto
As part of Contact 2002, Fresh Air is mounting On Trespassing, a site-specific, photo-based exhibition in a downtown Toronto laneway. ON Trespassing will take place in a continuous row of 16 identical garages, located in a narrow laneway in a Toronto residential neighbourhood.
5 artists make art in Toronto laneway behind 10-24 Bartlett Avenue.
Janet BELLOTTO
Blanca CASAS BRULLET
Isabelle HAYEUR
Martell LINSDELL
Lisa KLAPSTOCK
As part of Contact 2002, Fresh Air is mounting ON Trespassing, a site-specific, photo-based exhibition in a downtown
Toronto laneway. Fresh Air is an all-woman artist collective, established in 2001, whose mandate is international
collaboration and site-specific work. The core members are Janet Bellotto (Toronto/Montreal), Isabelle Hayeur (Montreal),
and Lisa Klapstock (Toronto). With each project, Fresh Air expands temporarily to include Canadian and international female
artists. For ON Trespassing, the group has invited 2 European artists, Blanca Casas Brullet (France) and Martell Linsdell
(UK), who will be in Toronto for the exhibition.
ON Trespassing will take place in a continuous row of 16 identical garages, located in a narrow laneway in a Toronto
residential neighbourhood. Each of 5 artists will 'occupy' one garage, transforming it temporarily through the installation of
artwork. The work will take a variety of photographic forms, from projection to video. With this exhibition Fresh Air is
interested in provoking a new, fresh experience of both the banal, everyday urban environment, and of the viewing of art. By
circumventing some of the barriers to art-viewing - like the traditional art gallery - Fresh Air hopes to engage a wider
audience, and to make the experience of art a more active, immediate and integrated one.
Opening reception: Tuesday, April 30 from 5 to 8 PM.
RELATED EVENTS:
"ON Trespassing Home base" : satellite exhibition.
Archive Inc. will serve as Fresh Air's home base, and will host an exhibition of works by the Fresh Air artists and invited
guests.
May 7 - June 7, 2002
Archive Inc. / 883 Queen St. W., Toronto, t: 416 703 6564
Forum : Thursday May 2, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Gallery TPW, 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 310, Toronto, t: 416.504.4242
TPW is hosting an artist forum featuring David Liss, Curator/Director of MOCCA, and European artists Blanca Casas Brullet
and Martell Linsdell. The artists will talk about their site-specific work and practices within their respective communities; and
David Liss will discuss ON Trespassing, situating it within the context of urban artistic interventions like Artifice '98 and his
most recent work in Taiwan.
CONTACT: Anthony Seaberg
Fresh Air Media Liaison
Tel: local in Montreal - 514-287-9950
Toll Free: - 1-866-297-7180
Image: Janet Bellotto, Fleeting wanderings, 2002 Illusion plastic, lenticular
Fresh Air Media Liaison
10-24 Bartlett Avenue
Toronto
t. 514 2879950