Furnishing Positions: Conversations

Part colloquium, part workshop, and part experiment, this event is a support structure for the exchange of ideas.

Eric Cazdyn, Greig de Peuter, Karen Houle, Mary Lou Lobsinger, Dylan Miner, Paige Sarlin, Scott Srli, Kika Thorne and cheyanne turions.

Moderated by Adrian Blackwell

Saturday, November 22, 2014 1 6PM

Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga

To register for this FREE event, email blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca by November 20.

A shuttle bus will depart Mercer Union 1286 Bloor St. W at 12:30pm, and return at 6:30pm.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

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Adrian Blackwells Furnishing Positions explores the paradoxical relationship between publics and space through three different structures: a sculpture consisting of thirty pieces of furniture, reconfigured over twelve weeks to test the social effect of different spatial forms; a broadsheet series that interrogates six paradoxes of public space through artwork and texts by twelve contributors from diverse disciplines; and now, a set of conversations that test these ideas with an assembled public in the sculpture.

Furnishing Positions: Conversations brings together the contributors to the broadsheet series in order to test the ideas developed within its artworks and texts in dialogue with other contributors and an assembled public. The event is structured through two conversations. The first will function as a sequence of short monologues, in which each of the broadsheet contributors will present their ideas in turn. The second conversation will involve contributors and the assembled public and will be an opportunity to connect and relate these discreet provocations. Between the two conversations, there will be a break, during which time the assembled public will reconfigure the sculpture for the second half of the event.

For complete information on the sculpture and broadsheet series of Furnishing Positions, visit http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/exhibitions/2014/FurnishingPositions.html

This event is part of the exhibition FALSEWORK, curated by Christine Shaw and on view until December 7th, 2014. For more information on the exhibition, visit http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/exhibitions/2014/Falsework.html

This event is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Image credit: Aerial views of Adrian Blackwell's Furnishing Positions taken by the artist.