"This Area is under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance" - Opening Reception
The Jackman Humanities Institute and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery are pleased to announce the launch of the JHI's fourth annual exhibit of art. This year's theme is Humour, Play, and Games.
"This Area is under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance"
Curated by Yan Wu
September 4, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 4:00-6:00pm
Location: Jackman Humanities Institute, 10th Floor
University of Toronto, 170 St. George Street
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Free and Open to the Public
Featuring Kim Adams, Myfanwy Ashmore, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Diane Borsato, Shane Krepakevich and Elif Saydam, Gwen MacGregor and Lewis Nicholson, Kelly Mark, Ahmet t, Roula Partheniou, Vincent Trasov, VSVSVS, and Lee Walton.
The title and subject of the exhibition "This Area is under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance is a play on Turkish artist Ahmet ts site-specific intervention at Laumeier Sculpture Park USA in 2009. Obsessed with finding the missing hour plotted in ts work and the possibilities it promises, the exhibition presents twelve international artists and collectives whose works carve the secluded 24th hour into the physical space and everyday reality of the Jackman Humanities Institute. Employing a myriad of divergent mediums, forms, and strategies, the artworks act as potential points of entry to modes of play by means of the games each artist devises. In particular, the artists challenge the notions of play regulated by todays rhetoric of productivity: flexibility, distraction and greed; their works contemplate how the rules of games are constructed and how they might be destroyed: through conscious interaction, forms of application, and transgression. This Area is under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance celebrates the power of humour, allowing the viewer to recover from the delusory happiness of ideology towards release into the lucidity of seeing things for what they are.
The project is produced by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, which is financially supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
The Jackman Humanities Institute is a fully accessible space. If you require an accommodation for a disability, please contact us to make an appropriate arrangement.
Contact Information
Jackman Humanities Institute
416 978-7415
humanities.utoronto.ca
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
416 978-8398
jmbgallery.ca
Media Contact: Daniella Sanader, daniella.sanader@utoronto.ca, 416-978-5488
