This weekend, Edmonton-based art collective fast & dirty debuts Curiosities, an exploration of the personal and political contexts of furniture. The project is a collaboration between five curators, who tasked 20 artists with transforming a drawer of their own into a site-specific artwork. In the end, five dressers, each with four drawers of artistic interpretations, make each piece of furniture into a “cabinet of curiosities.” Each chest of drawers is also based on a different theme: intimacy, family, line, collections, and landscape.
The project will be appearing in three different locations throughout the city, appropriately displayed in a moving van. The exhibit runs from Friday to Sunday, and there’s also an opening party at Cask & Barrel on Saturday afternoon.
The drawer pictured comes from Latitude 53’s own Development Coordinator Tyler Sherard, whose work will be included with the family-themed chest of drawers, curated by Robert Harpin.
Check out all the details, including locations, times, and a full list of the artists and curators participating, on the Facebook events for the show and the opening party.
Garage sales are always a peculiar form of display. Public and private spaces mingle, collections are unwittingly catalogued and assembled, and precious keepsakes made negotiable. Consumer goods are brought back full circle to a storefront of sorts, though they are devalued, worn, and unwanted. Garage sales offer liberation from accumulation to the vendor, and almost free consumption to the buyer. It is little wonder, then, that this format should provide so fruitful a space for artists and curators to build narratives about memory and value. For this realization we have to thank the fast & dirty Collective, the organizers and artists behind last weekend’s Garage Show.
Garage Show combined the works of Adriean Koleric, Robert Harpin and Emily Soder-Duncan in-between two garages. Rob and Adrien’s work seemed to happily interbreed in the first space, while Emily enter into a dialogue moreso with her garage a few doors down. As per fast & dirty’s ethos, this arrangement was temporary, rough around the edges, and far outside the hygienic habitus of the white cube gallery. The show was up for two days, during which hotdogs were tailgated, prices were haggled over, and strangers mingled in art critiques. There was an invigorating kind of excitement in the air; risks were taken and rewarded.
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Garage Show: a fast & dirty exhibition
Our friends from fast & dirty emailed us the details on their show this weekend:
For Garage Show, fast & dirty will be exhibiting the work of Edmonton
artists Adriean Koleric, Robert Harpin and Emily Soder-Duncan in two
residential garages. The artists will create installations that
interact with these rudimentary spaces. The two-day exhibition will
open with a tailgate party on Aug. 20 at 7:00 pm where we will be
serving hot dogs (meat & veggie), watermelon, and pop. The exhibition
continues on Sunday Aug. 21 from 11:00 am until 5:00 pm.
The exhibition is in the garages at 9334 & 9342 90th Street, Edmonton.
(Please enter by alley)
This is sure to be worth a look—and features our very own Rob Harpin. Check out the Facebook invite
Our friend Kristen Hutchinson at Fast & Dirty sent us their latest call for submissions:
Fleeting Glance: a fast & dirty project
fast & dirty is calling Canadian artists for a traveling exhibition. Work selected will address the themes of transience, temporality, portability, duration and/or ephemerality. Artists chosen will be exhibited in London and Berlin.
Work submitted cannot exceed the following dimensions and weight restrictions:
- No larger than 10”x14”x4” packed for shipping, no glass
- Must weigh no more than 8-10 lbs.
Submit up to three images to be considered along with a CV and artist statement by email to:
fastanddirtycollective@gmail.com
by August 1, 2011.
Sunday July 4 to Wednesday July 7
102 A Avenue, Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
fast & dirty presents: Monument is an intersection of public spaces and private places, a memorial to temporality, and an exploration of how we inhabit urban landscapes. On the first morning of the exhibition (Sun. July 4, 9:30 am-12:00 pm), seven Edmonton visual artists will cover the installation structure with posters created from their artworks. The installation will be left to the elements and thus may deteriorate over the course of the exhibition.
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