Clear your calendars this Saturday for In/stall/ed, our free celebration of public art in the McCauley community. The daylong event, happening from 11am to 5pm, features seventeen site-specific installations from artists exploring the public-private divide in repurposed parking stalls throughout the McCauley community. Find a map of In/stall/ed locations, a list of contributing artists, project statements and more here. Hope to see you there-it’s going to be fantastic!
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.
Hanging out at Capital Ex this week? Make sure to check out the Container Series in the Edmonton Expo Centre, it’s truly cool. Our development assistant Tyler Sherard is one of the contributing artists. Find more details about the Container Art exhibition here.
