Park Chan-kook has been engaged in a number of collaborative projects that explore the relations of art and urban environment including Dongdaemun Rooftop Paradise (2013- ), Non Art But Art (2011-12), Urban Guerilla Art Project (2013), Collaborative Squat Project in Han’gang Nodeul Island (2013), Public Art Project in Kwangju (2014) and Milmeori Art School [...]
Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni, a Brazilian duo working with informal economies, food, found objects, and alternative sustaibility models. Date:Wednesday, December 20th,2017 _ Great food and conversation about the thin line that separates humor, food, art, politics, disobedience, and dissemblance. Thanks to all that came, especially to Kadija de Paula [...]
Rehab Nazzal a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Canada and Palestine. Saturday, November 11th, 2018 Rehab Nazzal's video, photography and sound works deal with violations of human rights and the violence of war and colonialism. Nazzal’s work has been shown in Canada and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions, including Prefix Institute of Contemporary [...]
This face is projection and projector. Under capitalism, the projector works to reproduce the world as a series of commodities that have value only if they haven’t been consumed... The act of enjoyment even the enjoyment of each other for instances consumes the value conferred upon it by economic exchange and turn us into [...]
Betsabeé Romero is known internationally for her large-scale public works and unconventional approaches to trace-making. Her work incorporates materials and techniques from vernacular tradition and popular arts as a mode of cultural resistance and as a form of festive celebration. Romero explores themes ranging from the megalopolis of Mexico City to pollution, border culture, migration, and [...]
Collective Araya Carrión: The collective consists of Chilean artists Antonio Calibán Catrileo and Manuel Carrión Lira. Araya Carrión has developed artistic research projects, which are understood as a constant process that includes text, diagrams, video, performance documentation and material installation. They work within the framework of art as a political and action-based practice that can shape and comment on current political realities. Through an [...]
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member’s work. Each [...]
Laura Barrón, is a photo and video based artist and arts educator. Her work has been shown in various countries including Mexico, Canada, the United States, Japan, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Laura was born in Mexico City. In 2003 she moved to Toronto where she currently lives. Laura is part of the SNCA (National System [...]
For this edition of Conversalon, we presented the works of 8 artists from Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay: Luján Agusti, Melania Liendo, Santiago Hafford, Nahuel AlfonsoSofía Manrique, Cecilia Estalles, Jasmine Bakalarz, Christian Rodriguez. All of the artists are affiliated in one way or another, with the exhibition at Gallery 44 for the NS Photo Exchange [...]
CONVERSALON we presented electronic media artist Nell Tenhaaf from Toronto and Paul Bush, English filmmaker most well-known for experimental stop frame animation. The event was spiced up by a delicious vegetarian dinner cooked by Jorge and Alexandra. (The main dish: fruit curry!!! ) Nell Tenhaaf (born in 1951 in Oshawa, Ontario) is a Canadian, Toronto-based [...]
