|
Installations
"Someone Else"
by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright
May 14 - 25, 2008
opening May 15th 7-9pm (FREE)
Gallery 1313,
1313 Queen Street West, open Wednesday to Sunday 1 - 6pm
 Photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne were artists-in-residence for more than a year at Harefield Hospital in the UK, one of the world’s leading centres for heart and lung transplants. They worked closely together, photographing and recording patients, the devices attached to or implanted in them, and the hospital environment itself. The project was funded by Arts Council England and supported by Royal Brompton and Harefield Arts.
Someone Else - All of the people featured in this installation have had a heart and/or lung transplant or were waiting for one when the artists met them. Some have died since, most are doing well. Every sound you hear was recorded within the transplant centre, though some have been twisted and shaped afterwards, often in response to what was said by the patients.
"I T U "
by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright
May 28 - June 8, 2008
opening May 29th 7-9pm (FREE)
Gallery 1313,
1313 Queen Street West, open Wednesday to Sunday 1 - 6pm
 In the ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit), where this piece was shot, both the sound and the treatment are intense. When a patient is wheeled in from the operating theatre, curtains are drawn around the bed for the sake of privacy, and to minimise potential distress to other patients as the newcomer is attached to various monitors, pumps, suction devices and drips. But the curtains do nothing to attenuate the sound; indeed they heighten auditory sensitivity and arouse the imagination. ITU patients spend much of the time heavily sedated on strong pain killers, and they often suffer from paranoid, sometimes violent hallucinations, moving in and out of consciousness amidst what anthropologist Tom Rice has called the “cacophony of disease”.
Frequent Mutilations; Installation
Conrad Grebel Chapel on the University of Waterloo campus
May 29 12-4pm.
A celebration of one of Canada's longest running radio art programs Frequent Mutilations
on CKMS FM in Waterloo. The piece consists of a series of large analog tape loops created by Mutilation makers past and present, weaved together to create a slowly evolving composition. Much like the show itself, there's no telling what will happen.
 "Super Sonic Soundscape" Shoes
by Ricardo Huisman (FREE)
May 30, 5-9pm; May 31 & June 1, noon- 9pm
@ Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould Street
June 2 - 8, noon - 5pm
the Music Gallery, 197 John Street
The red woollen "super sonic sound scape shoes"- installation is an experimental multisensorial tactile interface producing imaginative narrative soundscapes. By standing into “super sonic sound scape shoes”, hearing and feeling the sounds under their feet and traveling through their body, the public can “get in touch” with a specially composed sonic portrait. Ricardo Huisman is a sound-sculpture-artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
This Toronto premiere of "Super Sonic Sound Scape Shoes" is funded in part by the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the Mondriaan Foundation.
Radio Art Salon
curated by Darren Copeland (FREE)
May 1 - June 8, 2008, noon - 5pm
@ the Gladstone Hotel, second floor, 1214 Queen St W
 Recline in an alternate sounding universe in a 50's style hair salon chair transformed into a radio art listening lounge. Running for the entire month of May, the Radio Art Salon includes a program of radio art works curated by Darren Copeland that includes contributions from content drawn from the Deep Wireless international call for submissions on the theme a Sonic Portrait.
Stay tuned for the opening of Bodyloop ou le vivant bruit du corps by Chantal Dumas
June 5 - 29, 2008
Le Labo, Studio 317, 55 Mill street, Cannery Building #58, Distillery Complex
Bodyloop ou le vivant bruit du corps is an interactive and immersive interactive sound installation which questions the perception of space in relation to mobility and the relation to the "other."
|
Dates and Times
"Someone Else"
by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright
May 14 - 25, 2008
Gallery 1313,
1313 Queen Street West,
opening May 15th 7-9pm (FREE)
"I T U"
by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright
May 28 - June 8, 2008
Gallery 1313,
1313 Queen Street West,
opening May 29th 7-9pm (FREE)
Frequent Mutilations; Installation
by Andrew O'Connor and Doug Horne
May 29 12-4pm.
Conrad Grebel Chapel on the University of Waterloo campus
"Super Sonic Soundscape" Shoes
by Ricardo Huisman (FREE)
May 30, 5-9pm
May 31 & June 1, noon- 9pm
@ Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould Street
June 2 - 8, noon - 5pm
@ the Music Gallery, 1
97 John Street
Radio Art Salon
curated by Darren Copeland (FREE)
May 1 - June 8, 2008, noon - 5pm
@ the Gladstone Hotel,
second floor,
1214 Queen St W
|
