The latest exhibition at the Toronto Free Gallery celebrates its opening this Thursday. It’s currated by One plus One equals Three — At Least, a new group put together by Andrew Chiu.
“The goal is to bring together a range of disciplines — from architectual design to urban planning to social and environmental activism in a series of public forums, exhibitions and collaborative projects,” reads the website.
This Thursday marks its first in what promises to be a thought-provoking series of events. On display will be the original map artist Marlena Zuber designed for the book uTOpia:Towards a new Toronto, an installation from UpBag, origianal design sketches of a proposed Dufferin Grove Park improvement project (which involves digging up part of a lost creek) from Brown & Story Architects, photography by Amanda Rataj, a project documenting weed trees by Todd Irvine and Michael Pereira, and an intriguing proposal to build a traditional longhouse on the Leslie Street Spit by native architect William Woodworth.
Here are the details:
Toronto Free Gallery and “1 plus 1 equals 3 – At Least” invite you to join activist groups, artists, designers, architects and urban planners as they re-imagine how design in our city can change in order to foster a greener Toronto.
Thursday, March 15, 2007- Exhibition Opening starts at 7:00pm, Films provided by Streets to Screens start at 8:00pm
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Just a heads up that that on March 24th, there will be a public forum concerning some of the themes of the exhibit. For more information on that, visit: http://1plus1equals3.ca/?page_id=21
I’m curious – is there a special event occuring tomorrow night (due to the initial launch) that won’t be occuring on subsequent nights? I hope the Streets to Screens film will be shown every night, as I can’t make it out tomorrow night.
There will probably be less alcohol on subsequent nights (as gallery openings tend to go).
Oh, and we’re supposed to tramp down to a gallery to look at a map that leaves off half the city? Wasn’t publishing it bad enough in the first place?
Too bad the Gallery’s website is such a total embarrassment. Shame on them for being way too clever for including the year with their dates. Instead, they coyly expect the casual surfer to keep track of when their exhibition “seasons” started. (Okay, okay, I see the year’s included with the Season One shows, but nowhere else on the site.)
Shame on them for creating a website which is really just one ginormous Flash file, impervious to the most basic back/forward browser controls. I guess using Flash means also never having to use a spell-checker, or for that matter, proofreading the spelling of artists’ names.
And double-plus shame on them for (so far as I can tell…see the ‘what year is it?’ above) neglecting to update their webiste since, let me guess, sometime last May. Ouch!!
(I guess they deserve some marks, though, for providing location info. Nothing’s completely imperfect.)