Current exhibition:
ALLURING THINGS
Alluring Things examines the predominant role played by material culture in the epistemological configuration of nature. More precisely, it looks at recent art practices that have integrated an attention centered on objects and social mechanisms into an ecological rhetoric, instead of overtly criticizing consumer materialism. Through installations teeming with peculiar objects by BGL; photography and digital drawings by Bill Burns and T&T; scale models by Daniel Corbeil and T&T, this exhibition seeks to undo materialism’s alienating connotation and instead present it as a relational vector between the natural element and the production of cultural objects. Ecological endeavors take place, in the case of these artists, through a respect for things and their avowed materiality. You will hence discover an intense proliferation of objects in this exhibition spanning all degrees of materiality—from formless “things” to highly technical gear. It is by means of all such stuff that Alluring Things comes to negotiate a pervasive ambivalence—hovering between fascination and anxiety—regarding the artefactual abundance that surrounds us.
SUMMER PROGRAMMING:
SUMMER ART CAMP 2012 - 7 art-filled weeks!
Sign up your child for full weeks of bilingual art activities during our SUMMER ART CAMP from June 25 to August 10, 2012. Choose from 7 weeks of unique activities or join us for the entire summer!
Choose from:
Week 1: Life of objects (June 25 - 29, 2012) : Discover the wonder and mystery of objects. Capture their stories and reveal their secret lives.
Week 2: Up, up and away ! (July 02 - 06, 2012) : It's bird! It's plane! No, it's your imagination gone wild! Using memory, time and space we will travel to new artistic heights. Join us for this wild flight.
Week 3: Local Treasure (July 09 - 13, 2012) : Our village is a treasure. Inspired by our urban landscape, discover the unexplored and forgotten spaces which surround us. These experiences will inspire multiple projects.
Week 4: New ways of looking (July 16 - 20, 2012): Be prepared to be amazed! Uncover allusions, tricks of the eye, and experiment with new forms of perspective using sight and touch.
Week 5: Media Lab (July 23 - 27, 2012) : Dust off abandoned riches. Just like an archaeologist, you will find new uses for old and recent technologies such as cassette tapes, numeric photography and records.
Week 6: Colour my world (July 30 - August 03, 2012) : Which colour lights up your brain? Each day will explore the power of a colour and it's effects on our creativity. Unlock your imagination through multicoloured glasses.
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Week 7: Artists-in-training (August 06 - 10, 2012): A special week for teens between 12 - 16 years old. We are opening the doors to our studio for sessions of experimentation. No matter what your knowledge of art is, join us for an exciting and interactive week of projects in three dimensions.
Information
Ages: 7 - 12 years old & 12 - 16 years old in a bilingual environment
Cost: 125 $ per week/per child Hours: 9am - 4pm
Daycare available for an extra 5 $/per day in the morning and afternoon
To register, please contact: Yael Filipovic, Curator of education and cultural action at ARTLAB (@)UBISHOPS.CA or at 819-822-9600 ext. 2279