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SPECIAL EVENTS
Sunday November
16th, 1 – 3pm
I WAS SHOT IN THE BACK Paintball Performance at the Blackwood Gallery, Kaneff Building.
Sunday November
23rd, 12 - 5pm
FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour departs OCAD (100 McCaul
St) at noon for Doris McCarthy Gallery (UTSC), Koffler Gallery, Art
Gallery of York University and the Blackwood Gallery. Please call the
Koffler Gallery at 416.636.1880 x 270 by November 21st to book a seat.
*Artist
Tilo Schulz will give a talk.
Forty years after
the global 1968 uprisings, German artist Tilo Schulz has arranged a performance and exhibition that involves student action,
1950s–style abstract painting, and local Cold War politics. On
the University of Toronto Mississauga campus, a large-scale event involving
students stages the construction of 'revolutionary' abstract paintings
through the use of paint-ball guns. Meanwhile, in the gallery, an exhibition
revolves around this event and the subsequent images in the context
of relevant histories, as well as around the legend of Mississauga resident
Igor Gouzenko, Canada's first true Soviet spy who only ever appeared
in public wearing a hood.
The November
16th event is free and open to the public. In response to political
realities, the guns are aimed towards a new aesthetic instead of drawing
blood. Results of the event will produce the exhibition, which will
be on display until January 11th, 2009.
Student uprisings
have always arisen in response to new powers and policies being implemented
on different socio-political levels, including the university level.
In post-war times, rigid policies trickled down from Cold War politics
within university administrations and faculties. Today, a top-down,
market-oriented structure dominates many university systems, where students
are questioning the role of the university in creating a new society.
Amongst students’ grievances today are the distribution of funds
throughout the university which tend to reinforce a powerful hierarchy,
high tuition fees, poor transportation systems perpetuating overuse
of the car, the exclusion of many from a university education, the university’s
intimate relationship with corporate powers and militarism, and the
complexities of a university bureaucracy set to serve itself before
students.
Tilo Schulz has been working as an artist and curator for almost two
decades. He has recently had celebrated solo shows in institutions such
as Secession in Vienna, Magazin4 in Bregenz and the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Leipzig. The Blackwood Gallery is proud to present his first
exhibition in Canada.
This project is
curated by Séamus Kealy, former Curator of the Blackwood Gallery,
and current Director/Curator of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo,
Ireland.
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ARTIST BIO
Tilo Schultz (Berlin)
Tilo Schulz has been working as an artist and curator for almost two
decades. He has recently had celebrated solo shows in institutions such as
Secession in Vienna, Magazin4 in Bregenz and the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Leipzig. The Blackwood Gallery is proud to present his first exhibition
in Canada.
