An exhibition taking place in four locations, The Good Host can be experienced as one, or a series of encounters that provoke deliberation. The aim is to unfix the viewer’s perception of prescribed uses for urban space and reconsider their own agency within it.

As a proposition on spatial problems in the urban environment, The Good Host draws attention to access to and denial of space, the prescriptive assignment of spaces and the manner in which these conventions shape our consciousness. Project locations and artists: The Middle Zone, Michael Connor & Heather Keung, courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), 952 Queen Street West; Everything I’m Not Makes Me Everything I Am, Atom Deguire, Blackwood Gallery (Kaneff Centre) with a corresponding vinyl and poster intervention on Queen Street West between Dufferin and Shaw Streets; MusicBox RevolvingDoor, Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund & Duncan MacDonald, King Street revolving door (north entrance) to Metro Hall (55 John Street).

—Su-Ying Lee

Apr 17, 2011 – May 22, 2011
Past

The Good Host

Michael Connor & Heather Keung, Atom Deguire, Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund & Duncan MacDonald

Presented by the Blackwood Gallery and the Masters of Visual Studies Program at the University of Toronto.
Additional support provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the City of Toronto in conjunction with Celebrate 27 Arts Fest.
This exhibition was produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto.

MVS Curatorial Studies Advisory Panel: Emelie Chhangur, An Te Liu and Christof Migone.
Faculty Supervisors: Barbara Fischer and Lisa Steele, Department of Art.

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