In this special live performance, Holden is transported into the cartoon-world via green-screen technology. This leap into a series of familiar landscapes unfolds an astonishing journey through the history of animation, critical theory, physics and art, before arriving at contemporary politics and Holden’s theory that the world has now come to resemble a cartoon.
Artist Andy Holden introduces the influence of cartoon landscapes, characters and scripts on the world of contemporary art and his practice in particular. Participants will have the chance to delve into his research for Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, work on cartoon scripts, make cartoon objects as props and then literally enter into the animated world via simple green-screen technology.
Tim Whiten is a Toronto-based creator of charged objects that embody myths and narratives, bringing these stories alive and affirming their relevance to the times in which we live.
Njootli’s live sound performances are sonic landscapes; frequencies and living energies that carry knowledge, information and stories related to her personal experience and the world around her.
For over a decade Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen has been working in a variety of media and materials to create visual responses to challenges within today’s society. Migration and disempowerment are some of his main areas of research. Larsen’s work can be understood as visual anthropology. His film Promised Land, featured in the exhibition BELIEVE follows migrants in Calais, France as they attempt the highly dangerous and near impossible task of getting into England.
Screening Program
Wednesday, November 27 - Monday December 3
In addition to his 3-channel film Promised Land included in the exhibition BELIEVE, MOCA will program a selection of his recent works.
Saturday December 1, 3pm
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen introduces clips from some of his most recent works exploring issues related to current global migration crises.
In the LIFE issue we find evidence of architecture’s ongoing metaphysical work in the use of architectural building codes as a tool to limit women’s reproductive choices in Texas, the US military’s conversion of the Aleutian archipelago into its own private radiation sensor, the management of racialized ghosts in Indonesian squatter settlements, the rise of neo-vitalist urbansim in Europe, and the introduction of the logic of automation into burial practices in Tokyo.
Profoundly marked by his upbringing in South Africa during the Apartheid era, Kendell Geers’ art often explores issues of social and political justice. BE:LIE:VE, specially commissioned by MOCA for our inaugural exhibition, is one of a number of his neon works that expose literal word plays that urge new ways to consider the complexities and paradoxes of language, power and truth.
Tour with curator, David Liss
At 1pm and 1:30pm
Join us for a 20-minute introductory tour. Meet on Floor 1 under Kendell Geers’ BE:LIE:VE installation.
Tour with curator, David Liss
At 1pm and 1:30pm
Join us for a 20-minute introductory tour. Meet on Floor 1 under Kendell Geers’ BE:LIE:VE installation.
How can culture and museums contribute to well-being in society? Architect and artist, Apolonija Šušteršič first installed Light Therapy in 1999 at Moderna Museet in Stockholm to explore how contemporary museums can act as a public space, and as social spaces for wellbeing. Based in Toronto, Aaron Labbé is determined to change the way we approach the treatment of mental […]