Sterling Road Bingo
2019-12-07 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Believe the hype, folks: Sterling Road is jam-packed with tons of cool stuff – artist spaces, yoga studios, bookstores, restaurants, a brewery, clothing stores, galleries, and a lot more! Come join us for the 4th installment of Sterling Road BINGO for your chance to check them all out, and get special, behind-the-scenes looks at all of them.
Here’s how to play:

Come to any one of the participating locations on Sterling Rd. on Saturday Dec. 7th, anytime between 1 and 5pm, and pick up your BINGO card (and your first stamp) to get started.
Wander the neighbourhood, and pop in and out of all kinds of cool studios, shops, and galleries and get your card stamped at every location – the goal is a FULL CARD!
Once you’ve hit up every spot on the list, head on over to Henderson Brewing Co to redeem it for a complimentary pint of beer anytime on Saturday til 9pm (for anyone under 19 who’s playing along, come grab a free glass of house-made soda).
Your Full Card ALSO means you’re eligible to enter the now-legendary On Sterling Raffle, which will include BIG prizes from all participating BINGO spots (plus other Sterling road spots)! Just show your full card at Henderson before 9pm on Saturday! MOCA’s prize is an individual membership, which includes unlimited admission to the museum and invites to member events (12-month membership). Stay tuned for more info about the exclusive offers each spot will be offering.

Here’s who participating

MOCA Toronto
Repetitive Press
Sartoria
House of Anansi Press
Drake Commissary (Closed at 2:30 pm)
The Make Den Sewing School
Henderson Brewing Co

Driving?
There is free parking in the lot across the museum at the centre of Sterling Road

Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty
2019-12-07 13:00 - 17:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Archiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual, dark to light.
The seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada, including soy, corn and beans, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks.
MOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition, the 5,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to.
Learn more
The Power of a Single Seed
With Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti

Join us for a 15-minute drop-in workshop on how to grow a native Ontario plant from a single seed. Native plants have evolved over millennia to thrive in a specific climate and are an integral part of our environment. They offer food, shelter and ecosystems for wildlife and humans alike. Each of these workshops will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics, its importance to wildlife, as well as the basics of seed stratification as well as the basics of stratification and preparing a seed to grow in certain conditions. At the end of the workshop you will leave with a seed that is already stratified, or one that you can stratify to grow at home.
Free, drop-in, all ages, 1-4 pm

Dornith Doherty, Vault: Exchange (detail), Installation view at the Ontario Science Centre Toronto, Canada. April – August 2019.

Digital Justice Lab Workshop: Mapping Data Bodies
2019-12-05 18:00 - 20:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
From the apps we use on our devices to the surveillance systems on city streets, we live in a datafied world, in which information about us is being collected on a daily basis. In this workshop, we will navigate the impact of datafication to form a better understanding of our “data bodies” and how they are used, stored and shared by governments and corporations.
The Digital Justice Lab’s (DJL) mission is to focus on building a more just and equitable digital future. Working alongside technologists, community activists and policymakers, DJL helps shape a better public understanding of technology and its impact on communities across the country. Through capacity building, public engagement and continuous collaboration, DJL supports diverse communities in making informed decisions around digital issues. Digital Justice Lab is a project of Tides Canada, a registered Canadian charity dedicated to providing uncommon solutions for the common good.
This workshop is part of a series of workshops presented in partnership with Digital Justice Lab for Age of You.
Register here

Illustration by Annalise Hyunh

Monday Night Seminars: "HotMessAge" with Skawennati
2019-12-02 18:00 - 20:00 | McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, 39A Queens Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C3, Canada
Registration is now open
Join us for Call Forward, where our guest Skawennati will present her current project, Calico & Camouflage, currently in production. The project is a fashion collection of ResistanceWear that blends traditional regalia with military clothing.
The McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology’s annual theme, HotMessAge, explores how media and technology underlie today’s social, economic and environmental crises while at the same time offering us tools to address these challenges.
This year the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology amplifies some of the voices in Media Studies — voices that offer hot takes with cool possibilities of radical social change.
This programme is presented in partnership with the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her work has been widely presented in both group exhibitions and solo shows and is included in public and private collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, Skawennati graduated with a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she is based. She is Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research-creation network of artists and academics who investigate and create Indigenous virtual environments. Their Skins workshops in Aboriginal Storytelling and Experimental Digital Media are aimed at empowering youth. In 2015 they launched IIF, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures.
Portrait by Zoe Tennant, 2018.

Alan Emery in conversation with Jonathon Gatehouse
2019-11-30 16:00 - 18:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Marine biologist, Alan Emery, and journalist, Jonathon Gatehouse, discuss the immense changes occurring in the oceans and how these shifts are affecting Canada, a country with three ocean coasts. This conversation delves into what can be done with technology, resources, changes, and sacrifice to address the global climate crisis.

Jonathon Gatehouse is a Toronto-based journalist and author who has covered news and politics at home and abroad for more than two decades, reporting from dozens of countries. He has also written extensively about science and the arts.
Alan Emery is a marine biologist who has published on the subjects of ecology, evolution, and taxonomy as well as the origins and natural history of coral reefs. For 13 years he was president of the Canadian Museum of Nature. He has worked on numerous documentaries on the topic of marine biology; developed environmental policy documents for the Canadian government, the World Bank, and the United Nations.
This programme is organised in dialogue with Shezad Dawood’s exhibition Leviathan. Public programmes for Leviathan are supported by Brenda Simpson and Len Goodman.
Free with RSVP. Reserve your tickets here.
Shezad Dawood, Leviathan Legacy Pt 1, 2018, VR environment, duration variable

Victoria Sin: "If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now"
2019-11-28 19:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now uses storytelling, drag and theatrical devices to explore how language not only gives shape to thought, but shapes thought. The performance stages a dialogue with a desiring queer body and a percussionist to illuminate how identity and experience are not only represented but also created and reinforced through language and naming.
For the North American premiere of If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now, Sin performs alongside percussionist Nikki Joshi and wears a specially commissioned oceanic costume by Athens-based designer Dimitra Petsa. The work is site-responsive, changing in composition each time it’s performed. If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now was first performed at Chi Wen gallery in Taipei and later travelled to the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Victoria Sin is an artist whose work uses speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification and objectification. Drawing upon personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives about the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body.
Recent presentations include Age of You, MOCA, Toronto (2019); Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London (2019); Meetings on Art, Venice Biennale, Venice (2019); BCE, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Art Basel, Hong Kong (2019); Park Nights, Serpentine Galleries, London (2018); and Indifferent Idols, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei (2018).
Nikki Joshi is a percussionist based in Toronto, where she recently completed the 2018/19 Rebanks Family Fellowship at the Glenn Gould School. She holds a Master’s Degree from McGill University, where she studied with Aiyun Huang. During her time at McGill, she received the 2017 Mobility Award, and travelled to Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland to conduct research at the school’s renowned Department of Music Theatre. Joshi holds a Bachelor’s Degree, Performer’s Certificate, Arts Leadership Certificate and 2015 John Beck Percussion Scholarship from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Michael Burritt.
Support from Beverly and Jack Creed.

SOLD OUT
Performance starts at 7 pm.

Victoria Sin ft. Matteo Gemolo (traverso), If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now, 2019. Performance part of Meetings on Art, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Credit Riccardo Banfi. Courtesy Delfina Foundation and Arts Council England.

"Age of You" Drop-In Activity: Draw the Internet
2019-11-24 11:00 - 16:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
What does the internet look like — to you? MOCA invites you to consider this question while exploring Age of You, an exhibition highlighting such themes as data, artificial intelligence, surveillance and the limitless capabilities of the internet. After exploring the exhibition, head to Floor 1 to draw how you picture the internet in your mind’s eye. You can add your drawing to a cumulative piece that will reveal, over the course of the day, how our visitors see the internet — as an infinite, sprawling collective of images and ideas.

Canadian Art Encounters: Trevor Paglen
2019-11-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Ryerson University (George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre), 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join internationally renowned, Berlin-based artist Trevor Paglen on November 19th for a lecture at Ryerson University.
Paglen is an artist whose work spans disciplines including image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing and engineering. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures. Paglen will discuss his ongoing research into artificial intelligence and the relationships between technology and power.
Trevor Paglen’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography and visuality.

This event is a co-presentation between MOCA Toronto, Canadian Art and Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts. This event coincides with MOCA’s concurrent exhibition Age of You (September 5, 2019 to January 5, 2020) which features Paglen’s installation Behold These Glorious Times!

All advance tickets have been sold. A limited number of standby tickets will be available at the venue. A standby line will form as of 6:30 pm, and any remaining seats will be sold to the standby line beginning 10 minutes before the start of the talk. Pay-what you-can, cash only.

The George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre is an accessible venue.

Trevor Paglen, CLOUD #735, Scale Invariant Feature Transform; Region Adjacency Graph; Watershed, 2019. Dye sublimation print, 48 × 66 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco.

In the Age of You with Hans Ulrich Obrist
2019-11-17 16:00 - 17:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
We are excited to have Hans Ulrich Obrist in town on Sunday November 17. As co-curator of MOCA’s current exhibition Age of You he will talk about the central themes of the show, the coming publication and the future life of the project, in the gallery space at 4 pm.
Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. He has curated more than 300 exhibitions. His books include Ways of Curating, Mondialité, Somewhere Totally Else and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects.

Installation view, Age of You, MOCA Toronto. Photo by Tom Arban Photography Inc.

Artists on Artists: Sophia Oppel on "Age of You"
2019-11-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Ontario
Sophia Oppel is an artist and researcher whose work addresses the insidious positions of embedded power in networked infrastructures. Oppel will lead a tour and discussion of Age of You that focuses primarily on the theme of “Post-Work,” drawing connections to her own research on immaterial labour and outsourced or automated work.
Sophia Oppel received her BFA from OCAD University and is currently a co-director of Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container, a curatorial project assistant at Gallery 44, and a Masters of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally, including shows at InterAccess, Queen Specific, Gallery TPW, Forest City Gallery and Xpace Cultural Center.
MOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions, or a single artwork, in any format or direction of their choosing.

Image: Sophia Oppel (in collaboration with Blair Swann), how does a .jpg feel against your skin? Detail, Heat-bent acrylic, gel wax, gel medium transfers, 2018.

Digital Justice Lab Workshop: Imagining Feminist Interfaces
2019-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
What does it mean to imagine a feminist digital voice interface? Through a series of speculative design exercises, we will prototype and discuss what voice technologies might look like if we designed them in line with the central commitments of feminism: participation, agency, embodiment, equity, empowerment, plurality and justice. Participants will learn the basics of designing a conversational UI but no prior coding skills are needed.
Imagining Feminist Interfaces is presented in partnership with Digital Justice Lab and Trinity Square Video.
tendernet is a collective of female-identifying technologists, writers, educators, designers and activists whose work explores speculative design, networked devices and privacy through an intersectional feminist framework. Most recently, the collective has led workshops aimed at developing radical feminist interventions to emerging technologies, with a focus on voice interfaces. Becca Ricks and Zoe Bachman are co-founders of tendernet. tendernet.us
The Digital Justice Lab’s (DJL) mission is to focus on building a more just and equitable digital future. Working alongside technologists, community activists and policymakers, DJL helps shape a better public understanding of technology and its impact on communities across the country. Through capacity building, public engagement and continuous collaboration, DJL supports diverse communities in making informed decisions around digital issues. Digital Justice Lab is a project of Tides Canada, a registered Canadian charity dedicated to providing uncommon solutions for the common good.
We recommend that workshop participants bring a laptop.
This workshop is part of a series of workshops presented in partnership with Digital Justice Lab for Age of You.
Register here

Image courtesy Digital Justice Lab

Pint-Sized Conversations: Body of Work with Raoul Olou
2019-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Henderson Brewery, 128A Sterling Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pint-Sized Conversations with MOCA is a Wednesday night brought to you by Henderson Brewing Co. MOCA will present Body of Work every second Wednesday of the month.

Body of Work talks invite artists and those who have worked across the floors of MOCA Toronto—members of Akin’s Studio Program, Art Metropole, the Ontario Science Centre’s studio residency and the Toronto Biennial—to discuss their individual practices. ‘Body’ is a term used to describe the texture and weight of beer, and the word body in artistic practice often refers to a particular arrangement of artworks. The speakers in this series have been invited to respond to this duality.

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Raoul Olou is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His work focuses on ideas of home, belonging and archiving the mundane. For his talk, Olou will discuss his recent work and his use of documentary processes across various disciplines, including animation, experimental games and painting. Olou was a resident artist in the Akin Studio Program at MOCA from October 2018 – September 2019.

This event is free and all are welcome! If you’d like to reserve a spot, you can buy a ticket for $5 and enjoy a free pint when you arrive.

Learn more about Pint-Sized Conversations

Register for tickets
Image courtesy the artist.

Akin: Taxes 101 for Artists and Creatives
2019-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Workshop by Akin
Tax season can be a particularly stressful and confusing time for artists, performers and other creatives. This workshop will help you to be prepared for next year! Atbooks Senior Tax Preparer Tova Epp will touch on some of the most important tax topics for artists including: tax preparation, deductions, tax deadlines, HST, how to handle grants, T4s and more. The session is suitable for artists who are new to filing taxes or those who are looking for a refresher.
There will be a short presentation followed by a question and answer period. Please come prepared with your questions!
About Artbooks:
Artbooks was launched over 30 years ago as Canada’s first organization dedicated to artists and entrepreneurs financial sanity We provide tax preparation and consultation for sole proprietors/freelancers with a focus on the arts. www.artbooks.to
About the presenter:
Tova Epp is a tax preparer/actor/certified animals-in-disaster rescuer. She’s been working at Artbooks for 11 years, doing the taxes of many inspiring artists. When she’s not at Artbooks she can be seen at one of her many other jobs around the city, or auditioning for yet another commercial.
Space is limited, you must register to attend

"Age of You" Drop-in Activity: Defying Facial Recognition
2019-10-27 11:00 - 16:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Think you can outsmart facial recognition? In this workshop, participants will design and construct masks and headpieces inspired by CV Dazzle, a project by artist Adam Harvey that provides information and tips for creating “looks” that can camouflage the face from face detection technology. Using elements such as asymmetry, tonal inverse and the concealment of certain facial features, you will be able to learn and test which design combinations are most effective in hiding from facial recognition technology.
Free. No tickets or registration required. Drop-in and stay as long as you would like.

Fall into MOCA Open House
2019-10-27 10:00 - 17:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
FOOD TRUCKS – ACTIVITIES – PUMPKINS

“Fall” into MOCA on Sunday, October 27 and join Sterling Rd. in a community free day at the museum!

Bring your whole family out to taste delicious delights from local vendors, peruse our locally sourced pumpkin patch, and decorate the perfect pumpkin.

The day starts out with TD Community Sunday from 10am to 2pm. Free admission and activities continue to 5pm.

Stay tuned for vendor updates and other news – RSVP for updates!

Food Trucks by

born2eat
GOLDEN GRILL
Jerk Brothers
Nani’s Gelato

Workshops by Akin artists Linds Miyo and Jessie Lee.

Workshop Sponsor

Junction59

Please note, this event takes place in the parking lot, as such parking is not available. There is limited street parking and we encourage public transit.

Column Conversations Tours
2019-10-26 13:00 - 13:15 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Join us for one of our engaging Column Conversations — free, drop-in tours that shine a light on different parts of the museum from week to week. Topics may include: a selection of favourite artworks on view, an exhibition overview, and historical and architectural details about MOCA’s home, the Tower Automotive Building.
Tours are each Saturday from 1 pm – 1:15 pm.

Art Toronto - West End Gallery Hop
2019-10-25 18:00 - 22:00 | Ontario
Art Toronto invites you to gallery hop across 13 top contemporary galleries in Toronto’s west end. The following galleries will be welcoming all art enthusiasts for a night of refreshments, cocktails and incredible art! This event is open to the public and free of charge.

Learn more

1. Christopher Cutts Gallery
21 Morrow Avenue
Exhibition:
HAROLD TOWN: SIXTIES STYLE ICON
Harold Town
October 19 – November16, 2019

2. Clint Roenisch Gallery
190 Saint Helens Ave
Exhibition:
TBC
Claire Greenshaw
October 23 – December 6, 2019

3. COOPER COLE
1134 Dupont Street
TBC
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
October 25 – November 22, 2019
TBC
Artist: Jagdeep Raina
October 25 – November 22, 2019
TBC
Fin Simonetti
October 25 – November 22, 2019

4. Daniel Faria Gallery
188 St Helens Avenue
TBC
Artist: Nadia Belerique
September 19 – October 26, 2019

5. Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street West,
Exhibition:
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
Bambitchell
September 14 – November 2, 2019

6. MKG127
1445 Dundas Street West
Exhibition:
The King Photo Studio Series
Deanna Bowen
October 12 – November 9, 2019

7. MOCA Toronto
158 Sterling Road
Exhibitions:
Age of You
Curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
September 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020

DEMOS – A Reconstruction
Andreas Angelidakis
Ongoing

8. Patel Division Projects
45 Ernest Ave, Toronto
Exhibition:
Traveller
Rajni Perera
September 19 – November 2, 2019

Arsenal Contemporary
45 Ernest Ave
Exhibition:
All We’d Ever Need Is One Another (Trio)
Adam Basanta
September 19 – November 2, 2019

9. Paul Petro Contemporary Art
980 Queen Street West
Exhibition:
New Work
Zachari Logan & Mélanie Rocan
October 11 – November 9, 2019
*Zachari Logan will be in attendance

10. Scrap Metal Gallery
11 Dublin Street, Unit E
Exhibition:
TBC
Eric N. Mack
Dates TBC

11. Stephen Bulger Gallery
1356 Dundas Street West
Exhibition:
Georgian Bay
Joseph Hartman
September 14 – October 26, 2019

12. United Contemporary
1444 Dupont St, Unit #22,
Exhibition:
The Space Between
Stephan Berg, Amanda Clyne, Sarah Dinnick, Huy Lam, Suzanne Nacha, Meghan Price, Gordon Shadrach
October 19 – November 2, 2019
*Access to the gallery is north off Dupont via Campbell Ave, please follow the second driveway on the right

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Visit MOCA at Art Toronto
October 25-27
Booth B17
Art Toronto Information

Art Toronto: Carlos Bunga
2019-10-25 14:30 - 15:30 | Art Toronto, 255 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Carlos Bunga’s talk takes place during a research trip to MOCA Toronto where he will create a
site-responsive installation on two floors of the museum, opening February 2020.
Bunga uses mass-produced materials such as cardboard, adhesive tape and household paint to produce site-specific, process-focused installations. Emerging from a dialogue with an existing architectural space, these ephemeral structures remind us of life-size architectural models as well as temporary street shelters. Through his work, Bunga not only encourages viewers to rethink their experience of space and architecture, but also evokes the transient and fragile nature of urban structures.
Bunga (b. 1976, Porto) currently lives and works near Barcelona. His work has recently featured in group exhibitions at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2016); Artes Mundi 6 in Cardiff, UK (2013); and the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015). He has had solo exhibitions at numerous museums, including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011), Museu Serralves, Porto (2012), Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2013), Museo Amparo, Puebla (2014), Haus Konstruktiv Museum, Zurich (2015) and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2015) or the MAAT, Lisbon (2019). Bunga’s upcoming exhibitions in 2020 will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, MOCA Toronto and Secession in Wien.

Presented by MOCA Toronto, Supported by Partners in Art

Carlos Bunga, Deterritorialización, Site specific installation at Casas Rigner Gallery, Bogotá, 2013. Cardboard, tape, latex paint and glue, photographed by Oscar Monsalve.

Art Toronto
2019-10-24 - 2019-10-27 | Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building, 255 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Booth B17
MOCA Toronto, Gallery TPW and Mercer Union
We are sharing this rectangle to make a triangle.
Triangle-editions connects three neighbouring not-for-profit art spaces in Toronto’s West End—MOCA Toronto, Mercer Union, and Gallery TPW—supporting our curatorial programmes through the artist editions we produce.
About Art Toronto
Canada’s international fair for modern and contemporary art.
Providing unique access to the Canadian art market, the fair is one of the most important annual art events in Canada. Now in its 20th year, Art Toronto presents important artwork from leading Canadian and international galleries combined with PLATFORM, our engaging series of lectures and panel discussions from prominent art world figures, curated projects, an extensive VIP Program, and top-tier cultural offerings throughout the city.
2019 PLATFORM Speaker Series (free with admission)
Artist Talk: Carlos Bunga
Friday, Oct. 15, 2:30 pm
Presented by MOCA Toronto, Supported by Partners in Art
Carlos Bunga uses mass-produced materials such as cardboard, adhesive tape and household paint to produce site-specific, process-focused installations. Emerging from a dialogue with an existing architectural space, these ephemeral structures remind us of life-size architectural models as well as temporary street shelters. Through his work, Bunga not only encourages viewers to rethink their experience of space and architecture, but also evokes the transient and fragile nature of urban structures. This talk in anticipation of Bunga’s upcoming exhibition at MOCA Toronto in February of 2020.
West End Gallery Hop
Friday, Oct. 15, 6-10 pm
Art Toronto invites you to gallery hop across 13 top contemporary galleries in Toronto’s west end. The following galleries will be welcoming all art enthusiasts for a night of refreshments, cocktails and incredible art! This event is open to the public and free of charge.
Learn more
Get tickets

Digital Justice Lab Workshop: Mapping Digital Futures
2019-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
In this workshop, we will reimagine the digital future of Toronto and what it could look like in 2040. Together we will build narratives about the future and map out local policy recommendations in relation to the city’s Smart City plans.
Mapping Digital Futures is part of a series of workshops presented in partnership with Digital Justice Lab for Age of You.
The Digital Justice Lab’s (DJL) mission is to focus on building a more just and equitable future. DJL engages with diverse communities to build alternative digital futures. Working alongside technologists, community activists and policymakers, DJL helps to shape a better understanding of technology and its impact on communities across the country. Through capacity building, public engagement and continuous collaboration, DJL supports communities in making informed decisions around digital issues. Digital Justice Lab is a project of Tides Canada, a registered Canadian charity dedicated to providing uncommon solutions for the common good.
Register here

Illustration by Annalise Hyunh

Artists on Artists: Hannah Epstein on "Age of You"
2019-10-11 18:00 - 19:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Hannah Epstein works at the cross-section of textiles, experimental games and video art to reimagine the iconography of popular culture, highlighting the cultural negotiation between bottom-up (folk) and top-down (institutional) storytelling. By blurring the lines between traditional craft, popular culture and contemporary art, she aims to isolate and eliminate notions of hierarchy as archaic relics. Epstein will lead a tour and discussion of Age of You, with refreshments to follow.
MOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions, or a single artwork, in any format or direction of their choosing.

Hannah Epstein, You’re Tearing Me Apart, 2019.

Pint-Sized Conversations: Body of Work with Cason Sharpe (Art Metropole)
2019-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Henderson Brewery, 128A Sterling Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pint-Sized Conversations a weekly Wednesday night brought to you by Henderson Brewing Co. MOCA will present “Body of Work” every second Wednesday of the month.

“Body of Work” talk invites artists and those who have worked across the floors of MOCA Toronto—members of Akin’s Studio Program, Art Metropole, the Ontario Science Centre’s studio residency and the Toronto Biennial—to discuss their individual practices. ‘Body’ is a term used to describe the texture and weight of beer, and the word body in artistic practice often refers to a particular arrangement of artworks. The speakers in this series have been invited to respond to this duality.

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Cason Sharpe will give an introduction to the world of arts publishing by providing micro-reviews of three titles available from the Art Metropole catalogue. By dissecting these three books, Cason will distinguish the artist book as a unique form that exists in conversation with but separately from the more traditional worlds of visual art or literary publishing.

Cason Sharpe is a writer currently based in Toronto. His fiction and criticism has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, PRISM International, The Hart House Review, and GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine, among others. His first collection of short stories, Our Lady of Perpetual Realness, was released by Metatron Press in 2017. He has worked as the Manager of Art Metropole since 2018.

Art Metropole is a not-for-profit organization with a focus on the production, dissemination and contextualization of artist-initiated publication in any media, especially those formats and practices predisposed to sharing and circulation. Found in 1974 by the artist collective General Idea, Art Metropole now operates a retail storefront in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, as well as its own publishing program, and an extensive archive at the National Gallery of Canada.

Learn more about Pint-Sized Conversations

Photo by Ben Rahn Photography Inc.

Nuit Blanche: "It All Makes Sense" by Stephanie Comilang
2019-10-05 19:00 - 2019-10-06 07:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Stephanie Comilang creates a video, light, scent and textile installation for Nuit Blanche. It All Makes Sense recreates a memory of the first time Comilang saw Perfumed Nightmare by Kidlat Tahimik — a figure who, like Comilang’s father, comes from Baguio, a mountain city and old American airbase in the Philippines. This teen moment in a basement changed Comilang’s perspective on life.

For Nuit Blanche only, performers will activate the evening and sinigang soup will be served at 9pm (limited quantity)!

Comilang is a contributing artist to the concurrent exhibition Age of You (Sept 5, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020) curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
From 7pm to 2am:
Clouds & Horizon: A Project of Art Metropole

It All Makes Sense runs October 5 to 13.
Learn more.

Exclusive Members' Evening
2019-10-03 17:00 - 20:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Join us on Thursday, October 3 from 5 to 8 pm as we stay open late for an exclusive members’-only evening at MOCA. This is the perfect opportunity for you to experience the recently opened exhibition Age of You, as well as Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan, part of the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art.

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Installation view, Age of You, MOCA Toronto. Photo by Gabriel Li.

"Age of You" Drop-in Activity: Draw the Internet
2019-09-29 11:00 - 16:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
What does the internet look like to you? MOCA invites you to consider this question as you explore the exhibition Age of You, which highlights themes like data, artificial intelligence, surveillance and the limitless capabilities of the internet. Draw how you imagine the internet in your mind’s eye. You can add your drawing to a cumulative piece that will reveal, over the course of the day, how our visitors see the internet — as an infinite, sprawling collective of images and ideas.
Free. No tickets or registration required. Drop-in and stay as long as you would like.

ON STERLING BINGO
2019-09-27 15:00 - 19:00 | Ontario
Believe the hype, folks: Sterling Road is jam-packed with tons of cool stuff — artist’s spaces, yoga studios, bookstores, restaurants, clothing stores, galleries, and a lot more! Come join us on Friday, September 27 for the fourth instalment of ON STERLING BINGO for your chance to check explore these spaces.

Come to any one of our participating locations on Sterling Road on Friday, September 27, anytime between 3 and 7 p.m. Pick up your BINGO card (and your first stamp) to get started. Once you’ve completed your bingo card, visit Forno Cultura to enter to win various prizes from the participating organizations.

Locations:

MOCA Toronto
House of Anansi Press
The Drake Commissary
Mud Makers Studio
The Make Den Sewing School
Mosaic Yoga
Forno Cultura at MOCA (Last stop! Please show your complete bingo card here to enter the giveaways)

From the Bay Area to the Arctic: Shezad Dawood and Alice Xia Zhu
2019-09-23 19:00 - 21:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Artist Shezad Dawood is joined by researcher Alice Xia Zhu for a conversation that addresses the fate of microplastics in marine and freshwater contexts, from the San Francisco Bay to the Arctic. This programme is organised in dialogue with Shezad Dawood’s exhibition Leviathan, presented on MOCA’s Floor 4. Leviathan is an ambitious “episodic monster” consisting of ten filmic episodes that envisage a future, uncannily much like our present, to consider possible links between borders, mental health, and marine welfare.
Shezad Dawood is an interdisciplinary artist, who uses research and collaboration as a way of informing his work in film, installation, writing, publishing, VR and sculpture. His key concerns are marine ecology, non-aligned movement and the ethics of place. Dawood’s work has been exhibited and won awards at multiple biennales and film festivals, and features in the permanent collections of LACMA, TATE, and the British Museum, among others.
Alice Xia Zhu is a Master’s student working under Chelsea Rochman in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. She studies the sources and fate of microplastics in San Francisco Bay. Alice hopes her research can inform policy to mitigate plastic pollution entering The Bay. Alice is also a part of the U of T Trash Team, a team of graduate and undergraduate students who strive to connect people and increase literacy concerning material consumption and waste with creative and practical actions.
Public programmes for Leviathan are supported by Brenda Simpson.
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Image Credit: Location in the Arctic, Clara Thaysen, 2017.

Art Metropole - Martin Creed: Getting Changed
2019-09-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Art Metropole at MOCA, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Ontario, M6R 2B2, Canada
London artist, musician, and Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed has created many works involving live music, dance, and language—in the form of word-sculptures, talks, and songs. Most recently he has been developing a new one-person show, Getting Changed, which is a hybrid of a talk, a concert, and a cabaret. Creed has been described as “part court jester and part subversive philosopher,” and his new show explores borders both personal and national, communication in the form of clothes, and words as clothes for feelings—presented in his witty, responsive, freestyle way.
This concert kicks off Creed’s 2019/2020 North American tour. Part of the performance will also be recorded for a forthcoming Art Metropole release, alongside a vinyl re-release of “I Can’t Move”, originally published by Art Metropole as a CD in 1999.
Produced with support from Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
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Sterling Road Block Party
2019-09-22 11:00 - 17:00 | Drake Commissary, 128 Sterling Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Come one, come all, for the annual Drake x Henderson Brewing Sterling Road Block Party. You don’t want to miss the ultimate neighbourhood Sunday Funday with eats and drinks from the Drake Commissary kitchen, Henderson’s craft beer and some surprises from our foodie friends. Shop a market of local artisans while DJs and live bands keep the vibes going all day long.

Artists on Artists: Shirin Fathi on "Age of You"
2019-09-20 18:00 - 19:00 | MOCA Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd., Toronto, Canada
Shirin Fathi is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose work focuses on cultural changes in relation to gender identity. Through role-play and the use of cosmetics, masks and prosthetics, Fathi uses her own body as a subject to stage ambiguous and often marginalized identities. Fathi will lead a tour and discussion of Age of You.
MOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions, or a single artwork, in any format or direction of their choosing.

Shirin Fathi, Blonde Colonel, from the series Heart Throbs, 2015.
