Bouncy Highrise is a performance event in which a small crew of people will attempt to stack a tower of bouncy castles, one on top of the other. This will take place over the course of two to three hours in the courtyard in front of MOCCA. Presented by Jessica Bradley Gallery in association with MOCCA and Villa Toronto.
Meet at MOCCA for an exclusive, educational evening in Vera Frenkel's Transit Bar with with passionate local distiller Charles Benoit, co-owner of Toronto Distillery.
During the workshop you will learn about the distillation process, what makes a great whisky, and how to taste it.
In conjunction with the exhibition Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling, Gendai Gallery will introduce their most recent publication through a selection of readings, which will take place around Frenkel's immerse installation "...from the Transit Bar". The publication titled Model Minority, is an assemblage of the readings, articles, ephemera, and archives discovered and created from a year-long programming series issued under the same name.
Please join us in the Transit Bar for an open discussion starting from "More Thoughts on Cultural Translation"; an essay by Indian literary theorist, philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Please read the text ahead of time if possible - printed texts will be available at MOCCA during the week prior to the […]
MOCCA invites you to a wine-tasting workshop with Krystina Roman of Rosewood Estates. Krystina will lead us through a 'Blind Tasting 101' and an introduction to becoming a 'Master Sommelier'. She will discuss the tricks and tips that wine professionals use to identify the quality of a wine using four different wine styles: dry, oak-aged, light and heavy bodied.
MOCCA Members are invited to join Assistant Curator Su-Ying Lee for a tour of the exhibition Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling.
Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling is a comprehensive presentation of the work of the Toronto-based artist whose interdisciplinary approach to video, performance, sculpture, printmaking, and installations has earned widespread international acclaim. The exhibition showcases rarely seen early works such as The Storyteller’s Device, alongside more recent projects such as ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the […]
Walls + Outlets Tour This tour offers audiences an opportunity to learn about the structure of MOCCA, both architecturally and institutionally. In looking past the art, literally, the guide will illuminate the institution's intimate exhibition, building, and bureaucratic histories, with which only its employees or longstanding members would be familiar. RSVP to info@aisle.ca to participate
"No Art Tours" is a series of tours presented by MOCCA and Aisle 4 in which viewing the exhibition in a traditional context is avoided.
This Fall, MOCCA will host the 7th installment of LUFF Art+Dialogue's Critics Forum