Jamie's Area

is a new space that performs multiple roles such as gallery, studio, kitchen, theatre, workshop, research lab, blog, and archive. This project emerged out of a desire to explore the politics and ideology involved in conceiving of an “alternative space” and its various manifestations in artist-run, collective-based culture. Rather than position ourselves as an alternative, we wish to acknowledge and represent our complicity in the systems that we critique. At stake is the question of what it means to be a critical art space—of its possibility—and to respond experimentally and radically to the social, economic, and political conditions by which cultural production and consumption function today in Toronto.

Our regular programming explores histories of artistic collectivity, reconstituting specific strategies in light of a more recent participatory paradigm. In our Food series, we invite an artist every Sunday to cook a meal. A single table is set up in the main space to draw out the social, communal aspects of eating. While "Food" eponymously channels Gordon Matta-Clark's restaurant and ceative hub from the 1970s, his Guest Chef Dinners (artist-as-cook) can no longer be evoked without also considering the discourse on relational aesthetics elicited by Rirkrit Tiravanija's cooking pieces. Our Food series unpacks the radical, if utopian, ideology that charged the creative output of a distinct era, so as to consider its implications for notions of community today. We also just like a good dinner party.

193 Augusta Ave
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Upcoming

Saturday, September 12th, 12 AM
WELCOME TO THE FRIDGE
New space launch @ 211 Augusta
The unveiling of our new digs. Bigger, better, fully uncensored. Grittier, flashier.

In other news, you can find Jamie’s Area listed under ‘Covert Cuisine’ in July’s Toronto Life, or in Dax Morrison’s ‘The Willing and Able’ at YYZ, where our position within the Toronto gallery milieu is represented by a strip of white paint - which, given our M.O. of TOTAL ABSORPTION, was taken out of YYZ’s very own paint supply.


Don’t miss

UPCOMING FOOD

WITH

Silly Dad’s
Jubal Brown
Katie Bethune-Leamen
Jimmy Limit & Jesse B. Harris
Stephanie Comilang
Dan Young & Kenneth Hayes

Press

Jamie’s Area has been featured in Eye Weekly, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Toronto Life, National Post, and CBC Radio. For details, news updates, or press inquiries, holler at us here: jamiesarea @ gmail.com


Sayej, Nadja. “In the Company of Strangers.” The Globe & Mail 21 March 2009.


Levack, Chandler. “Alternative Tentacles.” Eye Weekly Vol 18 Issue 19: 50.

FOOD / Toronto Terraria Club Sunday, April 26, 8 PM FOOD SCULPTURES THAT TASTE GOOD THROUGH THE MIRROR PALATE.Things we are preparing are:24 CARROT FORESTWITH IKEBANAMARBLE SHRUBBERYTREMBLESEARTHQUAKE IN EGYPTSWORDS AND STONESFORTUNESRAINBOWSSWAMPBLOODY LUNGDARLINGTON DAIKONMASONRYPIANOMODERNIST BREADandCERTAIN PATESandmore“OUR HAIR IS NOT IN YOUR GELATIN”Museum serving style on platforms pedestals and plattersRomantic and epilectic lightingCasual and common seating and standing$18If interested, please RSVP your phone # to jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 24 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis.Toronto Terraria Club is Janis Demkiw, Emily Hogg and Olia Mishchenko. Toronto Terrarea Club is a club. We all maintain terrariums and often assemble them together as installations. We stake land, name structures and talk about scale. We use mirrors a lot. For this dinner we are so happy that we have a special guest Deirdre Fraser (Home Ec.), who has the best bio and the best style. Anyway, we all are inspired by Deirdre, right?FOOD / Toronto Terraria Club Sunday, April 26, 8 PM FOOD SCULPTURES THAT TASTE GOOD THROUGH THE MIRROR PALATE.Things we are preparing are:24 CARROT FORESTWITH IKEBANAMARBLE SHRUBBERYTREMBLESEARTHQUAKE IN EGYPTSWORDS AND STONESFORTUNESRAINBOWSSWAMPBLOODY LUNGDARLINGTON DAIKONMASONRYPIANOMODERNIST BREADandCERTAIN PATESandmore“OUR HAIR IS NOT IN YOUR GELATIN”Museum serving style on platforms pedestals and plattersRomantic and epilectic lightingCasual and common seating and standing$18If interested, please RSVP your phone # to jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 24 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis.Toronto Terraria Club is Janis Demkiw, Emily Hogg and Olia Mishchenko. Toronto Terrarea Club is a club. We all maintain terrariums and often assemble them together as installations. We stake land, name structures and talk about scale. We use mirrors a lot. For this dinner we are so happy that we have a special guest Deirdre Fraser (Home Ec.), who has the best bio and the best style. Anyway, we all are inspired by Deirdre, right?

FOOD / Toronto Terraria Club
Sunday, April 26, 8 PM

FOOD SCULPTURES THAT TASTE GOOD THROUGH THE MIRROR PALATE.

Things we are preparing are:

24 CARROT FOREST
WITH
IKEBANA
MARBLE
SHRUBBERY
TREMBLES
EARTHQUAKE IN EGYPT
SWORDS AND STONES
FORTUNES
RAINBOWS
SWAMP
BLOODY LUNG
DARLINGTON DAIKON
MASONRY
PIANO
MODERNIST BREAD
and
CERTAIN PATES
and
more

“OUR HAIR IS NOT IN YOUR GELATIN”

Museum serving style on platforms pedestals and platters
Romantic and epilectic lighting
Casual and common seating and standing

$18

If interested, please RSVP your phone # to jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 24 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis.

Toronto Terraria Club is Janis Demkiw, Emily Hogg and Olia Mishchenko. Toronto Terrarea Club is a club. We all maintain terrariums and often assemble them together as installations. We stake land, name structures and talk about scale. We use mirrors a lot. For this dinner we are so happy that we have a special guest Deirdre Fraser (Home Ec.), who has the best bio and the best style. Anyway, we all are inspired by Deirdre, right?

SYMPOSIUM / DatingWednesday, April 15, 8 PM Jamie’s Area presents the first of a series of symposia looking at universal themes, curated by Steve Thomas:Dating.Chris DupuisEmma HealeyAaron KopffChandler Levack’s Grandmother, Gemma Fischer Kathleen Phillips:These people will do something for 10-15 minutes each.There will be an intermission after the third person.At the end, there will be a GROUP Q&A/PANEL DISCUSSION where all speakers will collectively field questions. Maybe they will sit at a long table together that will not be long enough for all of them.There will be blankets and a few couches to sit on.“CROWD-SOURCING” DESIGN PLAN: I would like to blow up a photograph to at least poster size or maybe larger. This will be THE SYMPOSIUM: Dating PICTURE**. Each SYMPOSIUM will have a PICTURE. This will be a nice keepsake/million$ collector’s item. I would really like if people sent me a picture that they would like the picture to be. In other words, this is a competition. It is a competition that will be really easy to win, because since we are so small and indie, you will only be competing with about three other people. If only one person sends me a picture, that picture will be the very large photograph (rule: it must be a photograph) hanging on the wall when everyone walks in. We’ll put your name somewhere too, although you could chose to be anonymous. Send to stevekwthomas @ gmail.com. DEADLINE: APRIL 13. You can submit as many photos as you want. You could make the subject of your email(s) ASDFASDFASDFPIC but if you don’t it won’t matter too hard. (Clarification: it doesn’t have to be a photograph YOU took. You can hit up google image search. But I might favour a photograph YOU took. Is that true? I’m not even sure that’s true. Whatever. Do what you like.):Steve Thomas is a pretty much thoroughly unpublished writer. He has spoken/read at Trampoline Hall and No Face No Problem and is a contributing author in an academic psychology paper.Chris Dupuis is a former champion equestrian, ballet school drop-out, and mildly successful catalogue model. He makes videos and performances that show in North America and Europe. And sometimes writes things for magazines like NOW and Xtra.Emma Healey has written for Broken Pencil, Canadian Stage and the Paprika Theatre Festival. She is currently in Grade 12.Aaron Kopff makes films that fuck, music that cries, videos that tear, thoughts that steal, dreams that fold, and pictures that break. Aaron has connected the dots on many pieces of paper and feels he might originally be from Slazburg or Casablanca. Touch his hair if you like. Gemma Fischer is a landlord in Kensington Market, and has five children. She says, “Love is a wonderful thing, when you find it don’t lose it, right?” Her Q&A with her grandaughter Chandler will touch on dating in modern times and olden times and maybe the olden times will help the modern times, right? (Chandler Levack is a contributor to EYE Weekly and writes about music sometimes for the Village Voice.) Kathleen Phillips has not told us who she is. Maybs you have to google her. (She’s great though.) : **Winning picture submitted by Gwen Bieniara.SYMPOSIUM / DatingWednesday, April 15, 8 PM Jamie’s Area presents the first of a series of symposia looking at universal themes, curated by Steve Thomas:Dating.Chris DupuisEmma HealeyAaron KopffChandler Levack’s Grandmother, Gemma Fischer Kathleen Phillips:These people will do something for 10-15 minutes each.There will be an intermission after the third person.At the end, there will be a GROUP Q&A/PANEL DISCUSSION where all speakers will collectively field questions. Maybe they will sit at a long table together that will not be long enough for all of them.There will be blankets and a few couches to sit on.“CROWD-SOURCING” DESIGN PLAN: I would like to blow up a photograph to at least poster size or maybe larger. This will be THE SYMPOSIUM: Dating PICTURE**. Each SYMPOSIUM will have a PICTURE. This will be a nice keepsake/million$ collector’s item. I would really like if people sent me a picture that they would like the picture to be. In other words, this is a competition. It is a competition that will be really easy to win, because since we are so small and indie, you will only be competing with about three other people. If only one person sends me a picture, that picture will be the very large photograph (rule: it must be a photograph) hanging on the wall when everyone walks in. We’ll put your name somewhere too, although you could chose to be anonymous. Send to stevekwthomas @ gmail.com. DEADLINE: APRIL 13. You can submit as many photos as you want. You could make the subject of your email(s) ASDFASDFASDFPIC but if you don’t it won’t matter too hard. (Clarification: it doesn’t have to be a photograph YOU took. You can hit up google image search. But I might favour a photograph YOU took. Is that true? I’m not even sure that’s true. Whatever. Do what you like.):Steve Thomas is a pretty much thoroughly unpublished writer. He has spoken/read at Trampoline Hall and No Face No Problem and is a contributing author in an academic psychology paper.Chris Dupuis is a former champion equestrian, ballet school drop-out, and mildly successful catalogue model. He makes videos and performances that show in North America and Europe. And sometimes writes things for magazines like NOW and Xtra.Emma Healey has written for Broken Pencil, Canadian Stage and the Paprika Theatre Festival. She is currently in Grade 12.Aaron Kopff makes films that fuck, music that cries, videos that tear, thoughts that steal, dreams that fold, and pictures that break. Aaron has connected the dots on many pieces of paper and feels he might originally be from Slazburg or Casablanca. Touch his hair if you like. Gemma Fischer is a landlord in Kensington Market, and has five children. She says, “Love is a wonderful thing, when you find it don’t lose it, right?” Her Q&A with her grandaughter Chandler will touch on dating in modern times and olden times and maybe the olden times will help the modern times, right? (Chandler Levack is a contributor to EYE Weekly and writes about music sometimes for the Village Voice.) Kathleen Phillips has not told us who she is. Maybs you have to google her. (She’s great though.) : **Winning picture submitted by Gwen Bieniara.

SYMPOSIUM / Dating
Wednesday, April 15, 8 PM

Jamie’s Area presents the first of a series of symposia looking at universal themes, curated by Steve Thomas:

Dating.

Chris Dupuis
Emma Healey
Aaron Kopff
Chandler Levack’s Grandmother, Gemma Fischer
Kathleen Phillips

:

These people will do something for 10-15 minutes each.

There will be an intermission after the third person.

At the end, there will be a GROUP Q&A/PANEL DISCUSSION where all speakers will collectively field questions. Maybe they will sit at a long table together that will not be long enough for all of them.

There will be blankets and a few couches to sit on.

“CROWD-SOURCING” DESIGN PLAN: I would like to blow up a photograph to at least poster size or maybe larger. This will be THE SYMPOSIUM: Dating PICTURE**. Each SYMPOSIUM will have a PICTURE. This will be a nice keepsake/million$ collector’s item. I would really like if people sent me a picture that they would like the picture to be. In other words, this is a competition. It is a competition that will be really easy to win, because since we are so small and indie, you will only be competing with about three other people. If only one person sends me a picture, that picture will be the very large photograph (rule: it must be a photograph) hanging on the wall when everyone walks in. We’ll put your name somewhere too, although you could chose to be anonymous. Send to stevekwthomas @ gmail.com. DEADLINE: APRIL 13. You can submit as many photos as you want. You could make the subject of your email(s) ASDFASDFASDFPIC but if you don’t it won’t matter too hard. (Clarification: it doesn’t have to be a photograph YOU took. You can hit up google image search. But I might favour a photograph YOU took. Is that true? I’m not even sure that’s true. Whatever. Do what you like.)

:

Steve Thomas is a pretty much thoroughly unpublished writer. He has spoken/read at Trampoline Hall and No Face No Problem and is a contributing author in an academic psychology paper.

Chris Dupuis is a former champion equestrian, ballet school drop-out, and mildly successful catalogue model. He makes videos and performances that show in North America and Europe. And sometimes writes things for magazines like NOW and Xtra.

Emma Healey has written for Broken Pencil, Canadian Stage and the Paprika Theatre Festival. She is currently in Grade 12.

Aaron Kopff makes films that fuck, music that cries, videos that tear, thoughts that steal, dreams that fold, and pictures that break. Aaron has connected the dots on many pieces of paper and feels he might originally be from Slazburg or Casablanca. Touch his hair if you like.

Gemma Fischer is a landlord in Kensington Market, and has five children. She says, “Love is a wonderful thing, when you find it don’t lose it, right?” Her Q&A with her grandaughter Chandler will touch on dating in modern times and olden times and maybe the olden times will help the modern times, right? (Chandler Levack is a contributor to EYE Weekly and writes about music sometimes for the Village Voice.)

Kathleen Phillips has not told us who she is. Maybs you have to google her. (She’s great though.)

:

**Winning picture submitted by Gwen Bieniara.

Arcangel @ Images

Last month’s Artforum featured a great interview with Cory Arcangel and video art pioneer, Dara Birnbaum. Editor, Tim Griffin prefaced the issue as attesting to the “rapidly changing coordinates within the broader landscape of contemporary culture”, notably to enfold the influences of technology and mass media (which Griffin more graciously termed “visual culture”). Indeed, the ever-changing terms and relations between art and mass media are explored in Arcangel and Birnbaum’s dialogue. Where Birnbaum may represent a subversive force in the era that saw the emergence of media-based art, Arcangel’s position today is arguably more inscrutable, given the thorough saturation of technology-driven developments in nearly every facet of our social and political (Obama?) climate. An illuminating example of this time gap occurs when Birnbaum asks, “What is Twittering?” to which Arcangel abashedly responds, “I’m sorry. This is embarrasing. I’m going to tell the editors not to print the word Twitter.” Birnbaum’s concern for revealing hidden agendas in yesterday’s distribution of media has aged to accomodate media’s increasingly participatory nature, and the popular incorporation of Web 2.0 platforms. Arcangel quips, “Media is no longer a one-way street.”

In the context of the Pictures generation and the associated artists’ predilection for image theivery, Hal Foster ruminates on the difficulty of cultural resistance in his resonant, if dated, essay, “Readings in Cultural Resistance.” He raises Barthes’ concept of myth-robbery, wherein mass media signs are appropriated in art with the political motive of countering or compounding an existing cultural myth. Foster questions the efficacy of such image appropriation, with help from Baudrillard, asking if such a strategy doesn’t ultimately reproduce the code that it critiques. Note the proliferation of fashion emporium ads in the newly emaciated Artforum— specifically, the placement of Yves Saint Laurent’s lavish six-page spread following the single page selling Martin Kippenberger’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (“The Problem Perspective”). I enjoy the slippage between an ad for contemporary art’s beloved myth-robber and the accidental rejoinder by a fashion couture house; of course, myth-robbery depends on such slippages for currency, right? If Foster contested such a claim over two decades ago, I have nothing to add. And if it takes a recession to broaden the confines of contemporary art discourse— as grossly represented here by Artforum’s ever-glossy pages— I say, bring it on.

Gratifyingly, Arcangel expands on his self-description as a “hacker” and its subversive connotations. He rejects the image of a covert criminal or political antagonist, preferring an older definition of “somebody who just does clever things with software. I modify things, and they will be technically cool or just interesting, and then I’ll redistribute them.” One way that Arcangel refashions resistance can be found in his appreciation for diverse contexts, and the varying systemic conditions for signs and myth-making, in Youtube or the art institution. Not to mention his fetish for obsolescence, which exposes the time of ideology, as much as the space. My favourite part is when he talks about a photoshop gradient being circulated as a Cory Arcangel and how that’s basically exploitative.

Pursuing perspectives counter to the white cube is a central concern at Jamie’s Area, and in our painfully self-conscious struggle with criticality. We try to do this on multiple levels, not only in the content we feature but in our working methodology of being— or, as Deleuze would put it, of becoming. That is, the space presents multi-disciplinary programming while pushing an active appropriation of potentially conflicting contexts. We are, ideally, a conjunctive space. That is why Jamie’s Area is as much this blog you read as the basement apartment at 193 Augusta Ave, and how we can oscillate between being an art gallery and a restaurant with equal weight.

In the meantime, go see Cory Arcangel and Hanne Mugaas’ Powerpoint this Friday at the Theatre Centre. (I also highly recommend The Communism of Forms, an exhibition exploring the strategy of music videos, spanning both the AGYU and Red Bull 381 Projects. And last but not least, our good friends, Ammo Factory with their latest production, The Voice Over, in the closing night gala.)

FOOD / Jennifer Marman & Daniel BorinsSunday, April 5, 8 PM Marman and Borins have been making art together for close to ten years. Over this period of time, through their daily regime, and through their travels, certain dishes have stood out. From the lunches they prepare for the studio to the ingredients they find while at market, they feel that cooking is an extension of their art practice. They like slow food, good food, and most of all the food they prepare for themselves. Now it is their chance to share these experiences with you in eclectic style:Tortilla Soup with Chorizo from Segovia Meats in KensingtonSugar Snap Salad with Fennel and Niagara Cured CapicollaMarman/Borins/Studio Coleslaw with Thai Green Curry Paste, Arugula, and Seared Japanese ScallopsPan-Fried Italian herbed chicken breasts with roasted rosemary grape tomatoes, served with pasta and homemade cilantro basil pestoAssorted Artisanal Cheeses from Quebec$20If interested, please RSVP your phone # to jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 16 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis. Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins practice sculpture, installation and media art in Toronto. Marman and Borins have shown work both in Canada and internationally. Recently, they had their first museum solo show at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto. Upcoming projects include a public sculpture commission for Downsview Subway Station received from the Toronto Transit Commission. In the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008 Marman and Borins showed their sculpture The Presence Meter at the National Gallery of Canada, as part of an exhibition entitled Dots, Pulses, and Loops. In the fall of 2008/ winter of 2009, Marman and Borins participated in a group sculpture show at the National Gallery of Canada entitled Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer. In the fall of 2009 Marman and Borins will have a solo show at YYZ Gallery in Toronto. Their work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada (2008) and they are represented by Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto.FOOD / Jennifer Marman & Daniel BorinsSunday, April 5, 8 PM Marman and Borins have been making art together for close to ten years. Over this period of time, through their daily regime, and through their travels, certain dishes have stood out. From the lunches they prepare for the studio to the ingredients they find while at market, they feel that cooking is an extension of their art practice. They like slow food, good food, and most of all the food they prepare for themselves. Now it is their chance to share these experiences with you in eclectic style:Tortilla Soup with Chorizo from Segovia Meats in KensingtonSugar Snap Salad with Fennel and Niagara Cured CapicollaMarman/Borins/Studio Coleslaw with Thai Green Curry Paste, Arugula, and Seared Japanese ScallopsPan-Fried Italian herbed chicken breasts with roasted rosemary grape tomatoes, served with pasta and homemade cilantro basil pestoAssorted Artisanal Cheeses from Quebec$20If interested, please RSVP your phone # to jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 16 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis. Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins practice sculpture, installation and media art in Toronto. Marman and Borins have shown work both in Canada and internationally. Recently, they had their first museum solo show at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto. Upcoming projects include a public sculpture commission for Downsview Subway Station received from the Toronto Transit Commission. In the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008 Marman and Borins showed their sculpture The Presence Meter at the National Gallery of Canada, as part of an exhibition entitled Dots, Pulses, and Loops. In the fall of 2008/ winter of 2009, Marman and Borins participated in a group sculpture show at the National Gallery of Canada entitled Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer. In the fall of 2009 Marman and Borins will have a solo show at YYZ Gallery in Toronto. Their work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada (2008) and they are represented by Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto.

FOOD / Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins
Sunday, April 5, 8 PM

Marman and Borins have been making art together for close to ten years. Over this period of time, through their daily regime, and through their travels, certain dishes have stood out. From the lunches they prepare for the studio to the ingredients they find while at market, they feel that cooking is an extension of their art practice. They like slow food, good food, and most of all the food they prepare for themselves. Now it is their chance to share these experiences with you in eclectic style:

Tortilla Soup with Chorizo from Segovia Meats in Kensington

Sugar Snap Salad with Fennel and Niagara Cured Capicolla

Marman/Borins/Studio Coleslaw with Thai Green Curry Paste, Arugula, and Seared Japanese Scallops

Pan-Fried Italian herbed chicken breasts with roasted rosemary grape tomatoes, served with pasta and homemade cilantro basil pesto

Assorted Artisanal Cheeses from Quebec

$20

If interested, please RSVP your phone # to jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 16 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis.

Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins practice sculpture, installation and media art in Toronto. Marman and Borins have shown work both in Canada and internationally. Recently, they had their first museum solo show at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto. Upcoming projects include a public sculpture commission for Downsview Subway Station received from the Toronto Transit Commission. In the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008 Marman and Borins showed their sculpture The Presence Meter at the National Gallery of Canada, as part of an exhibition entitled Dots, Pulses, and Loops. In the fall of 2008/ winter of 2009, Marman and Borins participated in a group sculpture show at the National Gallery of Canada entitled Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer. In the fall of 2009 Marman and Borins will have a solo show at YYZ Gallery in Toronto. Their work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada (2008) and they are represented by Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto.

LIVE / Permafrown, Saffron Sect, Aaron LumleyFriday, April 3, 9 PMwww.myspace.com/permafrownwww.myspace.com/thesaffronsectwww.myspace.com/aaronlumleyLIVE / Permafrown, Saffron Sect, Aaron LumleyFriday, April 3, 9 PMwww.myspace.com/permafrownwww.myspace.com/thesaffronsectwww.myspace.com/aaronlumley

LIVE / Permafrown, Saffron Sect, Aaron Lumley
Friday, April 3, 9 PM

www.myspace.com/permafrown
www.myspace.com/thesaffronsect
www.myspace.com/aaronlumley

LIVE / Hello World, Here Is Carl DidurWednesday, March 25, 7 PM Carl Didur has been working with synthesizers, reel-to-reels and tape loops for the better part of a decade, in almost total isolation. He has occasionally emerged from his smokey cave to play the organ for The Battleship, Ethel, Rozasia, No Dynamics and Broken Tree Fort. He also was responsible for between-band tape loops at Extermination Music Night II and his own sound/light room at EMN VII, both of which caused people’s hertz to space considerably.This event will see him perform his first-ever solo show. It will incorporate multiple reel-to-reels, speakers and sound-responsive lights.Blankets and pillows will be spread across the floor and shoes will be left at the door. Though these signifiers may suggest new age sympathies, we assure you that this is not the case.The reels begin to whir at 7 PM.This event is PWYC.LIVE / Hello World, Here Is Carl DidurWednesday, March 25, 7 PM Carl Didur has been working with synthesizers, reel-to-reels and tape loops for the better part of a decade, in almost total isolation. He has occasionally emerged from his smokey cave to play the organ for The Battleship, Ethel, Rozasia, No Dynamics and Broken Tree Fort. He also was responsible for between-band tape loops at Extermination Music Night II and his own sound/light room at EMN VII, both of which caused people’s hertz to space considerably.This event will see him perform his first-ever solo show. It will incorporate multiple reel-to-reels, speakers and sound-responsive lights.Blankets and pillows will be spread across the floor and shoes will be left at the door. Though these signifiers may suggest new age sympathies, we assure you that this is not the case.The reels begin to whir at 7 PM.This event is PWYC.

LIVE / Hello World, Here Is Carl Didur
Wednesday, March 25, 7 PM

Carl Didur has been working with synthesizers, reel-to-reels and tape loops for the better part of a decade, in almost total isolation. He has occasionally emerged from his smokey cave to play the organ for The Battleship, Ethel, Rozasia, No Dynamics and Broken Tree Fort. He also was responsible for between-band tape loops at Extermination Music Night II and his own sound/light room at EMN VII, both of which caused people’s hertz to space considerably.

This event will see him perform his first-ever solo show. It will incorporate multiple reel-to-reels, speakers and sound-responsive lights.

Blankets and pillows will be spread across the floor and shoes will be left at the door. Though these signifiers may suggest new age sympathies, we assure you that this is not the case.

The reels begin to whir at 7 PM.

This event is PWYC.

FOOD / Dean BaldwinSunday, March 22, 8 PM Join us at Jamie’s Area for a feast of opposites. Boil your own LIVE PEI Lobster vs. Vanilla Ice Cream Strawberry Sundaes!!! Which one will you choose? Can you eat both? At the same time?!? Boy, it’s going to be messy.$15 If interested, please RSVP with your phone # at jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 50 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis. Dean Baldwin has been living and working in Toronto for years now. He attended York University in Toronto (BFA) and the University of Concordia in Montreal (MFA). In 2009 he was awarded the Canada Council International Residency in London, UK. Also in 2009, he will direct Reverse Pedagogy 2, a 10 day residency held at the Palazzo Zen, in Venice, Italy. Recent projects include, Sweet Dreams, curated by Barbara Fischer for Nuit Blanche at the JMB Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, Seducing Down the Door, curated by Dave Dyment for Mercer Union, and Never Been to Tehran, curated by Andrea Grover and Jon Rubin for venues in Iran, Turkey, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany and the US. His work “Attempt at an Inventory” was recently published by MIT press in the Alphabet City Series “FOOD” edited by John Knechtel. He has received reviews from The Globe and Mail, The National Post, ArtUS, Artforum, Voir, La Tribune, ICI, THIS, Now and Eye Magazines.FOOD / Dean BaldwinSunday, March 22, 8 PM Join us at Jamie’s Area for a feast of opposites. Boil your own LIVE PEI Lobster vs. Vanilla Ice Cream Strawberry Sundaes!!! Which one will you choose? Can you eat both? At the same time?!? Boy, it’s going to be messy.$15 If interested, please RSVP with your phone # at jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 50 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis. Dean Baldwin has been living and working in Toronto for years now. He attended York University in Toronto (BFA) and the University of Concordia in Montreal (MFA). In 2009 he was awarded the Canada Council International Residency in London, UK. Also in 2009, he will direct Reverse Pedagogy 2, a 10 day residency held at the Palazzo Zen, in Venice, Italy. Recent projects include, Sweet Dreams, curated by Barbara Fischer for Nuit Blanche at the JMB Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, Seducing Down the Door, curated by Dave Dyment for Mercer Union, and Never Been to Tehran, curated by Andrea Grover and Jon Rubin for venues in Iran, Turkey, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany and the US. His work “Attempt at an Inventory” was recently published by MIT press in the Alphabet City Series “FOOD” edited by John Knechtel. He has received reviews from The Globe and Mail, The National Post, ArtUS, Artforum, Voir, La Tribune, ICI, THIS, Now and Eye Magazines.

FOOD / Dean Baldwin
Sunday, March 22, 8 PM

Join us at Jamie’s Area for a feast of opposites.
Boil your own LIVE PEI Lobster vs. Vanilla Ice Cream Strawberry Sundaes!!!
Which one will you choose? Can you eat both? At the same time?!?
Boy, it’s going to be messy.

$15 

If interested, please RSVP with your phone # at jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 50 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis.

Dean Baldwin has been living and working in Toronto for years now. He attended York University in Toronto (BFA) and the University of Concordia in Montreal (MFA). In 2009 he was awarded the Canada Council International Residency in London, UK. Also in 2009, he will direct Reverse Pedagogy 2, a 10 day residency held at the Palazzo Zen, in Venice, Italy. Recent projects include, Sweet Dreams, curated by Barbara Fischer for Nuit Blanche at the JMB Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, Seducing Down the Door, curated by Dave Dyment for Mercer Union, and Never Been to Tehran, curated by Andrea Grover and Jon Rubin for venues in Iran, Turkey, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany and the US. His work “Attempt at an Inventory” was recently published by MIT press in the Alphabet City Series “FOOD” edited by John Knechtel. He has received reviews from The Globe and Mail, The National Post, ArtUS, Artforum, Voir, La Tribune, ICI, THIS, Now and Eye Magazines.

LIVE / Life of a CrapheadThursday, March 19, 8 PM Life of a Craphead return from America to present the Canadian debut of “I’m A Frog.” The night also features the talents of:Robert DaytonSt HelenDavid Dineen-PorterChris LockeLauren BrideLife of a Craphead is the conceptual comedy duo of Jon McCurley and Amy Lam.LIVE / Life of a CrapheadThursday, March 19, 8 PM Life of a Craphead return from America to present the Canadian debut of “I’m A Frog.” The night also features the talents of:Robert DaytonSt HelenDavid Dineen-PorterChris LockeLauren BrideLife of a Craphead is the conceptual comedy duo of Jon McCurley and Amy Lam.

LIVE / Life of a Craphead
Thursday, March 19, 8 PM

Life of a Craphead return from America to present the Canadian debut of “I’m A Frog.”

The night also features the talents of:
Robert Dayton
St Helen
David Dineen-Porter
Chris Locke
Lauren Bride

Life of a Craphead is the conceptual comedy duo of Jon McCurley and Amy Lam.

FOOD / Jiva MacKaySunday, March 15, 8 PM Come take part in a dinner and discussion inspired by experimental edible compositions, geometry and the history of gastronomy. $12 If interested, please RSVP your phone # at jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 12 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis. From Toronto and with a background in Fine Arts, Jiva MacKay lived in France and Germany before returning to study in the New Media Program at Ryerson University, while furthering her culinary skills working as Sous Chef at KEI, a small Asian restaurant. In 2005 she moved to Los Angeles to live and develop artistically. In California, Jiva became more deeply interested in the culinary arts, the history of gastronomy and food production. She returned to Canada last year and found work at Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar. Having completed the first half of the program at the Stratford Chefs School in February, where an unusually academic approach is taken, she will apprentice on a farm in Prince Edward County to learn more about sustainable agriculture. In 2008, Jiva gave a talk at the Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles on her relationship to food as an art practice.FOOD / Jiva MacKaySunday, March 15, 8 PM Come take part in a dinner and discussion inspired by experimental edible compositions, geometry and the history of gastronomy. $12 If interested, please RSVP your phone # at jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 12 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis. From Toronto and with a background in Fine Arts, Jiva MacKay lived in France and Germany before returning to study in the New Media Program at Ryerson University, while furthering her culinary skills working as Sous Chef at KEI, a small Asian restaurant. In 2005 she moved to Los Angeles to live and develop artistically. In California, Jiva became more deeply interested in the culinary arts, the history of gastronomy and food production. She returned to Canada last year and found work at Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar. Having completed the first half of the program at the Stratford Chefs School in February, where an unusually academic approach is taken, she will apprentice on a farm in Prince Edward County to learn more about sustainable agriculture. In 2008, Jiva gave a talk at the Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles on her relationship to food as an art practice.

FOOD / Jiva MacKay
Sunday, March 15, 8 PM

Come take part in a dinner and discussion inspired by experimental edible compositions, geometry and the history of gastronomy.

$12

If interested, please RSVP your phone # at jamiesarea @ gmail.com. Dinner is for 12 people. Guests are received on a first come first serve basis.

From Toronto and with a background in Fine Arts, Jiva MacKay lived in France and Germany before returning to study in the New Media Program at Ryerson University, while furthering her culinary skills working as Sous Chef at KEI, a small Asian restaurant. In 2005 she moved to Los Angeles to live and develop artistically. In California, Jiva became more deeply interested in the culinary arts, the history of gastronomy and food production. She returned to Canada last year and found work at Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar. Having completed the first half of the program at the Stratford Chefs School in February, where an unusually academic approach is taken, she will apprentice on a farm in Prince Edward County to learn more about sustainable agriculture. In 2008, Jiva gave a talk at the Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles on her relationship to food as an art practice.