EVENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2010 AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY.

Niki Mulder, scrap city is now serving frybread paninis, 2010. Installation view, courtesy of the artist.

FRIDAY MAY 28

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION

4:30 PM
MEET THE ARTIST
Niki Mulder

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Zohar Kfir, PARA site, 2010. Installation view, courtesy of the artist.

SATURDAY MAY 29

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION

4:30 PM
MEET THE ARTIST
Zohar Kfir
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Gwynne Fulton, deep-six, 2010. Installation view, courtesy of the artist.

SUNDAY MAY 30

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION

4:30 PM
MEET THE ARTIST
Gwynne Fulton
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Michael Maranda, Waging Culture Final Report, Art Gallery of York University, 2009.

MONDAY MAY 31

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION

6 PM
LECTURE

Buy(ing) the numbers: A Report on the Report
(in English)

Responding to a dearth of primary research on the socio-economic status of artists, Michael Maranda of the Art Gallery of York University undertook a major survey of Canadian visual artists. Published in 2009 by the AGYU, the Waging Culture report is the most comprehensive study of the socio-economic status of visual artists in Canada since Statistics Canada’s 1993 Cultural Labour Force survey. The results of the survey, while in many senses predictable, provide solid evidence of the dismal state of the discipline, at least in terms of economic return. In his talk, Maranda will not only review some of the key findings of the survey but as well will discuss the motivations for and methodological innovations of the Waging Culture study.

Michael Maranda is currently an assistant curator at the Art Gallery of York University, an institution which fully supported the study. He is also a practicing artist who works primarily in the realm of artists’ books. He completed a Bachelor of Social Sciences Political Science at the University of Ottawa, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, and a Masters degree in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. His recent foray into quantitative analysis should be considered a statistical anomaly.

Fore more information: www.theagyuisoutthere.org/wagingculture/

Click here to download the final report Waging Culture: A report on the socio-economic status of Canadian visual artists

Sabrina Russo, Everything I read and everything I wrote last year, 2010. Vue de l’installation, avec l’aimable concours de l’artiste/Installation view, courtesy of the artist.

TUESDAY JUNE 1

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION

4:30 PM
MEET THE ARTIST
Sabrina Russo
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Women With Kitchen Appliances, 20th anniversary of Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal, April 9, 2010. Photo: Sandra Lynn Bélanger

WEDNESDAY JUNE 2

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION

5 – 7 PM
RECEPTION

Performance by Women With Kitchen Appliances (WWKA) at 6 PM.

“We are three, four or five or six. Identical. Interchangeable. Disposable. And dead serious. We are a rock band, a sound project, a cabaret act, a synchronized rubber glove routine, a BBQ chicken washing machine, a confectionary flour Christmas jingle and Kitchen certification service.”

Marigold Santos, land asuang, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.

THURSDAY JUNE 3

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION

4:30 PM
MEET THE ARTIST
Marigold Santos
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FRIDAY JUNE 4

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM – 6 PM

12:30 – 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION