Kamil Krulis & The Sub-Linguals

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Krulis shows a personal historic perspective of 2008 as seen through gig flyers for his band and DJ shows. The images are both delicious, shitty, funny and wretched. They are also re-manipulated in several interesting ways in terms of scale color and content and context. Krulis' band the Sub-linguals will perform a torrid  set to complete the installation.

Title: Kamil Krulis & The Sub-Linguals

Start Date: 2009-01-09

End Date: 2009-01-11

Christian Kuras & Duncan Mackenzie

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Christian Kuras and Duncan Mackenzie have been collaborating on art projects since 2003. We are based in London UK and Chicago USA. This hasn't always proved very practical. We spend a lot of time on the phone.

Our practice involves working in diverse media to produce objects, installations and images. To us, a work of art is an opportunity to reflect upon aspects of the human experience, upon the lives we live next-to and through each other.

We are drawn to reflect on the confusions and conflicts inherent in our everyday engagements. After all, even friendship and our most basic family relationships have their mechanisms and machines.

Title: Christian Kuras & Duncan Mackenzie Start Date: 2008-11-21 End Date: 2008-11-23

Urban Habitat Laboratory

Kelly Andres

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The Urban Habitat Laboratory (UHL) is a mobile, self-sufficient, sustainable, compact dwelling with web camera communication ability. The UHL is a multifunctional and ever-expanding portable lab and activist centre for urban sustainability, complete with green roof and water collection capabilities. The bicycle-powered UHL uses green technologies and sustainable materials, disseminating information as the unit moves throughout the city. Urbanites can connect with the UHL in person, as the lab stops for wireless Internet connection on its nomadic urban journey, or at the 809 Exhibition Space in Kensington. Check back for specific times and locations.

Kelly Andres is an environmental programmer and a media artist who works with contemporary and archaic communicative technologies, plant perception, and the senses. Her work has been shown internationally and she was recently involved in the e-MobiLArt European Lab for Interactive Artists in Greece, Finland, and Austria.

www.kellyandres.com

Title: Kelly Andres Start Date: 2008-10-17 End Date: 2008-10-19

"No Vacancy"

Kristopher Karklin

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Kristopher Karklin, an emerging artist and recent graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design, will present his debut solo exhibition at 809. His work investigates the relationship between the urban living space and its occupant, where the exchange that occurs is intimate and secure; it is also temporary and homogenous.  These ideas are developed through the meticulous sculpting of miniatures, which are photographed and presented at large scale.

Title: Kristopher Karklin Start Date: 2008-09-05 End Date: 2008-09-07

String Drawing

Lauren Grace Simms

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Simms' installation entitled "String Drawing" pulls the converging lines of a two-point-perspective system out into the space of the gallery. The drawn space seems to transcend the limits of the physical capabilities of the 809 space. When viewers stand facing the garage (with the garage door open) the drawing will come together, but the integrity of the drawn space inside the gallery is altered as the viewers walk by the opening. The space disassembles into a flurry of lines and shadows. However, once the drawing is viewed from the appropriate point, the lines reassemble and recreate a coherent illusion of pictorial space. In this piece the viewers will be asked to participate in the artwork by maneuvering through the strings. They in turn, become part of the work for those viewing from the garage door.

Lauren Simms received her B.F.A. (Honours) from the University of Calgary in 2008. Over the past five years, she has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, and had her first solo exhibition in April of 2007. Simms has received a number of awards for her art, including The Kathleen and Russell Lane Canadian Art Award from the Calgary Foundation, and a nomination for the Bank of Montreal First Art Award.

Title: Lauren Grace Simms

Start Date: 2008-08-29

End Date: 2008-08-31

Taking Care of Business Immony Men =================

Immony Men is an artist who has a strong interest in mixed media works. Installation is the stage where all the different medias can co-exist. Process becomes the emphasis in the current projects and how intensity can be expressed successfully with the use of duration and repetition. The process then becomes a performance to show the occupation of space and time. He has an obsession with mapping time and reflecting it physically. His work becomes an assembly line of research/visualization, production, and the end result.

"Taking Care of Business" is a multi-wall mural created out of photo-printed post-its that cover the entire gallery. The post-it mural depicts the social entrapment of the everyday white-collar workforce. In creating this mural, Men subjects himself to a robotic routine through systematic repetition creating a parallel with the 9 to 5 office job.

more information can be found here:http://www.canadianart.ca/online/2008/01/17/immonymen/

Shotgun-review.ca - Review!

Title: Immony Men Start Date: 2008-06-27 End Date: 2008-06-29

The Secret Ecstasy of the Whole World Chris Cran ===========================

Chris Cran will be showing his biennial peice: "The Secret Ecstasy of the Whole World": A Camera Obscura Projection Production for a special 3 day show, the gallery will be open both saturday and sunday. We're all really excited, and you should be too!

http://www.chriscran.com/

Title: Chris Cran Start Date: 2008-05-23 End Date: 2008-05-25

Future Come New

Elaine Cameron Weir

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Elaine Cameron-Weir was born in Red Deer, Alberta. She has recently graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design, receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose main interest lies in sculpture and the related concerns of three-dimensional objects in space. Her work is rooted in the exploration of the real and the imagined, communication between the past and the future, between the primal and the manufactured, between man and nature, art and artifact, control and disorder.

more of her work can be seen here:http://www.elainecameronweir.com/

Title: Elaine Cameron Weir

Start Date: 2008-04-25

End Date: 2008-04-28

Feeling Gothicky

Lauren Mikols, Larry McDowell, Jessica McCarrel and Kim Neudorf

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Feeling Gothicky is inspired by a continued fascination with ‘Gothic' culture and its evergrowing "machine of effects". While its themes are often traced back to late 18th- and 19th-century literature, today they can be linked to everything from "medievalism, Romanticism, skull imagery, science fiction, Victoriana and punk-derived Gothick subcultures". Artists have studied these themes to evoke dread, alienation, the deadpan, fragmentation, and the campy performance of the ‘Gothic' persona or simply, as writer Alexandra Warwick suggests, "whatever made you feel gothicky". ‘Gothic' settings of the isolated and the ancient have become the abandoned and the failed utopian structures of today's nameless spaces and horrible places of urban anxiety.

Warwick states, "we only read where the gothic has been, we only comprehend its effects in the places from which it has already retreated. We understand the gothic therefore as always already spectral... All that is left... is the promise of the gothic, the disturbing trace, the haunting absence." The artists of Feeling Gothicky comment on the fictional, literal, and metaphorical nature of the ‘Gothic' - as that which inflects, connects, and reanimates the atmospheric, psychological, and social narratives of the constructed spaces of the ‘Gothic'.

Article!  

Title: Feeling Gothicky

Start Date: 2008-02-15

End Date: 2008-02-18