All Posts Tagged With: "Modern Fuel"
Six Questions for Rebecca Anweiler
I have seen Rebecca around town at various functions. She tells me we bumped into each other at a past Kingston AIDS Walk for Life. Which is apparently how her ReelOut story began. ReelOut Queer Film + Video Festival is now in it’s 13th year in Kingston staring on January 26thto February 5th. This year, [...]
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Art Book Love at Modern Fuel – Book Sale
Do you love books as much as Modern Fuel does? Not only does Modern Fuel’s latest exhibition “Ordinary Language” prominently feature books in the artworks on display until December 17, but also the gallery will hold a book sale during the afternoon of Saturday 10 December, featuring great used books donated by our members and [...]
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Empire
Modern Fuel presents, in its State of Flux Gallery, a new painting installation by Robert Tombs (Ottawa, ON). Empire juxtaposes nine unique 1’ x 8’ striped colour-field paintings on canvas with one 1’ x 9’ stripe of gold leaf and tar applied directly on the gallery wall. The colours chosen for these stripes are largely [...]
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Ordinary Language
In the Main Gallery, Modern Fuel presents Ordinary Language, an exhibition of works by the artists Sarah Greig (Montreal, QC), Kyla Mallett (Vancouver, BC), and Roula Partheniou (Toronto, ON), curated by Michael Davidge. The exhibition features work by three artists who each continue, in their own trajectory, an analytic aspect of contemporary art practice inherited [...]
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Vapours at Modern Fuel
Modern Fuel, with support from CFRC and the Canada Council for the Arts, presents the latest installment in its Vapours series of experimental music, a concert featuring Alcrete (Kingston, ON), Dreamcatcher (Montreal, QC) and Disguises (Toronto, ON). Vapours is a regular concert series hosted by Modern Fuel that provides an alternative space for exploratory musical [...]
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Film Screening at Modern Fuel
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is pleased to present a program of short videos and an artist talk with Mansoor Behnam (Kerman, Iran) an experimental writer and filmmaker. The program showcases the short experimental film and video works produced by Behnam over the past decade. The screening is approximately 60 minutes long, with a Q&A to [...]
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Solar Flares and Spires
Modern Fuel presents, in its State of Flux Gallery, a new series of drawings by Michael Amar entitled Solar Flares and Spires. Amar states that the images are about “faith in science and religion.” In them, the spires symbolize religious traditions while the solar flares represent the scientific search for meaning, as light symbolizes an [...]
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Correspondences
In the Main Gallery, Modern Fuel presents Correspondences, an exhibition of select works by the artist Abbas Akhavan. For the past five years, the domestic sphere has been an ongoing area of research in Akhavan’s work. Much of it explores the relationship between the house and nation state, and how the trauma and systemic violence [...]
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Square Pegs 4
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, in association with Downtown Kingston, is excited to present Square Pegs 4, the fourth annual free screening of video art in Kingston’s Market Square. The program showcases the short experimental works of eleven talented Canadian video artists and filmmakers, including Kingston’s Maayke Schurer and Rebecca Anweiler. The screening will take place [...]
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New Works by Ulrich Panzer
Ulrich Panzer (Gananoque, ON) presents a series of new works experimenting with acrylic and acrylic inks on mylar at Modern Fuel. These works deal less with formal aesthetic questions, but rather consider the role of memory, projection, and personal experience in the reception of the paintings.
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