All Posts Tagged With: "Modern Fuel"
Modern Fuel: The Rough Edge of Beauty
Modern Fuel’s 13th Annual Regional Juried Members’ Exhibition is presented at Modern Fuel from August 6th to September 10th. Works by the nine artists in this year’s exhibition, Jessica Marion Barr, Mackenzie Browning, Decomposing Pianos (Owen Fernley and Julia Krolik), Frank Desa, Rebecca Houston, Maayke Schurer, Su Sheedy, Andrew Sims, and David Woodward, reflect the [...]
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Vapours Concert with Old Haunt, Sam Shalabi and Reena Katz
Modern Fuel, with support from CFRC, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Community Foundation of Kingston and Area, presents the latest installment in its Vapours series of experimental music, a concert featuring Old Haunt (Kingston, On) Sam Shalabi (Montreal, QC) and Reena Katz (Toronto, ON) on Thursday, July 28th, at 8pm. Vapours is [...]
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City Of Kingston Arts Fund Grant Recipients Announced
The Kingston Arts Council and the City of Kingston are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 City of Kingston Arts Fund Grants. The Grants were awarded in two categories, Operating Grants and Project Grants. As part of the Kingston Cultural Plan, and thanks to Kingston City Council, an additional $50,000 was invested in [...]
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Morning Glory: Works in Progress
Modern Fuel presents, in its State of Flux Gallery, Kate Yüksel’s new series of photographs, Morning Glory: Works in Progress. This body of work examines private moments in domestic settings where weakness and fragility are revealed. Yüksel’s photographs contrast the tender and beautiful as well as the raw and vulnerable.
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condolence
In the Main Gallery, Modern Fuel presents condolence, an ongoing photo and video series by the artist Greg Staats that depicts the process of his reconnection with a traditional Haudenosaunee [Iroquois] restorative aesthetic. The sadness that is felt from his personal loss of the Mohawk language and subsequent worldview and the networks defined by culture [...]
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Film Screening
Inspired by the Mayworks Festival events across the country this month, Modern Fuel presents a video program and a panel discussion that addresses the relationship between artists, labour, and the economy, entitled “Video Surplus / Varied Toil.” The screening “Video Surplus,” curated by Michael Davidge, presents a selection of videos by artists including Emily Vey [...]
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Paleofuturity at Modern Fuel
With Paleofuturity, Modern Fuel will be filled with a group exhibition that turns the space into a time machine transporting viewers into the futuristic past. Or the prehistoric future? Curated by Michael Davidge, Paleofuturity draws together artists from across the country and from a wide a range of disciplines including painting, sound installation, photography, video [...]
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Modern Fuel: 88 Years
Modern Fuel presents 88 Years by Decomposing Pianos. This local art duo is Julia Krolik and Owen Fernley. They study the slow decay and sudden transitions seen all around us, and present their ideas in the form of improvisational and structured music and noise. For 88 Years, they have assigned a calendar year to each [...]
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Modern Fuel: Our Lady of the Flowers
Modern Fuel presents a recent body of work by Toronto-based artist Susy Oliveira, who fuses her interest in sculpture and photography with the varied forms and fauna of a garden. The exhibition is titled after a passage from Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, eliciting the poetry, passion and entropy found in Oliveira’s multifaceted [...]
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Acting Out, Claiming Space: Aboriginal Performance Art Series
In conjunction with the Queen’s Native Students Association’s Aboriginal Awareness Week, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is proud to present the Acting Out, Claiming Space: Aboriginal Performance Art Series in Kingston from March 15 to March 19, 2011. Four nationally and internationally celebrated Aboriginal performance artists, Terrance Houle, Skeena Reece, Jordan Bennett and Tanya Lukin Linklater [...]
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