2004 Exhibition Programs
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Focus Afercia
1-3 October, 2004
Nelson Mandela Park School, 440 Shuter St., Toronto
Regent Park Film Festival is organized by a group of cinephiles who believe in the power of cinema to build communities, increase interesting and multicultural relationships and empower individuals. It is dedicated to bringing films relevant to the communities living in Regent Park with an emphasis on films from our countries of origin (South Asia, Africa, Asia and Latin America) as well as films from North America about immigrant diaspora issues which will help th...
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Farheen HaQ, Cyrus Irani, Rachel Kalpana James, Mona Kamal, Riaz Mehmood, Amin Rehman, Rashmi Varma, Taha Yasin, Kara the dog
Thursday, 30 September, 2004. 10pm – midnight
TAAFI (Toronto Alternative Art Fair International), the Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto
Opening Gala, $20
(GUARD)IAN is a performance exploring the issue of "surveillance as protection" in our everyday lives. Security guards at the TAAFI Opening Gala conduct surveillance through various personas (the sleeping guard, the proud guard, the arresting guard etc.) Thei... |
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Hamra Abbas, Heath Fashina, Kelly Jazvac, Sarina Khan Reddy, Afshin Matlabi, Amin Rehman, Fariba Samsami, Ho Tam, Alia Toor, Bill Wrigley
Friday, 6 August – Sunday, August 8, 2004
Marilyn Brewer Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
In partnership with Masala! Mehndi! Masti! festival
Creative insecurity is an investigative exhibition by SAVAC Members which seeks to delve into the sources of and responses to our sense of security. What does it mean to be secure in the world? With the dawn of the 21st century, new technologies and terro... |
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Neena Arora, Eliza Au, Shelly Bahl, Roselina Hung, Santichart Kusakulsomsak, Donato Mancini, Pravin Pillay, Jeremy Turner, Sakun Samarakoon, Gary Wang
24 June – 31 July, 2004
In partnership with ASpace Gallery and Centre A
A Space Gallery
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 110, Toronto
Curated by Sylvia Grace Borda and Gu Xiong
Opening Reception and curatorial talk Thursday 24, June. 7-9pm
Under the curatorial direction and mentorship of Vancouver-based artists Sylvia Grace Borda and Gu Xiong, [ESC] marks the culmination of a partnership project ... |
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Sunil Gupta
Friday, 21 May, 2004. 7pm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Henry White Kinnear Education Theatre,317 Dundas St. W, Toronto
Advance tickets only: $8
FREE for SAVAC members ($20+ membership) Please contact SAVAC to purchase tickets.
Seating is limited. Purchase your tickets today!
"Sunil Gupta stands at the forefront of that creative, 'migrant' generation which first exploded on the visual art scene in the UK in the 1980s..."
-- Stuart Hall, emeritus professor, The Open University, and co-author of Different: Contemporary Photographers ...
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Judy Cheung, Ashek Sakhawat, Jaret Vadera
4-15 May 2004.
Gallery 401. 401 Richmond St. W., Suite 240, Toronto
A SAVAC exhibition for Contact 2004 and South Asian Heritage Month
Curated by Farheen HaQ and Cyrus Irani
Opening reception: Thursday, 6 May, 6-9 pm
SAVAC presents three photographers who reflect on the vibrancy, geometry and amorphous qualities of personal and public spaces. Viewers experience erratic nighttime incursions in the streets of Dhaka, acute patterns of human transit, and the erosion of an image until it is almost unrecog... |
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Farheen HaQ, Mona Kamal
3-14 March, 2004
Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen St. W, Toronto
Curated by Rachel Kalpana James
Opening reception - Thursday, 4 March, 7-10 pm - all welcome.
Fragments, gestures Woven into our lives Unfold new meanings.
Ritual and repetitive gestures belie the art and art making process in the textile work of Mona Kamal and the video art of Farheen HaQ.
Kamal: "The pieces that I create involve a long, slow, repetitive process." She pierces hundreds of pine needles into an extended woven cloth. She invents new characte... |
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