Works curated by Earl Miller

Dave Dyment – Timeline

Video Screening

Dave Dyment, Timeline, 2011

Timeline presents a chronological history of cinema via establishing shots compiled from existing films and organized by diegetic or dramatic time rather than by production date. Dyment effectively condenses 30,000 years of cinema into 30 minutes.

Location: Get Outside, 437 Queen St. West

Shannon Griffiths – God Save the Queen

Video Projection

Shannon Griffiths, God Save the Queen, 2011

God Save the Queen by Shannon Griffiths comprises a life-size video projection of a singer, singing and signing (sign language for the deaf) “God Save The Queen,” a patriotic song that is one of Canada’s official anthems. Thematically, the work speaks of loss, specifically the fear of “losing” Queen Street West in this homage to one of Canada’s most famous (and infamous) cultural neighbourhoods.

Location: Roma Rush, 504 Queen St. West

Mike Hansen – All Nite with Mike Hansen

Performance

Mike Hansen, All Nite with Mike Hansen, 2011

All Nite with Mike Hansen is a twelve-hour webcast performance that reflects the template established by Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman etc. Mike Hansen hosts All Nite, interviewing members of the audience for up to fifteen minutes. The guests enter a set that contains a desk, a sofa or couch and a backdrop of the city, which also mimics the typical talk show set. Off to the side of the set is a screen as well as a games area where audience members can play games or gags, with each participant being rewarded with a trinket, for instance, a found trophy.

Location: Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen St. West

Life of a Craphead (Amy Lam and Jon McCurley)

Angels Singing, Performance

Life of a Craphead, Angels Singing, 2011

Life of a Craphead will present a comedic concert featuring amateur street performers singing. Not unusual – except the singers are dressed as giant golems.

Location: Between University and Bathurst on Queen St. West

Nathalie Quagliotto, Rose for One

Performance

Nathalie Quagliotto, Rose for One, 2011. Photography by Scott Philip

Rose for One is a performance in which a flower man distributes 1,000 yellow roses to people who are walking by themselves. Yellow roses symbolize friendship and never romance. Just by changing the colour of the rose, a normal sight in an urban area will be turned upside down. In other words, one will usually see a man walk into romantic restaurants and offer red roses at a price to couples. In this case, passersby will witness a sight they would not normally see: a man carrying and distributing a bouquet of yellow roses.

Location: Between University and Bathurst on Queen St. West

Darren O’Donnell, Mistaken City, Installation

Darren O’Donnell, Mistaken City, 2011

Mistaken City consists of four illuminated lightbox signs installed in nearby store windows displaying the official City of Toronto logo, each rendered with a small spelling mistake: the word “Toronto” spelled as “Tornoto,” “Torotno,” “Tonroto,” and “Tortonto” respectively. The title plays on the dual meaning of mistake, that it means both something done wrong and an incorrect understanding, as in ‘mistaken identity.’

Locations: Jeans West, 465 Queen St. West; Freshly Baked Tees, 550 Queen St. West;
Outer Layer, 577 Queen St. West; West Camera, 514 Queen St. West