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Friday 24 January 2003 The Ensemble of Tops'n'Bottoms
Zine 8
pm launch + exhibition
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The Ensemble of Tops'n'Bottoms is a collaborative project conceived by Joel Gibb and Karen Azoulay. T'n'B often invite other artists to participate in their costume pot-lucks, photo shoots, and performances. The premise? Artists model their own concoctions that they spontaneously create from a huge heap of random clothing. The resulting documentation has been exhibited in C'est Fashion! at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver and has been disseminated in The Ensemble of Tops'n'Bottoms zine. Tops'n'Bottoms has been featured in C International magazine, Toronto Fashion, and Cheek!, an upcoming art/fashion TV special on the Fashion Television Channel. Issue #2
is a limited edition 16-page, full-colour zine that will be available
during the launch for the special price of $4. It features outrageous
photos of the following glamorous artists playing dress-up: The event also features:
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Karen Azoulay is a Toronto based visual artist. Her painting installation sprinkle sprinkle was recently mounted at Paul Petro Contemporary Art. Joel Gibb is the Toronto-based
singer/songwriter of the gay-folk-church-music band The Hidden Cameras.
About Vzzt, Samara Liu of MuchMusic says "Pammy Pam can do no wrong. This city is so spoilt." Will Munro is the artist, DJ, promoter, and taste maker who programs monthly club nights Peroxide and Club V. His custom underwear pieces have been featured in publications such as Vice Magazine and at galleries across the land. Link to Will Munro site.
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Biographies
Paul
Butler is both a visual artist and the director of the web-based
othergallery. Butler’s collage works and Collage Party installations
have been featured in solo exhibitions at the Power Plant TIAF Booth
in Toronto; Goldsmiths College in London; Angell Gallery in Toronto;
Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art in Winnipeg; and the University
of Manitoba’s Gallery One One One in collaboration with the St. Norbert
Arts Centre in Winnipeg. His group exhibitions including the Ambrosino
and Francis Wolfson Galleries in Miami; Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto;
the Quiver Projects Booth at the Affordable Art Fair in New York; Burnished
Chariot in New London, Connecticut; Douglas Udell Gallery in Edmonton;
TRUCK Gallery in Calgary; Eyesaw Gallery in Tokyo; and The Winnipeg
Art Gallery. He has been reviewed in The New York Times, The
Globe and Mail, CBC Canada Now, Border Crossings Magazine,
Lola, and the Winnipeg Free Press. Link to