weewerk 06
Bauhauswerk

Friday 7 March 2003

8 pm    doors
10 pm  The Barcelona Pavilion plays

The exhibition will also be open for viewing on Sunday 9 March from 1 to 4 pm, preceding the video program A Day Like Any Other Day In Beirut

On Friday 7 March weewerk presents a number of projects that exist between art, architecture, craft and design, acting out uneasy relationships between the revolutionary rhetoric of modern design and its degeneration into packaged lifestyle. Integrated into weewerk's living space, the show includes a new sculpture by An Te Liu, recent work by Janis Demkiw, a drawing that Kelly Mark has applied to the walls over the past months, adapted revolutionary sloganeering by Derek Sullivan, and a performance by The Barcelona Pavilion.

BIOGRAPHIES

Janis Demkiw is a Toronto-based artist. Her recent projects include Official Pull-Out, an artist project for FUSE magazine; participation in "Beauty," a thematic residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts; and the presentation of 48 Phoebe St. (Front Bsmt) Floorplan at Solo Exhibition in Toronto. Demkiw graduated with a B.F.A. from York University in 1999 and is a member of the board of Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art.

"The work of An Te Liu is strategically situated between architecture and art. …[S]ome of Liu's more unsettling pieces are nowhere quite at home. They are designed for the gallery, yet they perform as architecture: 'machines for living' seemingly designed to correct behavioral and environmental deviance. The fact that they perversely succeed in being totally useless does not detract from their pragmatic-architectural-logic" (Rodolphe el-Khoury). Liu heads the undergraduate Architecture program at University of Toronto.

Since 1994 Kelly Mark has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally. Her international exhibitions have taken place at: IKON Gallery (Birmingham), the 11th Biennale of Sydney, The Physics Room (Christchurch, NZ), and Museum of New Art (Detroit). Canadian venues include: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Articule, Mercer Union, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Koffler Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Museum London, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Plug In ICA, Stride Gallery, Open Space, Contemporary Art Gallery, etc... Link to Kelly Mark site.

Derek Sullivan holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from the University of Guelph. His work has been included in exhibtions in Toronto, Vancouver, and Shanghai. He will have a solo exhibition at Mercer Union this summer.

The Barcelona Pavilion. Not only was their architecturally-referenced name the source for this event's admittedly thin theme, but they also sing about the importance of tidying up, which seems pertinent. Their brand of indie pop-rock is at once intellectually stimulating, aggressive, and infectiously danceable. Band members are Ben, Maggie, Kat, and Steve.

 CHECKLIST

    DINING ROOM

Kelly Mark, Letraset Wall Drawing #4. Letraset on wall, 2003

Derek Sullivan, DECORATION NOW. Photocopied posters, 2003

    BATHROOM

Kelly Mark, I Really Should ... 1000. Audio, 2002

    LIVING ROOM

Derek Sullivan, GIVE MIES A CHANCE. Adhesive vinyl, edition of 10, 2003

Janis Demkiw, 48 Phoebe St. (front bsmt) Floorplan. Colonial-style MDF moulding and wood quarter-round moulding, 1999-2003

An Te Liu, Y A. Mixed media, 2003

Janis Demkiw, Oversized Mat prototype. Mat board, 2003