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    HOLDING PATTERNS

    Look behind storage locker doors to discover immersive art projects...

    OCTOBER 11 - 21

    1655 DUPONT st.

    Curated by Layne Hinton and Rui Pimenta

    Presented by Art Spin in partnership with TAS

    Holding Patterns, an exhibition curated and presented by Art Spin will transform the Planet Storage facility at 1655 Dupont St. from October 11th - 21st. The exhibition, presented in partnership with TAS will animate a series of storage lockers with commissioned and site-specific art projects.

     

    Recognizing the shifts and upheavals often associated with storage lockers, Holding Patterns explores movement, space, belonging, material culture, and transition. The exhibition investigates consumerism and the glorification of materialism, and touches on forms of marginalization in reference to issues of site-lessness, connoted by storage facilities. Storage lockers often house a unique range of objects from the precious to the useless, their contents acting as a metaphor for memory and forgetting, or the conscious and unconscious. Drawing together these varied realities of space, storage, excess, and access, Holding Patterns examines not only the personal stories, but the histories of urban development and community migration that accompany them.


    In 2010 Art Spin presented their first-ever group exhibition in the same industrial building where Holding Patterns will be presented, animating a 10,000 sq ft. space. This time they are opting for a smaller footprint through a series of 5x5 to 10x20 units, and are excited to revisit this building in their tenth year of programming.

    Opening Night: Thursday October 11th, 6-11pm

    Roll-a-thon: Guided tours for mobility-device users

                         Thursday October 11th, 5pm & 6pm

    Artist & Curator Talk and Tour: Saturday October 20th, 3pm

    Exhibition runs: October 12th - October 21st

    Exhibition Hours: Sat & Sun: 12pm - 6pm

                                   Mon & Tues: Closed

                                   Wed, Thurs, Fri: 3pm - 9pm

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    Exhibition and related events are all FREE!

    Art Spin will be accepting PWYC donations at the door to assist

    with exhibition costs

    ARTISTS

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    Mitchell Akiyama & David Bobier presented by the Deaf Culture Centre

    Kaitlyn Bourden

    The Dream Video Project

    Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea

    Valentin Brown

    Kristina Guison presented by SAVAC

    Alexandra Hong

    Danielle Hyde presented by Creative Users Projects

    Serena Lee

    Jess Lincoln

    Taimaz Moslemian & Naomi Dodds

    Heather Nicol and Rebecca Campbell

    PALACIT Design Studio

    Roula Partheniou

    Lejb Pilanski & Sean Wainsteim

    Michael M Simon

    Catherine Telford-Keogh presented by Bunker 2

    aislinn thomas presented by Tangled Art & Disability

    Erin Vincent

    Johannes Zits

    SPECIAL EVENTS

    ARTIST &

    CURATOR

    talk and tour

    SATURDAY OCT. 20th

    3pm - 4:30pm at Planet Storage

    1655 Dupont St. Toronto

    Join Art Spin curators Layne Hinton & Rui Pimenta, guest curator Sean Lee, and artists Valentin Brown, Serena Lee, Taimaz Moslemian & Naomi Dodds, and Roula Partheniou for a special tour of the show and a talk about selected projects

    ARTIST TALK

    at TANGLED

    ARTS

    SATURDAY OCT. 20th

    12 - 2pm at Tangled Art & Disability, 401 Richmond St. W, Suite S-122

    Visit our friends at Tangled Art & Disability for an artist talk by aislinn thomas, and learn more about both her project 'Three Windows' that is a part of Holding Patterns and the exhibition Flourishing at Tangled Arts.

    UPCOMING
    PERFORMANCES

    Danielle Hyde

    presented by Creative Users​

     

    Friday, Oct. 19: 3-9pm

    Sunday, Oct. 21: 12-6pm

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    Kristina Guison

    presented by SAVAC

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    Saturday, Oct. 20: 12-6pm

    Sunday, Oct. 21: 12-4pm & 4:30-6:30pm

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    Johannes Zits​

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    Performances Daily

    Weekdays: 6-9pm

    Weekends: 1-5pm

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