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TEL-TALK Art Exhibition

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 You are cordially invited…

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Lansdowne Light Box - Dyan Marie (photos by artist)

TEL-TALK
art interventions in telephone booths

Book Launch and Exhibition Opening
Friday June 15th, 6 – 9pm Artists Present

Telephone Booth Gallery
3148 Dundas St. W, Toronto

Exhibition continues until July 14, 2012

The Tel-talk project brings together artists of varying backgrounds, from across the country, to perform in and or animate a telephone booth in response to themes surrounding public spaces, and the disappearance of traditional phone booths. Artists and writers were invited to contribute a site-specific installation, artwork, or short work of fiction, which references a unique telephone booth location. The installations began in September 2011 and continue through to July 2012. Over the last nine months, each installation was announced and documented on the Tel-talk blog (http://tel-talk.blogspot.ca/).

The Tel-talk project culminates in an exhibition of various works and photo documentations at the Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood along with a book launch which outlines contributions to the project in (phone) book form under the Tightrope Books imprint. The project continues online with an open invitation to artists and writers to make their own art interventions.

Selected artists and writers (Tel-talkers) include: Barry Callaghan, Dyan Marie, Julie Voyce, Lizz Aston, Jessica Westhead, Otino Corsano, Tim Laurin, Sheila Butler, Steven Tippin, Stuart Keeler, Tara Cooper, Terry O’Neill and many more. Full list of participants and online: http://tel-talk.blogspot.ca/

Coordinated by: Paola Poletto, Liis Toliao and Yvonne Koscielak

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Lady Cleaner: After Julie Voyce - Paola Poletto (photo by artist)

Exhibition photographs available at http://telephoneboothgallery.ca/tel-talk.html

TEL-TALK Telephone Booth art interventions during June and July

June TBA
Pickled Egg Poetry Booth
John Sobol
During Artspark, Armstrong Street and Parkdale Avenue (Ottawa, ON)
(Across from the Carleton Tavern)

June 13 – July 14
l(ack)/knowledge
Red Wagon
Pacific Avenue and Dundas West (Toronto, ON)

June 16
Pop-Up Memory Shop
Charity Miskelly
During Nuit Blanche London
Dundas Street, between Richmond Street and Clarence Street, (London, ON)

Through to July 14
Lansdowne Light Box
Dyan Marie
Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue (Toronto, ON)
(Nearby Coffee Time)

Through to July 14
Flagpole (a meta-conversation)
Stuart Keeler
Jarvis Street and Wellesley Street East (Toronto, ON)

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TEL-Talk book cover

HOURS
Tues by appt.
Wednesday – Friday 11am – 6pm
Saturday 10am – 6pm

TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
3148 Dundas Street West – Toronto – Ontario – M6P 2A1
(The Junction, Dundas at St. Johns Rd.)
T 647 270 7903
info@telephoneboothgallery.ca
www.telephoneboothgallery.ca

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Tel Talk- art interventions in telephone booths

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Hey Folks, for those of you who missed out on my street art telephone booth Hive installation, I’m doing another version for a group gallery exhibition at The Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto…

TEL-TALK

art interventions in telephone booths

Book Launch and Exhibition Opening
Friday June 15, 6 – 9pm   Artists Present

Exhibition continues until July 14, 2012

The Tel-talk project brings together artists of varying backgrounds, from across the country, to perform in and or animate a telephone booth in response to themes surrounding public spaces, and the disappearance of traditional phone booths. Specifically, artists and writers were invited to contribute a site-specific installation, artwork, or short work of fiction, which references a unique telephone booth location. The installations began in September 2011 and continue through to June 2012. Over the last nine months, each installation was announced and documented on the Tel-talk blog http://tel-talk.blogspot.ca/

The Tel-talk project culminates in an exhibition of various works and photo documentations at the Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood along with a book launch which outlines contributions to the project in (phone) book form under the Tightrope Books imprint.  The project continues online with an open invitation to artists and writers to make their own art interventions.

  • Selected artists and writers (Tel-talkers) include: Barry Callaghan, Dyan Marie, Julie Voyce, Lizz Aston, Otino Corsano, Sheila Butler, Steven Tippin, Stuart Keeler, Tara Cooper, Terry O’Neill and many more.  This project would not have been possible without Paola Poletto, Liis Toliao and Yvonne Koscielak.

Full list of participants online: http://tel-talk.blogspot.ca/


Tel-Talk: Hive by Hitoko Okada

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Busy making hive and home, displaced bees gentrified out of natural habitat, occupy a telephone booth at an intersection of urban sprawl. A passer-by stops to make a call. The bees hear a voice coming from the receiver, “Hey honey, I’m home”.
At the corner of Chatham St. & Locke St. in Hamilton, ON from February 16, 2012- February 25th, 2012

Hive Installation by Hitoko Okada

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Hive Project Completed.

It is finally done. Although I had prepared small screen prints for the bees, I decided to paint jumbo bees as a last minute change. Stuffing them like pillows instead of flat images added to the thematic dimension and created a focused subject. The bees were the last to arrive to this project, when at first glance, it would seem that they were the intended subject all along. It’s the honeycombs that are the focal point for me. At first, I regretted painting in the honey combs, but after I added the jumbo bees, I felt like it tied all the elements together. I started out by screen printing images, but finished it with hand painting. This piece was created for Tel-Talk- a phone booth art project curated by Paola Poletto- as an installation on a telephone booth at the corner of Chatham Street and Locke Street in Hamilton, ON. I will create another piece for the gallery exhibition in June.

I’m looking forward to installing on Thursday, February 16 2012 and will leave it up until Saturday, February 25th, 2012. Here’s hoping that it will stay up without hooligan vandalism, but this is Hamilton, so let’s get real.

Throughout this project, I’ve struggled with impatience. Mentally badgering myself to increase productivity. I was conflicted with allowing myself permission to just let the project come together on it’s own time- to simmer out the ideas, and feel my way through the unknowing, and allow it to arise without getting in the way. Creating something new and unknown takes some time, placing pressure on myself to maximize productivity is what is counter- productive.

Starting from here

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Embarking on a new project, and not knowing how to create it, sometimes it takes a bush whacking approach.

My initial idea has evolved over the weeks, leading me to a vague idea of how I’m going to tackle this project. My printing station has been set up ready to go this afternoon, but instead of pulling prints, I’ve made soup stock and completed prep for two separate meals while trying to figure out how to approach this hive telephone booth installation- in other words, I’m stalling.

For me, the first step is where I struggle with the most. Not knowing leads me to trying to figure it out in my head first, but that always leads me to stuck. Moving out of stuck and back into flow can be done in one motion-  just do. This means to make a mark on the blank canvas, cut the fabric anywhere, just marr the thing. To just do is to move out of planning and knowing and back into an energy of creating and problem solving.

Taking the first step, is taking any committed step, and a chain of consequences will begin. From there, the consecutive steps will reveal themselves.

With the first print, I’m committed, and the momentum begins.

Screen printing honeycomb cells on prepared muslin for an upcoming installation project for Tel-Talk  curated by Paola Poletto.