Projects for the City

A project by Deborah Wang
Saturday April 24, 2010 at 2pm (rain or shine)
XPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Using the concepts of the map and the tour as a form of curatorial practice that engages the city as both the gallery and the artwork, RETHINKING SPACE: Explorations in the invisible city locates itself in the sites of the everyday, and aims to translate spatial notation (the map) into a physical experience of the city (the tour). Expanding on the Situationist term dérive, these curated walks ask the individual to explore the urban landscape using the map as a guide for their tour, and to activate spaces by walking them.

 

This project is comprised of two self-guided tours: The Bad Feng Shui Project: A to Z and Spatial Geometries: Mirror Line, and Stop-Motion Migration, a one-day installation that maps movement through time and the city.  The event starts at 2pm, and will be followed by a reception at the gallery from 5 to 7pm. 

 

Participants come to XPACE between 2 to 5pm to pick up maps that direct their self-guided walking tours and ask them to do something with the city.  This event is free and open to the public.  250 copies of each map will be available and distributed to everyone in attendance.

 

RETHINKING SPACE: Explorations in the invisible city would like to acknowledge the support of the OCAD Student Union.

 

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The Bad Feng Shui Project: A to Z, 2010, 8 x 6" postcard inset