Spatial Geometries: Mirror Line
Spatial Geometries: Mirror Line uses simple geometry paired with the common daily practice having coffee as a framework for a directed walk through the city. While The Bad Feng Shui Project uses a superstitious lens to view the city and constructs a tour by visiting these sites, Spatial Geometries focuses on setting up a specific relationship between two points. However, both curated tours make something from nothing in the sense that the map, as a suggested guide or starting point, is the only material object that is tangible and ‘something’ intangible is created by moving and thinking about the city in an extraordinary way.
Armed with an itinerary and instruction, participants on this self-guided tour set out for three destinations: (A) Dark Horse Espresso Bar at 682 Queen Street East, (AB) the centre point between A and B at approximately 160 Jarvis Street, and (B) Dark Horse Espresso Bar at 215 Spadina Avenue. The selection of these points: A, AB and B, form something from nothing. By ‘something’ I refer to specific geometric operations, and by ‘nothing’ I mean the immateriality of the connection between A and B where nothing is physically altered or inserted into the city in order to manifest this relationship.
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Spatial Geometries: Mirror Line, 2010, 3.5 x 8.5” postcard
Photo by Christine Lim Photography
TAKE THIS TOUR!
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave, Toronto
2 to 7 PM (RAIN OR SHINE)
This project is comprised of two self-guided tours and a one-day installation that maps movement through time and the city. Come to XPACE to pick your maps at 2pm and return to the gallery for a reception from 5 to 7pm.
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