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ic: the full CV ic : shows 2013.05.11-2014.04.27 the hero, the villain, the salesman, the parent, a sidekick and a servant sfu teck gallery 2013.04.27-05.25 take the easy way (video) mkg127 2013.02 chair design for blue dot 2013.01.16-24 i sent you vancouver 2012.09-anon perpetual sunset (video) vancouver 2012.08.09-09.08 as part of toolkit mkg127 2012.07 office make over asian pacific foundation 2012.05-anon nothing happens in good weather (video) vancouver 2012.02.17-04-07 feeling so much yet doing so little (fb) (video) western front 2011.11-12 light bar hoorn nl 2011.01.08-02.05 there is no romance in taking a risk (star) mkg127 2010.07.28-29 ic_chilliwack internatinal chilliwack biennial 2010.02.12-03-20 bright light: light bar (fb) vancouver 2010.01.13-30 astronomical frontiers copenhagen 2009.08.26-09.06 sum up disco fallout shelter subvision. kunst. festival 2009.08-10 solyst artist in residence centre, jyderup 2009.05.06-09.15 disco fallout shelter toronto sculpture garden 2009.02.07-05.03 how soon is now vancouver art gallery 2009.01.30-04.04 assume nothing: new social practice art gallery of greater victoria 2009.01.10-04.30 a bright future 88 BLOCKS*art on main 2008.10.18-11.15 say nothing in bright colours MKG127 2008.08 say nothing in bright colours school for non-productive learning, rum46 aarhus 2008.05.15-08-15 kuenstlerhaeuser worpswede 2008.04 light bar flaggfabrikken bergen 2008.02.09-06.06 what we bring to the table oakville galleries 2007.09.14-10.20 nooks mercer union 2007.08.31-09.03 nooks henry at bumbershoot 2007.11.24-12.22 pattern theory mkg127 2007.11.22-2008.02.05 common threads illingworth kerr 2007.06.30-09.01 happy birthday & friendly greeting mkg127 2007.06.03-09.23 common threads confederation centre 2007.05.18-07.08 wish you were here york quay centre 2007.04.13-06 encuentro internacional medellin columbia 2007.02.10-03-03 romance series poster show art metropole 2006.12.15 static wallpaper lobby gallery 2006.09.30-10.01 dark hart hart house 2006.08.26 rest stop carmada, l.a. 2006.05.12-06.10 one is never enough or gallery 2006.04.09-23 welcome to the limelight css bard 2007.03.25-04.07 beautify york quay centre 2006.03.24 perfect lobby gallery 2006.01.13-03.26 peer pleasure 1 yerba buena center for the arts 2005.12.29-2006.01.22 spring sale paul petro msw 2005.10.05-29 year of perfect days sparwasser, berlin 2005.04 presentables hoffmann's house, santiago chile 2005.02.19-03.13 what do we do when we can't be 2gether 69 pender 2004.12.04-2005.03 instant coffee: bass bed san juan poly/graphic triennial 2004.09.10-10.23 sorry, we're open / the way we work southern exposure 2004.09.10-10.23 connect the dots leroy neiman gallery 2004.09.04 1-4pm *candy factory and instant coffee 2004.03 make-out party: second-base 2004.02.14-05.17 soundtracks mackenzie art gallery 2004.02.06 stencils just seemed like the right thing to do art metropole 2004.01.09-02.01 mellow drama kmart 2003.12 xxx natural light window 2003.11.21 instant MAKE OUT party 2003.11 Bienal de La Habana 2003.10.22-12.14 soundtracks the blackwood gallery 2003.10.10-14 as a satellite for instant coffee the americas society 2003.09.20-28 UDT 2.0 CAFKA Contemporary Art Forum 2003.09.13-10.25 U-TOPOS / UDT 2.0 Tirana Biennale 2 2003.09.03-10.18 psychotopes yyz artists' outlet 2003.08.23 alchemy and mysticism #2 with hive magazine 2003.07.8-08.31 buy-sellf : import / export Quartier Éphémère 2003.06.28-09.14 soundtracks edmonton art gallery 2003.06.2-30 Un© black lab gallery, seattle 2003.04.2-30 front room off the map gallery, toronto 2003.03.13-15 i've got an answer/i've got an anthem I.A.E. portland 2003.01.2-15 january show zsa zsa 2002.12.15 TO instant coffee: caffeine screens until 2002.11 the t-shirt show 2002.10.11-11.09 instant coffee: on a stick concept album: mexican pop videos screening helen pitt, vancouver 2002.07.12-08.25 TEKKO 02 mural.exhibition 2002.05.31-06.02 photo show UDT.01 2002.04.05 pleasure dome presents concept album: mexican pop videos 2002.02.08 UDC + friends garesh galleria, mexico city 2001.11.14 another slide show + tshirt show launch 2001.09.06 instant coffee UDT SAW, ottawa 2001.08.2-27 oasis : soft show in the UDT SBCA montreal 2001.06.27 sometimes, nothing much la panaderia mexico city 2001.05.25-27 overtime@workplace 2001.03.28/04.20 the waiting room the physics room NZ 2001.03.09 TEKKO 01 2001.02.09/03.16 being + nothingness 2000.12.06-03.18 instant coffee UDT + everyone the AGO . 6 Dec 2000 logo show . 13 Jan 2001 miniature show . 18 Feb 2001 video show 2000.10.28 instant coffee currency project poster launch 2000.10.21 slide show 2000.08.18 whorehouse opening party + show 2000.07.27 9pm screening why do bad things happen to good people? 2000.07.27 9pm screening first or the worst |
AS A SATELLITE FOR INSTANT COFFEE
New York City
October 10 - 14 2003
The Americas Society is pleased to host Instant Coffee, a service oriented collective of artists, writers, curators, designers, and code writers based in Toronto, Canada. Instant Coffee’s programs in New York City are part of AS A SATELLITE, a program with independent cultural initiatives in Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean. AS A SATELLITE for Instant Coffee will include the work of dozens of artists through a number of events, from slide-talks to video screenings to performances, and will take place at various venues in New York City, including Instant Coffee’s Urban Disco Trailer (UDT), a retro-fitted, 1972 Holiday Cruiser.
SATELLITES SNAPSHOT (detailed programme below)
Fri, Oct 10, 7–10 PM - The Americas Society
Sat, Oct 11, 12-7 PM - Printed Matter
Sat, Oct 11, 8ish PM - apexart
Sun, Oct 12, 3-8 PM - Parlour Projects
Mon, Oct 13, 12-6 PM - Momenta Art
Mon, Oct 13, 7:30 PM - 16Beaver
Tue, Oct 14, 12-5 PM - Artists Alliance, Inc.
Tue, Oct 14, 7-9 PM - Participant, Inc
INSTANT COFFEE
Instant Coffee has developed a practice that culminates in bringing together large numbers of artists, designers, musicians, and other cultural producers under loosely themed events. They offer networking services that promote local, national and international activities and publish a monthly on-line magazine, Instant Coffee Saturday Edition. Consistent members are Cecilia Berkovic, Timothy Comeau, Jinhan Ko, Kate Monro, Jenifer Papararo, and Jon Sasaki.
AS A SATELLITE
A program with independent cultural initiatives in Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, which consists of positioning and using The Americas Society as their satellite for the production of exhibitions and event-based projects in New York. AS A SATELLITE is made possible through the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support was provided by the Elliott Family Foundation, the Canadian Consulate General, New York, and was made possible thanks to the following groups and institutions: 16Beaver, apexart, Artists Alliance, Inc., Momenta Art, Parlour Projects, Participant, Inc., and Printed Matter, Inc. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society is a unique national not-for-profit institution with a mission to promote a better understanding in the United States about the cultures and societies of Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
The Americas Society
http://www.americas-society.org
Pony and Donkey Show and Tell
The Americas Society, 680 Park Ave.
(Located at the Corner of 68th St. in the Upper East Side)
Upper East Side Style Mansion performances. Love lost: 'Love Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' a narrative slide show by playwright and Novelist Darren O'Donnell (Canada); Bird Calls: 'Industrial History for Safety Gear for Small Animals,' a sensical lecture by artist Bill Burns (Canada); and Dress up: 'Tops and Bottoms,' a visual presentation by artist Karen Azoulay (Canada). Videos: 'Smaller and Easier to Handle' by Kristan Lucas (USA), 'Telepathacats' by Fastwürms (Canada) and 'Free Dance Lesson' by Paige Graitland and Day Milman (Canada). Bullhorn: Jinhan Ko; Interlude: Michael Buckland (USA/Canada), and all the hits by Mary Kay Olsen. Dress code in effect. Prizes just because. Open bar, need we say more.
Stencils just seemed like the right thing to do
Printed Matter, Inc., 535 West 22nd St.
(Located between 10th and 11th Streets in Chelsea)
During the day, Instant Coffee will open the Urban Disco Trailer (a retro-fitted, 1972 Holiday Cruiser) in front of Printed Matter, and display various artists' multiples they've commissioned and produced. With a cocktail reception in the evening, Printed Matter launches Artists' Stencils, Instant Coffee's latest multiple. Midi in/Midi out, a music cd by Instant Coffee, distills some of their favorite eighties pop-synth songs down to bare beats and underwhelms the evening.
Participating Artists: Acamonchi (USA/Mexico), Michael Barker (Canada), Cecilia Berkovic (Canada), Michael Buckland (Canada), James Carl (Canada), Kelly Coats (Mexico/USA), Timothy Comeau (Canada), Dave Dyment (Canada), Fastwürms (Canada), Jill Henderson (Canada), Instant Coffee (Canada), Luis Jacob (Canada), Jinhan Ko (Canada), Nestor Kruger (Canada), Colleen Langford (Canada), Kate Monro (Canada), Will Munro (Canada), Richard Moszka y Juan Pablo Garcia (Mexico/Canada/Spain), Jade Rude (Canada), Jon Sasaki (Canada), Kika Thorne (Canada), and Holly Ward (Canada).
Artists' Stencils will be on exhibition and for sale at Printed Matter. It is a limited edition of two hundred, and includes works by 22 artists. This project was commissioned and produced by Instant Coffee on the occasion of AS A SATELLITE.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and other artists' publications. Printed Matter, Inc. is not affiliated with, nor a division of, any other non-profit organization. For more information: www.printedmatter.org
Crashing at Sábado Gigante
apexart, 291 Church Street
(Located between Walker and White Streets, Southof Canal St.)
Tapping their audience. Instant Coffee and the Urban Disco Trailer crash the opening of TO BE POLITICAL IT HAS TO LOOK NICE, a group exhibition featuring artists and collectives of Latin America, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, at apexart and Art in General. For more information: www.apexart.org.
Blood & Swash 3
Parlour Projects, 214 Devoe St. #1
(Located between Bushwick Ave. and Humboldt St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Blood & Swash 3 is a provisional multi-disciplinary tattoo parlor and drop-in center performance /installation project by Fastwürms, featuring freehand felt-tip tattoos on skin or denim, a sample display of denim flash, DJ/VJ social exchange collaborations and House of Bast party dynamics. 'Get inked sharpie style by witches.' :ic:
Formed in 1979 by Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse, Fastwürms is the trademark and joint authorship of these Toronto and Creemore-based multidisciplinary artists whose art projects mind melds high and pop cultures, bent identity politics, social exchange performance, DIY positive cinematic sensibility. Fastwürms representational politics are complex subversive; critical aesthetics inclusive with a bent towards Witch working class, event architecture collaborations, and queer alliance.
Blood & Swash 3 also features artist Jill Henderson as Denim Witch 3. Jill is a Scots-Canadian whose output is a free-range stew of the comic, the crass, and the devalued poetic politics of the thinking girl.
Established in 2000, Parlour Projects is a non-commercial space in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York) that organizes and presents artists' solo-exhibitions, giving particular attention to performative and interactive work. Its program has included exhibitions by Allora & Calzadilla, Anoka Faruqee, Forcefield, David Lamelas, and Alejandra Seeber, among other artists. Parlour Projects is programmed by Dean Daderko. For more information: www.parlourprojects.com.
Alchemy & Mysticism no.2
Momenta Art, 72 Berry Street
(Located between N9 and N10 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
A salon style painting show in the Urban Disco Trailer. In addition, a particular mix of things. See you on Berry Street. Participating Artists: Robin Arseneault, Temple Bates, Cecilia Berkovic, Amy Bowles, Jordan Broadworth, Crystal Bueckert, Ulysses Castellanos, Timothy Comeau, Ed Deary, Janis Demkiw, Fastwürms, Eliza Griffiths, Eric Glavin, Anitra Hamilton, Kathleen Hearn, Jill Henderson, Jay Isaac, Michael Klein, Jinhan Ko, Germaine Koh, Mara Korkola, Colleen Langford, Derek Mainella, Kate Monro, Jade Rude, Rupen, Kathryn Ruppert, Jon Sasaki, Monica Tap, Christy Thompson, Lex Vaughn and Jay Wilson. All Canadian.
Momenta Art is a not-for-profit, artist-run exhibition space. Its mission is to promote the work of emerging artists through exhibitions, newsletters, and most recently a new residency program. Momenta Art was founded in Philadelphia in 1986 and, since 1995, its exhibition space is located in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York). For more information: www.momentaart.org.
Regular Mondays
16Beaver, 16 Beaver, Room 5
(Located in the Financial District, downtown New York)
Craig Buckley in conversation with LTTR (Lesbians to the Rescue) and Instant Coffee.
LTTR is a journal of art, queer theory, photo and music put together by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, K8 Hardy, and Emily Roysdon. They just released issue 2, and it's very good work. Craig Buckley is a young, Canadian independent curator and writer based in New York City.
16Beaver is a space initiated and run by artists to create and maintain an ongoing platform for the presentation, production, and discussion of a variety of artistic, cultural, economic, and political projects. Since 1999, 16Beaver has organized Monday Nights, which include presentations, readings, discussions, screenings, and panels with and by artists, curators, thinkers, writers, and activists. For more information: www.16beavergroup.org.
Sorry, We're Open
Artists Alliance, Inc., 107 Suffolk Street, #411
(The Parking Lot is located in the back of the building, on Norfolk St., in the Lower East Side)
The Urban Disco Trailer as usual in the back parking lot. Open for social locations. Take away give aways. No surprises.
Participating artists: Instant Coffee
The Artists Alliance, Inc. (AAI) is a grass roots not-for-profit arts organization composed of artists from a broad spectrum of national backgrounds, working in a variety of media. AAI is dedicated to promoting discussion and awareness of the visual arts, sharing information with the public, promoting interaction with local communities, and providing forums for artists. For more information: www.artistsai.org.
Alchemy & Mysticism #no.1
Participant, Inc., 95 Rivington St.
(Located between Ludlow and Orchard Streets in the Lower East Side)
A screening of music-based videos, turning basements into gold. Participants: Meesoo Lee with The Radio (Canada), Scott Russell (Canada), Galia Eibenschutz + Alexis Zabe (Mexico), Txema (Mexico), Pedro 'zulu' Gonzalez (Mexico), Peaches by Lisa Kannako (Canada), Silverio by Miguel Calderon (Mexico), Jinhan Ko (Canada), Tony Romano & Shayne Ehman with the Grassy Knowles (Canada), Jon Sasaki (Canada), Paige Stain (Canada), Jordan Sonenberg with the Evil Plans (Canada), Hidden Cameras by Laura Cowell (Canada), Chris Mills (Canada), and Greg Hefford (Canada), plus a special screening by LTTR (USA) and Matthias Fritsch (Germany). Alchemy & Mysticism no.1 is a limited edition DVD video compilation produced by Instant Coffee with the financial assistance of The Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada.
Participant, Inc. is a not-for-profit alternative art space on the Lower East Side a laboratory for exhibitions, screenings, performances, publications and educational programs that reflect the cultural moment and encourage artistic experimentation. For more information: google it.
