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In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that, through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark on the world, and to make connections. During the previous century, the production of culture became dominated by professional elite producers. But today, a vast array of people are making and sharing their own ideas, videos and other creative material online, as well as engaging in real-world crafts, art projects and hands-on experiences. Gauntlett argues that we are seeing a shift from a ‘sit-back-and-be-told culture' to a ‘making-and-doing culture'. People are rejecting traditional teaching and television, and making their own learning and entertainment instead. Drawing on evidence from psychology, politics, philosophy and economics, he shows how this shift is necessary and essential for the happiness and survival of modern societies.
Text by Darby English, Wayne Baerwaldt, Huey Copeland, Mark Nash, Wayne Koestenbaum. Interview by Stephen Andrews.
A co-produced publication released on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, organized by The Power Plant, and presented initially at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, was the Swiss artist's first solo exhibition both in North America and Denmark. The publication documents an expansive constellation of Miriam Cahn's multidisciplinary work, presented for the first time in Canada and Denmark as part of the eponymous exhibition, Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING. This exhibition was organized by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, presented initially at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, from 7 October 2020-4 April 2021, then at The Power Plant, from 2 October 2021-2 January 2022.
Postscript is the first collection of writings on the subject of conceptual writing by a diverse field of scholars in the realms of art, literature, media, as well as the artists themselves
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Sculpture and the Museum is the first in-depth examination of the varying roles and meanings assigned to sculpture in museums and galleries during the modern period, from neo-classical to contemporary art practice. It considers a rich array of curatorial strategies and settings in order to examine the many reasons why sculpture has enjoyed a position of such considerable importance - and complexity - within the institutional framework of the museum and how changes to the museum have altered, in turn, the ways that we perceive the sculpture within it. In particular, the contributors consider the complex issue of how best to display sculpture across different periods and according to varying c...
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CD-ROM contains: Chapters from text -- Glossary.
"This book is a celebration of the rediscovery of Toronto-born artist Peter Clapham Sheppard. Termed a "radical" in his early career, rather than being inspired by his friends and contemporaries in the Group of Seven, Sheppard looked to New York painters of the urban and industrial scenes for inspiration."--
Brenda Draneys Werk kreist um das komplexe Wesen von Intimität. Ausgehend von ihren eigenen Erinnerungen und Erfahrungen untersucht die kanadische Künstlerin die vielschichtigen Bedeutungsebenen von alltäglichen Motiven und Situationen. Das kumulative Porträt, das dabei entsteht, verweist auf ein kollektives Selbst, das nicht nur ihre eigenen Erfahrungen, sondern auch die vergangener Generationen und Mitglieder ihrer Community einbezieht. Doch statt zu reproduzieren, interessiert sich Draney für Bedeutungsverschiebungen durch individuell gefilterte Interpretationen. Bewusst arbeitet sie mit Leerstellen, die das Publikum einladen, sich intensiv mit den malerischen Fragmenten ihrer Darstellungen auseinanderzusetzen. Der reich bebilderte Katalog, der Draneys Einzelausstellung – organisiert von der Power Plant Art Gallery – in Toronto begleitet, führt breit gefächert in das Werk einer der bemerkenswertesten zeitgenössischen Künstlerinnen Kanadas ein. Eine faszinierende Auswahl von bestehenden und neuen Werken wird durch Beiträge von kanadischen Kulturschaffenden kontextualisiert.