June 20 – July 2, 2013
No Rhyme or Reason
Various Artists – Curated by Terrance Houle
This exhibition is a potpourri of performance, new media, and video works that delectably touch such topics as identity, gender, surveillance, history, sports, life/death, and cowboys. The exhibition is comprised of 4 performance artists working over the course of the Festival and a screening of 9 video works that come from all angles of Art.
The Carrousel
BGL
Take a ride on the interactive carrousell made of barriers and shopping carts on Churchill Square! BGL is Nicolas Laverdière, Jasmin Bilodeau, and Sébastien Giguère - an art collective that defies artistic conventions and aims to make art more accessible to the public by creating projects that unsettle and extend beyond official artistic sites.
Provisions
Brenda Draney
This exhibit accompanies the installation of the same name on Churchill Square, a further exploration of how tent structures might also provide a way to think about temporality, community, and a sense of place.
The Works Art & Design Festival Exhibits
Alberta Aboriginal Arts, Dreamspeakers on Tour and Amiskwaciy Academy – “AAPAA Tipi”, Churchill Square.
Alberta Youth – “Canada Day Challenge Exhibition”, Canada Place.
Sonny Assu – “1986 #1 & #2”, The Works Gateways, Churchill Square.
Stephanie Bailey, Rachelle Bugeaud, Jennifer Rae Forsyth, Carly Greene, Robert Harpin, Jeffrey Klassen, Adriean Koleric, Grace Law, Betty-Jo McCarville, Morgan Melenka, Josée Aubin Oullette, Cara Seccafien, Sergio Serrano, Kit Walton, curated by Olivia Chow, Brittney Roy – “Everything On Sale!”, Commerce Place.
Cindy Baker – “Self-Portraits of my Hand Lounging Naked in Bed”, Churchill Square.
Bee Kingdom – “Bee Kingdom Travelling Exhibition”, Fairmont Hotel Macdonald.
Bee Kingdom – “Honey Variation”, Matrix Hotel.
BGL, artists Nicolas Laverdière, Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère – “The Carrousel”, Churchill Square.
Boreal Electro Acoustic Music Society (B.E.A.M.S.) – “B.E.A.M.S. Concert”, Churchill Square.
Sandra Bromley – “London Underground”, Shaw Conference Centre.
CRIPSiE, curators Lindsay Eales, Danielle Peers – “(Dis)connection: A Resurrected Motif”, Churchill Square.
Brenda Draney – “Provisions”, Churchill Square.
Brenda Draney – “Provisions”, Don Wheaton YMCA.
Andrew French, Robert Willms – “Criticism & Response”, Shaw Conference Centre.
Graphic Designers of Canada – “All About the Logo”, Churchill Square.
Erin Hooper – “Figurative Gallery”, Manulife Place.
Curator Terrance Houle – “No Rhyme or Reason”, Churchill Square.
Jamison Bank – “Bag Bad Wolf: Act 1”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Eric Bridgeman – “In The Project”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Ulysses Castellanos – “I'm Too Sad to Tell You”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Ulysses Castellanos, Theo Pelmus – “Passage to the Kingdom”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Ali Christenson – “BANG! BANG!”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Matt Crookshank – “Never Surrender”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Erica Lord – “Darkness at the Edge of Town”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Jillian McDonald – “Something Wicked (This Way Comes)”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Torry Mendoza – “Technical Difficulties: a Fraud & a Fake”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Alex Moon – “Uni-Farm Trailer 1-2”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Theo Pelmus, programming by Ken Campbell – “Holly Mandylion Bleeding Caramel: Four Visions of Excess”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Emilio Rojas – “Nationalism and Sports”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
Victoria Stanton – “The Mobile Listening Sessions”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
WhiteFeather – “Parent Folder”, No Rhyme or Reason, Churchill Square.
M.E.D.I.U.M. – “The Seerious Slideshow”, Churchill Square.
Joanne Madeley – “Still Turning”, Courtyard by Marriot Downtown.
Vanessa Mastronardi – “Travellers”, Rigoletto's Cafe.
Betty-Jo McCarville – “Storytelling Bicycles”, Churchill Square.
Jes McCoy – “Pas de Deux (A Dance for Two)”, Churchill Square.
Allyson McIntyre – “The Herd”, City Hall.
Sara McKarney – “Archives of Memory”, Stanley A. Milner Library.
Hilary Mussell – “Hybrids”, City Hall.
Josée Aubin Oullette – “Object Theatre Paintings”, Citadel Theatre Complex.
Red Deer College (RDC) Ceramics Club and U of A Visual Arts Student Association (VASA) – “Capacity for Fellowships”, Stanley A. Milner Library.
Lisa Rezansoff – “Eyes in the Wild”, City Hall.
Shannon Rusnak – “Losing Hands”, Churchill Square.
Justin Wayne Shaw – “Western Horsemen: Economic Action Plan”, Manulife Place.
Genevieve Simms – “Shadows”, City Hall.
Heather Spears – “Drawn From The Fire: Children of The Intifada”, Enterprise Square.
Jill Stanton – “What Good Are These?”, Scotia Place.
Various Artists – "ACAD Vaaa", Visual Arts Alberta Gallery.
Various Artists – “SIZE MATTERS”, Enterprise Square.
Various Artists – “This is Me”, Churchill Square.
Jeffrey Veregge – “Nerdvana”, The Works Gateways, Churchill Square.
Keith Walker – “Pets”, Sutton Place Hotel.
Marlena Wyman – “The Effect of Collected Memory on the Adorned Body”, Churchill Square.
Exhibits Through Our Partner Galleries
Bee Kingdom, Barbara Tipton – “Bee Kingdom and Barbara Tipton”, Alberta Craft Council.
Centre d'Arts Visuels de l'Alberta (CAVA), Various Artists – “Summer Harvest”, Centre d'Arts Visuels de l'Alberta (CAVA).
Edmonton Youth, collaboration between Edmonton Public Schools, Edmonton Catholic Schools, Shaw Conference Centre – “pARTnership Gallery”, Shaw Conference Centre.
FAB Gallery, artist Justin Ogilvie – “before and after”, FAB Gallery.
Galerie PAVA, artist Evelyn Berg – “Carscapes”, Galerie PAVA.
Guru Digital Arts College – “Projection Mapping”, Stanley A. Milner Library.
Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Drop in drawing session participants, Group Exhibit – “Naked”, Harcourt House Gallery.
Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre Members, Various Artists – “Kinetic”, Harcourt House Gallery.
Kyle Whitehead – “Circles of Confusion”, Latitude 54.
McMullen Gallery, artist Amy Loewan – “Illumination Peace”, McMullen Gallery.
Megan Dickie – “Flips Folly”, Latitude 53.
Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, artist Dr. Isabelle Shen – “Fusion”, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts.
Society of North Alberta Print Artists, artist Jordan Bennett – “Shamans & Superheroes”, SNAP Gallery.
Society of North Alberta Print Artists, artists David Colagiovanni, Melissa Haviland – “Music for Teacups”, SNAP Gallery.
Various Artists – “Coming Up Next”, Alberta Craft Council.
Various Artists – “Perrenials”, ArtsHab One Studio Gallery.
Visual Arts Alberta Association, artists Laura Ambrosone, Carli Castle, Steele J. Duncan, Iren Gibson, Madison Jordheim, Jake Klein-Waller, Brittany Nickerson, Matthew Nyitrai, Sean Taal, Kristyn Wozniewich – “ACAD in Edmonton”, Harcourt House Gallery.