Oilver Herring: TASK at Regent Park

Season 3 artist Oliver Herring–in collaboration with a committee of young, local volunteers–will present Canada’s first TASK event tomorrow, June 14. Part of Toronto’s Luminato 2008 festival, this “participatory-performance-art-making-party” will take place on the Regent Park baseball field from 3:00-7:00pm.

The rules:
1) Take a task from the central box.
2) Write down a task–whatever you can imagine–to replace the one you took.
3) Complete your TASK, wherever it may lead you.

TASK is free and open to the public. Watch the YouTube video trailer here.

Podcast: Mark Dion lecture in Toronto

Learn more about Season 4 artist Mark Dion in an audiocast of a talk Dion gave the inaugural 2008 Canadian Art International Lecture Series on January 18 at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Listen as he discusses the development of his work over the past ten years. (running time: 1 hour 15 minutes)

[via Canadian Art Online]

Mark Dion talk in Toronto tonight

The work of Season 4 artist Mark Dion blurs the boundaries of art, science and natural history. Playing off the human impulse to classify and order phenomena, he frequently creates arrangements of found objects or juxtaposes imagery of fantastical flora and fauna with the syntax of the natural-history museum.

In this talk at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Dion will speak about his practice over the past decade.

Royal Ontario Museum, Level 1B
Signy and Cleophee Eaton Theatre
7:00-8:30pm
Cost: $10.00

Visit the Museum’s website for more information.