#timeanddesire

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Inspired by the various uses of language and symbol, Timeanddesire produces text-based art that aims to highlight the psychological, philosophical and poetic.

This body of work focuses on the relationship between language and cognition. Language contributes significantly in shaping how we perceive the world. Accordingly, much of this work can be seen as an attempt to utilize this conceptual framework to adjust and direct the ideology of the observer.

Opening Reception: Friday, August 2, 2013 (7PM - 11PM)

1172 Queen Street West

Recently we installed two works downtown Toronto during (scotia bank) Nuit Blanche.... TIMEANDDESIRE's operation was a going smoothly after the installation of a subversive sign on a side street underneath a series of 'No' signs... you can check the pic. HERE if you haven't already seen it...however... it was taken down by morning... curiously we wonder by who?... (we need to put trackers on them)... any engineers out there willing to help? The second piece was larger planned for a vacant window/building that has been vacant for sometime on Queen St. W. --- we thought it might get some notice...

As we put it up... we got a few stoppers by... questioning, watching, even assisting at one point... it was hilarious... I was complemented on my construction vest, of course, my most dashing look! (>_o). Finally the work was wrapping up when a man stopped and asked... MAN: what are you doing? TIMEANDESIRE: An intervention... installation. 

He proceeded to tell us he owned the building and is renting it to TELUS next month... His look was striking... I scanned his face... I thought --why do I feel like I know him...?  He must be on TV ?

MAN: What does it mean? I don't get it? -he asked...... TIMEANDESIRE: Well...ah-- we're hoping you examine your life--Is your reality a series of reactions to your environment and the opportunities therein? Perhaps your life is not as much action, as it is re-action... (ultimately calling into question-- choice)

He replied... 'Well... I like it... it is something to think about... at least it is not graffiti...I'll leave it up for a while...' After he departed we couldn't get over his familiar face... it came to us at home...

PETER GALLAGHER!  (We have no idea if it actually was him...) 

Does Gallagher own real-estate on Queen St. West in Toronto?

Or was that guy the most accidentally amazing Peter Gallagher look-a-like ever?

Last year Denise was afforded the opportunity to work with Arts Etobicoke, Community Living and Creative Village on the 3-year Art on the Move project (supported by the Trillium Foundation and Lakeshore Arts). Over the course of the summer/fall in 2010 she worked closely with intellectually disabled adults to create a mobile piece of public art.

The final production (a vinyl-wrapped cube truck) was launched this past June. 

Integral to the project was Graham Curry, Project Coordinator. Graham, an artist in her own right, chose artists for the project who were comfortable with public art. 

Recently, Denise and Graham were interviewed by Radio Canada International about the project. 

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Rob Ford's decision to eliminate graffiti in the City of Toronto is disappointing, to put it mildly. It comes from an uninformed, prejudiced belief system, with no concern or regard for the culture that has transformed otherwise stale alleyways into pathways of beauty and inspiration.