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MAIN SPACE: Productive Discomfort curated by Lauren Cullen

Susan Blight, Heidi Cho, Kaythi, Seiji, Anne Rucchetto, Jessica Watkin, and James Yeboah

March 1-30, 2019

Productive Discomfort is a project and group exhibition encompassing seven hooked rugs, each conceptually designed and produced around the theme of ‘unwelcome mats’. Contributing artists, who predominantly work in non-rug hooking mediums, learned the technique through a series of collaborative workshop led by Toronto-based artist and facilitator Lauren Cullen.

Canadian hooked mats are often exhibited as domestic objects greeting guests with good cheer. Anti-racist, anti-colonial and feminist queer crip perspectives remind us however that objects and spaces are never truly welcoming to all. While a hooked rug marks a threshold and communicates an expectation of serving, Productive Discomfort rubs up against this promise and explores what can happen when we draw attention to that which is unwelcome. Thus this exhibition invites the audience to consider the following question; how can unwelcome rugs and social aspects of rug hooking serve as a disruptive force?

Productive Discomfort is part of Myseum Intersections: Revisionist Toronto.

DIY LOVE is a free wheatpasting workshop for all ages at Pride Toronto’s 2017 Streetfair in celebration of LGBTQ2S+ activist knowledge, facilitated by a collective of LGBTQ2S+ artists, designers, writers, and curators. Participants will have the opportunity to make posters and use original posters made for this installation to create a wheatpasted wall that celebrates queer knowledge and history, which will be on display at multiple sites across Toronto after the Pride festival. Come talk and create with us!

Located at Pride Toronto 2017′s Streetfair on Church Street, June 23, 2017 (7:00 pm to 9:00pm), June 24 & 25, 2017 (12:00pm to 6:00pm).

The project is supported by OCAD University, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Toronto's larger LGBTQ2S+ community.

Dos grandes proyectos que van por dentro de las venas del ecosistema de  CARDANO firmaron un gran acuerdo de trabajo en conjunto

Con la presencia de Wilmer Varón, como CEO de Fundación FUNINTEC, Ulises Barreiro como CEO de Token Mithrandir, y Jean Carlos Aguilar como representante de ambos proyectos, se dio firma al acuerdo que le da más firmeza a todo el ecosistema de CARDANO en el tercer mundo, dado que no solo impacta en Latinoamérica, sino además en África donde Token Mithrandir viene trabajando hace un año en diversas áreas de trabajo.

Acuerdo comercial entre Fundación FUNINTEC y Token Mithrandir, ambos proyectos como sabemos se van desarrollando por dentro del ecosistema de CARDANO, firmaron un interesante acuerdo de trabajo mutuo donde se destacan tres puntos especiales para ir desarrollando conjuntamente, estos son:

- Alianza comercial.

- Convenio en formación educativa en las áreas de DEFI, Blockchain y energías renovables. 

- Plan de impulso y adopción masiva de CARDANO en el eje Buenos Aires-Caracas. 

Como vemos, son tres grandes ejes de trabajo, que a medida que se implemente irán aportando sus columnas para engrandecer al ecosistema de CARDANO, en varios frentes de trabajo. Sabemos que hay muchos proyectos criptográficos, pero que solamente viven dentro de la web 3.0, porque casi no tienen participación de la vida real (dan charlas en Xpace, Telegram, etc pero carecen de comunidad real física). En este caso Fundacion Funintec, que sale desde Caracas y se va expandiendo por todo Latinoamérica por un lado, y Token Mithrandir, con presencia en más de 13 países, ya demostraron en este año de trabajo en conjunto en diferentes proyectos, que tienen comunidad real, y muy diversa, desde participación académica, hasta personas que participan en tareas de impacto ambiental, como lo es plantar árboles, o limpiar costas de ríos o mares, como se viene haciendo en varios países.

Available at the Xpace Cultural Centre annual fundraiser exhibition show + sale, June 8-16: Laurence Philomene, William, Glitter Hand (Non-Binary Portraits 2016)

Available at the Xpace Cultural Centre annual fundraiser exhibition show + sale, June 8-16: Allison and Cam, Bendy Boys, risograph print

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VPN to IRL curated by Tak Pham

Ronnie Clarke, Marlon Kroll, Sophia Oppel, Tommy Truong

March 31 – April 29, 2017

VPN to IRL explores how our virtual relationships mediate our perception of reality, and the role of technology in contemporary living. Through four unique media and installation projects, the exhibition transforms Xpace’s gallery into a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that will extend the Internet experience beyond the common visualization of data on computer screens. The artists will immerse the visitor’s body within a web of connections, where constant experiential feedback among them will construct a new reality. The visitor’s engagement and navigation through exhibition will question the ethics of the Internet, and examines its collateral physical consequences.

Presented in partnership with Images Festival and generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council.

Steven Beckly, Andrew Risograph, 2012