DEUX CONTES D’UNE VILLE vise à examiner une gamme de dualités sociales, économiques, culturelles et politiques soulignant le passé, le présent et le futur de la Ville de Hamilton. À partir de la recherche amassée des archives et de l’histoire chronologique de la ville, d’interviews et de questionnaires, Deux contes d’une ville nous présente des narrations de Hamilton en conflit, entremêlées et parallèles en utilisant une bannière à grande échelle, une série de fanions surdimensionnés, un atelier et une publication rétrospective vers la fin de l’exposition.

La bannière de tissu installée sur du côté du nouvel édifice de « Hamilton Artists Inc. » affiche une série de phrases contenant des dualités, extraite du questionnaire. Cette bannière changera au cours de la durée de l’exposition, soit huit semaines. La série de fanions géants mesure 135 pieds de longueur et est suspendue au long du toit. Ces fanions représentent l’histoire chronologique des industries disparues et celles toujours existantes et des expériences, défis et victoires de la ville.

Créer à partir des histories, expériences et de l’information accumulée au sujet des communautés francophone et anglophone de la Ville de Hamilton, le projet culmine avec la redistribution des fanions à la communauté en permettant aux visiteurs de la galerie d’en prendre des échantillons, à la fin de l’exposition.

Mettant en vedette la documentation du projet, des ouvrages littéraires et une histoire écrite collectivement, la publication sera créée des activités de l’atelier à venir et sera disponible vers la fin d’avril.

Broken City Lab est un collectif de recherche créative guidé par des artistes. BCL est aussi une organisation à but non lucratif qui a pour objectif d’explorer et de découvrir des faits curieux par rapport aux concepts de localité, d’infrastructure et de pratiques créatives qui donnent lieu aux changements municipaux. Fondé en 2008 par Justin Langlois et Danielle Sabelli, le collectif inclut maintenant Michelle Soulière, Josh Babcock, Rosina Riccardo, Cristina Naccarato, Hiba Abdallah, Kevin Echlin and Sara Howie.  BCL est actif à Windsor, Ontario, Canada et à l’étranger.

Les projets, les événements, les ateliers, les performances et les interventions de BCL offrent une injection de créativité quelquefois temporaire et quelquefois plus permanente à soit une situation, une surface, un endroit ou une communauté. Ces projets connectent une variété de disciplines grâce à la recherche, aux pratiques sociales, aux tactiques interventionnistes qui ajustent, critiquent et ré- inventent la ville où le « Lab »s’engage.

Les projets et la recherche de BCL ont figuré dans FUSE Magazine, Public Journal, C Magazine, Creative Time’s Social Practice Archive, Next American City, Alternatives, GOOD, National Post, Toronto Star, NPR (WDET, NPHR), CBC Radio One, CBC Television, Le Téléjournal, The Windsor Star, A-Channel, Wooster Collective, PSFK et Tree Hugger, ont été presenté et exposé à travers l’Amérique du Nord y compris à la Galerie d’Art de Windsor, TRUCK Gallery, Forest City Gallery, Propeller Centre, Open Engagement, Hamilton Artists Inc., et CAFKA. Nous avons reçu le support du Conseil des Arts de l’Ontario, de l’University de Windsor, de OPIRG Windsor et de la Ville de Windsor.

Nous voulons remercier le Conseil des Arts du Canada, Le Centre français Hamilton Inc., Le Labo et la Gallerie d’art de Hamilton (AGH) pour leur support depuis les premiers stages du projet Deux Contes d’une Ville.

S’il vous plait participez au projet en remplissant les espaces vides du texte accessible par le lien ci-dessous.

http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/hamilton-two-tales-of-a-city-fill-in-the-blanks-french/

March 9th – June 8th, 2012 (exhibition is extended until June 8th)  – An installation by the Windsor based art group Broken City Lab on the Cannon St side of Hamilton Artists Inc.  The project Deux Contes d’une Ville/Two Tales of a City  is curated by Julie René de Cotret.   The project aims to examine a range of social, economic, cultural, and political dualities tracked throughout Hamilton’s past, present, and future. Gathered from archival research, interviews, and pop-up surveys and timelines, Two Tales of a City will present competing, intertwining, and parallel narratives of Hamilton through a large-scale fabric banner, oversized bunting, a workshop, and forthcoming publication.

The fabric banner installed along the side of HAI’s new building will feature a rotating series of call-and-response dualities in English and French over a six week period, while the oversized bunting will span 135 feet hung across the roofline and act as a timeline of collapsed and thriving industries, experiences, struggles, and victories of the city.

Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary collective and non-profit organization working to explore and unfold curiosities around locality, infrastructures, education, and creative practice leading towards civic change. Founded in 2008 by Justin Langlois and Danielle Sabelli, the collective now includes Michelle Soulliere, Josh Babcock, Rosina Riccardo, Cristina Naccarato, Hiba Abdallah, Kevin Echlin and Sara Howie.

BCL’s projects, events, workshops, performances, and interventions offer a sometimes momentary, sometimes extended, injection of creativity into a situation, surface, place, or community. These projects continually connect various disciplines through research and social practice, generating works and interventionist tactics that adjust, critique, annotate, and re-imagine the city that the lab encounters.

BCL’s projects and research have been featured in Fuse Magazine, Public Journal, C Magazine, Creative Time’s Social Practice Archive, Next American City, Alternatives, GOOD, the National Post, the Toronto Star, NPR (WDET, NPHR), CBC Radio One, CBC television, Le Téléjournal, The Windsor Star, the A-Channel, Wooster Collective, PSFK, and Tree Hugger, presented and exhibited across North America including the Art Gallery of Windsor, TRUCK Gallery, Forest City Gallery, Propeller Centre, Open Engagement, Hamilton Artists Inc., and CAFKA, and have been supported by the Ontario Arts Council’s Multidisciplinary Arts, Integrated Arts, Artists in the Community/Workplace, and Media Arts programmes, the University of Windsor Humanities Research Group, OPIRG Windsor, and the City of Windsor.

We would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Le Centre Francais Hamilton Inc., Le Labo, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton during the initial stages of this project.

Please contribute to the exhibition by filling in the form telling us your story about Hamilton.

http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/hamilton-two-tales-of-a-city-fill-in-the-blanks-english/

HEATHER GOODCHILD

THE WARDENS

Opening: Thursday, May 10, 2012  7-9:30 pm

Artcrawl: Friday, May 11, 2012 7-11 pm

Closing: Sunday June 24th 2012

The Wardens is a nondenominational organization started in the late nineteenth century by Anna Ward Brouse. Her early history is vague but it is believed that she was born in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) in 1855. Anna travelled to Pennsylvania as a youth and at the age of twenty-three she was struck by visions depicting a society of outcasts in sixteenth century Germany. Moved by the beauty, strength and wisdom of these long dead people, Anna revealed their practices and beliefs to a growing society of her own.

Heather Goodchild fabricated this fiction to explore religion, morality and collective storytelling in her work. By creating the imagined artifacts, systems and values of the Wardens, she strives to decode her own desires for ritual, and a code of conduct.

At Hamilton Artists Inc., Goodchild invites the viewer into the world of the Wardens through a maze of canvas arches and rooms. Reminiscent of a travelling spiritual show, the rooms contain objects, text, mysterious games and textile hangings that lead the viewer to question childhood preconceptions and ideas of self-improvement. Through toys, puppets and game boards, Goodchild is commenting on a reluctance in our culture to “take up the mantle” of adulthood while at the same time reveling in the magic of youth, believing that to bear the responsibility of maturity you must remain open to the beauty and wonder of life.

Along with Naomi Yasui, Goodchild is expanding the Wardens story with the online magazine The Wardens Today. This forum allows her to further explore the values of the organization including: good craftsmanship, respect for wisdom, fearless innovation, reverence for beauty, balanced living and achieving potential as seen through the lens of the 21^st century.

 Heather Goodchild is a visual artist who has exhibited across North America since 2002. Her most recent solo exhibition Walking the Pattern was presented at Mulherin Pollard Projects (New York, NY) in 2011. Goodchild will be the artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in summer 2012.  Her practice involves exploring the rituals, regalia and symbols of world religions, Girl Guides and Freemasonry in an attempt to understand the purpose of these traditions. Using textile techniques such as rug-hooking, inlaid patchwork, screen printing and quilting, she has developed new ways to execute old crafts, creating pieces that seem to exist both in the past and present.

HEATHER GOODCHILD

THE WARDENS

Opening: Thursday, May 10, 2012  7-9:30 pm

Artcrawl: Friday, May 11, 2012 7-11 pm

Closing: Sunday June 24th 2012

The Wardens is a nondenominational organization started in the late nineteenth century by Anna Ward Brouse. Her early history is vague but it is believed that she was born in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) in 1855. Anna travelled to Pennsylvania as a youth and at the age of twenty-three she was struck by visions depicting a society of outcasts in sixteenth century Germany. Moved by the beauty, strength and wisdom of these long dead people, Anna revealed their practices and beliefs to a growing society of her own.

Heather Goodchild fabricated this fiction to explore religion, morality and collective storytelling in her work. By creating the imagined artifacts, systems and values of the Wardens, she strives to decode her own desires for ritual, and a code of conduct.

At Hamilton Artists Inc., Goodchild invites the viewer into the world of the Wardens through a maze of canvas arches and rooms. Reminiscent of a travelling spiritual show, the rooms contain objects, text, mysterious games and textile hangings that lead the viewer to question childhood preconceptions and ideas of self-improvement. Through toys, puppets and game boards, Goodchild is commenting on a reluctance in our culture to “take up the mantle” of adulthood while at the same time reveling in the magic of youth, believing that to bear the responsibility of maturity you must remain open to the beauty and wonder of life.

Along with Naomi Yasui, Goodchild is expanding the Wardens story with the online magazine The Wardens Today. This forum allows her to further explore the values of the organization including: good craftsmanship, respect for wisdom, fearless innovation, reverence for beauty, balanced living and achieving potential as seen through the lens of the 21^st century.

 Heather Goodchild is a visual artist who has exhibited across North America since 2002. Her most recent solo exhibition Walking the Pattern was presented at Mulherin Pollard Projects (New York, NY) in 2011. Goodchild will be the artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in summer 2012.  Her practice involves exploring the rituals, regalia and symbols of world religions, Girl Guides and Freemasonry in an attempt to understand the purpose of these traditions. Using textile techniques such as rug-hooking, inlaid patchwork, screen printing and quilting, she has developed new ways to execute old crafts, creating pieces that seem to exist both in the past and present.

DOWNLOAD THE ESSAY by Thea Haines

http://www.canadianartschool.ca/working/heather-goodchild/

http://www.thewardenstoday.blogspot.ca/2012/05/wardens-in-hamilton.html