Canadian National Exhibition, Horticultural Building
This is my arrangement, made entirely of wild flowers I picked from the industrial ditch behind my mother's house the evening before.
Some Bullshit Illusions
Suddenly, after a long struggle, May 16, 2012. Daughter of circumstance, sister of the obvious, mother of hopes, dreams and failures. Flowers will be accepted during visitation on Friday, May 18, 2012 from 2-3 PM at 209 Augusta Ave. (down the alley, first door on your right). Donations can be made to the charity of your choice.
Wavelength Presents: The Spring Equinox Show
9 PM
The Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton St. (south of College, ground floor)
featuring Isla Craig and GUH. I will get the season started by applying for a credit card.
Salon: An Evening with Artscape
6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street, Toronto
This is a fundraiser for Artscape, and there will be cocktails and food and you will be entertained by rotating talks from Luminaries from the Cultural Scene at your table while you dine. I will also be there.
More info at torontoartscape.org/salon
The Book Lab
Opening reception Wednesday, March 7, 7-11 PM
EEL Gallery, One Spadina Crescent, Toronto
This is a library show, about books, reading, libraries and information. I have a new book in it, a bedside reader compiled from my current bedside reading, annotated.
KTown at Rhubarb! Festival
9:30 PM 'til late
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St., Toronto
This is a fun thing where many artists have contributed karaoke videos, including me. There are new videos, so go!
Art Auction
7-11 PM
209 Augusta Ave (in Kensington Market)
A silent auction to raise funds for Double Double Land.
In late December they had all of their money stolen, which is terrible because they're really lovely and as you can probably tell from my event listings if they weren't around my public expression would be limited to The Internet and the CNE. These guys do so much to support and encourage The Arts in Toronto, you can help by buying some wonderful art from these artists: Life of a Craphead, Amy Bowles, Nikki Woolsey, Sandy Plotnikoff, Emily Hogg, Sojourner-Truth Parsons, Julia Kennedy, Jeff Garcia, Lucas Soi, James Kirkpatrick, The Torontonians (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Laura McCoy, Maryanne Casasanta, Cameron Lee, Anna May Henry, Jonny Petersen, Simon McNally, Xenia Benivolski, Yuula Benivolski, Zeesy Powers, Robert Dayton, Peter Kalyniuk, Larry Eisenstein, Alicia Nauta, Patricia Beattie, Steve Kado, Seth Scriver, Mark Connery, David Hanes, Amerlia Ehrhardt, Stan Krzyzanowski, CN Tower Liquidation, Xan Hawes, Andrew Zukerman, Matt King, Morley Shayuk, Lisa Smolkin.
BRING MONEY.
Curtains
8 PM
Double Double Land, 209 Augusta, Kensington Market, Toronto (down the alley)
Isla Craig and I will be performing a new dance work. You get to sit on the stage, and we perform in the audience.
Seating is limited, so arrive early.
The Message
Opening Reception, 7-10 PM, November 3.
Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen St. W., Toronto
Group show of New Media artists in honour of the Marshal McLuhan centenary. I included a poster. With Zeesy Powers, Jenn E . Norton, Myfanwy Ashmore, Robert Lendrum, Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman, Matthew Williamson and Nicholas Stedman. More info here: g1313.org
Planet In Focus
10 AM, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, 750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto
Intertidal is screening (in a cleaned-up, high resolution format) as part of the program for young children. I think they will like it on the big screen.
K-Town
6-9 PM, Angell Gallery,12 Ossington Avenue
Artist's video karaoke! You could have done this again at Nuit Blanche, but I hear they're going to to more, because who doesn't enjoy karaoke? It's popular!
100,000 Poets For Change
8PM at Cinecycle - behind 129 Spadina Ave, Toronto
An evening of performance, poetry and some video screenings, to which I'm contributing an episode of Subjects. Organized by the always interesting Louise Bak of The Box.
CNE Horticultural Exhibition Flower Arranging Competition
Canadian National Exhibition, Horticultural Building
This is my arrangement, made entirely of wild flowers I picked from the industrial ditch behind my mother's house the evening before.
Subjects
New Reality TV series. www.subjectsrealitytelevision.com.
Zeesy Powers' Projected Realities
Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Ave., Toronto, ON
FRIDAY: The Ghost (Toronto Premiere) and TOTAL PANIC (WORLD PREMIERE). One night performance event.
SATURDAY: TOTAL PANIC Day long performance environment.
Beautiful images of deep, unrelenting terror.
Cruel Therapies/ Traitements Cruels
as part of BOOM-CHIX-A-BOOM #10
4296 boulevard saint-laurent, Montreal
Consumption as entertainment, cruelty as product. From $1 to $50, you can purchase an experience from myself and Yuula Benivolski, for better or worse.
TOP-TOP-POP-COP VIDEO DANCE #2
10:30pm-late
Double Double Land, 209 Augusta, Kensington Market, Toronto (down the alley)
MUSIC VIDEOS ON THE WALL + IN YOUR EARS ALL NIGHT LONG
With the following VJs:
MISS MARGOT
VAL UHER
STEPHANIE COMILANG
LAURA MCCOY
TEXT MUSIC VIDEO REQUESTS+DEDICATIONS TO (647) 21-SAD-TV
++performance by ZEESY POWERS
++unknown art by ARIELLE GAVIN
++animations by TARA DOWNS
++decor by EUGENE SLONIMEROV and DANIEL VILA
The Homey Show
Opening reception Thursday July 22, 2010, 7 P.M.
Double Double Land, 209 Augusta, Kensington Market, Toronto (down the alley)
A show of home decor.
I have been working on a quilt since the beginning of May, it is hand-stitched and it is huge and a little sad and very beautiful and maybe scary. You can see it here, because I wanted to show it at a quilt show and here it is.
Summerworks Performance Bar
Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington (North of Queen)
9 P.M.
I Will Tell You Exactly What I Think Of You LIVE as part of The National Theatre of the World at Summerworks Festival's Performance Bar.
The Vagabond Trust Reading Series
9 P.M.
FREE
This Ain't the Rosedale Library, 86 Nassau Street, Kensington Market, Toronto
Readings by Shannon Bramer, Brianna Brown, Robin Richardson,
Josh Stewart and Julie Tepperman.
I will be giving a brief talk on the One Month Relationship and living your life as an artwork. Grief!
presented by Kathleen Brown, Darrah Teitel and Blair Trewartha.
more information here: thevagabondtrusttoronto.wordpress.com
The Ghost
7 P.M.
Drawn and Quarterly, 211 Bernard Ouest, Montreal
With Patrick Jordache and Yuula Benivolski
Come see the Canadian premiere of The Ghost, O.K.?
Videos Collide in Real Life 3D Space
When you can download anything onto your computer through a simple keyword search, why would you ever leave the house?
GET READY TO SEE VIDEOS COLLIDE WITH REAL LIFE!
I will be performing along with these amazing people:
Jeremy Bailey, Joseph Gillette, Alison O'Daniel and Ben Bigelow. Curated by Megan Daalder and Fei Fei Liu.
You can get a load of some online content here.
Pleasure Dome's annual New Toronto Works Show
8 P.M.
Latvian House, 491 College Street
This will probably cost you $5, WORTH IT!
Once again you will be able to see some new thing I've made (Cosmic Bodies 1, as seen on the Internet, but this time in HD!). This time it was made in Not Toronto (actually the industrial suburbs of Berlin). However, it is a video that involves a mound of young people from all over the world, writhing aimlessless, which is what it feels like in Toronto a lot of the time. Accurate! (?)
Internet Basics For Your Edification and Empowerment
7-9 P.M.
The White House, 277.5 Augusta St. (in Kensington Market)
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
By popular demand, The White House presents an evening workshop on
THE INTERNET
What is the internet? Why does it work? How can I manipulate its dark forces for my own benefit?
Bring your computer or even just a pen and paper for an introductory evening. Learn:
TOTAL HONESTY
Double Double Land
Toronto
Come for
8 P.M.
a screening of a documentary about dance in post-war Liberia by Vanessa Verdoo
9 P.M.
I will use a deck of tarot cards to explain my recent experiences at a corporate commune to you.
10 P.M.
Doom Tickler
11 P.M.
The Ghost
11:30 P.M.
Come to be Seen
Architecture of Community
opening January 7, 7 P.M.
artists' talk January 9, 2-4 P.M.
Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen St. W
New video installation piece up in the multimedia space. It's called God's Eye. For the artists' talk I'll be appearing live via skype.
Palomar5 Summit
9:30 AM - 7 P.M.
Malzfabrik, Berlin, Germany
This is it, the beginning of the beginning of the beginning.
This is what happens when you let people decide what will happens. (With some guidelines). There's a Brain Wash and Telecom and Auto Industry Executives and presentations on purpose and passion and Aid Standards and some kind of corporate video game party and free internet for the entire planet THAT MEANS YOU ME AND EVERYONE EVEN IN PLACES YOU CAN'T FIND ON THE MAP and New Age mentalities in the office and a plan to keep going and going and going and going
For TOTAL HONESTY I will tell one lucky person on the audience exactly what I think of them, and then they can try for another shot later.
Palomar5 Festival/Palomar5 Party
3P.M. - 10 P.M. festival, 10 P.M.-late party
Malzfabrik, Berlin, Germany
The doors of our social experiment/think tank swing open and you can see how we've been living for the past 6 weeks and try and figure it all out. Mini golf, games, workshops, ideas, absolutely insane people who will probably see their bizzare dreams become reality.
at 9:30 P.M. you can see the European premier of The Ghost.
AV Jam "Animation/Performance"
Open Jam 7pm-9pm, screening 9pm - 10pm
205 Richmond St. W. (at Duncan)
Open Jam hosted by Bricoscope and Philipe Blanchard.
Performance documentation screening with works by Angie Reed (Berlin), Miwa Matreyek (LA), Kathy Rose (Philadelphia), Hooliganship (Portland) and Zeesy Powers
Artscape Gibraltar Point 10th Anniversary Party
6pm - 10pm
Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Island
Catch the 5:30 ferry from the Bay and Queen's Quay Ferry Terminal, follow Shadowland on foot
FREE (cash BBQ & bar)
RSVP by Sept 22 at http://agp100th.eventbrite.com
This place rules. It is a serious hidden gem where artists, writers, musicians and dancers have worked. It also used to be the Outdoor Education Centre for the Toronto District School Board. It is haunted. When I stayed there my studio had a garden view, 10 foot high ceilings (at least) and was huge. This place is also falling apart and needs some serious cash to keep going.
Artists Participating on September 25th Include:
Jane Adams, Stephen Andrews, Gnocchi Artyst, Yuula Benivolski as Solar Zinc, Wende Bartley, Liz Bertoldi, Lo Bil, Jason Benoit, Jim Bravo, Yael Brotman, Kathleen Brown, Lisa Cristinzo as Beasta Wilda, Mike Davey, Patrick DeCoste, Alastair Dickson, Kathleen Doody, Megan English, Talia Erlich, Mitch Fenton, Anna Friz, Susan Gardner, John Greyson, Brad Harley, Libby Hague, Warren Hoselton, Pat Jefferies, Helena Kvarnstrom, Lien-Chen Lin, Colleen Lynch, Jacky Malcolm, Nola McConnan, Luisa Milan, Ryan Noth, James Oshanghnessy, Pam Patterson, Rod Pederson, David Pellettier, JD Pipher, Zeesy Powers, Joan Prowse, Sarah Pupo, Velcrow Ripper, Jacky Sawatzky, Rebecca Schwarz, Ramon Serrano, Shadowland Theatre, Julie Stone, Marsha Stonehouse, Julia Tausch, Doug Tielli, Ilias Toliadis , Emily Walker Thorton, Mary Lou Zeitoun and Johannes Zits.
Naturally Resourceful
7-10 P.M.
$15 door/$12 advance
Lennox Gallery, 12 Ossington Ave., Toronto
This is a fashion show by Project:Humanity. It's about the earth! The show is themed around the elements. I'm water and have a piece about Lake Ontario in it.
Designers:
Sharon Hann and Copper Coin Arts; Paper People Clothing; Isidra Cruz; Robyn Clarke; Erynn Brook
Performances:
Impromtu Splendor; Bain & Bernard; Marcus Nance; Zeesy Powers; Monica Dotter; Kaitlin Torrance; Andrew Craig; and more
Hors D'Ouvres and cocktails before 8! Dress sharp!
The Maw at 1313
opening reception Thursday September 10 7 - 10 PM
Gallery 1313 Window Gallery, 1313 Queen St. W
The Maw changes its face from night to day as they become equal. Throat, gullet and jaws existing only to consume, the maw devours on sight, processing the eaten to absorb into itself. We take both sides, consuming and consumed.
Hey, this thing will be up for Nuit Blanche the overnight of October 3. Ideal time to check it out, looks best at night!
INTERNET BASICS FOR YOUR EDIFICATION AND EMPOWERMENT
7 pm - 8:30 pm
PWYC (suggested donation $10)
The White House Courtyard, 377 Lansdowne Ave. (north of College, just down the little lane)
Each week we will build on the previous week's skills to create new and exciting websites. Pick and choose the classes you need, or come to all of them.
It is recommended that you bring a laptop computer. If you don't have one, please contact us in advance and we will try to arrange one for you.
PLEASE R.S.V.P. to zeesypowers@gmail.com
here's the lesson plan:
WEEK FOUR - September 8 | video and web
-preparing video for web
-Quicktime
-Youtube, Vimeo and flash (NOTE: this is not a class on making video with flash, we will only discuss its applications)
WEEK FIVE - September 15 | Open workshop
-bring in your projects and we'll work on them!
ZINE DREAM 2
12 - 6 PM
PWYC
TRANZAC (292 Brunswick Ave.)
Zine Dream is a small press art fair. I will be doing SOMETHING.
also featuring performances by:
Nick Flanagan
Anna May Henry
Music by
Carl Didur
Andre Charles Theriault
James Anderson
Braintrust (electronic duo of Peter Thompson and James Kirkpatrick)
ALSO
DJs
Wes Allen
Boner Dragon
and Body Beautiful
INTERNET BASICS FOR YOUR EDIFICATION AND EMPOWERMENT
7 pm - 8:30 pm
PWYC (suggested donation $10)
The White House Courtyard, 377 Lansdowne Ave. (north of College, just down the little lane)
Each week we will build on the previous week's skills to create new and exciting websites. Pick and choose the classes you need, or come to all of them.
It is recommended that you bring a laptop computer. If you don't have one, please contact us in advance and we will try to arrange one for you.
PLEASE R.S.V.P. to zeesypowers@gmail.com
here's the lesson plan:
WEEK ONE - WEDNESDAY August 19 | HTML intro:
-building an offline website with sub pages. Includes basic text tags, links and images, intro CSS.
WEEK TWO - August 25 | HTML & CSS continued
-div tags and specified CSS
-uploading using FTP and editing online
-meta tags
WEEK THREE - September 1 | Images, forms, Java
-sizing images for web and image file types
-favicons
-finding forms
-borrowing javascripts
THE WORK OF BRUCE BICKFORD
8 pm - 1 am
The Deleon White Gallery, 1139 College (College and Dufferin)
screening "Luck of a Foghorn" 28 min. (2008) and"Prometheus' Garden" 28 min. (1988). Followed by:
Brian Ruryk
DADS (reunited, now rapping)
Battleship Ethel
Man Made Hill
Brokeback Pontiac
7 P.M. - 10 P.M.
The Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor Street West
My friend Becky Johnson is an amazing clown and crocheter and buttonmaker and general wonder, and her car got bashed by a drunk driver in Chicago, and it's an old beast so insurance won't cover it, so we're doing a show to raise money for her (so she can drive us places again). FEATURING:
Kathleen Phillips
Zeesy Powers
Iron Cobra
Kurt Smeaton
Alana Johnston & Kayla Lorette
Megan Fraser
Levi MacDougall
Katie Crown
Sara Hennessy
&
More!
+ silent auction!
Hard Light video screening, part of Obey Convention III
3-5 pm
$5Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, NS
"Short works by twelve of the finest young videographers from across Canada, and beyond."
More info and full event scedule for Obey Convention here.
VENI VIDI O 4
Khyber Center for Art, Halifax, NS
Screening of videos made by young people!
Open Studio
Opening Saturday March 28, 5 P.M.
Ogura Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
Premiere performance of The Ghost!!! Come see it Saturday night after the Ute Meta Bauer lecture. With Raffaella Crispino, Jesse Aron Green, Mattias Fredrik Josefsson, Sandra Nakamura, Guston Sondin-Klausner, Julie Spielman.
Annual New Toronto Works Show
Latvian House, 491 College St.
8pm
$8/ 5 members
I've got an installation at the afterparty, 11pm @ Jamie’s Area, 193 Augusta Ave. $5 or free with Latvian House ticket.
Go see the show! with:
Seth Scriver,Tadaki Hozumi,Jared Mitchell and RM Vaughan, Matt King, Heather Keung, Andrew James Paterson, Jesi the Elder, Wrik Mead, Heather Keung, Aram Collier, Victoria Cheong, John Caffery & Kids On TV, Sarah Jane Gorlitz & Wojciech Olenjik, Allison Peacock, Andrew Zukerman & Winston Hacking, Erika Loic - Paricutin
Video installations:
Allison Peacock - Fist
Zeesy Powers - Quilt 3
Mark Kurzawinski - Stasis Area 2
& Performance by New Feelings
Ogura Gallery Show
Ogura Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
I have 2 rooms and 2 installations up, "Pink Ligtning, Great Lakes" and "Collection, Japanese Plates, 21st Century". With Raffaella Crispino, Jesse Aron Green, Mattias Fredrik Josefsson, Sandra Nakamura, Guston Sondin-Klausner, Julie Spielman.
All (gender)Inclusive Weekend Package: Un-packing the pants of vaginal
imagery in feminist art
Vancouver, BC, Canada
This is a weekend-long event extravaganza by THE AFTER PARTY. I sent them some cups for their AFTER (dinner) PARTY.
Gifts By Artists: Multiples for the Holidays
OPENING Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6 - 8 PM
Art Metropole, 788 King St West,Toronto, ON
In addition to the awesome stuff you can buy for all sorts of price ranges from all sorts of artists (including Zoe Barcza, Yuula Benivolski, Maura Doyle, Ryan Foerster, Marla Hlady, Will Munroe, Alicia Nauta, Seth Scriver and more and more and more...), you can buy one of 4 limited edition DVD's I made of butterflies, it comes with a small watercolour painting, very nice! Or, if you're up for it, a $5000 certificate to come to Japan to have me paint your portrait and show you around.
You know, a little vacation, if you're interested.
Listen To Your Heart- An Islands Fold Exhibit
at MOHS in Copenhagen,
This is an exhibit mostly of work by the fabulous Luke Ramsey of Islands Fold, but they have invited some friends to show too, including me. Most works are affordably priced, all of them are really good. If you are in Denmark, check it out!
Hut on an Island
Grass Hut, 811 East Burnside, Portland, Oregon
Another amazingIslands Fold show opening tonight! Collaborative drawings, someone makes an island and another person adds the hut! Trust me, these are gonna be fun.
The Hour Of Power
Art-Works Theatre, 6569 Santa Monica Blvd.
10 P.M.
I didn't post this before the show cuz I didn't have time, but I love doing comedy shows and this one was really fun. Toronto transplant Rebecca Addelman is really funny, you should go to the next one!!
Term Projects
xpace, 58 Ossington Ave
opening reception and award ceremony August 14 at 7 P.M.
office hours Fridays and Saturdays 3-6 P.M. and Wednesday 3-6 P.M.
Here is your chance,tly What I Think of you for $5! Come during office hours.
With Dear Toronto, Jenn Sciarrino and Fedora Romita. Curated by Gabby Moser.
Kid's Trunk Show
The Workroom, 1340 Queen Street West, near Brock
noon - 5 P.M.
A craft show, but for KIDS! How about KIDZ? Sure, why not!?!
I'll be doing portraits of your little ankle-biters, $10 a pop, which is worth it to have someone else look after them for 20 minutes.
The Zeesy Powers Grant Award Ceremony
xpace, 58 Ossington Ave
opening reception and award ceremony August 14 at 7 P.M.
The moment you've been waiting for, the recipient(s) of the Zeesy Powers Grant will be announced in a glittering ceremony broadcast on closed-circuit television.
No Face No Problem
Dragon City Mall (East Entrance)
8 P.M.
Birthday party! For my part, I am getting beautiful Konrad Bongard to read out some emails boys sent me in response to this craigslist ad:
Beautiful woman available for prom date. Impress your peers! Long blonde hair, slim, arty, loves to eat. I do not accept money, this is a prom date.
A night to remember!
Punchclock Showcase II: Shawn Brant Is No Criminal
Whippersnapper Gallery, 587A College St. (at Clinton)
8 P.M.- 2 A.M.
The Phonemes, Bob Wiseman and Richard Laviolette perform in support of Shawn Brant to help pay his legal fees against some trumped up charges. I will be painting $10 portraits, proceeds going to Shawn (well, really they'll be going to his lawyers, but that's what the fundraiser is for).
More information at www.punchclock.org
I Hate Everything
The Beaver, 1192 Queen St. W
10 P.M.
I will be trying out a new puppet/projection show, and Emma Mckenna will be performing! A Fundraiser In Support of the New Play My Sister's Mother, To Be Followed By A Dance Party.
The Spring Thing Trunk Show
the workroom, 1340 Queen Street West
Noon-5pm
Craft show! Once again, $10 portraits will be made available, as well as books and maybe a few surprises!
Tender Buds
Caigibi, 5490 St-Laurent (corner of St-Viateur), Montreal
9 P.M.?
Variety show! Isla Craig, Metis Yeti, Exploding Motorcar and me performing with puppets! Please come!
Alphabet Movie aka The Sights and Sounds of Language in Their Customary Order
Film Fort at Studio 404 Not Found, 263 Adelaide Street, Apartment #404
7:30pm - 11:00pm
A whole movie about the alphabet premiers tonight! My new animation is part of it, the title is "X". With: Aaron Kopff, Ajla Odobasic, Alex Winfield, Beau Dickson, Brett Long, Chris Clifford, Craig Desson, Dan Browne, Daniel Libby, Elaisha Stokes, Howard Ng, James Algie, Kate Mior, Mandi Gornstein, Marc de Pape, Marcus Jamin, Morgan Rhys Tams, Nick Wallace, Norman Lup-Man Yeung, Robin Sharp, Ryan Hughes, Sara Schmidt, Sarah Kolasky, Steve Thomas, Tim Moore, Winston Hacking, Zeesy Powers and Zik Staav.
Jens Lekman with Final Fantasy and Katie Stelmanis
The Great Hall
1087 Queen St. W.
8 P.M. - 1 A.M.
My good friend and mega-star Katie Stelmanis opens for Swedish indie-pop artist Jens Lekman. I will be premeiring light organ v1.0 during her set, the wizards at nerd night said it looks just like Bladerunner.
Catch 23 Cabaret
The Theatre Centre
8 P.M.
I'll be performing something, okay?
Craft Cabaret
Starlight Bar and Lounge, uptown Waterloo, ON.
7 P.M.
Hi, do you live in the Kitchener-Waterloo region? If you do, the you may want to come get a $10 portrait painted by me, of you, for whomever you wish to give it to.
Animator's Statement
V-Tapes, 401 Richmond St. W.
Opening reception Friday, February 8, 2008, 5-8 PM, curator's talk at 6 pm
Includes work by Daniel Barrow, Tadasu Takamine, me and Jeremy Bailey
City of Craft Valentine's Trunk Show
Noon-5:00pm
The Workroom, 1340 Queen Street West
A Valentine's-themed craft show where you can pick up some lovely paper goods. Once again, $10 portraits available to all comers (who have $10).
Katie Stelmanis CD Release
The Silver Dollar Room, 486 Spadina Ave. (at College, beside the Waverly Hotel)
$5
Doors at 9 P.M.
with the Luyas, the Torrent and Emma McKenna. I'm building a mechanical set, so, you know, spectacle!
DOING IT TO DEATH
The Back Alley, 188 Augusta Ave.
Doors at 9, $5 before 11, $8 after
Happy New Years. I countdown to New's supremacy over Old bookended by performances by some talented young local musicians, DD/MM/YYYY and Nifty. DJs Wes Allen and Daniel Vila are on first name/last name basis.
VENI VIDI O 3
Lennox Contemporary, 12 Ossington Avenue
8PM
A video screening of lots of stuff by many people, including a new/old animation by me!
Animator's Statement
V-Tapes, 401 Richmond St. W.
Opening reception Friday, February 8, 2008, 5-8 PM, curator's talk at 6 pm
Includes work by Daniel Barrow, Tadasu Takamine, me and Jeremy Bailey
City of Craft
The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen St. W.
11 A.M. to 8 P.M.
$10 portraits and, for all you folks who missed them, new dolls! This is the only time in 2007, and probably most of 2008, that you'll be able to buy them, so if you want one bring $$$.
Check out City of Craft for more details and a complete list of vendors. Good stuff! Spend money!
No Face No Problem
La Brique
6545 Durocher #402, 4th floor, Montreal
9 P.M. to 11 P.M.
Laura McCoy and Jon McCurley's reading and performance series goes to Montreal! With Yuula Benivolski, Simon Schlinger, Bonny Poon, Steve Thomas, Life of a Craphead, Meichen Waxer, Laura McCoy and Christina.
Expozine.ca for more information!
Expozine
5035 St-Dominique (glise Saint-Enfant Jsus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Mtro), Montreal, Quebec
12 P.M. to 6 P.M.
I will be selling some "literature", $10 portraits AND for $5 I will tell you exactly what I think of you. Also tabling will be my friends Amy Lam and Yuula Benivolski. Not to be missed!
Expozine.ca for more information!
Hotel Canzine
11 A.M. to 5 P.M., the Gladstone Hotel (at Queen St. W and Gladstone)
This Sunday between 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. I will be hustling Hotel Canzine. What better way to work off your post-Halloweekend hangover than prying yourself out from the arms of Whoeverthatwas and spending $10 on a portrait of yourself?
I know what's better! Spending $5 to have me tell you exactly what I think of you! For an extra $2 I will write it down.
For EVEN MORE FUN, you can enter a raffle to win a custom mix-tape, for you, from me. The raffle costs 25 cents.
Also available will be copies of the side-splitting and tragic Three Minute Girlfriend.
Hello Beach
4 P.M. Toronto Island, exact location TBA
Beach-themed dance event occurring on an actual beach. I will ritually purify myself in Lake Ontario.
Extermination Night
12-4 A.M. Under the Dundas and Lansdowne bridge, by the tracks (take the path marked FRUISCANTE by St. Helen's Road)
One more time! I'm playing in a band called ASSAULT (primal scream bonfire chicks with axes). Playing before: Rozasia, Tradition, free jazz. More. More?
Come say goodbye for the summer.
Avant-Garde-Arama
P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue, NYC
This is the first time I will be performing in New York, and the line-up looks pretty interesting. Performing that night'll be Deb Margolin, Rindfleisch, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Ethyl Eichlberger and the Slink Moss Orchestra.
more info at ps122.org
GIRLS opening party Friday May 18, 8 P.M. 'till midnite.
Freedom, 939 Bloor St. West (at Delaware, west of Ossington)
Paintings and mirrors by me as well as new! artist's t-shirt (bloody), all for sale as well as copies of the 3 Minute Girlfriend book. Opening party features illegal Latin American manicures by Lisa Campbell, and a surprise musical guest!
partial proceeds to the Canadian Center for Victims of Torture.
Extermination Night
Guildwood Park
Awesome all-night party on the Scarborough Bluffs in a wedding park. I will be washing people's feet. Holier-than-thou!
Tour de Force - OCAD Graduate Exhibition
OCAD - 100 McCaul St. (South of Dundas)
So, I'm graduating, and now I am showing what I made, along with at least 100 other graduating students. But do they have a life-sized metal marionette that you can play with? Or bronze bells that are really loud and scary? Well, that is what I have to show for myself. If you come, you should check them out.
ALSO
Yuula Benivolski has a gigantic naked photo of me where you can almost see my vagina, and Alison Wells has incredible jewellery, and there are lots of other bizzare creations from some bizzare human beings. Worth it!
COSTES w/ the Pederast, Charles Balls and Double Fisting
Cinecycle
9 P.M.
$10
Costes is totally fucked. He isn't pretending, either. To tell the truth, the Pederast is pretty fucked up himself. I will let you draw your own conclusions about Charles Balls and Me as I jerk off both of my penises at once to the virtuosic guitar stylings of Katie Stelmanis and Emma McKenna.
Projection Performance Year End Party
hosted by the Justina M Barnicke Gallery and Hart House
Great hall, Hart House, University of Toronto
8 P.M.
FREE
Projection performance celebration featuring Steph Comilang, Jeremy Bailey and Zeesy Powers (me). With musical guests, The Bicycles!
Artists Talk
xpace, 58 Ossington Ave.
7 P.M. ?
I'll be lecturing (me?) alongside Seth Scriver and team macho. Informative?
3 Minute Girlfriend
xpace, 58 Ossington Ave.
1-6 P.M.
Everyone loves to be in love, but dating is tedious when the first bloom
fades. Drawing out the inevitable is worse than being lonely. Actually,
that's not true. There is nothing worse than being lonely. I will be your
girlfriend for three minutes. 1-6 P.M. No risk of
rejection, no messy break-up.
10th Annual Figure Art Show
The Great Hall, OCAD, 100 McCaul St.
5-7 P.M.
I'm putting my bells in this show. For the first time ever, there are awards, and I really really want to win one. I hear they're giving out books!
Projection Party
Adrift Skate Shop, 299 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market
8 P.M.
A magic lantern extravaganza featuring me, Yuula Benivolski, Renee Lear, Steph Comilang, The Singing Saw Shadow Show, and more?
How To Make Love Without Touching
7 P.M., xpace, now at 58 Ossington, north of Queen
"An evening of performance art, featuring Maryanne Casasanta, Jeremy McCormick, Agnieszka Forfa, Alize Zorlutuna,Simone Roughouser, Aiden Cowling, Laura Mccoy, Zeezy Powers (sic), Jon McCurly,
Sheryl-Ann Simpson."
I'll be performing a new piece, "The Mirror," because apparently I want to get punched in the face.
University of Toronto Music Department Percussion Recital
Walter Hall, UofT
3:15 P.M.
FREE
Yuula Benivolski and I will be doing projections for several exciting and loud percussion pieces. Thunderous!
Give a Little
Magic Pony, 694 Queen W.
opening party Friday, December 1, 2006 6-10 P.M.
Tomas DelBalso and I made some little paintings, which you can see at Magic Pony for their Holiday Show. There are many absolutley delicious artists with tiny, affordable works for sale.More details here.
GIFT BINGE
upstairs at Good Catch General Store, 1556 Queen ST. W.
7-11 P.M.
Portraits available, $10, first come, first served. Also vending will be First Fuck, Papersnake Jewellery, the Sweetie Pie Press and others. Free mulled wine and snacks!
Art Metropole Gifts by Artists Exhibition and Sale
788 King St W
opening party Saturday December 9, 2 - 5pm.
Come, buy gifts for your friends who love art! Portraits at the opening party, so come and drink the gluhwein, because it's festive and free!
Breakfast television
8:50 A.M. CITY TV and CablePulse24
I will be getting greasy with a television blonde for the Royal Winter Agricultural Fair's Butter Sculpting preview. Thrill as I attemmpt to teach her how to become a champion butter sculptor. The joke is on her, I have never won a butter sculpting competition in my life!
BUTTER SCULPTING COMPETITION
The Royal Winter Agricultural fair
9 A.M.-4 P.M.-ish
For the 3rd year running I will attempt to make something utterly representaional out of butter, standing in a refidgerator while people gawk at me. If you go to the Royal, you will get to eat lots of samples of delicious things like cranberry wine and smoked trout and honey and goat's cheese. And you will get to see and smell animals. That is why I attend.
Hotel Canzine
The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W
1-7 P.M.
MEGA TABLE!! Shop 'til you drop at the all-star mega mix 3 table occurrance containing me, Jacob Horwood (repping Bennifer Editions), Yuula Benivolski, Isla Craig and the return of Amelia Morochove-Merhar!. Portraits available, $10 while-u-wait, as well as FIVE CENT zines.
Galaxy CD Release Party!
Sneaky Dee's, Bathurst and College
10 P.M.?
$TBA
Finally! Now you can listen to Galaxy in you bedroom without the aid of the internet. Come for Galaxy, amuse yourself with the sloppy reunion efforts of DADS. Oh no, we did't! YES, WE DID.
Nuit Blanche
All over Toronto, but you can find me at 401 Richmond St. W, in the basement.
7 P.M. - 7 A.M.
MUSEUM OF THE CIVILIZATION OF THE VERY TINY PEOPLE
7-11 P.M.
The museum will be open all night for the edutainment of r the edutainment of the city's populace. Come, learn of the very tiny people and their ways. Permanent exhibit includes working models of their invisibility chamber and levitation skills, as well as an actual glimpse through the microscope at their city!.
There will be art-type devices occurring throughout the building, throughout the city, throughout the night, so come be diverted for FREE, all FOR FREE!!!!
LapLap
The Sparrow, 92 Ossington, South of Dundas
10 P.M.
Hello lesbians, and appreciators of lesbians, come to LAPLAP tonight to see me and the fabulous Katie Stelmanis perform some selections of music and puppet show. PARTY!
Good Catch Craft Fair
Good Catch, 1556 Queen St. W.
11-6
More portraits! Tell me you saw it was $10 on the website, and I won't charge you $20. Also, the last of last year's dolls, and whatever else I have lying around. Please come visit. ALSO, amazing jewlery from papersnake.
Parkdale Craft Fair
Outside the library, Queen St. West of the Duferin underpass.
11-6
More portraits! Tell me you saw it was $10 on the website, and I won't charge you $20.
Good catch Last Splash Craft Fair
Good Catch, 1556 Queen St. W., in ye old Parkdale.
1 P.M
A good old-fashioned neighbourhood craft fair. I will be selling dolls and painting $5 watercolour portraits of you and/or your sweetie. Also there will be the excellent Becky Johnson and Amy Lam and other local cottage industries. Please come, and bring money.
milk.bedroom.event
secret(?) location
7 P.M-?
So, Katie and I ended up playing some dude's birthday party for free. I played bells, Katie got kicked off in the middle of her set so that AV nerds could make fun of Victor Crowl. If you know anyone who stole Katie's cd's please tell them to send her $5.
Eject Primer Festival Internacional de Video Performance de la Ciudad de Mxico
Licenciado Verdad 8 Centro Histrico. A un costado de Palacio Nacional. Ciduidad Mexico (Mexico City)
8 P.M
Program 2 of a 3 program festival!Paula Darriba (Brasil) / Zeesy Powers (Canad) / Douglas Rodrigo Rada (Bolivia) / Diana Olalde (Mxico) / Rivelino Daz Bernal (Mxico) / Dillon Paul (USA) / Kate Hers (Corea) / Dana Sederowsky (Suecia) / Nao Bustamante (USA)
Small Fires
202 Major St.
7 P.M
I'll be doing a new shadow show, this one very ethereal. In a backyard, no less! More info soon.
Front Porch Sale
Kensington Avenue, Kensington market, Toronto
Time to lighten my load, lovelies. Come buy dolls and other things I made for myself but now doubt the attachment to.
The Box
The Rivoli, 332 Queen W. (Back Room)
PWYC, suggested $5
This is a pretty cool performance night put together by the mysterious poetess Louise Bak. Always an interesting curator, this time she's got Brian Fawcett, Heather Frise, Amy Lam and Zeesy Powers, Maria Legault with Greg Walloch, Permafrown, Metanet Software, Ken Sparling and Scott Treleaven doing new things. Come! Amy and I are performing Folk Tales, in tableau format.
I Am A Wild Party
Eastern Front Gallery, 660 Queen St. E
My friend Amelia once made a zine called "East End Coolness", and if she still made it then this party would probably rate an entry. I'll be performing sometime after 9 tonite, you should come by if you want to see something. Also, the art from the weird box of stuff project is all on display, and if you like art created within an interesting set of constraints (I know I do), then you will want to see this. National!
www.terminus1525.ca for more information.
Still Camera Film Festival
location TBA
It's back. I think I'm making a new cartoon, but there are many many other fine artists, filmmakers, jokers, etc. providing the evening's entertainment.
Anymous Art Festival (May 22-26)
Galerie mesta Plzne o.p.s.,
Dominikánská 2, CZ-301 12 Plze
Pilsen, Czech Republic
I'll be performing some live stuff for beer drinkers, including Fantastic Voyage, Neoteny n' The Beast. If you are in the neighbourhood, come see it.
www.anymous.com for more information.
Anymous Vernissage
Transpublic /Linz/
Linz, Austria
Magically transported to the Bavarian splendour of Austria, more showy shows presented. In an alternate reality, this would be the cultural centre of the Third Reich, and I would be dead.
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Singing Saw Shadow Show with Feu Therese (ex-Fly Pan Am) & Measles Mumps Rubella as part of the Over the Top Fest
The Boat, 158 Augusta Ave.
If you have not seen the singing saws before, you really should come check them out. Even if you are blind, because saws sound spooky and beautiful. If you think I am a liar, you can watch a video here and see for yourself.
I am helping with projections.
Details here.
OCAD Graduate Show
Ontario College ofArt and Design, 100 McCaul St.
Please come take a look at a set of bronze bells that I have made, on the main floor. Unfortunately, you probably won't be able to ring them, but trust me, they are really loud and they sound GREAT. I'll post a video soon.
Singing Saw Shadow Show with Pyramid Culture and Faun Fables
The Tranzac Club
More saws! I hear Faun Fables are highly theatrical, so if you are looking to be entertained, tonight's the night, buddies!
The End of the Internet
The Victory Cafe
The days that you find yourself checking and re-checking all the old sites you used to go to in 1997, and end up joylessly playing the same flash game for about 4 hours before you realize you haven't blinked since the last time you checked your email, that is when you are at the end of the internet. This is why I do not own a computer. (That's a lie, I do not own a computer because I am poor).
Also performing this night are Matt Cully, Misha Bower, Amy Lam, John Barlow, Universe Crim and SR Palm.
An Unknown DJ will spin unmarked CD's in between, as in the INTERMISSION.
Poor Pilgrim
The Press Club, 850 Dundas St. (west of Euclid).
PWYC
This is a new weekly(!) night presented by Matt Cully. Once again you will be presented with the opportunity to witness my new shadow puppet play "Beauty Breeds Hard Hearts". Also that night will be some kind of "experimental" puppet show by Amy Lam and I, and a solo set by Katie Stelmanis.
This Used to Not Exist, but We Made It
The Victory Cafe, Markham Street South of Bloor
Doors at 9:30, music at 10
$5 goes to the Concrete Arts Collective
I'll be doing a performance of Neoteny around 11:30, but there are many more talented people you are probably interested in seeing.
The Dissenter's Club
xpace, 303 Augusta, south of college
Opening reception Saturday March 25
Tomas Del Balso is organizing this show of drawings featuring the work of several amazing and talented local artists. A not entirely comprehensive list reveals Tomas, Dan Rocca, Ryan Solski, Laura Curely, Zack Kenney, Roman K, Peter K, T-Rev, Nikki Woolsely, Cameron Lee, Matt King, Jon McCurley, Dusan, Nick Frian and Pat O'Leary. I will have some new paintings up as well.
Bent Light: Holography Exhibition as part of Matter+Energy=ART
Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Road
Opening reception Saturday October 1, 4 P.M.
The Deluge Which Destroyed the Great Civilization of Cloudland will be on display, along with other spectacular holograms by people who are not me. Also showing: photographs by physicists and photographs of physics by teenagers.
Dads at Ski-Meat
The Bagel
9:30-?
Once again, Dads bring on the abuse. Dads vs. Dudes at Toronto's least-expensively-priced beer-offering experimental music night.
Fantasy Island 2
The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W
I have a creepy painting up. There is also a giant cobra by Peter Burr, Sensitive Creatures by C.G. Doulgeris, sexy wallpaper by Cassandra Jones, some dog mouth bouquets, toads?, beastiality.
Full Spectrum Dominance
The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W
9 P.M.
Quantum Physics! The History of The Universe as we know It, Wapstan, Slodance, more more more.
Expanding Canada¹s Frontiers Our Journey Into The Future
Convocation Hall, King's College Circle, University of Toronto
doors at 6:30 with musical video performance, lectures begin at 7 P.M.
Free for Post-Secondary and High School students and $10 for the general public
Katie Stelmanis and I will be performing our History of the Universe As We Know It as an introduction to this amazing night of new ideas and technologies. The lecturers are:
Professor Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology speaking on his discovery of ³Planet X², the disputed 10th Planet
Nagin Cox of NASA¹s Jet Propulsion Laboratory speaking on the design of the Martian Rovers and the new Kepler Telescope¹s search for earth-type planets beyond our solar system.
Professor Fran Bagenal of the University of Colorado at Boulder speaking as co-investigator of NASA¹s New Horizons mission to Pluto slated for launch in early January.
Professor Ray Carlberg of Canada¹s own University of Toronto speaking on the tri-country partnership in the development of the new Thirty Meter Telescope along with his involvement with Dark Energy studies.
The Still Camera Film Festival
Lucky Dragon Restaurant
6-10 P.M.
Movie night! Made entirely with still cameras. Dinner as well. Come for the premiere of a new video film by me, a new animation by Amy, and an amazing anthropological moment of significance. Oh, and some other stuff, too.
Dear Diary
The Bagel, 385 College St. W.
9 P.M.
Free if you bring a personal diary entry and read it, $3 or food donation if you don't.
Trembling embarrassmants, shitty parents, best-friend break-ups, sexual awakenings and mundane heartaches. All real, all read live by people who are exactly the same as everyone else. Featuring live musical guest(s) and DJ True Love Forever.
Art Metropole Gifts by Artists Show and Sale
Art Metropole, 788 King Street West
12-5 P.M.
Annual Holiday sale of art gifts and such. Come buy some of my dolls and support both me and Art Metropole, eh? The show runs until January 7, but you can come and get an authentic felt circle sewn on to your clothes by either myself or the darling Amy Lam on the 10th or 11th only. Please!
Trampoline Hall
Sneaky Dee's (College & Bathurst)
7 P.M.
I love expounding on a subject in front of a captive audience. Tonight I will get to talk all about the 19th century Free Love commune of Oneida, NY at the venerable Trampoline Hall. Also speaking that night will be Makesi Arthur on Time and/or a Finite Universe, and the Rev. Aitor Coria on Lawns. Tickets sell out early, go buy some now.
Overeaters Anonymous
The Bagel
285(?) College St.
9 P.M.
Me and some other fatties are going to eat a lot. Come watch us, if you can stomach it.
Expozine
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
5035 St-Dominique, between Laurier and St-Joseph (church basement)
11 A.M.- 6 P.M.
Once again, Amy Lam and I are selling goods and services, no tax. But this time, it is in another province!
Butter Sculpting Comptetition
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Exhibition Place
8:30 A.M.-2 P.M.
For the second year in a row I will turn simple butter into fine art. Please come wave at me, I will be in a giant refrigerator.
Arcadia
Canzine at the Gladstone Hotel, Gladstone and Queen St. W.
1-7 P.M.
Amy Lam and I have a whole room to ourselves. Come put a quarter in the nickelodeon for some kind of insane spectacle, as in GAMES and PUPPETSHOWS and CARTOONS and BELLYRUBS. You can also peruse the AMAZING NEW SHIT we will be unveiling at this behemoth of independent CanCon. In addition, Jim Monroe will be screening our new video CUBE, as well as new stuff by some VERY GOOD ARTISTS who are not us as part of his Novel Amusements room. Becky Johnson will be doing a short performance in yet another room at 2 P.M. Not to be missed.
Joke Club One Year Anniversary
The Drake Hotel, 9 P.M.?
My friend Nick Flanagan has managed to keep this very fun and funny evening fun and funny for a year. He's nice enough to let me perform stuff at Joke Club, even if it's funny, but not ha ha funny. Other reasons to go are Makesi Arthur, Kathleen Phillips and Levi MacDougal, who are frequently ha ha funny and that other kind of funny. Yes.
"O p e N AirwAY" presented by FADO Inc.
SPIN Gallery, 1100 Queen St. West.
8:30 P.M.
I'll be performing as part of this emerging artists festival. Come see some strange and beautiful things.
Welcome Back to School, Kids!
Xpace, 303 Augusta (just south of College)
AAAAARRRTTTTTTSSSSHHHHOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW
I have a pretty sexy sculpture up at this show, and there is a party on Saturday night. Come fondle it.
Dead Machines w/ Awesome, gastric female reflex & an extravagant spectacle (me)
The Bagel (College Street, just west of Spadina, on the south side)
$7
Apparently I am doing a puppet show. Perhaps it will be Faust? The bagel with lox and cream cheese is very well priced, I recommend it highly. I don't know why there are so many shows here lately, it's so damn small, but they are really rocking a '50's diner look, and you can film your movie here if you need a '50's diner.
Summertime in the City
Adrift Skate Shop, 299 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market
I have a window display up, it will probably be actually finished for Friday the 15th, and it looks amazing.
Joke Club
The Drake Hotel, Queen St. W. at Beaconsfield
doors at 8?
I will be performing one of those live video cartoon deals I like to try out sometimes in between stand up sets from other shy weirdos. I think this one is about gentrification, but it features gorgeous footage of the Yukon river and bluebells, plus a weird costume. Seeing one of these is about as rare as seeing pandas mate, so you should come and see it, even if the Drake creeps you out. I will be hiding in the corner with you.
Lucas Winters is Getting Better
Ontario College of Art and Design Transit Space (100 mcCaul St. 2nd floor)
4-8 P.M.
Lucas Winters is a lovely young artist whose kidneys exploded. His friends are really really nice, and are putting on a silent auction to raise some money for him. Come bid on art from Erin Zimmerman, Izzy McCoy, Josh Avery, Ted Tucker, the guy who paints Oprah, Tom King and more more more. There is a beautiful muskox sculpture, and I made a big ol' doll. It is very cute, and most people hold it like a baby.
Beer and wine will be available, you drunks.
Light Snacks Provided: Holography Show
The Photon League, 401 Richmond (basement)
If you miss this show you are a sucker, because these holograms are unbeleiveable. Also, mine is, like, amazing. Opening May 5, 6-11 P.M., gallery open noon-6 daily.
Benny P's Big Birthday Bacchanal
Trinity Bellwoods Park, NOON
My brother is turning 19, and has requested that I put on a giant cloud costume and entertain his friends. Witness either a retelling of thw Witches' Night scene from Faust, or the tragic tale of the destruction of Cloudland, I'm not sure which, yet.
Give It Up
42 Grange Ave. (south of Dundas, east of Spadina)
You can buy some things I and many other talented people have made for $10-20, with all proceeds going directly to a young artist who is dying of cancer. Dancing will occur on Friday nite, tea drinking and drawing on Saturday.
All-You-Can-Eat Maple Syrup Breakfast
sometime between 9 A.M. and noon
I will be eating the world's greatest pancakes, doused in maple syrup and accompanied with baked beans, scrambled eggs, pork product, juice, coffee. Also, there will be a tractor ride.
Snobs Without Words - b-sweet (queen @ brock)
doors 8:30, show at 9
PWYC
I'm trying something new, it is called "Girls Gone Wild," and it is a collaborative piece. You also might have a second chance to see Neoteny, Live! OMG!
brought to you by the Parkdale Snobs
Short Performances (as part of the Rhubarb Festival) - Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
10:30 P.M.
You didn't think that I could just leave it at that, did you? New live cartoon as part of some insanity that will also involve 20+ other performers and a rock band. Dancing afterwards.
The Maids Fundraiser - Oaisis Bar
Evg Lenin and Chronic D also performing in support of a neat adaptation of "The Maids". Come see this!