Toronto Free Broadcasting

A talk show combining DIY television broadcasting, the internet and media literacy to crack open and repurpose spaces of socialization, experimentation and community building through the production and broadcast of independent media work. Our goal is to share our knowledge about DIY broadcasting techniques and to pool together the material collected for TFB through analogue TV transmissions.

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NICOL* ANGRISANO, director and public face of Neopolitan pirate television station Insu^TV, broke into the media-scape on a day like every other in 2003. This mysterious and charismatic character perpetrates guerrilla communication actions to free the info-sphere. In 2004, leading a group of media activists, Nicol* powered a TV transmitter, sending an interference signal and cracking the monotonous and smooth surface of the mediascape.

“Symphonic Poem for 100 Delay Pedals” is an eight-hour performance written for a metronome, 100 delay pedals arranged in sequence, and up to 100 performers. The “click” of a single digital metronome will be multiplied and repeated by the sequence of delay pedals until it is amplified by a single speaker. The performance is based on “Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes” (1962) by Gyorgy Ligeti, in which one hundred metronomes were wound up, set to different speeds, and allowed to continue ticking until they ran out of energy. The performance is entirely dependent on donations from the public, if you’d like to lend your delay pedal, please email animalmonster@gmail.com, before Friday, October 23rd.
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“Symphonic Poem for 100 Delay Pedals” is the second iteration in a series of long-form performances concerned with repetition. The first performance was “The Eight Hour Drone” (http://mercerunion.org/show.asp?show_id=282), featuring twenty-eight performers producing the note ‘A’ for eight hours, co-organized by Alex Snukal and Steven Kado, and presented in 2005 at Mercer Union. The third performance, “Magic Acid Video Clash Crash Feet”, will be presented sometime soon.

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ALEX SNUKAL is an artist and musician who lives and works in Toronto. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 2007. Snukal performs regularly as part of Awesome, Animal Monster, and New Feelings. He is a regular curator for Trampoline Hall, most recently in October 2008, and a co-organizer, with Jeremy Bailey and Alex Wolfson, of Perform for People. Recent projects have included Castaway Reading Room (an installation at Hart House), The Uninoperative Community (an essay on the work of Jon McCurley for Gallery TPW), and Me and Julio down by Diter’s Dung Hole (an edition for Nothing Else Press).

Includes basic basket weaving technique demonstration using reed, info on where to get supplies and equipment needed, plus discussion of options for “symbolic repairs” of baskets that are just too far gone to be literally repaired.

To sign-up for this program, please email info@torontofreebroadcasting.net.

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KERRI REID is a visual artist currently living and working in Toronto, Ontario, where she teaches sculpture and art history at the Toronto School of Art. Born and raised in Vancouver, she studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the University of Guelph. Her recent work involves a series of restorative gestures with discarded mundane objects and can include dust, wicker, ceramics, drawing, photography, woodwork, painting, and faxing, as well as interactions with the free curbside economy, Craigslist, and Ebay.
www.kerrireid.com

Kerri Reid wishes to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.

Bring your favourite breakfast meal to the gallery and we’ll explode it. Imagine a world where there are no objects, only infinities. No experience required.

A two to three hour workshop exploring a hands on approach to the philosophy of objects.

Participants should bring: What you prefer to eat for breakfast (including the packaging.) To sign up for this workshop, please RSVP to info@torontofreebroadcasting.net by October 8th with a list of what you will bring, including brand name of ingredients. For instance, if it’s an omelet, what brand of eggs, milk, mushrooms, etc. 10 person max.

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ADAM BOBBETTE is an artist and landscape architect based in Toronto. He has recently exhibited with the artist group Forays at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), Eyebeam: Center for Art and Technology (New York), InCUBATE (Chicago), Transmediale (Berlin) and Urbis (Manchester). He has also published numerous articles and interviews; he once ran a series of workshops, which form the groundwork for his workshop during Toronto Free Broadcasting, Post-Conceptual Sundays: A Hands on Approach, out of his apartment.

The Toronto Free Gallery is a Sensitive Subject (A Collaborative Documentary) will be a workshop/event that attempts to more fully incorporate and explore the physical architecture and location of the Toronto Free Gallery as part of the general context of the TFB project. Workshop participants will be invited to explore in detail the physical architecture and surrounding locales of the gallery and report back in writing, video and audio on how they think these factors affect the gallery and the exhibitions that go on there. These factors could include historical and cultural elements as well as those associated with spatial, material, geographical, and meteorological effects. Characteristics of an investigation could include the use of photography, drawing, writing, video, audio, interviews, rubbings, or other forms of information collection. All collected material will then be brought back to the gallery for a group review and discussion of the results toward the end of the event.

After the workshop is complete the contents of the collected material will then be transferred to the producers of TFB who will compose the material to create a collaborative documentary about the site as it was on the evening of October 8th, 2009.

Duration: 2 – 3 hours

Materials provided: Video cameras, audio recording equipment

Participants can bring their own notebooks, pencils, still cameras.

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Scott Rogers is a Canadian visual artist who works primarily in site-specific projects and experimental collaborations. His upcoming exhibitions include The Soap Factory (Minneapolis), Artcity Festival (Calgary), Stride Gallery (Calgary), Khyber ICA (Halifax), and Artcite (Windsor). Scott’s work can be viewed at http://www.scottrogersprojects.com.

“Know You Got” is simultaneously a rite of passage, pop quiz, and party that mingles between art and pop-cultural phenomena.

Email tadhozumi@yahoo.com by September 20th if you are interested in participating as a performer in this project. The first 20 participants will be paid a nominal fee. Nothing other than positivity and love of funk and soul is required. Dressing up is also encouraged.

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TAD HOZUMI is a Toronto based artist fond of activities such as dancing and watching television. His recent practice explores possible cross pollination between art ideas and aspects of urban music culture. He has recently exhibited new works surrounding this subject at a screening event for the-Alt and Manifesto. Tad also sits on the Gendai Gallery Board of Directors.

I’ve never made rotis before. I miss eating freshly prepared homemade rotis that I always took for granted. So please come join me and help me as I make rotis for the first time.

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SRIMOYEE MITRA is an emerging writer, curator and performance artist. She has worked as the Art Writer for publications and newspapers in India. In 2008, she completed her Master’s degree in Art History at York University, Toronto and has since been working as the Programming Co-ordinator of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre).

You are invited to participate in a schoolyard meeting about the development of our new show format. We balance engagement and fun on the part of the participants with collecting methodologically sound information. Your responses will be kept confidential and used only for comparative purposes.

No sign up required. Please be there on time.

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OLIVER HUSAIN is an artist and filmmaker living in Toronto. Upcoming shows and film festivals: Leona Drive project, Toronto; London Film Festival; Live! Film Jack Smith, Berlin; AGYU, Toronto

Georgina Hamilton – the chef behind some of Toronto best patties and owner of the Caribbean Queen of Patties – will teach us how to cook some cod fish.

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GEORGINA HAMILTION is a pretty, hardworking woman. Born and raised in Jamaica, she started her first restaurant in 1990 in Toronto. She’s got some kids, she makes food, and the rest is none of your business. I’m not selling myself; am I for sale? No!

MAMMALIAN DIVING REFLEX, however, is for sale. We are a research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, videos, installation, theoretical texts and community happenings. Past work includes: Eat the Street, Haircuts by Children, The Children’s Choice Awards, Slow Dance With Teacher, A Suicide-Site Guide to the City and Old Women Shooting Guns. Mammalian Diving Reflex’s work has been presented around the world in Lahore, New York, Sydney, Birmingham, Portland, Vancouver, Chicago, Greensboro, Los Angeles, Montreal, Victoria, Calgary, Bologna, Terni, Oslo and Trondheim.

“The Bloor/Lansdowne Neighbourhood Talk Show” is a live event created and hosted by Sarah Febbraro. Featured guests are from Febbraro’s daily encounters in the Bloor/Lansdowne neighbourhood. This one night performance event will include interviews, dance routines, live funk music and improvised outbursts. Neighourhood Talk Show is about facilitating an event for people to share their life experiences and talents with others in the Bloor/Lansdowne community as well as the Toronto community at large. Video recordings of the show will air on YouTube.

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Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, SARAH FEBBRARO is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Toronto. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and is interested in facilitating connections both inside and outside of the art world, questioning ideas of audience, authorship, and expertise.