Opening Reception: Thursday September 10, 6pm
Location: Toronto Free Gallery
Season 1 Program: September 10 – October 31, 2009
This fall an experimental learning channel and production studio will occupy the Toronto Free Gallery. For its first season, Toronto Free Broadcasting (TFB) presents a series of pedagogical programs accompanied by an online channel for instructional videos which challenge conventional notions of what constitutes knowledge and how that is transmitted. The opening night of TFB will feature a live talk/dance/music/cooking demonstration/performance/show.
SEASON ONE PROGRAMS:
A line-up of artist-led talkshows, demonstrations, workshops and performances by Sarah Febbraro, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Oliver Husain, Srimoyee Mitra, Tad Hozumi, Scott Rogers, Adam Bobbette, Kerri Reid, Alex Snukal, and Nicol* Angrisano for Insu^TV, will be presented “live-to-tape,” and then made viewable at torontofreebroadcasting.net after each recording.
Through propositional interventions, workshops, and performances, the artists of TFB’s Season One line-up challenge rationalized understandings of the use, value and meaning prescribed in everyday objects and situations. By instigating conversations with people across constructed social boundaries, inciting collective noisemaking, exploding and collapsing food through various gastronomic and conceptual dimensions, the artists interfere with the conventional transmissions of knowledge; in turn, generating a space for emancipated understandings of the world which simultaneously constitute the possibility of a new one.
INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS:
The accompanying project—an ongoing open call for instructional videos—asks anyone out there to demonstrate skills and knowledges that explore practical and conceptual tactics creatively employed to resist, intervene and reverse pre-determined and typically intended uses of everyday objects and scenarios instituted by private and public domains (such as home, work and school, and public space). Submissions will continue to be accepted for the duration of TFB, and for an undetermined time afterwards. Check out “Open Call” for submission guidelines.
TFB simultaneously operates as a production site and channel for dissemination. It creates a platform activated by instructional formats to challenge notions of received knowledge and predetermined communities of learning. Remaining in flux, TFB attempts to resist stasis and measurable outcomes.
Check out our line-up, sign up as a participant (email us at info@torontofreebroadcasting.net), and/or just come hang out, eat, and drink as part of our “ live studio audience.”
Location:
Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M6H 1N7
Canada
torontofreegallery.org
+1 (416) 913-0461
Toronto Free Broadcasting is supported by the Toronto Arts Council and produced with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts Residency for Culturally Diverse Curators with the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.