Sara Graham
Open Cities

October 12 to November 10, 2001

Consists of sculptures and drawings reiterating the forms of planned suburbs. Conceived as the "Garden Cities", suburbs are now seen as the regressive product of the pursuit for open space. The shapes and lines of expressways, fiction road systems and community parameters became articulated in the work.

Kika Thorne
Beginning of Architecture Series

September 7 to October 6, 2001
(continues to April 2002)

Architectural works in a variety of media. Participating in and documenting group actions these videos and poster campaign explores issues of Social Architecture, the History of Totalitarianism and the inclusion of Life, Work and Action in activism.

Nelson Henricks
Fuzzy Face

August 4 to September 1, 2001

Single channel video and installation. Through contrast of two found images and a video portrait Henricks explores the id, history of portraiture and the interval between images and the meanings produced there.

Althea Thauberger
Free Food

June 30 to July 28, 2001

Exhibition of still life photographs. Works included documentary, digitally compiled, and scenes arranged for the camera. Participating in the conceits of Garden/ Heaven/ Utopia "Free Food" plays with the perversity that we are free in nature.

Sandy Plotnikoff and Lucy Pullen

May 26 to June 23, 2001

Collaborative and individual works in a variety of media including performative photo documents, sculpture, archives and conceptual projects. Work interacts with the complex social systems, objects and environments of modern life.

Jin Li
Tales from two Continents

April 21 to March 19, 2001

Collaboration with downtown ESL students in video, photography and sound. Trends related reflect and examine the volatile economic shifts around Asia and North America.

JoelleCiona and Andrew Power
Super String

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke
Strange Animals

March 2001

Two collaboratively developed video pieces make up this exhibition concerning aesthetics. In one a performer and an observer respond in action and word to each other. In the second description comes through the miscommunication of gesture. The viewer has the opportunity to locate themselves within the gallery space in relationship to the aesthetic debates.

Jeremy Todd
Emergency

February 2001

Todd's work investigates possible relationships between allegory, iconographies of abjection, the narcissisms of both artist and audiences, interactivity and his own practice. These ruins, although partially indecipherable, are quickly viewed through a mediating veneer of rebel nostalgia and bogus mythology.

Kira Wu
fuel, food and longings

January 5 to February 3, 2001

The installation combines photography and video surveillance documents to focus on the three connecting aspects of the lives of her three brothers, "fuel, food and longing" (a twist on "Gas, Food and Lodgings"). Rather than raising a Chinese–Canadian story on these recurring themes in a documentary format, she opts to experiment with the notion of personal/impersonal observation striving for a non–traditional, non–linear representation of their aspirations to succeed in building their lives in Canada.

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