WNDW4: Robert Dayton — The Canadian Romantic’s Window Display @ Roadside Attractions (911 Davenport Rd) Jun 09 – Jul 13, 2012 RECEPTION> Sun Jun 10, 2pm >>> About the Project: wndw-s.ca/ >>> About the Venue: Roadside Attractions/ >>> About the Artist: TheCanadianRomantic/ ‘The Canadian Romantic‘ is a larger-than-life character by artist and entertainer Robert Dayton that explores the grey area of impossibilities that intersect with Canada and romance. This window display will revolve around these notions
This past weekend, three of the five Carousel WNDW projects opened in Downtown Toronto. Here are some peeks at each … for the full picture, go visit each location. WNDW1 The front gate of Gallery 1313 Aritst Larry Eisenstein installing in the G1313 Window Box ‘Shadow God’ detail An Eisensteinian blob escapes the confines of the window gallery WNDW2 The front window of Fine & Dandy Gallery A visually exciting ‘BRAVELAND’ detail Night-view of ‘BRAVELAND’
WNDW3: Eunice Luk — New Crust @ Howard Park Institute (2088 Dundas St W) Jun 01 – 30, 2012 RECEPTION> Fri Jun 01, 7pm >>> About the Project: wndw-s.ca/ >>> About the Artist: euniceluk.com/ New Crust describes the eruption of new land as a fantastical phenomenon. Mapped by imagery of creation, pseudo biology and extraterrestrial matter, Luk constructs a new landscape through painting and fugitive sculptures. New Crust will be installed at Howard Park Institute Window
WNDW2: Happy Sleepy — Braveland @ Fine & Dandy (2017 Dundas St W) Jun 01 – 30, 2012 RECEPTION> Fri Jun 01, 7pm >>> About the Project: wndw-s.ca/ >>> About the Venue: fineanddandy.ca/ >>> About the Artists: happysleepy.com/exhibitions/braveland/ Braveland, which will be installed at Fine & Dandy Window Gallery throughout June, presents a pair of giant medals made of brightly painted cardboard and textiles and emblazoned with the phrases “Forza” and “Bon Courage”. Set in
WNDW1: Larry Eisenstein — Shadow God @ Window Box G1313 (1313 Queen St W) May 31 – Jun 24, 2012 RECEPTION> Thu May 31, 7pm >>> About the Project: wndw-s.ca/ >>> About the Venue: g1313.org/ >>> About the Artist: larryeisenstein.com/ While the Damien Hirst ‘Dot’ eclipses all other marks, the Shadow God implodes the cannibalization of method and returns light to the medieval laboratories of craft. Shadow God will be installed at the Gallery 1313
Do you know the work of Luke Painter? Luke Painter is a Toronto-based artist whose practice encompasses print, painting, installation and new media; his work was prominently featured in 2010 on the cover of CAROUSEL 27. Painter’s latest creations — large-scale works on paper rendered with India ink and brush — are fictional landscapes that enlarge and re-contextualize the tropes of traditional wood engravings, to create surreal outdoor spaces. With the lack of human presence these
Tim Buckley‘s ‘Carnival Song’ is CAROUSEL’s official theme song (didn’t you know?) >>> From the album, Goodbye And Hello (1967) >>> Live version — from a concert at the Folklore Center, NYC (March 6th, 1967)
CAROUSEL 29 (summer 2012 issue) out in mid-May The forthcoming issue of CAROUSEL features work from the following writers and artists: Derik A Badman • John Wall Barger • David Boswell • Claire Caldwell • Robert Dayton • Michael DeForge • Larry Eisenstein • Rachel Anne Farquharson • Emily Gordon • Jesse Jacobs • gillian harding-russell • Claire Horsnell • Louisa Howerow • Christopher Hutsul • Katie Jordon • Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline • Drazen Kozjan • Mark
WNDW — a CAROUSEL Magazine Special Project Toronto / June, 2012 By flipping the concept of the art gallery inside-out, window galleries expose people of all ages, backgrounds and histories to a diverse selection of work utilizing a wide range of media. They allow the public to experience contemporary, experimental art comfortably and conveniently. The preconceptions of art gallery etiquette and protocol become non-issues at street level. There’s no threshold to cross. There’s no dress
Featuring more than 250 authors, artists and cartoonists from around the world The 2012 Toronto Comic Arts Festival at the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St) Saturday May 5th 2012, 9am-5pm Sunday May 6th 2012, 11am-5pm FREE ADMISSION A week long celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, which culminates in a two-day exhibition and vendor fair featuring hundreds of comics creators from around the world. Other Festival events include readings, interviews, panels,
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CAROUSEL 48hr Back Issue Bundle Sale For the next 48 hours, order our already drastically discounted 4-pack deal, get a 5th issue absolutely free! Choose any 5 issues (from CRSL #17-27) for CAD $25 / USA $38 / INT $50 — including shipping!! Act now: offer expires Thu Apr 19, 5pm (EDT) >>> BUY: carouselmagazine.ca/store/5pack-48hr-sale.html
The 5th annual Kazoo! Festival – happening in Guelph, ON — includes a ZINE & COMICS EXPO this Sat Apr 14 from 11am-4pm … come join us @ Norfolk Street United Church (75 Norfolk St) in sunny downtown Guelph! The event is also the advance public launch of CAROUSEL 29, our brand new issue (it’ll be out in stores and sent to subscribers in mid-May). An afterparty will be held at the nearby eBar (41
This fundraising event is being held to help beloved writer and Toronto cultural figure Derek McCormack, who became seriously ill last fall with a very rare cancer of the appendix. Fortunately, it is treatable, but the treatment itself is extraordinarily arduous — an 18-hour surgery from which he will be recovering for at least six months. But which could, fingers and toes crossed, put the cancer in remission for a very long time. He will
The 4PANEL experimental comics feature appears in print in each new issue of CAROUSEL (it debuted in #28); it’s a space where a range of talented artists creatively explore the four-panel comics format in a formal and/or literary context. Participating artists include: Derik A Badman / Michael DeForge / Larry Eisenstein / Jesse Jacobs / Mark Laliberte / Andrei Molotiu / Marc Ngui / Ethan Rilly / Tin Can Forest / Magda Trzaski An online
Hans Christian Andersen (April 02, 1805 – August 04, 1875) was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children’s stories. These include “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” “The Snow Queen,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Thumbelina,” “The Little Match Girl,” and “The Ugly Duckling.” Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books.
Join CAROUSEL in Buffalo! Buffalo Small Press Book Fair Mar 24 /2012 (12 – 6 pm) @ Karpeles Manuscript Library (UPSTAIRS) 453 Porter Avenue / Buffalo, NY If you are in the Buffalo area on Saturday March 24th, the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is a FREE one day event that brings booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, and other cultural workers (and enthusiasts) together. Workshops are open to the public. >>> For
Do you know the work of Robert Dayton? Robert Dayton is a multidisciplinary writer, entertainer and artist from British Columbia who resides for the moment in Toronto; his ‘Fantasy Beards’ drawing series is featured in CAROUSEL 28. Dayton originally came from a zine background in the early ’90s, wrote a weekly newspaper column of ephemera that bordered on experimental fiction and non-fiction, and was a co-creator of the short-lived but well loved newspaper The Drippy