Pull: Participatory Performance and Artist Talk with Mary Mattingly

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ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2014…….

ARTIST TALK: Tues, Sept. 23, 2014, 12:30 – 1:30pm, Annie Smith Arts Centre Mezzanine, Sheridan College 1430 Trafalgar Rd., Oakville

FREE Shuttle Bus: 1:30pm – 2pm

Departs Sheridan College at 1:30pm, arriving at 2pm at UTM

COLLECTIVE PULL: 2pm – 5pm from UTM to Oakville

Departing egallery, CCT Building UTM for Annie Smith Arts Centre Sheridan College, Oakville

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ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2014…….

COLLECTIVE PULL: 9am – 12pm from Oakville to UTM

Departing Annie Smith Arts Centre Sheridan College, Oakville for egallery, CCT Building UTM

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS:

Help! Join artist Mary Mattingly in a collective pull of her 140lb spherical bundle of personal objects. As we pull, roll, and drag the boulder across the suburban terrain between Mississauga and Oakville, we will take stock of the environmental and societal impact of our personal consumption and the weight of our commodified world.

To participate, email blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca by Friday, September 19 at 5pm.

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

As if to prepare for imminent catastrophe, Mattingly has been divesting herself of personal possessions. Over several months, she archived every object she owns and traced their historieshow it came into her life, its distribution via complex global supply chains, as well as where the raw materials for its manufacture were sourced. Mattingly then bundled her personal property into a boulder-like sphere bound together by twine and dragged it across the Bayonne Bridge from Staten Island to Bayonne, New Jersey; and along King Street from Kitchener City Hall to Waterloo Public Square. For this performance, she with help from the public will pull it from Mississauga to Oakville, and back again.

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Co-presented with Sheridan College

All events are FREE and open to the public.

Image credit: Mary Mattingly, Pull from the House and Universe Series, 2012

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