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USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…Dates: June 14, 2013 to June 14, 2013
Location: Xpace Cultural Centre
Save the date for Xpace Cultural Centre’s annual fundraiser and sale, June 14th – 29th. Xpace has undergone a lot of big changes in the past year moving to our new home at 303 Lansdowne Avenue. We could use your help in getting us back to all the things we do, from exhibitions to workshops and events, a free annual publication, and more. The opening party for the fundraiser will be held on Friday June 14th at 7 pm, with a special installation titled Seven Screenplays, by Rodrigo Mart. See our online fundraiser catalogue here: http://xpace.info/fundraiser Please note works are still being added. Participating Artists: Life of a Craphead, Derek Liddington, Aryen Hoekstra, Meera Margaret Singh, Amber Landgraff, Matthew Williamson, Melissa Fisher, Andrew Zukerman, Keith Cole, Brittany Shepherd, Alicia Nauta, Johnson Ngo, David Tallis, Jacob Jurkiewicz, Department of Unusual Certainties, Hanna Hur, Diana VanderMuelen, Steven Beckly, Eunice Luk, Jesjit Gill and Jenny Gitman, Anni Spadafora, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Teresa Aversa, Matthieu Sabourin, Faye Mullen, Cameron Lee, Seth Scriver, Liana Schmidt, Sarah Nasby, David Hanes, Lili Huston-Herterich, Brad Tinmouth, Julia Dickens, Jacob Horwood, Mason Mummery, Vikki Dzuima, Angel Chen, Tobias Williams, Petar Boskovic, James Gardner, Adrienne Kammerer, Felix Kalmenson, Petrina Ng, Philippe Blanchard, Carolyn Tripp, Elise Windsor, Robyn Cumming and more Event is free. All funds raised through the sale of work will go towards supporting Xpace’s ongoing programming. Seven Screenplays A sculptural action absorbing works by Oswaldo, Mario and Joaquin de Andrede (no familial relation) in three parts. sources: Oswaldo de Andrade’s 1928 Manifesto Anthropofago (Cannibalist) Mario de Andrade’s 1928 novel Macunaima Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s 1969 film Macunaima what is not mine / playful, lewd, spontaneous intended to define the national character courting controversy / prose or poetry juggling contradictions / ur-texts / loaded with poetic aphorisms amalgamation under the banner / panegyrical condemnations entirely political / unprecedented concept rooted full of humour / already had communism already had the surrealist language / poignant watershed our golden age / a hero without a character inventive, blessedly unsentimental / revolutionary politics and progress without development comic folkloric rhapsody / dramatizing transition multiracial, indian versus european, rural versus urban life / final annihilation and apotheosis the great bear constellation in the heavens / disillusioning tour through modernity the form of the big city / culture devoureth as it giveth the national epic status / magnum opus swallowed up the director the world that gives birth / the film’s protagonist absorbs him reality, one long movable feast Rodrigo Mart’s first name is commonly attributed to Rodrigo Daz de Vivar, known to all as ‘el Cid’. A military hero fighting on the sides of both the Moors and the Christians in eleventh century Spain. BFA Concordia University, Montreal 2005. MFA Public Practice Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles 2011. ‘El Cid’ lives and works smoothly. rodrigomarti.com
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