The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver presents a special talk featuring: Instant Coffee - Dec 2
Monday, November 30, 2009
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Wednesday, Dec 2nd, 2009 7pm
3092 Fraser street at 15th Avenue
Admission is free. This event is open to the public.
Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective based in Toronto and
Vancouver. Through formal installations and event based activities, it
builds a public place to practice, where ideas, materials and actions can
be explored outside of the isolated studio and in a manner that
renegotiates traditional exhibition structures, but is still supported by
them. Instant Coffee's frequent practice is to build architectural
installations, which become venues for a series of organized events from
formal lectures and screenings to informal gatherings and workshops. Each
installation requires hosts who initiate some form of social interaction.
Past projects include: Urban Disco Trailer, Get Social or Get Lost, One is
Never Enough, and Nooks: Wish You Were Here all involved a redesign or
reconfiguration of a domestic social space within an institutional
framework. It is through these saccharine, and at times ironic
reconstructions, of spaces (for example, a sunken living room, a bedroom
and kitchen) that we highlight the relationship between form and social
interactions. These social sculptures are both inclusive and exclusionary.
From the beginning Instant Coffee invited other artists, designers,
musicians and other producers to work with us. With our last few projects
we examine tighter social spaces that bring the issue of inclusion and
exclusion to the forefront.
Please rsvp to info@casv.ca.
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founded in 1977 to promote an appreciation and understanding of 20th
century art. Today we continue this objective by focusing on contemporary
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