MOCA Completes Tomorrow of Contemporary Art Campaign |
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MOCA is launching the fall with some positive fundraising news. The Museum is delighted to announce a major $5.7 million contribution from Castlepoint Auto Building, Inc. The extraordinary contribution completes the Museum’s $25 million Tomorrow of Contemporary Art (TOCA) capital campaign launched in 2017. “This outstanding and timely support from Castlepoint is highly impactful when many cultural organizations, including MOCA, are engaged in urgent discussions about programming and operational sustainability due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic effects,” said Board Chair Brad Keast. “Castlepoint’s contribution towards the TOCA campaign—to retire a capital loan for the construction of MOCA—allows the Museum to fully engage in its current and future programme planning and operational fundraising.”
Since our last newsletter, in addition to completing the campaign, we have been busy working on the installation of a new phase of exhibitions at MOCA and rejuvenating the layout of the entrance floor. To the south of the entrance we are installing a series of visually-energetic, layered murals by Michael Lin—we welcome you to view the intricate painting of this work by local artists over the coming weeks.
While many of the artists MOCA is working with are unable to travel to Toronto at this time, we are still constantly in touch and together we have been producing the series Spotlights, a video programme that allows each artist to share more about their works in the museum. Our digital programmes continue to expand and we recently partnered with six other international organizations to offer more striking video content through the online project A River Waits Reply.
Find out more about MOCA’s current programmes onsite and online, as well as upcoming talks and workshops below.
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Acts of Erasure
Krista Belle Stewart and Fatma Bucak
Now open, until January 3, 2021
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Acts of Erasure brings the two distinct artistic practices of Fatma Bucak and Krista Belle Stewart into dialogue. This pairing opens space for conversations around political identity concerning land and heritage, methodologies of historical repression and interpretation, and the act and effects of erasure. The exhibition is organized in partnership with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
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Learn more about Bucak’s work as she talks about her practice and the exhibition on Spotlights. |
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Fatma Bucak & Krista Belle Stewart in conversation with Gabrielle Moser
Friday, October 23, 1pm on Zoom
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Join artists Bucak and Stewart in conversation with Gabrielle Moser on Friday, October 23 at 1 pm. The talk will take place on Zoom and requires pre-registration with a non-member fee of 5 dollars. |
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Medusa
Yazan Khalili
Until November 15
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Yazan Khalili’s sculptural, video installation Medusa (2020) sees the Ramallah-based artist build on his long-standing engagement with digital archiving in times of political unrest.
Learn more about Khalili’s practice on Spotlights where he talks specifically about Medusa.
You can also watch Khalili in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr, Associate Curator at KW, Berlin here.
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Archipelago
Michael Lin
Currently in progress
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Taiwanese contemporary painter and conceptual artist Michael Lin has been commissioned by MOCA to produce Archipelago—a major site-specific painting for the museum’s entrance floor.
Watch the beautiful floral motifs created by Lin being hand-painted by local artists during museum open hours until November 8. Once complete you are invited to move within the painting and sit upon the layered archipelago platforms.
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A River Waits Reply
October 13—November 30, 2020
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A screening series developed in partnership between seven international arts organizations, A River Waits Reply presents moving-image works from around the world as a poetic reply to this unprecedented year.
Ria Pacquée''s As long as I see birds flying I know I am alive (2015), invited by Argos, Brussels, is available to view online until October 26.
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Argos, Brussels
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Gasworks, London
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Kadist, San Francisco & Paris
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Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
- MOCA Toronto
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Para Site, Hong Kong
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Pivô, São Paulo
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Shift Key
Celia Perrin Sidarous
Slip
Until Friday, October 23—available to view online
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In her distinctive way, the work of photographer and filmmaker Celia Perrin Sidarous constructs meaning out of a lexicon that weaves embodied language, found objects, visual poetry as well as counter narratives to the cult of domesticity.
Shift Key is a rotating platform of moving-image artworks shown exclusively on MOCA’s website.This video has been selected as part of a programmatic take-over by independent curator Daisy Desrosiers.
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TD Community Sunday
Available from Sunday, October 25
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For this month''s TD Community Sunday, we are featuring a new activity titled Visualize Your Story, created by artist Alia Youssef. Drawing inspiration from Fatma Bucak and Krista Belle Stewart''s exhibition Acts of Erasure, this activity will invite you to create a visual story—using both photography and text—that highlights the personal story of someone who you feel should be heard. Find out more in the Learning Activities section on our website from Sunday, October 25.
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Pumpkin Take-Home Activity
Saturday, October 31, 11am – 1pm
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With Halloween just around the corner, what better time for a pumpkin-painting activity? Come to MOCA on Saturday, October 31 and pick up a mini pumpkin and painting stencil designed by Stephanie Bellefleur. Bellefleur is an artist currently working on the Michael Lin painting installation Archipelago. See the installation in progress as well as MOCA’s other exhibitions and then decorate your pumpkin at home using the stencil provided. Limit 1 per family, while quantities last.
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Image Credits:
Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020. Installation view, MOCA Toronto. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Fatma Bucak and Krista Belle Stewart, Acts of Erasure, 2020. Installation view, MOCA Toronto. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020. Installation view, MOCA Toronto. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Michael Lin, Deep Ravine, 2016. Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines.
Stills from all of the videos featured in A River Waits Reply.
Celia Perrin Sidarous, Slip, 2018. Film still. Courtesy of the artist and Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal.
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MOCA Toronto
158 Sterling Rd.
Toronto, Canada
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