253469

The Critical Wake of Makemake

2011-11-04T22:37:00.000-04:00

The Critical Wake of Makemake @ Fountain Enterprises

1261 Dundas St West, Toronto

an exhibition by Kathleen Reichelt and performance by art noise band 253469

Opening Party Thursday December 15, 2011

9 pm

The Critical Wake of Makemake is an imagined manifestation conjured through abstraction and the yet un-realized
vessel moving towards antirealism. It is a fictional understanding communicated through a state of constant becoming.
It is created in order to claim its rightful place in the present. The inheritance is colour and transparency, rituals and rites
of masks, concealment and revealing. Metaphors are forms as openings and objects conveying the relationships of struggle, power, ease and awkwardness through overlapping and propinquity. Power can be seen as European realism still trumping other cultural, individual and philosophical alternatives. Abstraction can be seen as the rejection to this that
it was 70 years ago.

The Critical Wake of Makemake is also a live performance by the art noise band 253469 starting at 9pm on Thursday December 15th, using absurdist lyrics, analogue and digital synthesizers and a loud electric stick guitar.
Exhibition runs 12.15.11 - 01.25.12

253469 Short Art Films on Vimeo

2011-08-23T14:23:00.005-04:00

http://vimeo.com/channels/twofivethreefoursixnine

Quiet & Loud Art Noise Band

2011-07-19T19:40:00.002-04:00

The 253469 Experimental Audio Project continues:

JULY 21, 2011

303 Augusta Ave in Kensington Market, Toronto

10:30 PM

as part of Transcendental Mirror

253469 Experimental Shooting

2011-06-02T21:05:00.016-04:00

Summer shooting begins.
Actors, performers, artists should contact 253469@gmail.com if interested
in performing for the camera.

Brooke Stubbings & Ian Malone Outdoor Studio Shoot for

"Black Clouds"

Shooting with Amber Dawn Scott at Lake Ontario

Climbing the Pink Tree

2011-02-24T19:44:00.014-05:00

Climbing the Pink Tree exhibition, screening, live audio, installation and performance opens Saturday March 19th at 9PM.

above photo: Mylissa Prisner

The main space will show the premier screening of "The Tree That Makes Me Laugh" by Wesley Rickert (10 minutes), with improvised live audio performance. Also in the main space, an installation performance by the Goddess of Pink Dreams Amber Dawn Scott. In the front windows, "Chopping the pink tree" is an installation by Wesley Rickert.

The back gallery features new paintings by Kathleen Reichelt. Inspired by the images and lives of her female artist friends, Reichelt created a series of abstract portraits. Each painting is 40x32 in, composed with acrylic, collage, oil pastel and graphite.

As always our events are free and everyone is welcome.

2011-01-09T16:22:00.005-05:00

Above: Henry Benvenuti "Early Christian Martyrs": painting, collage and prints,
Wesley Rickert installation October 2009

Next: Istvan Kantor and Rebecca Leung performing as part of Movement Comma Movement, Collective Dream 26, June 26, 2010

Next: 469

Next: Wesley Rickert sculpture

253469 artists create art film video performance painting sculpture audio installation absurdist experimental theatre collage scribbles colour poetry play workshops exhibits events

For more information contact 253469@gmail.com

ILLOGICAL ANIMAL SNOWPANTS

2010-12-06T14:37:00.005-05:00

ILLOGICAL ANIMAL SNOWPANTS
Saturday December 11, 8-10:30 PM

253469 is duty bound to host the one-night art event Illogical Animal Snowpants, a screening of challenging art films and short art performance works that resist the current cold climate and bucks and bellows in the new art ghetto of Bloor and Lansdowne to fill one small room with large and unpredictable dreams and "Naked Again" a window installation with frequent flyers in mind.

8:00-8:30

HOBBY HORSE

The future of fiction and beauty as not understood by the artists 253 & 469. Ideas will be expressed irrationally by time, object(s), noise and image projection.

8:30-9:30

SHORT ART FILM SCREENING

Adam David Brown (Toronto)

Henry "Banger" Benvenutti (NYC via Toronto)

Eugénie Cliche (Saint-Lambert, QC)

Angela Eileen De Crescenzo (Toronto)

Robert Ezergailis (Hamilton))

Guy Hood (Peterborough)

Christina Kozak (Toronto)

Wesley Rickert (Toronto)

9:30-10:00
INVERTED SPACE FEMME THEATRE

A non text performance based in immediate, organic and collaborative audio and visual responses to the concepts of movement, nature and relationships to each other. Kathleen Reichelt, Christina Kozak and Wesley Rickert

(All times approximate)

(Image below from short by Eugénie Cliche)

Istvan Kantor @253469

2010-11-20T14:21:00.006-05:00

Istvan Kantor's Exhibit "My Struggle" @253469
November 5 - 28, 2010

Friday November 5th - Istvan Kantor MY STRUGGLE
Exhibit and Performance featuring art-rebel fashionista
Andii Brooks of StanDingVertiGo with Red ArmBand
desperadoes Alexander Braun, Eszter Jagica, Lewis Kaye,
Rebecca Leung and others.
7PM

Display Value

2010-09-13T10:11:00.010-04:00

an exhibit of new work by Wesley Rickert and Kathleen Reichelt
September 30 - October 30, 2010
opening reception Saturday October 9, 2 - 5PM
Exhibition hours are Wed - Sat, 1 - 6 PM

2010-08-12T12:34:00.008-04:00

Movement comma movement; collective dream 26

2010-06-14T11:38:00.010-04:00

Saturday June 26, 2010 8-11 PM @253469

(Above: Ulysses Castellanos)
The official city of Toronto artist secure event zone taking place @253469 on Saturday June 26 from 8-11PM. "Movement comma movement; collective dream 26" is a pro-global sub-atomic art particle summit of demanding short art films, irrational video, new sound and short performance. Security costs for this extra-ordinary one night art event plummeted from an initial estimate of over one billion billion billion Canadian to just a little over nothing.

PROGRAM
7:45 East Window
Ongoing Performance:
Nicole Torok "The Names People Give Me"
(PHOTO ABOVE)

8:00 - 8:15 pm
loops

8:15 - 9:00 pm
SCREENING

Robert Morpheal
The Burning Times
5 minutes, 25 seconds

Karol Orzechowski
The Call, 18 mins
The Callis a meditative fake documentary (not a mockumentary) about the thin line between knowledge and insanity, learning and losing it. As the G20 caravan of doom troopers rolls through town and promotes ignorance and fear of authority, this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft tale reminds us that we should lean into the fear and seek to know more... even if it means the end result is that we are no more.

Lucy McKenna
Fish Freezing Factory
90 seconds
Based on an abandoned Icelandic building, 'Fish Freezing Factory' is a visual apparition of the spirit lost to an Icelandic Fish processing factory.It is a projection of images of my work onto the abandoned fishing plant building at night, filmed, and then digitally manipulated. It is inspired by the mythology and magic of the Icelandic culture, the history of Skagaströnd town where the building is situated, and influenced by the Northern Lights. The audio features a sample by Icelandic band Múm.

Wes Rickert
Blue Tarp Black Boots
2 minutes
Recently In Paree
2 minutes
Demonstration of Concept
6 minutes

9:15 - 10:30 pm
PERFORMANCE

Inverted Space Femme Theatre @253469 @ 9:15 pm
Christina Kozak, Kathleen Reichelt, Wes Rickert, Angela Eileen De Crescenzo
A non text performance based in immediate, organic and collaborative responses to the concepts of movement, water and relationships to each other.
20 minutes

Angela Eileen De Crescenzo @ 9:35 pm
Windmills
video and performance
10 minutes

Ulysses Castellanos @ 9:45 pm
CLA - CONCEPTUAL LIBERATION ARMY ACTION NUMBER 1: NARCOLEPTIC DRIFT
video and performance
15 minutes

Daeve Fellows @ 10:00 pm
Sky Demon
video and performance
10 minutes

Istvan Kantor @ 10:15 pm
video and performance
20 minutes

Optimistic Landing

2010-06-08T09:52:00.004-04:00

Optimistic Landing is an exhibit of large format paintings on paper, plastic and canvas accompanied by words and video created in the spring of 2010 @253469.

May 29 - June 12

Optimistic Landing is painting about play in the context of a largely pessimistic and cynical world. The paintings are water based and oil based paints on industrial weight kraft paper, stretched canvas and flexible plastic created over a three week period in April (the ideal month for optimism in Toronto!) I started painting on plastic after I found a discarded plastic poster at the side of the curb in the downtown core. I liked the effect, the transparency and smoothness of the material. I also painted on large pieces of heavy brown paper which I primed in ten foot lengths. I cut them to size when I was ready to apply colour. In the spirit of play I decided not to meticulously and evenly cut the edges. There are rips and tears that haven't been covered up or repaired. They are small signs of rebellion, happy imperfections and gestures of a playful toughness, well weathered, not delicate.

All of the oil paintings have the same palette of orange, purple, yellow, pink and green. The lines, drips, dribbles, scribbles, slops and strokes are energetic, necessary and new reflecting the organic, spontaneous and emotive qualities of play. Play is an attitude in an organic process instead of a constructed one.

K Reichelt

The video is a collaborative creation by 253 & 469.

Desert of Woo woo

2010-03-30T14:11:00.004-04:00

April 24, 8-11pm

A random program of short art films, video loops, improvised audio & performance driven by the twin concepts of Woo woo and Aleatoricism. The evening will feature a large set construction to receive any and all projections and manifestations as well as mechanized performers. There will be an end of Woo woo party.

Featuring David Bateman, Angela E De Crescenzo, William Davison, Theo Pelmus, Istvan Kantor, Christina Kozak, Robert Morpheal, Kathleen Reichelt, Wesley Rickert and others.

woo-woo: adj. concerned with emotions, mysticism, or spiritualism; other than rational or scientific; mysterious; new agey. Also n., a person who has mystical or new age beliefs. Sometimes woo-woo is used by skeptics as a synonym for pseudoscience, true-believer, or quackery. But mostly the term is used for its emotive content and is an emotive synonym for such terms as nonsense, irrational, nutter, nut, or crazy.(reference: http://www.skepdic.com/woowoo.html)

Aleatoricism is the creation of art by chance, exploiting the principle of randomness. The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. It should not be confused with either improvisation or indeterminacy. See also: Automatic drawing, Surrealist automatism, Pareidolia, and Apophenia

Aleatoric methods have been used in artistic composition for thousands of years, and were popularized in the early 20th century by the Dada movement. (reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoricism)

Top Photo: William Davison

Bottom Photo: Theo Pelmus

New Bok Choy Moon @253469

2010-01-12T14:35:00.004-05:00

an artist friendly raw expanded cinema spectacle

Saturday January 30, 2010

7 - 10 PM

What's so raw and healthy about New Bok Choy Moon @253469? Everything. The live performance and electronic films, the improvised green noise, organic video projection and most of all intensely artist friendly environment. Bette Davis, Michael Jackson, Arthur Schopenhauer and Stephen Harper have promised to be in attendance. No passport required.

7 - 8 pm
The Oracle of Mystery will be in the basement and available for practicing prophesy without a licence while traversing the darkest passages of space and time. Live projection of Oracle readings, video loops & improvised audio upstairs.

8 -9 pm
Amazingly fresh short video screenings, Henry Banger Benvenuti, Eduardo Dellaforresta, Robert Morpheal, Brooke Stubbings, Sue Yuzwak, Kathleen Reichelt and Wesley Rickert

9-9:30 pm
Raw expanded cinema performance by 253, 469 & Olivia Roblin

9:30-10pm
Performance spectacular by Istvan Kantor!