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When not dressing up in cardboard robot and space suitcostumes little

Sean

, liked to pretend that he held a Bachelorof Design from Emily Carr University and maintained an en-gaging multidisciplinary practice. He fondly dreamt of the daywhen he might attend the prestigious Ontario College of Artand Design as a bright-eyed and irrationally idealistic gradu-ate student in the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art Media andDesign program.

Amber Landgraff

is an emerging artist/curator living in theToronto area. Her work often takes the form of performativegestures and public interventions. She is currently interestedin pursuing collaboration and connection in as many differ-ent ways as possible. She has been involved in multiplecuratorial projects including

It's like a revolution!

(XPACE,2009) and

The Matter of Loss

(Art Gallery of Ontario, 2009).Her artwork has been also included in the

Innite Exchange

Gallery

2008 (Sub Zero, ICA, San Jose) and

Eyelevel Re- shelving Initiative 3

2008 (Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax). Shehas exhibited performances and installations in Toronto,Edmonton, and Guelph.

Simon Rabyniuk

is an ofce administrator living in the

Greater Toronto Area. He enjoys working with artists. Hehopes to have the opportunity to do so again. If so, he would

be interested in exploring the topic of conict mediation. He

can be reached at <srabyniuk@gmail.com>.

Bios:Thanks,

Lauren and Rose, for some dogs.

Theodore Adorno, The Culture Industry: Free Time

A Situation

But what action have we taken? Interventions are for emergen-cies. And sometimes, something turns into nothing; and some-times, nothing turns into something. As you know by now, thephrase, “create this situation”, is rooted in a 60’s youth countercul-ture movement, with roots in street theatre and symbolic politics.

Simon, authoritatively denes symbolic politics as the ability to

envision and represent change. They are gestures worked on, tobe worked out, in aesthetic form. Actions forever falling on deafears; always limited by their necessity for interpretation.Again, interventions are for emergencies. Avoiding simple reac-tion to the ailments of contemporary urban life, we’ve looked toour heros of the city for guidance, Francis Alÿs, Andrea Bowers,Guy Debord, Fredrick Engles, Harrel Fletcher, and many more. Intheir lives, work, and writing, we’ve found clues for re-imaging cityspace, and our interactions in it. We’ve taken these precedentsas workable solutions, and in a caffeinated state, adopted them toour city, and to our lives. It’s been a process of misquotation.

It happened more than once

The three of us have met on Sunday, twice a month, since Febru-ary. We meet, drink coffee, eat, and talk. Simon, makes mockgestures towards formal meeting etiquette by drafting agendas;including topics like ‘our feelings’, and ‘our feelings about the proj-ect’. It takes us awhile to focus; the agendas don’t entirely help.With clear direction or not, we always re-enter into the circulationof the city.

I only drift

By Amber Landgraff, Sean Martindale, and Simon Rabyniuk

A Situationi only know i drift without youMeeting Agenda, Feb. 22ndSome Dogs I Know

SymposiumToronto, Ontario, Canada

To the Beaches!Free TimeBios