Making ROOM (2006)
Making ROOM Poster
Produced in a 30,000 square foot defunct hosiery manufacturing site, Making Room featured works by over 50 established and emerging artists. The festive weekend event also included a full schedule of music and performance art. This site-specific curatorial project investigated the particular possibilities of a massive wide-open space, where intersections and overlap within and between opned up new relational possibilities.
Heather Nicol in the 30,000 square foot warehouse
Making Room for you, making room for me, making room for more, making room for bigger, stronger, sassier, sexier, making room for sculpture, installation, performance, new media, making room for music, video, drawing and painting, making room for Dorkbot, making room for eating and drinking beer and exchanging ideas, fan mail, phone numbers and manifestos…
{ARTISTS}
Shelley ADLER
Barbara ASTMAN
Josh AVERY
Michael BARTOSIK
Bruno Billio
Adrian BLACKWELL
Paula BRASWELl
Paul CAMPBELL
Jennifer CHERNIACK
Carlo Cesta
The Deekons
Janis DEMKIW & Emily Hogg & Olia Mishchenko
Fran Freeman
Susan Rowe Harrison
Barbara KERR
Maria Legault
Jon McCurley & Amy Lam
Lisa Neighbour
Heather Nicol
John Oswald
Shelly Rahme
Tanya Read
JP Robichaud
John Smith
SOFT CITY
lona Staples
Gloria Stein
Orest Tataryn
Kristin Trethewey
Jennifer Wardle
Special guests from the USA:
Robin Kahn
James LEONARD
Oui
Susan Chrysler White
A program of video by artists selected by Paulette Phillips:
Katie Bethune-Leamen
Max DEAN
Fastwurms
Nichola FELDMAN-KISS
Denise Hawrysio
Kelly Mark
Liss Platt
Sheila and Nick Pye
Jon Sasaki
Evan Tapper
Laurel Woodcock
Dorkbot Toronto presents:
David McCallum
Rob King
Gabe Sawhney
Nick Stedman