AKA Gallery Saskatoon

2010-01-14T09:05:00.000-08:00

//////JANUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 19, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION:
January 15th at 7pm

Lex Vaughn - W-E-Z-Y

Lex Vaughn’s character Peanut Brittle is the amalgamation of every old man ambling down the street with a sense of style, the ones Vaughn refers to fondly as 'geriatric dandies'. W-E-Z-Y are the call letters of the ham radio station Peanut broadcasts from his one room apartment, sharing forgotten songs and stories of rubbing elbows with celebrities from a bygone era. For the performance, Peanut invites visitors in for a chat and a look around his apartment/radio-station/installation. Recordings from earlier broadcasts will play in the installation for the duration of the exhibition.

Lex Vuaghn was interviewed by CANADIAN ARTS on January 14th, 2010. Here is the link.

Lex Vaugn was also interviewed by CBC Radio the same day. Here is the link.

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TOWARDS A NEW SUBLIME

Shelly Rahme (Toronto, ON)

March 5 to April 16, 2010

Opening reception March 5 at AKA

Artist Talk at the University of Saskatchewan March 4

Rahme’s sculptural installations utilize materials from the built environment to reference the sublime in nature. Using the flatness of industrial materials such as glass, asphalt and drywall, Rahme creates works whose materiality contrasts with the organic forms that appear to be the result of geological forces. The resulting forms communicate a sense of drama and movement, albeit at a glacial or tectonic pace, that invokes the overwhelming experience of grandeur in nature referred to historically as the sublime. In recent years, our species’ fragile and reciprocal relationship with the natural world has played an increasingly wider role in collective awareness. Rahme’s work highlights the false dichotomy inherent to the antiquated distinction between the human and the natural.

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holophon.ca – Erin Gee, Eric Powell, Charlie Fox (Regina, SK) + guests

Carrie Gates (Saskatoon, SK) guest curator

March 19 & 20, 2010

Performance March 20

Regina based audio artist collective holophon.ca will engage several local sound artists as collaborators in conducting a 24-hour continuous audio experiment culminating in a live performance. AKA’s Event Space will be used as a sonic laboratory for an investigatory process/performance incorporating elements of endurance, improvisation and the spectacular. The live concert component planned for the 24^th hour will be open to the public to present the results. AKA’s presentation of Sonic Campout is part of a series of curated audio presentation events developed by holophon.ca.

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GIVE UP THE GHOST

Amy Lockhart (Montreal, QC)

April 23 to June 4, 2010

Opening reception and artist talk April 23

Workshop April 24

Amy Lockhart’s work embraces processes, materials and aesthetics usually associated with low culture (read popular culture). Give Up The Ghost will consist of a series of acrylic paintings, paper sculptures and a small cardboard installation which houses the animation “The Collagist” created in collaboration with artist Marc Bell. The installation consists of a simplified version of an artist’s studio made entirely of cardboard with the 2-minute animation loop projected onto a table-top inside.

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GEARHEADS

Steven Laurie (Toronto, ON) and Ray Lodoen (Saskatoon, SK)

June 11 to July 30, 2010

Performance and artist talk June 11

2^nd Performance and workshop June 12

Gearheads brings Laurie and Lodoen together to perform and present their (dis)functional hybrid mechanical constructions which speak to notions of masculinity and utility. Laurie will use his Rubber Burning machine as a mark-making device and display large format 3D prototype machine images and video monitors playing documentation of several performances. Lodoen presents a pair of the functional full-scale ‘rat-bike’ chopper motorcycles which he designs and builds from the ground up, contributing his own plumes to the smoke-show performance.

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GALLERY CLOSED THROUGH AUGUST 2010