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September 22, 2012
Nuit Blanche – Toronto
“For one sleepless night, experience the city transformed by artists for Toronto’s seventh annual sunset-to-sunrise celebration of contemporary art… All night long.
The lineup, released today, is made up of 158 art projects by more than 500 local, national and international artists, and includes Vancouver artist Douglas Coupland, who is part of the apocalypse project. Globally there are many art-inspired projects dealing with the Mayan calendar and the 2012 end of days, but the Nuit Blanche pr...
The Supersurrealism – Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet has an eminent collection of surrealism from the crucial years round 1920-40, comprising paintings, sculptures and objects. It includes Louise Bourgeois, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Wilhelm Freddie, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Picabia, Man Ray and Meret Oppenheim. These artists, together with the equally prominent photographers Brassaï, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Lotte Jacobi and Paul Strand, films by Luis Buñuel and Ma...
September 21, 2012
We Were There
“We Were There… It’s the name of an impressive new monument in LeBreton Flats designed to keep alive the memory of Canadian firefighters killed in the line of duty or from work-related illnesses.
But it’s also a statement of bearing witness, which hundreds of people did Sunday morning as years of hard work by the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation was unveiled under a bright September sky.”
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July 18, 2012
Preview of Ottawa Memorial
This special ceremony will include the official dedication of the new Canadian Firefighters Memorial and will pay tribute to the nearly 1100 Canadian firefighters who have lost their lives serving Canada. The names of all firefighters added to the honour roll since the last ceremony will be read at the ceremony.
July 17, 2012
New Images – Group Portrait 1957
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery approached Coupland in the spring of 2010 with the idea of comissioning a major outdoor sculpture. His personal relationship with Arthur Erickson, the architect of the 1987 gallery expansion, and his ongoing interest in mid-century modernism, made the proposal particularily appealing to Coupland.
The approximately 27′ x 11′ relief sculpture entitled Group Portrait 1957 was permanently installed on the north/west facade of the RMG in September 2011.
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June 24, 2012
Beijing Posthastism
Beijing Posthastism
A show curated by Shumon Basar, Joseph Grima, Hans Ulrich Obrist and The Pavilion.
At the end of 2011, Hans Ulrich Obrist announced that, together with the curators and writers Shumon Basar and Joseph Grima, they had founded a new movement called “Posthastism”. The movement is based on what they describe as a “sudden feeling of posthaste”: a collective impetus to go beyond haste. To de-accelerate.
On June 22, 2012 this urge will be channeled into the Beijing context and the...
June 17, 2012
Electric Ikebana
Electric Ikebana is an audio-visual collaboration by writer/artist Douglas Coupland and musician Paul Humphreys from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark with the Global telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent.
The concept was to compose a musical track that interacts with telecommunications data of internet traffic and online activity, expressed in a visual manifestation.
Raw numerical data is visually translated into particles and their shape, colour, and quantity are de...
