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A date with a polyglot
Visualeyez 2017 explores awkwardness. The works presented reflect on our interactions with situations where we feel uncomfortable or marginalized and how we react in these changing environments, according to the festival’s curatorial statement. American theatre artist Josh Clendenin explores the ...
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Visualeyez 2017 explores awkwardness. The works presented reflect on our interactions with situations where we feel uncomfortable or marginalized and how we react in these changing environments, according to the festival’s curatorial statement. American theatre artist Josh Clendenin explores the ...
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Pest Control wants you to succeed at Visualeyez 2017
The local artists of Pest Control, Kai Villneff and Sarah Ormandy saw the theme of awkwardness as a way to push their creative effort to break down the fourth wall. The two artists have a background in theatre arts, but were drawn to performance art as a way to create content that has a direct c...
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The local artists of Pest Control, Kai Villneff and Sarah Ormandy saw the theme of awkwardness as a way to push their creative effort to break down the fourth wall. The two artists have a background in theatre arts, but were drawn to performance art as a way to create content that has a direct c...
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Awkwardness and the power of performance art
For 17 years the Visualeyez festival has provided space for performance artists to craft and present performances in spaces we may not be used to as observers. Just as the act of performance art itself challenges cultural norms, Visualeyez has focused in on a theme that questions our contemporary...
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For 17 years the Visualeyez festival has provided space for performance artists to craft and present performances in spaces we may not be used to as observers. Just as the act of performance art itself challenges cultural norms, Visualeyez has focused in on a theme that questions our contemporary...
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Celebrate performance art
The 17th edition of Visualeyez starts September 26th. With the annual festival of performance art about to begin, we thought we’d take a look back at the very first edition. This review of Visualeyez appeared in issue five, volume 3 of the print publication fifty3. Todd Janes recapped the ...
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The 17th edition of Visualeyez starts September 26th. With the annual festival of performance art about to begin, we thought we’d take a look back at the very first edition. This review of Visualeyez appeared in issue five, volume 3 of the print publication fifty3. Todd Janes recapped the ...
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From the archives: subversiveness of street art
For this week’s edition of “From The Fifty3 Archive” we take a dive all the way back to 2002 with Shara Rosko’s article Neighbourhood Watch. In her article, Rosko discusses the role of street artists as interventionists in public space, and their ability to infiltrate the urban realm to communica...
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For this week’s edition of “From The Fifty3 Archive” we take a dive all the way back to 2002 with Shara Rosko’s article Neighbourhood Watch. In her article, Rosko discusses the role of street artists as interventionists in public space, and their ability to infiltrate the urban realm to communica...
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The party is local
Homecoming is a celebration of a return to community. We want to welcome new students, Latitude 53 alumnni, supporters old and new and in between. And we’re glad to show off some of the best our homebase in Edmonton has to offer. We have a number of local businesses who stepped up to provide a we...
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Homecoming is a celebration of a return to community. We want to welcome new students, Latitude 53 alumnni, supporters old and new and in between. And we’re glad to show off some of the best our homebase in Edmonton has to offer. We have a number of local businesses who stepped up to provide a we...
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The self is sour ground: A critical reflection on Autospect
Autospect by Calgary-artist Kale Vandenbroek is up at Latitude 53 until September 9. Brad Fehr, an Edmonton-based artist, and recent graduate of UofA fine arts program takes a close look at self-reflection, suspicion and masculinity found in Autospect. There is a sense of the cryptic in Autospect...
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Autospect by Calgary-artist Kale Vandenbroek is up at Latitude 53 until September 9. Brad Fehr, an Edmonton-based artist, and recent graduate of UofA fine arts program takes a close look at self-reflection, suspicion and masculinity found in Autospect. There is a sense of the cryptic in Autospect...
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Love and support from our community
We’ve asked the makers in our community to help raise money for Latitude 53 by donating a piece to our silent auction for Homecoming. As people return to school, to work, to new projects and new homes it’s an opportunity to add a new creative piece to our home and work space.Perhaps y...
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We’ve asked the makers in our community to help raise money for Latitude 53 by donating a piece to our silent auction for Homecoming. As people return to school, to work, to new projects and new homes it’s an opportunity to add a new creative piece to our home and work space.Perhaps y...
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A patio party to welcome you home
The final patio party of the season will be a celebration and welcome home from summer’s adventures. Homecoming will be that first school dance and a reunion of friends. We’re celebrating the great community spirit of our innovative and friendly city and connecting long-time Edmontoni...
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The final patio party of the season will be a celebration and welcome home from summer’s adventures. Homecoming will be that first school dance and a reunion of friends. We’re celebrating the great community spirit of our innovative and friendly city and connecting long-time Edmontoni...
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Profile on community
The community gallery space is designed for non-profits and community groups that are interested in exploring issues through visual art. We are interested in collaborations that bridge diverse groups within the Edmonton region, introducing members of the city’s visual arts communities to other gr...
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The community gallery space is designed for non-profits and community groups that are interested in exploring issues through visual art. We are interested in collaborations that bridge diverse groups within the Edmonton region, introducing members of the city’s visual arts communities to other gr...
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Where people go, art follows
Originally published in a 2006 issue of Fifty3 Magazine (Volume 7 Issue 2) Neil Parmar’s article “Art in Space” shines light onto the seemingly unusual crossroads between space travel and art. In this issue of From the Archives, we examine a timeline of people’s efforts to bring art to space and ...
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Originally published in a 2006 issue of Fifty3 Magazine (Volume 7 Issue 2) Neil Parmar’s article “Art in Space” shines light onto the seemingly unusual crossroads between space travel and art. In this issue of From the Archives, we examine a timeline of people’s efforts to bring art to space and ...
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Generousity wins you a free ride
As an artist-run non-profit Latitude 53 owes a lot of its funding to the generous donations of our community. If you’ve purchased a ticket to an event, bought a drink, battled it out to win a silent auction bid, you’ve helped us to fund artist talks, pay artist fees for exhibitions, e...
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As an artist-run non-profit Latitude 53 owes a lot of its funding to the generous donations of our community. If you’ve purchased a ticket to an event, bought a drink, battled it out to win a silent auction bid, you’ve helped us to fund artist talks, pay artist fees for exhibitions, e...
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From the archives:Updating public art
Fifty3 magazine was published in 8 volumes between 1999–2007. It aimed to expand the critical written discourse about visual culture in the Edmonton region. Our summer intern Joshua Storie has gone through the archives and chosen a selection of articles to profile, and update, in our newsletter t...
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Fifty3 magazine was published in 8 volumes between 1999–2007. It aimed to expand the critical written discourse about visual culture in the Edmonton region. Our summer intern Joshua Storie has gone through the archives and chosen a selection of articles to profile, and update, in our newsletter t...
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Artist Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo constructed this sawdust floor...
Artist Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo constructed this sawdust floor tapestry on July 28, 2017 at Latitude 53. This video captures gallery visitors interactions with the tapestry at the exhibition opening and artist talk on July 29th. Catastrophe, Memory, Reconciliation is up until September 9.
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Artist Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo constructed this sawdust floor tapestry on July 28, 2017 at Latitude 53. This video captures gallery visitors interactions with the tapestry at the exhibition opening and artist talk on July 29th. Catastrophe, Memory, Reconciliation is up until September 9.
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Kale Vandenbroek’s printmaking gives us an inside look at self criticism
Calgary artist Kale Vandenbroek uses printmaking to deconstruct memory through intimate self-study. Autospect is a collection of printmaking work Vandenbroek has created over three years of hypercritical self-study. We’re all familiar with this kind of introspection, the questions that cycle and ...
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Calgary artist Kale Vandenbroek uses printmaking to deconstruct memory through intimate self-study. Autospect is a collection of printmaking work Vandenbroek has created over three years of hypercritical self-study. We’re all familiar with this kind of introspection, the questions that cycle and ...
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