June 1 - 17, 2009

*Hotshot presents...

ART + IDENTITY

created by emerging multidisciplinary artist Ella Cooper in collaboration with Edgardo Moreno with support from Sound Advisor Arianne Robinson

PANEL, PRESENTATION & PARTY

presented by the Emerging Arts Professional Network www.eapnetwork.ca

WEDNESDAY - JUNE 10, 2009

PANEL @ FUNCTION 13 GALLERY - 156 AUGUSTA AVE.(across the street) - 6:30 pm

PARTY & EXHIBITION @ *HOTSHOT 181 AUGUSTA AVE. - 8 pm

JOIN US FOR A LIVELY PANEL & PRESENTATION with Canadian contemporary artists :

KC Adams - Gallery Director Urban Shaman Gallery - Winnipeg KC Adams' focus of her art has been the investigation of the relationship between nature (the living) and technology (progress). In her presentation, she will be discussing her Cyborg Hybrid digital photo series.
Sonny Assu - Mixed Media Artist - Vancouver - Sonny Assu, will talk about his current project - 1884/1951. Assu will shed light on the use of copper, colonizer vs colonized, why a Starbucks cup and how we are building momentum towards becoming a disposable society.
Richard Lee - Actor, Fight Director & General Manager Fu-Gen Theatre - Toronto - The creation of an Asian Canadian Theatre company and it's first production of Banana Boys. Discussing how a play about identity and finding one's place in the world translated into the making of a company and an artist.
Ella Cooper - Multidisciplinary Artist & Founding Director of the Emerging Arts Professional Network - Montreal/Toronto Ella will give a brief intro on Art + Identity the project and how it came to be

They will each share best practices, projects and perspectives on their art creation and reflections on Canadian identity.

Moderated by A + I Sound Advisor Arianne Robinson.

WITH A SURPRISE GUEST FROM CALGARY!

This panel is presented in connection with Ella Cooper's premiere solo show Art + Identity, an interactive photographic soundscape installation that playfully explores the changing face of Canadian society and our hybrid identities reflected in Canadian contemporary art today. Think artists framed in trans-canada highways signs, 5 minute sound pieces, giant moose, Canadiana and a unique tourist gift shop.

The Exhibition

Art + Identity is a fun interactive series of portraits and soundscape interviews with eight visual, theatre and dance artists in their 20s and 30s from across Canada.

Soundscapes created in collaboration with composer Edgardo Moreno, with support from Sound Advisor Arianne Robinson.

Featured artists include: Sonny Assu, Terrance Houle, KC Adams, Marika Schwant, Richard Lee, Mario Doucette, Ghislaine Dote & Becka Viau.

ART + IDENTITY Photographic Soundscape Installation
by Ella Cooper - in collaboration with Edgardo Moreno & sound advisor Arianne Robinson

Show runs June 1 - 17, 2009

*Hotshot - Exhibition Space
181 Augusta Ave. (Kensington Market)
Toronto, Ontario

Presentation, Panel & Party - June 10th - 6:30 pm

Hours 11 - 7pm Daily