Zone C Exhibition
Image by Angus Rowe MacPherson
Curatorial Statement
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Should I Stay or Should I Go will explore concepts of movement, gridlock, and mobility, responding to daily urban life and to Nuit Blanche as a mass event. Projects will deal with transience and traces of the psychic, physiologic and geographic. They will breathe, count, repeat, spin, lift, layer and time. Projects will intertwine spectacle with subtlety, and play with criticality. They will offer contrasting perspectives, from a rapid blur to a languid static. They will depart and arrive, move and arrest.
— Christof Migone
Commissioned Projects
Kim Adams, Auto Lamp
Annie Onyi Cheung, _scape with 6 and 7
Žilvinas Kempinas, Big O
Michael Fernandes, Arrivals/Departures
Jocelyn Robert, The Next Community
Julia Loktev, I Cried For You
Davide Balula, The Endless Pace (variation for 60 dancers)
Max Streicher, Endgame (Coulrophobia)
Martin Arnold, Micah Lexier, Erik Satie’s Vexations (1893)
Sandra Rechico, 1850
Open Call Projects
To encourage involvement by a wide range of artists — established and emerging — each exhibition includes projects selected by the curators through an open call process.
Olivia Boudreau, Box
France Dubois, a moment stilled Voyageur
Lili Huston-Herterich, Brad Tinmouth, Wait Until You See This
Chris Shepherd, The Task
Aubrey Reeves, The Calm
Curator Biography
Christof Migone is an artist, writer, and curator. His work and research delves into language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity and endurance. He co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and his writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, etc. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. A monograph on his work, Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM presented a survey of his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Christof Migone - Trou. He currently lives in Toronto and is a lecturer at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery.
