B106
Alan Michelson: Two Row II, until November 2006

B107
Selection of works, until 5 November 2006

B109
Roland Brener: Capital Z, until 5 November 2006
Capital Z, a city fashioned from mass-produced and disposable materials, is based loosely on the game of Monopoly, where the player’s goal is the acquisition of real estate assets. Charged with the chaos of human habitation, Brener’s city is a place of contradictions: excitement and tedium, social advancement and inequality. It is also a site of community, political action, and tremendous sensory experience. As he once said, “the effect of communal song emanating from the slums is both enchanting and threatening. Song implies that the slums are inhabited by a sort of spirit which encroached on the suburbs and moves towards the centre of the city.”

B206
Borrowings, until 3 September 2006
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Emily Carr: New Perspectives, this installation presents works that derive from a dialogue – both analytical and critical – between different cultural traditions. Borrowings features works by contemporary Canadian artists, of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal descent, who have borrowed and appropriated materials cross-culturally.

B207b and B207c
Marla Hlady and Janice Kerbel, until September 2006
Marla Hlady is known for her sound and kinetic art practice as manifested through drawings, sculptures, and installations. Janice Kerbel’s print-based works explore the relationship between natural and built environments. A selection of recent acquisitions of works on paper by each of these interesting and important Canadian artists is on view.

Michel de Broin: “Réparations”, until September 2006

B208 and B209
Performing the Self, until October 2006
Since its inception, performance art has been considered a non-traditional means of expression when compared with other disciplines such as painting, photography and sculpture. This installation presents a selection of photographs, scripts and videotapes documenting performances by a variety of artists. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, this display examines the historical aspects of performance art and positions it relative to other important movements such as Fluxus and feminism.