Lansdowne Light Box - Dyan Marie (photos by artist)


TEL-TALK
art interventions in telephone booths

Book Launch and Exhibition Opening
Friday June 15, 6 – 9pm Artists Present

Telephone Booth Gallery
3148 Dundas St. W, Toronto

Exhibition continues until July 14, 2012

The Tel-talk project brings together artists of varying backgrounds, from across the country, to perform in and or animate a telephone booth in response to themes surrounding public spaces, and the disappearance of traditional phone booths. Artists and writers were invited to contribute a site-specific installation, artwork, or short work of fiction, which references a unique telephone booth location. The installations began in September 2011 and continue through to July 2012. Over the last nine months, each installation was announced and documented on the Tel-talk blog (http://tel-talk.blogspot.ca/).

The Tel-talk project culminates in an exhibition of various works and photo documentations at the Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood along with a book launch which outlines contributions to the project in (phone) book form under the Tightrope Books imprint. The project continues online with an open invitation to artists and writers to make their own art interventions.

Selected artists and writers (Tel-talkers) include: Barry Callaghan, Dyan Marie, Julie Voyce, Lizz Aston, Jessica Westhead, Otino Corsano, Tim Laurin, Sheila Butler, Steven Tippin, Stuart Keeler, Tara Cooper, Terry O'Neill and many more. Full list of participants and online: http://tel-talk.blogspot.ca/

Coordinated by: Paola Poletto, Liis Toliao and Yvonne Koscielak



Lady Cleaner: After Julie Voyce - Paola Poletto (photo by artist)


Exhibition photographs available at http://telephoneboothgallery.ca/tel-talk.html

TEL-TALK Telephone Booth art interventions during June and July

June TBA
Pickled Egg Poetry Booth
John Sobol
During Artspark, Armstrong Street and Parkdale Avenue (Ottawa, ON)
(Across from the Carleton Tavern)

June 13 - July 14
l(ack)/knowledge
Red Wagon
Pacific Avenue and Dundas West (Toronto, ON)

June 16
Pop-Up Memory Shop
Charity Miskelly
During Nuit Blanche London
Dundas Street, between Richmond Street and Clarence Street, (London, ON)

Through to July 14
Lansdowne Light Box
Dyan Marie
Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue (Toronto, ON)
(Nearby Coffee Time)

Through to July 14
Flagpole (a meta-conversation)
Stuart Keeler
Jarvis Street and Wellesley Street East (Toronto, ON)

TEL-Talk book cover


HOURS
Tues by appt.
Wednesday - Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
3148 Dundas Street West - Toronto - Ontario - M6P 2A1
(The Junction, Dundas at St. Johns Rd.)
T 647 270 7903
info@telephoneboothgallery.ca
www.telephoneboothgallery.ca

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