PAVED Arts

Friday September 14, 7 pm

Lecture:
Adrian Blackwell (Toronto)
At 424 20th Street West (through the hoarding and into the galleries!)

Saturday September 15th, 12 noon

Public forum and urban issues fair: Creativity for and Against the City
Moderated by Adrian Blackwell
At the Farmers' Market Building, River Landing, Avenue B South and 19th Street.

Biographies

Adrian Blackwell is an artist, urban researcher and designer, whose work focuses on the uneven development of post-Fordist urban spaces. Recent exhibitions include the 2005 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, Torontoís Nuit Blanche and Detours: tactical approaches to urbanization in China both in 2006; and Just Space(s) at LACE gallery in Los Angeles in 2007. He is a collaborator on the team selected to redesign Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.

More information about Adrian Blackwell's practice and writing can be found at:
http://www.ald.utoronto.ca/people/projects/716
http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/2006/09/adrian-blackwell.html
http://www.tsci.ca/files/ET_Readings/Fuse_Gentrification.pdf

Shane Clintberg is an emerging public artist from Calgary. His work is not medium-specific or otherwise preconceived; instead, he develops each new project "from the ground up" based on his initial, local site research. His last major piece, presented in downtown Calgary in 2006, juxtaposed the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1997 Bre-X scandal to question and critique that city's unwavering boosterism.

Linda Duvall was born in a village of two hundred in Eastern Ontario, and began life in a home that housed three generations of extended family. Possibly as a result of this environment of close family and even closer neighbours, Duvall has been very engaged with people and community. Duvall has completed degrees in both Sociology and Visual Arts. These two disciplines have merged into projects that involve and give voice to her friends, neighbours, relatives, and interesting new acquaintances.

Clark Ferguson is a multi-disciplinary artist from Saskatoon who utilizes humour to explore issues of gender, the spectacle, desire and existential wanderings. He will be using his tools and interests as an interdisciplinary artist to collaborate with Saskatoon's core neighbourhood residents.

Participation
CROSS CITY COFFEE The Riversdale and Area Exchange Art Project

Local artist Linda Duvall invites you to have coffee and conversation with people from other parts of Saskatoon, first at your place, and then at theirs.

Curated and organized by Cindy Baker and Tim Dallett for AKA Gallery and PAVED Arts

PAVED Arts / AKA
424 20th Street West
Saskatoon SK S7M 0X4