CAMPER

CONTEMPORARY ART MOBILE PUBLIC EXHIBITION RIG

CAMPER PATCH PROJECT:

Ministry of Walking, Derek Beaulieu, Terrance Houle, Wednesday Lupypciw, Anthea Black

August 13 - September 27, 2006

Five different Calgary Festivals

All are Welcome.

CAMPER ‘PATCH PROJECT’

TRUCK Gallery’s Outreach Festival Project

TRUCK Gallery is proud to present CAMPER ‘Patch Project’.

Five different workshops, five artists, five patches, five different Calgary festivals!

Take Part In Art & Earn Your Patch!

In order to fill up their sashes with merit badges, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides work hard learning things about the natural world. This Summer & Fall, TRUCK and CAMPER want the citizens and visitors of Calgary to learn something about the art world. The PATCH PROJECT has been specifically designed by TRUCK Gallery to further this interaction.  This summer five Artists from various backgrounds and practices will be conducting five individual workshops at five different festivals throughout Calgary. Workshop participants will be rewarded for their involvement in the each workshop with an editioned patch, designed by the artist to commemorate their participation. Please join us this Summer/Fall and collect all five patch designs!

CAMPER, which stands for Contemporary Art Mobile Public Exhibition Rig, is TRUCK Gallery’s new mobile project space, a converted RV bringing art to the public and the public to art. Investigating the place where art, education, the road, and recreation meet, it explores these intersections in a way that encourages participation, raises awareness, and fosters education of contemporary art practices.

(1) THE MINISTRY OF WALKING   

Postcard Project

Sunday, August 13th, 2006, 10am - 5pm

Afrikadey! Festival, Prince’s Island Park, Calgary

The Ministry of Walking is a loosely knit collective of artists and activists dedicated to the promotion of perambulatory activities. The Ministry’s Postcard Project will invite Afrikadey! attendees to participate in one of several specially designed walking activities. Participants will be provided with a Ministry of Walking postcard on which they will document their walking activity. Upon completion of the walk participants will return their completed documentation to the Ministry for archiving purposes and will receive an embroidered Ministry of Walking patch as acknowledgement of their participation.

The Ministry of Walking began as a Calgary-based collective of individuals who value the experience of walking as a vital and integrated part of their everyday life, their work, and/or their artistic practice. The Ministry holds regular perambulatory gatherings to discuss thoughts and ideas pertaining to their walking practice and has expanded to include participant walkers from across Canada. Current Ministry members include: Donna Akrey, Katherine Bourke, Kay Burns, Tomas Jonsson, Janine Miedzik, Shara Rosko, Holly Schmidt, Ryan Statz and Renato Vitic.

(2) DEREK BEAULIEU   

Poetics as Objects

Saturday, August 19th, 2006, 11am - 7pm

ReggaeFest, Shaw Millennium Park, Calgary

Derek Beaulieu’s Poetics as Objects project furthers the artist’s desire for the unification of the literary and visual, building on the existing intersections of these two vibrant communities. As part of the Poetics as Objects project Beaulieu will be conducting an open workshop, inviting the public to produce a small edition of handmade bookworks. Participants in this activity will then receive, upon completion of their project, an embroidered Poetics as Objects patch. Reminiscent of a Boy Scouts or Girl Guides merit badge, Beaulieu’s patch will similarly reward the processes of investigation, practice and production of handmade books.

Derek Beaulieu is the author of three books of poetry -- with wax (2003), frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho (co-written with Gary Barwin, 2005) and fractal economies (2006), and is co-editor of the best-selling anthology Shift & Switch: new Canadian poetry. His visual artwork – which engages with text and readability – has been shown in group and solo exhibits across North America. beaulieu holds both a BA and an MA from the  University of Calgary and has studied at The Alberta College of Art and Design. beaulieu was recently described by Robert Kroetsch as “a leader and an example. His complex awareness makes his work daring and challenging, readable and influential […] a model for the poets of his generation.”

(3) TERRANCE HOULE  

‘Tribal Tattoo’ – Paper Bag Tribal Tattoo Suit Workshop

Sunday 3rd, 2006, 11am - 7pm (please verify times closer to date of workshop)

Calgary Arts & Tattoo Festival, The Calgary Round-Up Centre

Artist Terrance Houle’s “Paper Bag Tribal Tattoo Suit” workshop will allow visitors to the Calgary Arts & Tattoo Festival to customize Paper Bag Indian Tribal Suits out of mixed media (paper bags, glue, paint, markers, glitter, etc), with their very own Tribal Tattoo designs.  As a multimedia Aboriginal artist living and working in Calgary Terrance Houle will give participants a chance to express their inner mixed media talent by offering a chance to create a suite using the idea of “tribal” from the custom culture of Tattoos. Terrance will be dressed as his Runs Downtown Character, with moccasin loin cloth and headdress. In many Indigenous cultures tattoos are a customary tradition that indicated status, culture, religion or spirituality.

Terrance Houle has very close ties to historical and modern-day Calgary as he is from the Blood Tribe (Kainai Nation) and in the spring of 2006 Terrance was the recipient of the ENBRIDGE Emerging artist Award from the City of Calgary’s Mayors Lunch

(4) WEDNESDAY LUPYPCIW

Workshop Title:‘Handi Craft, Handy Cats’

Date: Thursday 14th September 2006, from 11.30am – 8pm

Venue: ArtCity Festival, Olympic Plaza

Calgary artist Wednesday Lupypciw hopes to expose the public in Calgary to the quintessential clutter and excessiveness of hobby craft culture via an installation and series of lessons in CAMPER as part of TRUCK Gallery’s Patch Project during ArtCity Festival. Wednesday Lupypciw will infiltrate the often confusing array of DIY literature and interpersonal networks available to crafters by providing CAMPER Patch Workshop participants with only the most basic information and demonstrations- things like 'how to weave hot loops', 'how to twine pipe cleaners', etc. The artist will present no 'end product' or finite outcome of the learned techniques. In essence, the public could end up teaching the artist and thereby overturn the instructor/student dichotomy found in traditional educational scenarios. This last potential outcome smacks of the egalitarianism that is so thoroughly ingrained into crafting, and, conversely, contemporary activism. By participating, the public is (inadvertently) forming a new craft network and contributing to the development of techniques.

Wednesday Lupypciw is an emerging artist and arts advocate based in Calgary, Alberta.

A recent graduate of the Alberta College of Art & Design’s Fibre Program.

(5) ANTHEA BLACK

 ‘Spread the love: An army of video lovers cannot fail’

Activity: XXX Video Pin-Up Salon

Wednesday 27th September 2006, from 6pm - midnight

As part of ‘HUMP NIGHT!’ at the Calgary International Film Festival

(exact location to be announced on TRUCK Gallery website www.truck.ca)

Calgary artist Anthea Black will present ‘Spread the love: An army of video lovers cannot fail’, a XXX video pin-up salon and workshop, as part of TRUCK Gallery’s CAMPER Patch Project, and as part of Calgary International Film Festival’s ‘Hump Night’. Anthea will collect and screen short smutty video "pinups" by artists from Canada and beyond to be screened for one evening in TRUCK Gallery’s CAMPER. Participants can spread the love by engaging in several ways – by submitting, making, or watching as the CAMPER is transformed into a video pinup salon. Emphasis will be given to sex positive, non-exploitative videos and feminist/queer/genderqueer videos produced by artists, performers and those interested in politics of gender, sexuality, safer-sex and pleasure. Visitors/participants to this CAMPER Patch workshop will be able to engage in dialogue and debate with special guests with expertise in areas including gender politics, feminism, queer, genderqueer, sexuality, safer-sex, etc.  To participate & register in this Adults/18+ Only Workshop, please check out www.truck.ca

Anthea Black is an artist and art-writer. She has attended NSCAD, ACAD, The Banff Centre, and several conferences on contemporary art and Artist Run Culture. As the Director of Stride Gallery, she curated SUPER STRING and SINCERITY OVERDRIVE, and coordinated Stride's 20th Anniversary programs.

For info & updates on CAMPER Patch Workshops, Artists, Dates, & Times

Please visit our website www.TRUCK.ca or contact us at: 

TRUCK Gallery

The Grain Exchange (lower level),

815 First Street SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 1N3

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815 - 1st Street SW, Calgary, AB,
T2P 1N3 CANADA

T: 403.261.7702 F: 403.264.7737
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Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11 am to 5 pm