Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Where else but IN a Phone Booth?


LAST CHANCE - ends on Saturday!

TEL-TALK
art interventions in telephone booths

Exhibition continues to Saturday, July 14, 2012
Exhibition photographs available at http://telephoneboothgallery.ca/tel-talk.html

Coordinated by: Paola Poletto, Liis Toliao and Yvonne Koscielak

Tel-talk is an on-going project that 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 has culminated in the current exhibition at the Telephone Booth Gallery, along with a fabulous book which outlines contributions to the project in (phone) book form, printed under the Tightrope Books imprint. The book is now available at the gallery for $19.95

The project continues online with an open invitation to artists and writers to make their own art interventions.  Full list of participants: http://tel-talk.blogspot.ca/

Notable Press:
Torontoist - http://torontoist.com/2012/06/telephone-booth-takeover/
Taddle Creek - http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/art-on-the-line
Must see exhibition - NOW MagazineIN Toronto Magazine
Globe and Mail - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/artists-to-give-telephone-booths-across-toronto-a-facelift/article534602/#039;s%20Must%20Reads&utm_content=2372021



LAST CHANCE to catch these TEL-TALK  Telephone Booth art interventions 

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)

HOURS
Tues by appt.
Wed - Fri 11am - 6pm
Sat 10am - 6pm






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

Contact: Sharlene Rankin, Director
sharlene@telephoneboothgallery.ca



(Works featured:  Postcard - Dyan Marie, TEL-Talk book cover and interior page, textile work by Lizz Aston, glass phones by Steven Tippin)