Rear View
(Projects) presents:
Flipping
Properties by Jimenez Lai & Bureau Spectacular
Opening
Event:
Friday, July
11, 2014, 6:00-9:00pm
Performance
at 7:00pm followed by Jimenez Lai in conversation with science radio producer
and host Britt Wray (CBC, WNYC) for combined scientific and architectural
perspectives on flipping the house.
Exhibition
Location & Dates:
The laneway
at Sheridan Avenue & Gordon Street, Toronto (refer to map below)
July 11 –
September 14, 2014
Rear View
(Projects) is pleased to present Flipping Properties, a project by Jimenez Lai
in Toronto during summer 2014.
Flipping
Properties was commissioned by Rear View (Projects) for an unconventional
exhibition platform - a laneway in Toronto’s Little Portugal neighbourhood. The
project is a continuation of an ongoing study of super-furnitures by Lai, an
architect, and the team of Bureau Spectacular. The installation takes the
familiar house icon, the pentagon, as its formal starting point. Lai denatures
this symbol of domesticity, converting it into super-furniture which is ‘too
big to be furniture and too small to be architecture.’ This intervention in
Toronto’s urban fabric provokes us to reconsider the potential uses for
overlooked spaces in the city and question typical modes of interaction between
art, place and audiences.
During the
opening event on July 11, 2014, pieces of the installation will tumble and
relocate within the laneway, creating a place for neighbours to gather and
imagine an architecture that can reorient infinitely. Join us for a lively talk
with Lai and science radio producer and host Britt Wray (CBC, WNYC), who will
discuss the topic of ‘rotation’ from the varied perspectives of architecture
and science.
Flipping
Properties is free and open for view anytime from July 11, 2014 to September
14, 2014 in the laneway at Sheridan Avenue & Gordon Street, Toronto (refer
to map).
Image
Credit: Bureau Spectacular
The project
is supported by the Toronto Arts Council & the Ontario Arts Council.
For further
information please contact info@rearviewprojects.com
