2013 Gladstone Hotel’s Grow Op 2013 | www.gladstonehotel.com
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EXPLORING LANDSCAPE AND PLACE April 25 to 28, 2013
SCHEDULE + HOURS THURSDAY, APRIL 25 4pm – 6pm Private Media Preview 6.30pm – 8pm PLAYING WITH LANDSCAPE: Making Art in the Open / A Public Forum | Gladstone Ballroom 6pm – 10pm Exhibition hours FRIDAY, APRIL 26 11am – 10pm Exhibition hours 7pm – 10pm Opening reception (with DJ Iris Fraser Gudrunas) SATURDAY, APRIL 27 11am – 8pm Exhibition hours SUNDAY, APRIL 28 11am – 5pm Exhibition Hours ADMISSION: $10 PER PERSON ($5 FOR STUDENTS, WITH VALID ID)
Grow Op is produced by the Gladstone Hotel
Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont., M6J 1J6 416 531 4635 gladstonehotel.com
The Gladstone Hotel acknowledges the generous support of the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation for sponsoring the 2013 Grow Op catalogue.
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Cover Image: Mow Table by Ryan Taylor.
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Gladstone Hotel’s Grow Op 2013 | www.gladstonehotel.com
WHAT IS GROW OP? Grow Op is the Gladstone Hotel’s annual alternative landscape design event. This four-day event celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape and place across a broad range of creative practices. Grow Op 2013 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum for landscape, garden design, art and place making within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood. Grow Op explores new territories and uncovers new ways of expression and meaning through projects that represent a wide range of approaches from the prosaic to the poetic, the elemental to the ephemeral.
THE GLADSTONE HOTEL
Room 401 | Offset by Heather Dubbeldam + Tania Ursomarzo
The Gladstone Hotel is the oldest continuously running hotel in the city of Toronto. The Gladstone’s juxtaposition of old and new; historical landmark and contemporary art scene, makes it an icon of local culture and a gateway for international travelers. The hotel houses 37 unique artist designed hotel rooms, each imagined by Toronto’s best talent, with two restaurants, four event venue spaces and three exhibition spaces. The Gladstone is a values-based business dedicated to offering an immersive and authentic experience to its guests. See our amazing rooms, events and exhibitions at: WWW.GLADSTONEHOTEL.COM Gladstone Hotel’s Grow Op 2013 | www.gladstonehotel.com
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Abelardo Morell
Camera obscura used historically for depicting landscape
Roof adjacent room window
Room interior: window
Room interior: back wall
Plant arrangement outside of window
Projection on back and side walls
Opening in window (aperture) approximately 1/2� diameter
Long exposure photograph, by George Samuel
Interaction with visitors
Cleo with whiteboard shows different part of view in focus at various distances from aperture
Interaction with young visitor
Objects in far distance are in focus when whiteboard is close to aperture