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Aboriginal identity remixed and mashed up
DOWN THEY GO...
Staff photo/DAN PEARCE
SNOW FUN: Eric Liphardt has fun with his daughters Vivian, 3, and Tarin, 6, tobogganing at Christie Pits Saturday.
Aboriginal heritage and urban youth culture will come together in a new exhibition at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Titled Beat Nation, the exhibition will see artists remixing and mashing up old and new, juxtaposing traditional pieces of the Aboriginal identity with modern mainstream art in media ranging from painting, sculpture, performance, video and more. Some two dozen artists will participate in the exhibition, which also takes roots from hip hop, which has become a major force in youth activism in Aboriginal communities in recent years. The artists hail from across North America, from the west coast to Labrador and from Nunavut and Alaska to New Mexico. Despite their varying cultures and surroundings, the exhibition will bring the artists together to demonstrate the connections they share. Beat Nation takes place at the Power Plant at Harbourfront Centre and will run through to May 5. n For more information, visit www. thepowerplant.org
Pavement artwork pays tribute to Brick Works’ history JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com
Painting made possible by funding from StreetARToronto
Evergreen Brick Works is paying homage to its history with the addition of a new art installation adorning a portion of its parking lot. Toronto artists Dan Bergeron and Paul Aloisi painted the piece, dubbed Underground Kiln, on the parking lot’s surface, serving as a reminder of
the Brick Works original purpose as a place where some 40 million bricks were produced each year. The piece shows a bird’s-eye view outline of one of the old brick firing kilns that once adorned the site. “There used to be four chimneys (at the Brick Works) and now
there’s only one,” said Evergreen Brick Works spokesperson Anthony Westenberg. “People can now stand right where the chimney was and look straight up to see where it would have been.” A portion of the parking lot was
closed off throughout much of November to allow Bergeron and Aloisi to paint the piece. It fits along with some of the other artwork on display at Evergreen, including images of some of the site’s former brickmakers adorning the walls.
“It’s a way of giving a cultural and industrial nod through an artistic lens,” Westenberg said. “It’s a nice way of reminding people this place was here long before (Evergreen was) here.” The painting was made possible with funding from StreetARToronto (StART), a public/private grant program that aims to support and >>>Brick Works, page 11
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