Mercer Union, 37 Lisgar Street, Toronto
September 14 - October 20, 2007
Opening Friday September 14, 8 pm
Saturday September 22, 4:30 pm
Instant Coffee Artists' Talk
Sunday September 23, 7 pm
Sunday Nook Dinner
with 24 guests
Friday October 5, 8 pm
Instant Coffee Slide Show
with Ulysses Castellanos, Rosemary Heather, Michael Klein, Jinhan Ko, Jenifer Papararo/Kate Monro, Dean Baldwin
Thursday October 11, 8 pm
Instant Coffee Nook Salon Show
Sculpture intervention in the nooks by Krista Buecking and Lyndsey Cope, Music performance by Laura Borealis with Andrew Scott and Matt Murphy
Instant Coffee take over the front and back galleries with a sculptural social environment based on familiar feeling seating nooks, which the collective uses to engage audiences in event-based activities such as slide lectures and readings, video screenings, meetings, a magazine launch and a catered dinner.
In the Back Room at Mercer Union
Instant Coffee presents Static Edition Wallpaper 2nd Screening. A number of Canadian artists were asked to activate the Instant Coffee wallpaper by projecting videos. The wallpaper acts as the ground for each video work, enhancing the design or sullying it.
Video projections by:
1. Instant Coffee, Afghan Roll
2. Jinhan Ko & Kelly Lycan, Flicker
3. Until We Have A Helicopter, Tomorrow Tomorrow
4. Scott Russell, Blob
5. Jeff Tutt, Etone
6. Germaine Koh, Pace
7. Jinhan Ko & Kelly Lycan, Palm Drive
8. Holly Ward, Bubbles
9. Kika Thorne, Blue Tarp
10. Kevin Schmidt, Burning Bush
11. Scott Russell, Elbow
12. Jonathan Middleton, New Wave Length
