Hidden Shrines - Felix Kalmenson + Sasha Foster
“Everybody used to just walk by this place — even the city,” Kamelson said. “For the first time in who knows how long, you couldn’t not look anymore.”
Sunday June 26th - Spadina/Darcy backlot
Sunday July 17th - Atkinson co-op
Sunday July 31st - 214 Augusta Backlot
Saturday August 13th - Toronto Islands
Sunday July 17th - Atkinson co-op
Sunday July 31st - 214 Augusta Backlot
Saturday August 13th - Toronto Islands
“'A prohibition is meant to be violated', George Bataille noted in l'Erotisme, and the violation of the law was intimately connected to the sacred – transgression of profane rules and laws opening the way to the world of gods, feasts and sacrifice that lay beyond law, beyond prohibitions. Hence, a sacred avant-garde would have to be transgressive – not merely to break out of the art world and into 'life', but also in order to forge complete human beings and a reintegrated society.
This would not be possible, in Bataille's view, without the creation of new myths and rituals, capable of momentary suspending man-made institutions and laws and providing a collective access to the sacred, thus forging a community.” ( page 32 Sven Lutticken, Secret Publicity) As George Bataille suggests, for the avant-garde to reconcile art and life there is a necessity to step beyond the institutions and assumptions of contemporary societies and to re-inscribe the sacred within life as a collective experience. But the question remains how does the avant-garde activate new myths and rituals and what are the implications?
Hidden shrines will activate forgotten or underused landscapes in communities around Toronto through the introduction of imagined mythologies and a temporary access to the sacred.
Throughout the summer four miniature shrines will be built from found objects and ephemera. These sites of myth will engage unwitting passer-by’s in a momentary questioning of the familiar and allow for the re-interpretation of popular culture and its detritus as a text.
This would not be possible, in Bataille's view, without the creation of new myths and rituals, capable of momentary suspending man-made institutions and laws and providing a collective access to the sacred, thus forging a community.” ( page 32 Sven Lutticken, Secret Publicity) As George Bataille suggests, for the avant-garde to reconcile art and life there is a necessity to step beyond the institutions and assumptions of contemporary societies and to re-inscribe the sacred within life as a collective experience. But the question remains how does the avant-garde activate new myths and rituals and what are the implications?
Hidden shrines will activate forgotten or underused landscapes in communities around Toronto through the introduction of imagined mythologies and a temporary access to the sacred.
Throughout the summer four miniature shrines will be built from found objects and ephemera. These sites of myth will engage unwitting passer-by’s in a momentary questioning of the familiar and allow for the re-interpretation of popular culture and its detritus as a text.