PULP: PAPER ART PARTY 2018

Hello everyone! Get ready to party in a room full of paper!  I'm please to announce that I will be part of this year's PULP: paper art party again! Tickets are selling out fast, so if you're interested, please purchase yours online.

TICKETS: adult: 20$,  student: $15 (with student ID shown at entrance)

PULP : paper art party 2018 is an evening combining installation art, live music, dancing, and charity. It’s a fundraiser designed to examine the current life cycle of paper materials among others and investigate alternative uses. The main event space is wheelchair accessible, regretfully however the washrooms and coat check are downstairs and not barrier-free accessible.  This year we turn Super Wonder Gallery (584 College St. Toronto) into a blue bin playground on Jan 20, 2018.  Doors open at 7pm, and party runs till 2am!  18+ event.

I will be doing a series of short art performances titled desolate paper girl between musical acts throughout the night.  desolate paper girl is a performance piece that explores the boundaries between the real and the imaginary.  This work is made up of old and new drawings and texts on paper, found, used papers, and video footage projections from the past.  As the desolate paper girl stands above, she lets the papers tell a story that once was, and never will be again.   (performances start at 9pm)

desolate paper queen's

paper laundry 

hangs.

shattered love

paper heart 

tears.

from the other side

she greets you 

bare.

Nuit Blanche 2017 :: Toronto :: WIGGLY STREET :: #84

© image of Ryan Longo + aleks Bartosik
Design by Nour Bawab

WIGGLY STREET (no. 84) is an urban celebration of Canada, 150 Years into the Future.  This art installation and performance is created by the Wiggly Artists Collective specifically for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2017.  The Wiggly Artists Collective is a multidisciplinary collective that combines sculpture, visual arts, film, video, art performance, dance, sound, and music creating environments that unite their audiences. Produced by Takin Nateghi, WIGGLY STREET combines four major components that are led by four respective artists:

:: ALeKs BartosiK ::

~ Visual and Performance Artist ~ Will create 6min long live performances each hour on the hour with Aurorah (musician) and Eros Leonard (dancer). Representing a 24-hour cycle over the 'future' years that tells a story of love and unity of the potential unknown, which are fundamental Canadian values. 

:: Rouzbeh Heydari ::

~ Filmmaker, Director, and Producer ~ Projection mapping celebrating major world milestones and symbolisms that represent Canadian culture and values, such as multiculturalism, equality, and universality

:: Ryan Longo ::

~ Sculpture Artist ~ Sculptural installations with LED components representing futuristic urban forestry.

:: TAKIN of Wiggly Events ::

~ DJ and Producer ~ Curates the Audio Component – hourly audio performances will symbolically ignite the 'Reactor' (Longo) that powers the installation, fueled by the vibrations caused by audience movement.

NUIT BLANCHE artists do not get payed to create for this FREE event, and as such, we have created a GoFundMe Page in hopes to raise funding to cover some of the costs associated in putting together this art installation. 

To help us reach our goal, please visit: 

https://www.gofundme.com/wiggly-street-nuit-blanche

We appreciate any help!   

♥  Thank You, in advance, for your on-going support!  ♥

NUIT BLANCHE TORONTO, for event map and details for WIGGLY STREET, #84

https://nbto.com/project.html?project_id=501

© aleks Bartosik (2015)

© wiggly st performance (2017)

(aleks Bartosik, Aurorah, Eros Leonard)

© wiggly st performance (2017)

(aleks Bartosik, Aurorah, Eros Leonard) 

© iridescent story pieces (2016)

(aleks Bartosik, Aurorah, Eros Leonard, Sara Boucher)

© aleks Bartosik (2016)

Toronto: Queen St W

*correction: gallery is actually open until 11pm each day.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION in TORONTO

RAW presents VERSE

This Thursday + Friday, June 22 + 23 @ Mod Club, Toronto.

aleks Bartosik will be exhibiting on Friday! 

for tickets:  aleks Bartosik (http://www.rawartists.org/aleksbartosik) 

Whether or not you can attend personally, please consider spreading the word.

Thank you for your ongoing support.  

* sold * at RAW event

UPCOMING: SWG new location!

Super Wonder Gallery is re-opening again!

NEW location is 584 College St. W, Toronto. 

I'm pleased to announce that I will be part of the opening show: The Amazing Sci-Fi Show! Join me & all the artists for the GRAND OPENING on Friday & Saturday, May 12th & 13th! 

KIRKLAND, ONTARIO

Museum of Northern History presents:

Entrails:  The 10th Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition

April 6 - May 3, 2017

closing reception: Saturday, April 29th, 1 - 3pm

artist talk: Saturday, April 29th 10:30am - 12pm

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN HISTORY

Sir Harry Oakes Chateau 2 Chateau Drive

Kirkland Lake, ON P2N 3M7

Phone: 705-568-8800 

Website: museumkl.com 

Email: museum@tkl.ca

Entrails, the Latin interanea, or “internal”, is the root of the word entrails (viscera or entraña, in Spanish), which either could refer to a main organ situated inside the body or generally as something internal.

The noun entrails is also used to mean the inside of something such as the entrails of a street or the vital components of a system. We could refer to this word in both a spiritual or physical way – referencing the body or the material world in which we live. In either instance, the word is often used when the internal is made visible; marking the visceral and often uncomfortable, perhaps even fatal, moment of exposure either literally or symbolically.  Thus exposure and concealment, internal and external, conscious and unconscious are important aspects of this word to consider. In thinking about the body specifically, it’s possible to also deliberate the ways that the body’s entrails record or respond to both physical and mental triggers, often manifesting inner thoughts and feelings.  This exhibition is intended to bring together a range of mediums and thoughtful responses to this theme. 

I'm pleased to announce that this little piece is part of Entrails!

© aleks Batosik, building her fiction (2015), mix media on found object, 15 x 9.5"

 

Whitehorse, 2016

...a little re-visit to Whitehorse Nuit Blanche. June 2016

I will be editing some of the performance videos that were created during that time and posting here in due time. Thank you for your patience, in the meantime, here's a little short documentary video that I shot during one of the windiest days! 

special thank you to Jimmy and Don Watt for helping me set this installation up! Couldn't have done it without you!

The Toronto Star

THE TORONTO STAR
AGO course explores feminism through art: Participants learn to use visual art to inspire change and create dialogue."

by JACKIE HONG, staff reporter
Friday, April 14, 2017

Canadian artist Aleks Bartosik has long used painting, drawing and sculpture to explore feminist ideas.

Her life experiences were the inspiration behind the first edition of “Art-making Inspired by Feminist Ideas,” a course at the Art Gallery of Ontario that saw a dozen participants explore feminism through various visual mediums including zine-making, collage, painting and sculpture. 

“It was feminist-driven . . . but I don’t want that to be the only thing that (participants) take away from it,” Bartosik said in March after the conclusion of the first edition. “(I hope they get) a sense of achievement and self-expression to speak through visual language, to inspire change or create a dialogue about feminism and talk about ideas to end sexism, oppression, things like that,” she said.

“Art-making is just one form they can do that through without standing around and picketing.” 

The second edition of the course will run for five weeks starting May 3, and costs $275 for AGO members or $355 for the public. Registration is available on the AGO’s website.

The Star asked some of the first edition participants what feminism means to them and how they expressed it through the art they made during the course. 

And here's the direct link to the article: https://www.thestar.com/life/2017/04/14/ago-course-explores-feminism-through-art.html enjoy!

Below,  some of the work created during my class.
all photos by Cole Burston of The Toronto Star.

camille deputter

 

karen vianna

anna zhyn

kristyn dunnion

Toronto :: TWIST GALLERY

TWIST GALLERY presents
Emergence and Rebirth
February 2 - 24, 2017

...transmitting stories of self-out from under the shadows.
curated by Evelisa Natasha

DATE CORRECTION: FEB 2 - 24, 2017 (not Feb 28!)

 © aleks Bartosik, chestnut lady my brown mouse, how deep you are in the ground

 © aleks Bartosik, guardian beast (detail)

broken story pieces (2017) paper installation by aleks Bartosik

PULP: paper art party: SATURDAY, JAN 14

broken story pieces (2017) is an installation and performance by aleks Bartosik. 
danced by Em Leonard. music by Aurorah. film and video by Jacq Andrade.  
make-up art by Diana Kuzmina.

  
Ever partied in a room full of paper?

PULP : paper art party 2017 is an evening combining reclaimed materials installation art, live music, dancing, and charity. It's a fundraiser designed to examine the current life cycle of paper materials (among others) and investigate alternative uses. The event will take place next week on Saturday, January 14th in TORONTO (360 Geary Ave) from 8pm to 2:30am.  Get your tickets soon before they sell out!  This year the event will have two acts. We open with Art Lounge (8-11pm) then close with an After Party (11pm-2:30am)

***ART LOUNGE***We'll create a relaxed atmosphere for conversation, observation, and exploration of our installation art with live music by Vivienne Wilder (https://viviennewilder.bandcamp.com/) and my 8min multi-disciplinary art performances, titled broken story pieces, between her act.  broken story pieces was created specifically for PULP by yours truly in collaboration with dancer Em Leonard :: film-maker Jacq Andrade :: musician Aurorah ::

***AFTER PARTY***We'll dim the lights and let the DJs take over. Dance through art and see the unique installations in a new light.

ÈBONY(Jericho One) (https://soundcloud.com/darknhard)

Wasserman (La Grotta)

Waseem Dabdoub

Cash bar. This is a 19+ event.

FOR TICKETS: http://pulpartparty.ca/art-installations-paper-art-party-2017/

FB EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/983831441746526/

DOCUMENTATION OF THE ART WORK : broken story pieces
photo credit of performance on location: Adrienne Elizabeth 
other images made by us: aleks Bartosik, Jacq Andrade 

our nest (2017) entirely recycled/reused paper installation. a. bartosik

Aurorah - our musician and composer. costume by a. bartosik

broken story pieces (2017) film by Jacq Andrade 

broken story pieces (2017) performance

broken story pieces (2017) performance (aleks Bartosik with Em Leonard)

broken story pieces (2017) film still  (directed/edited/filmed by Jack Andrade)

broken story pieces (2017) film still 

broken story pieces (2017) film still 

broken story pieces, our nest (2017) installation detail 

broken story pieces (2017) film still / projection

broken story pieces (2017) film still / projection