1. BOOK SIGNING: EDWARD BURTYNSKY: QUARRIES

At David Mirvish Books, Toronto. Sunday, October 28, 2007 from 2 - 4 pm.

Ed Burtynsky, Rock of Ages # 5, Abandoned Granite Quarry, Vermont 1991. Image: flowerseast.com

Photographer Edward Burtynsky and book author Michael Mitchell will be present to sign copies of the book.

After some 25 years of exploring the impact of industry on our planet, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a substantial body of work documenting the world’s major quarries — in Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America.

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2. NO. 9 DEBUTS AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR

No. 9 is a new Toronto-based, non-profit curatorial agency committed to the belief that contemporary art can stimulate positive social and environmental change.

Recycled Tube Light by Castor Canadensis. Image: mocoloco.com

At this year’s Toronto International Art Fair, No. 9’s Lounge will features a commissioned environment by Canadian designers Castor Canadensis and a film program on themes of ecology, including work by Gordon Matta-Clark, Allora & Caladilla and others.

Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974. Image: davidzwirner.com

Manufactured Landscapes, the documentary on Edward Burtynsky will also screen.

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3. FUSE AT THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY

October 26, 2007 from 6 pm to midnight.

That night, the Vancouver Art Gallery will be packed with an ever-changing array of programming drawing on Vancouver’s LIVE Performance Art Biennale and other thriving artistic communities.

Events will include a séance with a deceased neo-Dadaist, theatres where only human heads take the stage, music played on a frying pan, a performance of the seminal minimalist composition “In C” and much more.

Tanya Mars performing Bronco’s Kiss, 1996. Image: uleth.ca

FUSE will present one of Canada’s most renowned performance artists, Tanya Mars. Joined by Alissa Firth-Eagland in the ground floor rotunda, the artists will perform In Pursuit of Happiness, a meditation on excess and consumption in which the two lavishly dressed women will eat cake continuously for a 12-hour period.

Timed to coincide with the openings of major exhibitions, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s FUSE puts the city’s leading visual arts destination in an entirely new light—at night. FUSE tickets are $15 per person. Free to members of the VAG.

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