Liberating Matter
Liberating Matter is a multi-disciplinary reading and brainstorming group of philosophical experimenters, drawn from McMaster's departments of philosophy, cultural studies, religious studies, and art history. The goal is to craft from conversation and speculation on particular texts of Gilles Deleuze, Quentin Meillassoux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Félix Guattari a new, optimistic, vision of existentialism. It fits into the tradition of existentialism because of a central starting point: freedom is not a metaphysical or ontological problem, but an ethical problem. Nonetheless, the central concepts under examination are relevant to studies of being, knowledge, morals, and ethics, destabilizing many traditional boundaries of philosophy.
Meeting every second Wednesday beginning September 21st at 7pm. 2nd floor Sonic Unyon Building. Free, all welcome.
Lead by Adam Riggio
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Previous Exhibitions
Mimicry Camouflage - Thomas Jessome, Solo Exhibition
Channeling the technique of Automatism throughout most of his work,
Thomas Jessome can perhaps be best categorized as an Internet
topographer. In the heyday of advance imaging and image manipulation,
Thomas utilizes dated techniques -such as bitmapping- and images found
on random Google searches to imbue the saturation of information
available on the net with new meaning.
The process is precisely the key to understanding
the work. Thomas assembles singular desensitized entities into
challenging new pieces which suggest to the viewer new concepts of the
information age. Thomas thus rethinks the planned obsolescence manifest
in today's technology and its visual culture into a rhizome of
expressive meaning.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 11th, 2011 19:00hrs
Temporary Projects
22 Wilson Street (2nd Floor Sonic Unyon Building)
Hamilton, ON
Canada
For more works by Thomas Jessome visit his blog:
~ http://thedarkyouth.tumblr
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Freeloader of the Universe - Karl Stefan Andersson, Solo Exhibition
A Free Loader of the Universe
Pictures and Notes from Kensington Market 1996-97
With
a major solo exhibition of paintings and notes from Kensington Market
in Toronto, Temporary Projects is pleased to present the work of
Swedish artist, author and musician Dr. Karl Stefan Theodor Andersson.
The
originals of this series of gouache paintings carried out while
Andersson was living in Kensington Market from 1996-97, supported on a
fat grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, will be exhibited publically
for the first time at Temporary Projects. Andersson is an accomplished
painter who uses bold colours to convey compositional arrangements that
function in part as a documentation of a neighborhood in constant
flux, explored through the artist’s own subjectivity as “an
anti-authoritarian free spirited citizen of the universe.” The images
consist of everyday genre scenes imbued with multifarious philosophical
and theological subtexts, taken directly and informed by Andersson’s
writing on Bertrand Russell and his search for certainty in religion
and mathematics.
Born
in Sweden, Andersson has since 1972 studied theology and philosophy at
Lund University, Harvard Divinity School and did one year of graduate
studies in philosophy at Berkeley California, under the guidance of
Dadaist Paul Feyerabend and various other leftovers from the 60s. The
result was that it took him 15 years as a graduate student commuting
between the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in Hamilton and
Sweden, which resulted in a doctoral thesis in philosophy of religion,
which was successfully defended at Lund in the spring of 1994. Since
then Andersson has been a free loading, free thinking, free fucking citizen of the Universe surviving on the kindness of family, friends and strangers, without ever having had to rely on the dirty military-industrial-financial-
How is this possible? Come to Temporary Projects on December 9th at 19:00 and the Doc will tell you...
Also featuring special guests including chronic free loader Scott Horlacher and the Spirit of Bertrand Russell…
Dr. Karl Stefan Theodor Andersson
9 December 2011 – 6 January 2012
Temporary Projects
22 Wilson Street (2nd Floor Sonic Unyon Building)
Hamilton, ON
Canada
http://temporaryprojects.
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History that Happened or was Dreamed - Group Exhibition
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History that Happened or was Dreamed - Group Exhibition
Temporary Projects is pleased to present History That Happened Or Was Dreamed, an exhibition featuring tangential realities in photography and video.
Works by
• Ariel Bader-Shamai
• Kearon Roy Taylor
• Amy McIntosh
• Aaron Joo
Sonic contributions by Hysteria Siberania on January 13th & 14th
• Connor Bennett
• Chris Ferguson
• Aaron Hutchinson
• Joshua Wiener
Exhibition Opening: Friday, January 13th, 2012
19:00
