Located at 911 Davenport Road in
Toronto, Canada, Roadside Attractions is a storefront window art
space created and maintained by WeSee Inc. The space is used for
monthly, site-specific installations and other visual art
projects.
Conceived in 2007 with its inaugural exhibit in July of that year,
Roadside Attractions has shown a diverse selection of artists
incorporating a wide range of media. Our on-going commitment is to
present exhibits that stimulate the promotion of contemporary art
and culture in a venue that allows for provocative interactions
with the populace at large.
Commencing in 2010 Roadside
Attractions will be exhibiting the art projects of international
artists while maintaining our commitment to Canadian artists in
order to promote and encourage a cultural link with the global
community.
Artists' works are selected by means of proposal
submissions and exhibits are scheduled on an
on-going basis.
We accept submissions for projects
in any media with the provision that it is suited to the confines
of the space (view our Submissions Outline
or contact us for more details or to be on our
mailing list).
Roadside Attractions is available free to the exhibiting
artist.
July at ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
video still courtesy of Scott
M2
Moz - Cloud Painting #8
by Scott
M2
video and soundscape
It is believed that the
word moose is derived from the Algonquin
Abenaki tribe’s name, Moz.
Moz was captured on film in Algonquin
Park as he pensively enjoyed his lunch. No doubt he was pondering
the transience of existence and his place in the art world as a
symbol of Canada’s deepest wilderness.
The Cloud
Painting series employs clouds as agents of
artistic transformation in order to draw the viewer deeper into
slow-time. As ambient art, Cloud Paintings
reward attention but
can be as easily ignored as the elemental wilderness that
Moz
represents.
The soundscape for Moz is by dreamSTATE (Scott M2 and Jamie
Todd).
Scott M2 (Scott McGregor Moore) is
the founder of electronic soundscape project dreamSTATE. Deeply rooted in the
concepts of ambient music, Scott has initiated a series of
investigations into the possibilities of ambient photography, film
and related multimedia to induce a slower, subtler relationship
with time. His latest projects include the Cloud Painting
series and
Oblique
Poetries wordsoundart
with Lynn
Harrigan.
Websites:
http://www.dreamstate.to/scottm2/index.htm
http://www.dreamstate.to
Now
until July 31
24
hours daily
Previously
at Roadside Attractions
