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401 Update – Summer 2022
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FADO Performance Art Centre
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre based in Toronto, Canada. FADO provides a stage and on-going forum in support of the research and development of contemporary performance art practices in Canada and internationally. As a year-round presentation platform, FADO exists nomadically, working with partner organizations and presenters, and utilizing…
Events & Exhibitions
Nuit Blanche 2022
Oct 1, 2022 to Oct 2, 20227PM – 7AM
Nuit Blanche, Toronto’s all-night celebration of contemporary art, returns this fall for its 16th edition. Throughout Nuit Blanche Toronto’s 12-hour spectacle, 401 Richmond will be teeming with dynamic and interactive exhibitions, installations and performances created by home-grown talent and by artists from as far away as the Canadian Arctic. Two floors of creative exploration await…
April Hickox, Observance, 2022
Virtual Window Gallery
April Hickox, Observance, 2022, 7 minute video loop
“The fabric of memory is a malleable form – it shifts in your mind as a collection of lived experiences grows. We need to be open to what this process can teach us. Loss has a weight, an impact, it changes and strengthens you. It makes you reflect on what you have and what could have been. I don’t believe you ever stop grieving. It lessens, but the grief never leaves you.”
April Hickox
A sequence of single and gridded videos of floral arrangements, Observance reflects upon how we are both tied to and changed by our experiences of the loss of loved ones. Through this work, April creates a monument to the act of remembrance, reflecting on the AIDS crisis and its effect on the arts community. Activating and animating memory through the creation of these unique bouquets, April gives form to the observation that she holds those departed within her. The artist notes that “there is a duality in flowers that interests her. They are given in thanks and in sorrow. They are containers of multitudes.”
An excerpt from Observance, a Monument to Memory by Jennifer Long
April Hickox is an established Canadian artist, educator, and independent curator. Producing for over 35 years; her practice includes photography, film, video, and installation. Hickox’s work is based in narratives and explores how the passage from one life experience to another encompasses history and memory.
Another version of Observance is installed until the end of September at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets at the TD Bank on their media art wall that presents curated video presentations by Canadian artists from the TD Bank Art Collection holdings.
This version of Observance is on view now at 401 Richmond adjacent to Studio 120.
April Hickox
A sequence of single and gridded videos of floral arrangements, Observance reflects upon how we are both tied to and changed by our experiences of the loss of loved ones. Through this work, April creates a monument to the act of remembrance, reflecting on the AIDS crisis and its effect on the arts community. Activating and animating memory through the creation of these unique bouquets, April gives form to the observation that she holds those departed within her. The artist notes that “there is a duality in flowers that interests her. They are given in thanks and in sorrow. They are containers of multitudes.”
An excerpt from Observance, a Monument to Memory by Jennifer Long
April Hickox is an established Canadian artist, educator, and independent curator. Producing for over 35 years; her practice includes photography, film, video, and installation. Hickox’s work is based in narratives and explores how the passage from one life experience to another encompasses history and memory.
Another version of Observance is installed until the end of September at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets at the TD Bank on their media art wall that presents curated video presentations by Canadian artists from the TD Bank Art Collection holdings.
This version of Observance is on view now at 401 Richmond adjacent to Studio 120.