TOXICITY 2013

December 7, 2013 to February 8, 2014
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Co-presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, INCUBATOR Lab at the University of Windsor Co-curated by Melentie Pandilovski and Jennifer Willet

http://www.toxicitywinnipeg.com/
http://plugin.org/exhibitions/2013/toxicity

Artists:
Trish Adams (Brisbane, Australia)
Alana Bartol (Windsor, Ontario)
Critical Art Ensemble (Buffalo, USA)
Joe Davis (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Tagny Duff (Montreal, Quebec)
Aganetha Dyck (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Ted Heibert (Seattle, USA)
Natalie Jeremijenko (NYC, USA)
David Khang (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Andrew E Pelling (Ottawa, Ontario)
Niki Sperou (Adelaide, Australia)
Reva Stone (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Amanda White (Toronto, Ontario)
Elaine Whittaker (Toronto, Ontario)
Jennifer Willet (Windsor, Ontario)
with Jeanette Groenendaal and Zoot Derks (Amsterdam, Holland).

TOXICITY 2013 is the inaugural exhibition, conference and workshop of a series of international exhibitions and conferences surrounding the notion of toxicities in the contemporary world. This premier exhibition, co-curated by Dr. Melentie Pandilovski (Director of Video Pool, Winnipeg) and Dr. Jennifer Willet (Director, INCUBATOR Lab, The University of Windsor) will highlight the growing Canadian biotech arts community within an international context. To that end, TOXICITY will present artworks by twelve emerging and established Canadian and international artists utilizing biological media to explore real and perceived toxic byproducts and outcomes affiliated with biotechnology, biosecurity, biomedicine, and biopolitics.

In addition to the exhibition, the works will be further contextualized for Canadian audiences through a hands-on bioart workshop held by the Australian artist Niki Sperou and a public symposium including a variety of artists from the exhibition and significant Canadian and international theorists in the art/science domain.

Sponsors include: Canada Council for the Arts, Government of South Australia, and the Ontario Arts Council.

TOXICITY Press
Together, science and art address our planetary psychopathology
Winnipeg hosts the inaugural bioart exhibition of Toxicity

The Manitoban – November 25, 2013

Art imitating nature
Toxicity explores human relationships with threatened environments
The Projector – December 2, 2013

Akimbo Review
December 10,2013

3 Shows Offer New Ways of Experiencing Art
CBC – December 12, 2013

Weird Science
International group of artists explores the frontier between avant-garde art and cutting-edge biotech
Winnipeg Free Press – January 9, 2014

Image Credits:
01 Trish Adams artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

02 Aganetha Dyck artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

03 Aganetha Dyck artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

04 Amanda White and Natalie Jeremijenko artworks in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

05 Natalie Jeremijenko artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

06 Amanda White artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

07 Amanda White artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

08 Alana Bartol artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

09 Tagny Duff artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

10 Joe Davis artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

11 David Khang artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

12 Niki Sperou artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

13 Jennifer Willet artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

14 Jennifer Willet artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

15 Andrew Pelling artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

16 Andrew Pelling artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

17 Ted Hiebert artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

18 Reva Stone artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

19 Reva Stone and Elaine Whittaker artworks in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.

20 Elaine Whittaker artwork in Toxicity Exhibition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.