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Row houses on Pengarth Court will be converted into a multi-purpose art centre providing the community with a unique space for creative and civic engagement. Houses on Pengarth undertakes to stage a temporary Museum and experimental art lab in four houses slated for eventual demolition at Pengarth Court in Lawrence Heights. Taken together, the houses […]

Get your 2013 pass and 2013 gift passes now, while quantities last! Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to present the eighth season of the Urban Field Speakers Series. This international lecture series brings together an array of global and local participants, including artists, architects, curators, designers and scholars, who offer unique perspectives on […]

2011 2012 The Urban Field Speaker Series centres on the role of art in transforming the experience of the city. Through lectures, audio-visual presentations and discussions, it explores how creative practices can help improve the quality of urban life and planning in Toronto and around the world. This series of montly events bring together an […]

Professor Janine Marchessault has been awarded the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. She is one of four 2012 Trudeau Fellows announced October 2 at a ceremony at the University of Toronto. Congratulations!

Visible City Project + Archive now has a channel on Vimeo. Visit our page to stay up to date on the latest artists, scholars, and curators that have caught our interest.

Join us at: Of Swallows, their deeds, and the winter below, 283 College Street, Toronto. Monday February 28th, 7:00pm “New York/New York – New American ‘Smart’ film and its Nostalgic New York Cities” Tom Dorey PhD Candidate, Communication and Culture, York/Ryerson University New York City has, since some of the earliest American films, played and […]

You are invited to participate in waste luxury knot: an experiment in organized curiosity. Via a series of intimate workshops & public addresses with Franco Berardi (bifo), Jeanne Randolph, Allan Stoekl, and Robert Hullot-Kentor. Across the months of March, April, and May. To wonder about the gravy train, post-fordist luxury, austerity measures waste and - […]

The Urban Field Speakers Series, now in its sixth season, centres on the role of art in transforming the experience of the city. Through lectures, audio-visual presentations and discussions, it explores how creative practices can help improve the quality of urban life and planning in Toronto and around the world. This series of monthly events […]

The Visible City Project + Archive presents its fall Working Papers, beginning Thursday October 28th. Working Papers will be held at OF SWALLOWS, 283 College Street. Please join us for presentations and discussion. Thursday October 28th, 7:00pm “Walking as a way of knowing, advocating and performing: between social justice and sustainability in Southern Ontario’s food […]

Visible City, in partnership with Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is happy to announce the availability of the 2010 Urban Field Speakers Series talks on our website. If you did not get a chance to attend the lectures, and would like a chance to view them, or if you attended and would like to revisit […]