Internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist Vera Frenkel is a dedicated artistic innovator and advocate of the arts. Starting as a printmaker and poet, she is now renowned for her video, installation and new media works. Frenkel is an active participant in the Toronto and Canadian arts community, well respected for her contribution to creative dialogues and […]
The Archive
The Drake Hotel
The Drake Hotel in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto was originally opened in 1890 as the Small’s Hotel and was reopened after World War II as the Drake. The hotel declined along with the Parkdale neighbourhood, particularly through the 1970’s and 80’s. In 2001 Jeff Stober relaunched the Drake as a bohemian hotel and nightspot. […]
The Gladstone Hotel
The Gladstone Hotel, a formidable presence on Toronto’s Queen Street West, has a long history as the oldest continuously operating hotel in the city stretching back to the nineteenth century. The hotel was built in the medieval revivalist Richardson Romanesque style that characterizes many of Toronto’s public buildings of the nineteenth century (including Queen’s Park […]
Urban Interventions: A Symposium
Global media have opened up a multitude of channels for the flow of information and capital across time and space. The circulation of art takes place both through these new circuits and outside them in the material environments of cities. Artists, architects and designers look to the city to bring specificity and sensuality to the […]
Walk Here
Artist and activist Dyan Marie lives and works in the Lansdowne/Dupont area of Toronto, a neighbourhood fractured by issues of poverty, environmental damage, drug abuse, and an active sex trade. It is also broken up by major roads and three railway lines. There is a reduced tree canopy, and existing parks and other public spaces […]
Reclaim the Streets
Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is a distinctly urban, international social movement that originated in London, England during the mid-90s as a direct reaction to the increasing prevalence of car culture, and the displacement of people and neighbourhoods by State highway expansion projects. In recent years, however, RTS has broadened and diversified its critiques, situating the […]
Omni Zona Franca
Omni Zona Franca is a multi-disciplinary Cuban arts collective with members who freely shift between different forms of expression (art, music, poetry, theatre, dance) in the embrace of art as everyday life. As curator Dannys Montes de Oca writes in the 9th Havana Biennial catalogue, Omni "is a group and a life experience emerging from […]
René Francisco
René Francisco Rodríguez is an internationally recognized contemporary Cuban artist with a diverse body of work. He works across different media (e.g., installation, sculpture, video, painting, photography, and performance) to consistently challenge the boundaries between art and everyday life, and explore the personal and social contexts of artistic production. His work draws on creative traditions […]
Urban Field Speakers Series 2006
The Urban Field Speakers Series centres on the role of art in transforming the experience of the city. Through lectures, screenings and discussions, it explores how creative practices can help improve the quality of urban life and planning in Toronto and around the world. The 2005-06 series brought together an array of international and local […]
Free Parking Space
The Free Parking Space project was created by the Pedestrian Mob, a loose collective of individuals who seek to engage the urban environment as a locus of numerous social ills and inspirations. Participants in the project used recycled cardboard tubes to construct car-sized frames that could be worn in motion by both cyclists and pedestrians, […]
Visible City: Project + Archive is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Research Chairs, York Research, Ontario Innovation Trust, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
