FIRST THURSDAY @ TRUCK

Tomas Jonsson
Cat Schick
Sharon Stevens

OX: a Crash Course in Loving Calgary (as part of Calgary ArTours) Sharon Stevens presents OX: a Crash Course in Loving Calgary, which is a positive, participatory action to claim what we love about Calgary! A place, a feeling, a song, a building, a street corner, a memory, a recovery–stories about loving Calgary. Come to a Crash Course at 5:30 as part of First Thursday, May 6th. Artist talk, listening and recording, and button-making workshop. ******************************* Calgary ARTours showcasing works by Tomas Jonsson, Cat Schick & Sharon Stevens (Calgary, AB) Exhibition runs until to May 20, 2010 "By inviting the collective public to experience and contribute to a greater shared understanding of Calgary, the artists of ARTours are subverting the idea of the auteur—the one visionary who creates experiences for others—making them akin to collaborative art shamans who create space for a transformative experience shared by a larger group of people. Tomas Jonsson’s Walk Stop, Cat Schick’s Mapping the City, and Sharon Stevens’s OX: A Crash Course on Loving Calgary are projects that have deep roots in arts activism practice, but seek a level of public engagement that goes beyond interventionist strategies and objective methodologies. In doing so, these artists open the gallery space to a wide variety of influences and interpretations, functioning like a real-life, multi-platform game played out around Calgary, bringing the activity from TRUCK out onto the street then and back again, continually adding layers of meaning." -- Melody Jacobson, 2010