WNDW 4: Robert Dayton — The Canadian Romantic's Window Display

@ ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS (911 Davenport Road)  > Jun 09 - Jul 13, 2012 (accessible 24/7)
RECEPTION> Sun Jun 10, 2pm (see below)
http://www.wndw-s.ca/

'The Canadian Romantic' is a larger-than-life character by artist and entertainer Robert Dayton that explores the grey area of impossibilities that intersect with Canada and romance. This window display will revolve around these notions and this persona.

RECEPTION> Sun Jun 10, 2pm
Come out to WNDW 4 for a picnic in Hillcrest Park (directly across from Roadside Attractions) — featuring maple cookies, assorted goodies, and a brief in character performance by The Canadian Romantic!


http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCanadianRomantic

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WNDW, curated by Mark Laliberte, is a multi-site project that links a cross-section of Toronto’s independent street-level window galleries for the first time, exploring how vacant windows in downtown cores are being transformed into unquestionably accessible, 24-hour walk-by galleries.

Taking place throughout June, artists Robert Dayton, Larry Eisenstein, Happy Sleepy (the collaborative duo of Marc Ngui and Magda Wojtyra), Eunice Luk and Magda Trzaski take on these playful and sometimes challenging spaces, presenting five solo artworks united under a common curatorial umbrella.

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WNDW is the latest installment of the 'Carousel Exhibition Series' — occasional gallery shows that bring together groups of artists, who have, through their practice and aesthetic, strongly connected to the community developing around Carousel magazine — and each of the artists involved in this project appears in the pages of CAROUSEL 29, out on newsstands in June!

The article “The Gallery is Always Open” by Jason Paradiso also appears in the issue, as an accompaniment to the exhibition.

For more info on CAROUSEL 29:
http://www.carouselmagazine.ca/current.html

Punchy

The Canadian Romantic "Where To Meet People"

NEW! video for The Canadian romantic!
"Where To Meet People"
ENJOY!

The Canadian Romantic opening for Bobby Conn and R Stevie Moore!

Wed, May 16th! Ten PM! Parts and Labour, Toronto. Strongly recommend getting adv tix at rotate This and Soundscapes
It will be good to see Bobby and Monica Bou Bou and the rest touring their new album "Macaroni"!
Yayyyy!
The Canadian romantic will be doing a short set with accompaniment by Chris Cummings (Mantler), the only Toronto act whose music makes me cry.
New vid:

Sneak Peel of WET DIRT "Self-Sabotage" CD package out soon from inyrdisk!

Check it! Designed by moi, printed by Colour Code Printing on their risograph!
More images here:
http://www.colourcodeprinting.com/wet-dirt/

Quintron and Miss Pussycat tonight in Toronto!

Quintron and Miss Pussycat are old pals from New Orleans and they put on an incredible puppet show and organ dance party!!! My band WET DIRT is on at ten PM sharp. The band catl is on the bill as well.

It's at the Silver Dollar, Toronto.

But Seriously

Funny how I got on that last train. Set off in that mode. "Dear Diary, I hate the world!"
Last night, after my last post,  I came across this line:
"Don't take yourself too damn seriously."

Of course, of course! A ha!
Ha ha! I was going to take this city less seriously but forgot about myself!

As to my previous post I thought I could have gone two ways at that point (oooh melodrama). I could have done what many people do here: get guarded. Put up walls. To me, that's giving in. And destroying all the painful but important self-work that I have done to sandblast away that isolation in me, I've realised things and had to make changes, communicate and grow. I've moved in the opposite direction.
So, it's the other option. Not take it all so seriously.
Insert joke here.

This blog has been very face value of late.

But don't worry, no jacket's required!

And maybe some people should eat shit. Oh wait, Phil Collins doesn't have an album called "Eat Shit."