Leisure Current

Witch Trap

(Added 29 March 2012)

Image Witch Trap, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), 2012, photo: David Ross

Witch Trap
Opens at ESP Toronto
Thursday, April 5, 7-10pm

Exhibition: April 5–April 29, 2012

Inspired by the haunting description of Lake Erie witch visitations in the early 1800s, Witch Trap is an installation and video work that explores the idea of witchiness and culturally constructed affiliations between landscape and the feminine.

As part of Witch Trap, Leisure has appropriated within their video work sections of the Expressionist dancer/choreographer Mary Wigman’s Witch Dance. Rather than impersonating a witch, Wigman engages in a process of self-transformation, embodying qualities of witchiness. Wearing a mask, she turns the gaze back onto the viewer, making for a less objectifying experience. Framed by the Witch Dance, images of Troyer’s haunting landscape take on a new evocative power – strong, strange and charged with imaginative and feminine potential. Leisure invites the viewer to enter into the witchiness and be trapped by its power.

ESP
1086 ½ Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H8
Hours: Wed – Sat 12-6 p.m. & Sun 1-5 p.m.

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Leisure Letters

Petite enveloppe urbaine no. 19

(Added 18 September 2011)

Image: Double page spread from Petite enveloppe urbaine no. 19, Amanuensis, 2011

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On April 9, Leisure Projects received the following intriguing email.

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Dear Leisure Projects (Meredith and Susannah),

I hope this email finds you well!

This is an invitation for you to contribute to the Petite enveloppe urbaine No. 19. The PEU is a small-run publishing project, ongoing since 1998 issued by the Centre de recherche urbaine de Montreal. Each issue typically assembles projects around a specific theme and is launched in a city related to that theme. Each issue is published under Creative Commons in the interest of a free and shared culture.

The theme for No. 19 is AMANUENSIS
The location is the PRELINGER LIBRARY, San Francisco

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SEND ME ONE SENTENCE. Something that has been on your mind lately. Don’t think to hard about it.

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