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No. 9: Contemporary Art & the Environment
Presents a new installation by T&T
Carchitecture (Sanctuary),
16 x 20 cm
C-print
2002
Courtesy Trapp Editions / Clint Roenisch Gallery
Carchitecture (Condo Tower),
16 x 20 cm
C-print
2002
Courtesy Trapp Editions / Clint Roenisch Gallery
No.9 was founded in the belief that contemporary art can help to raise awareness of environmental issues. As a
curatorial agency, we work with artists who share this conviction to produce ambitious projects in the public realm.
Using urban public space as a forum for exhilarating creativity and vital discussion, No.9 brings the power of art to
bear on some of the most pressing issues of our time.
For TIAF 2008, No.9 will present a new installation by Canadian artist collaborative T&T (Tony Romano & Tyler Brett).
Involved in a wide range of experimental art activities that connect discourses as diverse as architecture, fashion,
graphic design and the making of Rock & Roll, the artist collaborative T&T mixes humour, irony and fantasy with serious
technological concerns and our natural environment to offer a picture of the present as an "after-image" suspended
between a familiar past and a post-apocalyptic future. As an extension of their Carchitecture series of drawings and
maquettes, which imagines a post-oil world where cars are best used as building blocks for a new society, T&T's
installation at TIAF will be their first full-scale creation of this unconventional version of sustainable design.
Co-founded in 2007 by Andrew Davies, Executive Director, and Catherine Dean, Programming Director, No.9's
inaugural public installation was BGL's Project for the Don River, which opened on Earth Day 2008 and inhabited
the Lower Don from April to June. It brought viewers down to the banks of the river to see the installation and also to
experience a neglected part of Toronto's landscape first-hand. Our education program field trips also introduced over 500
students to BGL's work, the Don River and its current water issues. Through projects such as these we hope to make our
audiences more aware of their environment, the impact they have on it and the opportunities for local and global change.
No.9: Contemporary Art & the Environment
215 Spadina Ave. Centre for Social Innovation, Suite 414, Toronto, ON M5T 2C7
Email: info@no9.ca Website: www.no9.ca
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