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Founded
Summer, 2003 by Sarah Chu, Charlene Lau, Jillian Locke, Mark Prier,
and Julie Saragosa.
Current
members: Sarah Chu, Charlene Lau, and Mark Prier.
Toronto,
Ontario & Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
Exhibition
Record
Public Actions
2006
$00.00. Shoegaze Cover Night at the Tranzac Club. Toronto, Ontario.
August 23. The Commons gives away $0.00 CD-Rs and contributes to the
event's video projections.
2006
The House of Commons. The Commons launched its new website—a
virtual house complete with transit system and artist-in-residence.
March - the Future.
2004
Commonsounds 2.0. The Commons distributes copies of the second edition
of Commonsounds in downtown Toronto, Ontario. April - July.
2004
Commonsounds 1.0. Vendart for OCAD. Toronto, Ontario. March.
2004
Commonsounds 1.0. Vendart for the Drake Hotel. Toronto, Ontario.
February.
2004
Commonsounds 1.0. Sneaky Dee's, Toronto, Ontario. January 22. The
Commons gives away copies of the first edition of Commonsounds.
Group
Exhibitions
2005 The
Corporate World. Toronto
Free Gallery. Toronto, Ontario. January 13 - February 27. The
Commons presents "We can help you make Today the Tomorrow you
dreamed of Yesterday...". The Central Region Office is present
for the opening night conference.
2004
Spacemakers. Lothringer Dreizhen Space for Contemporary Art, for God
Bless Graffiti Coalition. Munich, Germany.
2004
Re-shelving Initiative. eyelevelgallery. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
June 7 - July 10.
2004
The Interventionists. Mass MoCA, contribution to God Bless Graffiti
Coalition’s “On the 8th Day…”. North Adams,
MA. Opens May 31.
2003
All Inclusive. Propeller
Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario. December 12. The
Commons presents an opening night intervention called, “Instant
Vacation.”
Awards,
Nominations & Short Lists
2006
Untitled Art
Awards.
The Corporate World exhibition was short listed for Best
Solo or Group Exhibition in an Artist-Run Space.
Bibliography
Tanner
Mirrlees, “Anti-Corporate Aesthetics and The Corporate World,”
Relay: A Socialist Project
Review, March/April 2005, 26-28.
Meg Campbell,
“Use your illusion,” The Newspaper, January 20,
2005, 5.
Nicole
Cohen, “Best Bet: The Corporate World,” Eye,
January 13, 2005, 43.
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