The Learning Zone

Manuela Morales video, After Darkness, is currently on view at XPACE’s External Space gallery located in OCAD U Library Services: Learning Zone.

After Darkness, is a video that touches on the emotional aftermath of sexual violence that occurred between two family members.

Morales uses a two-channel video, juxtaposing family emails with landscape. Capturing the tranquility of the landscape with audio bytes of birds, footsteps, and wind blowing through grass with email correspondence between family members. The back and forth online communication reveals to the audience the intricacies and uncertainties faced by the family as they work together and offer support.

The text in After Darkness creates a nuanced and honest conversation about the effects of sexual assault on a personal and collective level….Morgan Sears William

On until April 4

February 21 is the final day to view Lucille Kim’s stop-motion animation/video performance, 1973 – 1979 at  External Space, hosted in the Learning Zone.

Lucille Kim’s art practice involves drawing, video, performance, sound and photography used in the explorations of self, and her Cambodian family history.

Throughout the video, Kim performs coin therapy on her father, a healing technique that relieves aches and pains, and other illness of the body—connecting her to the pain that her father went through when working in Cambodian rice fields between 1973 to 1979, during the Khmer Rouge regime.

…a coin functions as the drawing medium, with the body as its canvas. This technique not only expands the definition of drawing as a practice, but also critically examines our relationship as artists with the subjects we study and portray through drawing.  Alvis Choi

For further readings on 1973 – 1979, download Alvis Choi’s exhibition essay.

On until February 21

XPACE: External Space presents a new exhibition, Shifting Gestures (Father/Daughter) by Zana Kozomora.

The ritual of “Turkish Coffee making” is captured through the lens, documenting Kozomora’s Serbian-Canadian father imparting familial customs and values by demonstrating the repetitive grinding technique and preparation of Turkish coffee.

Mirrored video stream of father and daughter grinding coffee beans invites the audience into their home to witness this symbolic cross-generational knowledge transfer.

Download exhibition essay by Réka Szepesvári.

External Space is XPACE’s gallery for media based works that can be viewed at the Learning Zone or online.

On until January 2, 2017

Doorcuts produced by Zak Tatham, Toronto based video and filmmaker also co-founder of Family Contact Production Studios is currently on exhibit at XPACE’s External Space hosted at Learning Zone.

Please read Jill Blackmore Evans’ exhibition essay online.

On until August 17

External Space is an exhibition gallery located within OCAD U Library Services’s Learning Zone at 113 McCaul St. hosting a series of media-based videos and animations.

Congratulations students! You are nearly at the finish line. The winter semester is winding down and preparations for GradEx: OCAD U’s 101^st Annual Graduate Exhibition are gearing up!

There are plenty of events and exhibitions happening on campus, so please be sure to check out OCAD U’s event calendar.

Drop by the Learning Zone this week not only to study or to meet-up with your cohorts between exams—we are hosting events and exhibitions until we close April 21. We will reopen for the spring/summer term.

Celebrate National Poetry Month and join OCAD University’s Creative Writing Presents: National Poetry Month Reading at Library Services Learning Zone Tuesday April 19 from 7 p.m. to 10 pm.

Lilian Allen will be hosting this event with open mic and Q & A featuring Banoo Zan, Andrea Thompson, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Robert Priest, Mary Rykov, Catherine Black, Carrianne Leung and Lisa Myers. For more details visit: http://bit.ly/1SlONrF

All welcome!

Career Development Workshops: Resume/CV, Portfolio & Interview Skills Drop-In Clinics will continue this week. It’s a great opportunity to jump-start your career or brush up your resume for a summer job or exhibition.

Maya Ben David’s We’ve Met Before will be exhibiting at XPACE:External Space hosted in the Learning Zone until May 9. This video, programmed by XPACE is presented in partnership with the Images Festival and generous support from the Ontario Arts Counsel. http://bit.ly/1qz9mEl

Although the first day of spring began March 20, it only now feels like spring. With the warmer temperatures and the sun shining, gardening is now on the mind of many. Visit the OCAD Seed Library in partnership with the Toronto Seed Library and check out a few seeds, sprout a plant, harvest some seeds and return new seeds to the seed library.

The OCAD Zine Library presents New Student Zines. At the OCAD Zine Library there is something for everybody and also an awesome space to read zines and take a restorative break from studying.

Zine titles on display starting with bottom shelf: Magical Girls, Shit my co-worker says!, the Roomba Suicide Diaries, BAD Bipolar: Bipolar Affectiv Disorder Vol. 1, That story about the one time I dyed my hair and got so high on myself I made a whole stupid zine about it, Marie and WorryWart, Study Buddy, I love Kanye, Take Heart: Self Care for Artists & Designers, Wet N Wild.