365 Things in 365 Days

John Loerchner and I have just embarked on a ridiculous art project/challenge/experiment to do 365 new things in 365 days (like bake a pie from scratch, bungee jump, build a robot, fly a box-kite, churn butter, learn to knit, canoe down river rapids, climb a mountain in Tibet, and own an ant farm, to name a few).

I am both exhilarated and nauseated with apprehension. But I keep a quote by T.S Elliot near by to remind me that..."Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go." This year I'd like to grab risk by the balls.

If you'd like to follow our progress, you can tap into the project at any time via our 365 blog from January 14 2012 - January 13 2013.

This tree...

...once lived along a railroad track in my home town of Newmarket, Ontario. That is, until we chopped it down and hauled it back to the city. It now lives happily in my humble, little studio office. Happy December.

Memories Are Like Water

Finally got around to uploading the raw video documentation for "Memories Are Like Water."

Video, Sound, Light, Movement Installation
Presented at "In Memory Exhibition"
Collaboration by John Loerchner & Laura Mendes

Locations: Swimming Pool, Lake Annnette & Lake Johnson in Banff, Alberta


Memories Are Like Water from Labspace Studio on Vimeo.

A Piece of A City

A Piece of a City is a new curatorial commission I've started working on with two of my favorite collaborators, John Loerchner & Annie Onyi Cheung. Together we'll be conceiving a large-scale program for the Art on the Danforth Festival (May 2012). We're currently looking for installation and performance artists. All the details right here.

Currently working on a new portfolio site. Up soon. I'll also be posting details on a festival I've been invited to curate with two other cool people. Up real soon.

130 Degrassi St. Office

After a fast and furious move from our 2A Pape Ave. studio, two back-to-back art shows, and a three-week work-play trip in Europe, our Degrassi St. pad is finally coming together. I can breathe now.

Dad's old record player.

My little office/dance studio.

Homework: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices

Homework: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices is a four-day residency, two-day conference, and collaboratively-written publication.

Visit the conference from October 17-22. I'll be sitting on a panel and presenting a short talk w/ John Loerchner on the theme of collaboration and curation.

Details here.