Instructions:
Download and start the Artivive app on your smartphone or tablet. When you point it towards the photo, it will come to life (you can point your smartphone towards the photo on a screen as well).

The photo exhibit was displayed at the HGB Gallery (@ Spadina Auto), curated by Hans G. Bathija.

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The photo exhibit was displayed at the HGB Gallery (@ Spadina Auto), curated by Hans G. Bathija.

Exhibition Description:
This exhibit is a testament to the creative and meticulous handiwork of the automobile mechanic. In this digitized and abstractized world, society is progressively removed from the foundational and the tangible. Increasingly we are forced to relate to one another at a superficial level, keeping our flaws hidden and hiding the dirt beneath our nails. Yet behind the wizard’s curtain, gears continue to turn, pistons continue to pump and fluids continue to flow. With these photographs, Ana Vujčuf captures the stamina, dexterity and toil that enables us to ride our horse powered chariots, an ancient rite that continues to prime the capitalist pump.

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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto
Dada ReBoot!

The Creative Process

The poster is made by cutting and pasting random newspaper & magazine photos and text. It represents the noise and chaos of the social world by placing icons of social networks and random text in an unusual way.

“Our Social Times”

This work is inspired by Dada artists Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann and captures the zeitgeist of the virtual social world, which is an uninterrupted stream of data. Everything that can be expressed digitally is done on social networks, and is affecting all aspects of our lives. Social media allows us to be continuously in contact with other people, or gives us the illusion of connection. With every day’s posting and tweeting have we become hyper-connected and too dependent on social media, addicted to our smartphones, tablets and computers? Thus, are we more connected or disconnected?

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The Encampment took place at Toronto’s Fort York from June 8th-24th.

The Creative Process

The creation of installations began in mid-April through a series of workshops in the barracks of Fort York. The Creative Collaborators had the opportunity to explore and share between each other stories of civilians, militia, soldiers and officers of that time. The aim was to dive deeper into their everyday lives, exploring pivotal moments and emotions, and together create the “temporal village” that resonates with the zeitgeist during the War of 1812.

Each artwork was created taking into consideration space requirements and the kind of materials that can withstand summer weather conditions inside a canvas tent over a 3-week period on the grounds of Fort York.

Materials used for these three installations are: sheets, acrylic paint, twine, wire hangers, ribbon, paper, plastic sheets, pins

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock

Isaac Brock (October 6th 1769 – October 13th 1812), known as a ‘Hero of Upper Canada’, was a British Army officer and administrator, assigned to Canada in 1802. He was well known for his success at the Battle of Detroit (August 16th, 1812) where in partnership with the Native American Shawnee leader Tecumseh defeated American invasion efforts. Brock was wounded in the hand and then shot through the heart at the Battle of Queenston Heights. His last words have been reported as “Push on, brave York Volunteers”.

Brock had led his private life very quietly and some of the stories have never been confirmed. One of the facts is that his family went bankrupt in 1811 when his brother William lost heavily in ships in Napoleonic Wars. William had lent him money to purchase a military commission, which was often done in those days. William never intended Isaac to repay him, but the sums were recorded in his books, so Isaac was giving away his whole salary to pay the debt. Around that time he had met Sophia Shaw, Major-General Aeneas Shaw’s daughter, they fell in love and secretly got engaged as he couldn’t afford to marry her.

There is another interesting story of Brock’s love affair with a Ghanaian princess Almenia Malawice who was his cook. She was sent to England by her family to avoid being kidnapped and forced into slavery. Persuaded to come to Britain’s North American colony, she ended up in a relationship with Brock which produced a daughter, Esther, born in Amherstburg, Ontario, in 1812, after Brock’s death.

Isaac Brock Wikipedia
Brockamour Manor
The Encampment 2012

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