updateFall 2020 Volume 27, Issue 3 I TOMASZ ADAMSK TOMASZ of The 401 Richmond Update is a community-building initiative of Urbanspace Property Group. The newsletter began in June 1994 and over the years has documented the eclectic activities and fascinating people who make a home in our historic factory in downtown Toronto. If you would like to be added to the 401 Update mailing list, please email: [email protected] 401 Richmond Ltd. Staff Ingrid Araya, Janitorial Services Jennifer Bhogal, Communications & Community Animator Bob Chandler, Security Brian Graciano, Property Manager Pamela Lampkin, Janitorial Services Redentor Paragas, Maintenance Jon Price, Security Elise Rodgers, Administrative Assistant Vicki Rodgers, Chief Executive Officer Yenislen Rodriguez, Janitorial Services Ronel Ruiz, Maintenance Daniel Scofano, Maintenance Luisa Scofano, General Manager Greg Spooner, Parking Attendant & Security Saskia Vegter, Urban Agriculture Coordinator Renato Villanueva, Maintenance Margaret Zeidler, Founder Newsletter Jennifer Bhogal, Editor Lisa Kiss Design (Studio 408) Warren’s Waterless Printing Published by: Urbanspace Property Group COVER IMAGE 401 Richmond St. W., Studio 111 Installation shot of Constructive Interference by Ludovic Boney Toronto, ON Canada M5V 3A8 Photo by Tomasz Adamski tel 416-595-5900 fax 416-595-5904 www.40 1richmond.com Printed on Rolland Enviro 100. update Fall 2020 Volume 27, Issue 3 MoviNG 1N Welcome to Emily DiCarlo, joining the 401 community as the successful 401 Richmond 2020 Career Launcher Prize recipient in Studio 260. We wish you a wonderful year ahead in the residency! 401 is pleased to introduce Surface Impression into Studio 228, a digital development consultancy specializing in the cultural and charitable sectors. A great fit for our 401 community! MoviNG ON The Documentary Organization of Canada, the collective voice of independent Canadian documentary creators, is moving on from Studio 205 N in 401. TMA R HA 401 says goodbye to the Playwright’s E O J Guild of Canada in Studio 350, a John Scott in his studio (see Tenant Profile on page 4). national arts service organization promoting and protecting playwrights. We will miss you! Miles Ingrassia wrapped up his year as the 401 Richmond 2019 Career 2 NEWS Launcher Prize recipient at the end of August in Studio 260. Miles had a successful year in the residency and will 3 ON THE COVER remain close to 401 with many existing and strengthened ties to the community. 4 TENANT PROFILE MOVING UP/DOWN Koyama Press, promoter and supporter of a wide range of emerging and 5 SPOTTED & established artists, producing diverse projects including comics, art books and APPLAUDED zines, is relocating from the second floor to the fourth, as founder Annie Koyama focuses on becoming a patron to a 6 LISTINGS broader range of artists. JAYU, a charitable organization leading in the space where the arts and human 8 PRESS CHECK rights intersect, is relocating from Studio 354 to 205. 9 THE BACK PAGE Sign up for monthly What’s On updates to your inbox at www.401richmond.com. 1 news OPPO ADDreSSES coviD APP PrivacY CONcerNS Canadaland’s OPPO podcast, a bi-weekly show about politics in Canada, hosted by journalists Jen Gerson and Sandy Garossino, explored Canada’s COVID-19 tracing mobile app in episode 70: ‘Who’s Afraid of the COVID Alert App?’. Citizen Lab’s Christopher Parsons was invited on to the show to discuss privacy concerns and/or irrational fears about the federal government’s new app U O to contain the COVID virus. beln O O Dyana Ouvrard E TH DYANA OUvrarD TAKES THE HELM AT LE LABO Dyana Ouvrard succeeds Barbara Gilbert and Carolina Reis, former co-directors of the organization, as the new Executive Director of Le Labo, Toronto’s francophone media arts centre. With extensive experience in the cultural sphere, Dyana will prioritize the organization’s administration and finance, supported by Cynthia-Laure Etom, responsible for the centre’s programming and communications. ParK PeoPLE reLeaSES 2020 caNADiaN ciTY ParKS rePORT The Canadian City Parks Report is an annual report on the trends and challenges facing city parks. As COVID-19 has thrown into sharp relief, parks form a critical backbone of community infrastructure, strengthening our resilience during times of crisis. Parks are places where we grow our own food, where we let anxieties melt away on a nature walk, where we create social support networks, and even where we may find shelter during a trying time. The 2020 report was built on feedback Logging Scars received from 25,000 people who visited the website and downloaded the 2019 report. This year the report WILDLANDS LeagUE reveaLS dives deep into urban biodiversity as pressures on our WIDESPreaD DEForeSTATioN natural environment from urbanization and climate An updated image catalogue shows over 290 sites in change threaten the ecosystems that sustain us. Ontario deforested due to roads and landings imposed by forest operations. The satellite images provide 401 commUNITY ANNiverSarieS additional evidence to support the finding that far from Congratulations to an inspiring group of 401 tenants being the exception or limited, deforestation from reaching major milestones in this historical year of 2020! logging scars is widespread and systemic. These 50 years: Open Studio productive forest losses have profound implications for 40 years: TAPA, Vtape climate, renewal of boreal caribou habitat (a threatened 35 years: Hilditch Architects species) and long-term sustainable timber supply. 30 years: ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Wildlands League is also showcasing the imagery in a Q Music, Red Head Gallery, Saman Design new public friendly GoogleMyMaps viewer, encouraging 25 years: Consulting Matrix, DECODE, VIBE Arts more exploration of these public forests. 20 years: ICA Associates, imagineNATIVE, www.loggingscars.ca Lisa Kiss Design, Red Sky Performance 2 on the I cover TOMASZ ADAMSK TOMASZ Looking back to Nuit Blanche 2019 with Constructive Interference by Wendat artist Ludovic Boney and curated by DAPHNE for A Space Gallery (Studio 110 ) as part of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Ludovic brought together multiple repeating elements to create a transformative space that amplified one’s relationship to and within the world, whether real or manufactured. 401 ricHMOND career LAUNCHer PriZE Panel Discussion, Studio Tour & 2020 Recipient Announced Celebrating the Career Launcher Prize this past July, Emily began working in Studio 260 in September. 401 hosted a Studio Tour + Panel Discussion event on The event recording is on 401’s YouTube channel: Zoom. Awarded annually by jury, the residency provides ‘401 Richmond’. a pivotal opportunity to occupy a coveted 500 sq/ft studio for a full year in 401 Richmond. The event began in Studio 260 for a studio tour and talk with the 2019 recipient Miles Ingrassia. 401’s close Jennifer Emily Bhogal DiCarlo friend and partner, Beanfield, the largest independent fibre-optic network in Toronto and Montreal, wired the Career Launcher Prize studio with high speed internet for the event. 401 Richmond is grateful to Beanfield for William Miles their crucial support of emerging artists and the Huffman Ingrassia communities they work in. Thank you, Beanfield! William Huffman then moderated a panel discussion with Miles, Anahita Azrahimi of the Toronto Online Art Fair, Ellen Bleiwas, the 2017 Career Launcher Recipient, and Anna Gaby-Trotz, Open Studio’s Technical Director. William spoke with the panelists about the importance of fostering emerging voices through resource sharing and mentorship. The hour came to a close with the exciting announcement of the 2020 Career Launcher Prize recipient: Emily DiCarlo! A recent graduate of the Master of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, Video still from Emily DiCarlo’s The Propogation of Uncertainty 3 tenant profile John Scott, Spectacle, 2020, SS mixed media on rle A B paper, 35 x 23 in. Courtesy Nicholas uren A Metivier Gallery L JOHN ScoTT Born in Windsor in 1950, artist John Scott signed the furthered this exploration with John scratching the entire lease on his studio at 401 Richmond in 1994, together with Book of Revelations onto the surface of the muscle car. artist collaborator Deborah Waddington (see the large- Three versions of the sculpture were created over a scale multi-media works by the pair in the building’s west 12 year span, the first being compacted into a cube and stairwell), and maintains the same studio on the 3rd floor destroyed, the second purchased by the National Gallery 25 years later. “I knew right away that this was the place,” of Canada, and the third in the collection of the Art John recalls when he was shown the studio for the first time. Gallery of Ontario. Starting at what was then the Ontario College of Art With a career spanning over 40 years, John has had (now the Ontario College of Art and Design University, exhibitions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, OCADU) in 1972, John eventually became an instructor Art Gallery of Windsor, Mercer Union, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, after graduating, and taught at the school for close to The Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Vancouver Art 40 years before retiring last summer. The building’s Gallery. His work is in the collections of the Museum of proximity to the school allowed John to continue to teach, Modern Art, New York, Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, even during difficult periods in his life, “I’ve been through Museum London, Hamilton Art Gallery, University of a lot when I’ve been here. Things have changed a lot. But Toronto and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. this has always been a safe harbour.” Shifting from his usual media of drawing and John’s art practice is rooted in social commentary on painting, John is currently collaborating with another the dark side of politics, war, and human nature.