A Piece of a City Project

A Piece of a City is a neighbourhood-based curatorial initiative commissioned for Toronto’s Art of the Danforth Festival. The project brings together a group of emerging and established artists to envision a series of site-specific installations and performances that address

May 20 – June 10, 2012
A commission for Art of the Danforth

Memories Are Like Water

Video/Sound/Light/Movement Installation By Laura Mendes & John Loerchner Show: In Memory August 19-21, 2011 717 Queen St (defunct funeral parlour)

August 19 - 21, 2011
Memories Are Like Water

In Memory: Something that happens after then, and before now

In Memory is a collection of collaborative art installations created by 15 pairs of artists who have been asked to recall, reinterpret and recreate a past memory, together. The exhibition will be at 717 Queen St East (Queen & Broadview)

Aug 19 – 21, 2011
717 Queen St East (Defunct Funeral Parlour)

Moments Intercepted

From June 6th – July 6th, collaborators from across North America (Toronto, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, LA, Halifax, Calgary, San Francisco, etc), took part in a month-long series of random & impulsive creative challenges; responding, documenting & transforming their

July 22 – 24, 2011
A part of the Recollection Project

I WORRY

What happens when the worries of 100 individuals are presented in a collective? When the act of worrying, a deeply personal and private behaviour, turns public? Join us for the Opening Reception of I Worry, the inaugural exhibition of The

June 24 – 26, 2011

The (Re)collection Project

Throughout Spring & Summer 2011, Labspace Studio launches the (re)collection project: a three-part series of creative projects & social experiments that investigate how people remember the past, experience the present, and think about the future. I Worry Moments Intercepted In

Spring & Summer 2011

A Snow Storm Inside

Snow Days Project

Snow Days is an arts-based research project exploring the creative process through the lens of 28 people as they maneuver through one of the coldest months of the year. Project Background: During the month of February, an assemblage of artists,

Mar 18 - 20, 2011
28 collaborators. 28 projects. 28 days of winter

Hydro Hike

Hydro Hike Curated by Laura Smith 15 explorers set out on an electrifying adventure through the power system that connects Toronto’s east end to the downtown core. This exhibition is the result of their experience. | Shay Brown | Kate

Nov 5, 2010
Part of East-End Expedition Series

Rumblings in the Rouge

Rumblings in The Rouge Adventure 3 – Curated by Ryan Ringer The Urban Action Art Agency’s Brent Bushmill – veteran psychogeographer and reborn paranormal researcher – leads an ad hoc team into Rouge Park’s most haunted zones to study how paranormal

Sep 2010
Part of East-End Expedition Series

Still City Sleep

Performance and Live Projection Concept by Laura Mendes & John Loerchner Visuals by John Loerchner Choreography by Laura Mendes Music by Hauschka & Aphex Twin Show: As part of the Hot Soup Series June 10, 2009 Labspace Studio, Toronto

Sep 10-12, 2009
Presented by Hot Soup Series