Public Studio

Public Studio plants tree saplings on York University campus

As a culminating event to our recent solo exhibition What We Lose In Metrics at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Public Studio, along with Emelie Chhangur, Philip Monk and Michael Miranda, and more of the AGYU spent a hot day in August planting the tree seedlings that had been fed by a 10ft by 20ft LED sign installed in the gallery for the duration of the three-month exhibition on York University’s campus. These trees, all species involved in Ontario botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s Bio-Plan, will grow into a sustainable and local forest on campus for years to come. See photos from the planting below!

Public Studio: AGO Artist-In-Residence, May-July 2016

We are excited to share that Public Studio has been invited to be the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Artists-in-Residence from May through July of this year.

Public Studio will be working on new work during our time at the Artist-in-Residence program in the Weston Family Learning Centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario. For further information about the program, visit the AGO site here!

Road Movie at Irish Biennial EVA International

This year’s EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial in Limerick City, is titled Still (the) Barbarians and curated by Koyo Kouoh. Public Studio’s immersive six-channel video installation Road Movie (2011) has been selected for exhibition at the Biennial, which will be the second time the work will be exhibited in Europe.

If you find yourself in Ireland between April 17th and July 17th of this year, please be sure to visit EVA International.

Public Studio and Adrian Blackwell on Migrant Choir for PRESS ROOM

Elle Flanders of Public Studio and Adrian Blackwell joined PRESS ROOM at the Creative Time Summit on Thursday 13 August to announce details of the Migrant Choir and discuss the concerns behind and genesis of the intervention that took place outside the Italian, French and British Pavilions at the Venice Biennale that day.

PRESS ROOM, an organization that focuses on art and intervention, spoke with Public Studio and Adrian Blackwell at the Venice Biennale on their collaborative public choral piece Migrant Choir, staged in Venice in mid-August 2015 as a part of the Creative Time Summit. Watch the video here.