Infestation

Strolling by the lake this afternoon and enjoying the wonderful weather, I used the opportunity to drop by the Power Plant and check out their current exhibit, Cuttings.


Most striking to me was a work titled Infestation Piece, a playful meditation referencing various instances and kinds of foreign invasion and viral spread. The idea behind the work is explained here, and is worth reading even if you don't plan on visiting the gallery.

This particular exhibit is on until May 11.

H2O @ DX

On my stroll with a friend around town on Saturday, I dropped into the Design Exchange to take a look at the exhibit they've set up as part of Digifest 2008. The title of this year's event is "Water's Edge: Catastrophe Trauma Possibility".


I mostly hung around the exhibit titled "H20: New Scenarios for Survival" which consists of posters by a number of Italian artists illustrating various aspects of water as a precious and endangered resource. Some of them were quite creative and thought-provoking. The diverse original and subtle perspectives on water reminded me of the amazing Water exhibit I caught a few months ago in Tokyo, which I still think about occasionally.

H20 will be on until April 27th at the Design Exchange and the admission is free.

Requiem

On Saturday night I went to hear the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Roy Thomson Hall. It would have been Mozart's 251st birthday, but we listened to his funeral music. It was really something. The large choir's bellowing of the Latin prayers gave me shivers, and the orchestra sounded quite impressive in the grand venue. The Requiem was preceded by Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, which was a great lead-in, with its playful yet subtly dark melodies.