Brazil
Lee Blalock
Lauren Hall
Sean Smith / Department of Biological Flow

Opening Reception:
24 May 2012, 7pm - 11pm
EiM Gallery
715 Richmond St. W.
Toronto, ON

Gallery Hours:
Sun/Mon/Tues 12-5

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"Sam Lowry: My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.
Porter - Information Retrieval: Thirtieth floor, sir. You're expected.
Sam Lowry: Um… don't you want to search me?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No sir.
Sam Lowry: Do you want to see my ID?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No need, sir.
Sam Lowry: But I could be anybody.
Porter - Information Retrieval: No you couldn't sir. This is Information Retrieval."

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Lee Blalock
Lee Blalock is an interdisciplinary artist working with ideas of self-similarity, repetition and post-humanism. For object and image based work, this idea is translated as replication. For sound work, it is expressed through the use of the loop and the chorus. Her sound practice also extends to a radio show, Brkn Concrete, which broadcasts every Monday at 10pm (CST) on NUMBERS.FM. Performance work is often generative, relying on repetitive behavior and actions. Drawing from training in both martial arts and dance, Lee's movement practice seeks to break convention and find new vocabulary for the 'future' body. Lee's work describes the 'amplified' human, destroying the existing framework of identity and replacing it with the re-engineered body. In all cases, the work is often binary, mechanical, even defensive. Lee recently received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is a part-time Instructor. Her studio is near the West Town neighborhood in Chicago where she has both an art and graphic design practice.
leeblalock.com

Lauren Hall
LAUREN HALL has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery; CAFKA; YYZ Artists' Inc, Toronto; Modern Fuel, Kingston; Artspace, Peterborough; and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. She is the recipient of emerging artist grants from Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Reviews of her work have appeared in Canadian Art Online, The Toronto Star, Magenta Magazine, and The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.
www.lauren-hall.com

Sean Smith / Department of Biological Flow
The Department of Biological Flow is an ongoing experimental dialogue of research-creation between Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler. Spanning performance, installation, text, image, poetry and motion capture, our consideration of biological flow attempts to develop processes that have just ceased to be fragile enough for one's imagination to take over and build upon the framework. Everything more or less falls apart, eventually. Sean was most recently the inaugural Artist/​Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario's Department of Visual Arts, where he developed work concerning surveillance, identity and memory. He lives and works in Toronto.
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