Artist Profile | Agi Gutkowska
Agi Gutkowska (curator, film maker) is the co-founder of Artist Bloc, an arts collective dedicated to exploring and revealing the artistic process. She has produced numerous media arts events, and produced the Artist Bloc documentaries and co-directed Stutter through the Bravo!FACT fund. She is dedicated to the arts and the production of high quality film and interactive installations. As part of Artist Bloc she has been a recipient of the OAC, TAC and finalist in the Telus Innovation Fund. She holds a BFA in New Media Studies from Ryerson University. She has curated interdisciplinary exhibitions including Stutter: Live, which was co-presented by The Music Gallery in 2008, as well as The Happiness Project : In the House in Montreal, Kingston, and in October 2011 in Toronto.
To date she has worked with such artists as Mark Pellegrino, Jon McCurley, filmmaker Lesley Loksi Chan, poet Jordan Scott, musician and illustrator Thomas Del Baso (of dd/mm/yyy), as well as Christine Duncan’s The Element Choir, The Woodchoppers Guild with whom she completed the Bravo!FACT funded short film Stutter, as well as Charles Spearin (of Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think) with The Happiness Project, a Juno winning album, and installation.
Recent Work / Posts | Agi Gutkowska
A curated show by Clare Samuel and Agi Gutkowska.
Opening on Oct 5th at 7 – 11 pm and running till Oct 27th at the Steam Whistle Gallery.
After All is a colloquium of micro-disasters and subtle apocalypses, little mistakes and lonely wanderers, absences and distortions, created by eight young visual artists. Both melancholy and acerbic, the works speak to the aftermath of arbitrary and fictitious disasters. Darkness has already descended, and the sensation is one of being unsettled for good, and yet, escape routes and alarm-bells appear to be built-in to each misfortune.
The Happiness Project: In the House presented by Artist Bloc, turns the album The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin into an interactive, installation-based exhibit within the walls of a residential setting. Local artists are enlisted to interpret songs from the album and are challenged to weave their own experience of the songs, as well as their own definition of happiness, into the works. Each artists’ installation becomes a unique expression of joy and an exercise in welcoming the community into an intimate community space. This exhibit has already been hosted in Montreal to critical acclaim.
The Happiness Project : In the House Fundraiser took place at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom on July 26th 2011.
Sexy Merlin, Charles Spearin and Circle Research were some of our musical guests!
With the support of the Toronto Arts Council Artist Bloc will host a fundraising event July 26th 2011 at The Gladstone Hotel. It is our goal that day, to raise money through ticket sales, and an exclusive array of silent auction and raffle items, which will help to bring The Happiness Project : In the House to Torontonians on October 1st of 2011, when the exhibition will open as part of Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche.
PARALLELS Directed by Aaron Kopff Produced by Agi Gutkowska
