ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER
OFFSITE PROJECT SERIES
This series is new to Ok.Quoi?! this year, and is curated by Rita McKeough and Peter Flemming. Rita and Peter have selected four artists to create offsite works that activate public space, the outdoors, and alternative enviroments outside the gallery walls. The artists participating in this project include...

Anne MacMillan presents an event combining Newton's third law of motion with Guerrilla horticultural tactics. A seriesof handbuilt model rockets will be launched on an open field, releasing a payload of Taraxacum officinale seeds. This event is taking place at the Chester Cole Ball Field at 1 PM on Friday.

Jean Pierre Gauthier has taken over the former Subway restaurant location on Bridge Street with an installation reminiscent of the wrapping of fast food in aluminum paper. If the door is open, please feel free to come inside, sit in a booth, and get wrapped. Rita and Peter will be on-site for much of this week, and would love to have a chat with you.

Veronica Verkley is currently scouting locations and materials for her site-specific sculptural works in the downtown core, titled Urban Planning for Animals. These will be improvised with natural and manufactured matierals scaveneged from local streets and alleys. Stay tuned to learn where Veronica will create her sculptures, and when the unveiling will take place.

Alex Moon is showcasing his latest work in the UniFarm project, Uni-Farm: Farm Shops Vol. 1, featuring a standard issue Macintosch Tractor. Taking up the character of the intrepid farmer, Alex will unveil this tractor at 7 PM at Rod Allen's on Thursday evening. As the farmer is pround as punch with his new machinery, he will take it for a walk around Sackville at 5:30 PM each evening, weather permitting.

FANTôME(S)
VINCENT LÉVY
This offsite project is installed in the windows of local businesses Full Spectrum Graphics and Meldrum Law. One work is made up of a large screen which appears to reflect the view of the street outside the window; however, upon closer inspection, viewers will notice shifting, ghostly images of themselves, and the others who stopped to look before them also captured in the screen. The second screen is divided into smaller squares, and each plays back the street screen recorded at different times, ranging from one second ago, to 12 hours ago, and more.

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
NICOLE LIZEÉ
Brought to us in part by support from Motion Ensemble, Nicole has composed a number works which will be featured at Ok.Quoi?! Some of these will be performed at the Motion Ensemble Happy Hour Concert at 5 PM in the Sackville Music Hall on Wednesday evening. In addtion, Nicole is screening a film at the Wednesday night Video Drive-In called 26000 Dollar Man.

OPEN STUDIO ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
LISA LIPTON
Lisa has installaed a work at Struts Gallery titled Stars In That Baby Blue, which combines soft sculpture, video, painting, and additional elements. The piece explores the popularity of baseball, by examining the extent to which fans are willing to invest of themselves in the sport, and marries notions of hope alongside hopelessness. The official recepetion for this installation is taking place Saturday evening at 6 PM.

LOCAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
LINDA RAE DORNAN
Linda has created a film as a part of a multimedia performace titled Where the bee sucks that is being projected onto the side of the Sackville Music Hall on Tuesday evening at 9:30 PM. On Wednesday at 2 PM Linda is leading a workshop on performance art. Her annual Ok.Quoi?! radio special, OSTL, featuring female audio and sound artists, will be broadcast at 10 PM on CHMA on Thursday evening.

SIMULCAST 2.0 : SACKVILLE
CURATED BY EMMANUEL MADAN
This month-long radio art series is curated by Emmaneul Madan, and explores listening to radio at night, and radio's links to eternity. Four Candaian sound and radio artists have been asked to provide a single, unchanging sound, which is broadcast continuously for four hours each night on Sackville's campus/community radio station, CHMA 106.9 FM, beginning at 2 AM on July 28 and running until 6 AM on August 24. The project features sounds by Helene Prevost, i8u, Mario Gauthier, and Stephane Claude. Listen online at www.mta.ca/chma/listen.htm. Series curator, Emmanuel Madan, is giving a presentation on Tuesday at 2 PM on the topic of the Simulcast project.