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Performance

Buying & Selling by Department of Unusual Certainties with Sara French

Exhibition runs from
September 21-October 14, 2013


Markham Museum
9350 Markham Road, Ontario
 
Department of Unusual Certainties with Sara French presents:
Buying & Selling
 
Buying & Selling is co-presented by FADO Performance Art Centre
Presented in the context of Land/Slides: Possible Futures exhibition
 
 
              There is no choice, except when you have one.
                   ~Reena Smith, Community Outreach Officer for 7 Continents
 
The ways we live are complex and diverse. It is our basic needs that unite us a humanity- how we meet our wants, is what separates us. Buying & Selling explores the possibilities that exist in a global housing market and how it can enrich the lives for the residents of Markham. 
 
Home owners, renters, nomads, and the property-curious, are invited to have a truly international experience that celebrates difference and provides choices you've never known. Join us at the Buying & Selling pavillion, located in the former Strickler home within the Markham Museum, opening September 21st, 2013, and running until October 13th, 2013. Guided tours are available daily. 
 
Buying & Selling is a co-creation between Department of Unusual Certainties (DoUC) and Sara French. Commissioned to make a project for the Land/slide exhibition DoUC created a fictional housing sales centre, activated by a performed "Real" Estate Agent named Reena Smith, who is the Community Outreach Officer for an organization called 7 Continents. The sales centre includes three spaces where buyers can interact with the agent to obtain information, hear a sales pitch, and lastly, close the deal.
 
 
ABOUT Land/Slide: Possible Futures
Land/Slide Possible Futures is a groundbreaking large-scale public art exhibition which responds to a world in transition where the past, present and future collide. The landscape of Markham will be transformed by the work of 30 plus national and international artists to explore themes of multiculturalism, sustainability, and community.
 
The site-specific artist projects are housed at the 25-acre, open-air Markham Museum and Historical Village from September 21 to October 14, 2013. Markham, Ontario is Canada’s fastest growing and most culturally diverse city in one of the most agriculturally rich regions in North America. This, and the Markham Museum’s 80,000 historical artifacts including 30 pioneer buildings from the 1820-1920s, make it a fascinating backdrop for artists to explore some of the most pressing issues facing Canadians today: how to balance ecology and economy, farming and development, history and diversity.
 
Working with everything from digitized diaries, 3D projections and augmented reality, the artists will propose new histories and new futures for the use of land on this planet. Land/Slide will bring artists, urban planners, ecologists, educators, civic leaders and the general public together in a unique community engagement initiative that pays homage to the past and imagines possible futures.
 
 
 
[ Co-Presentations ]

+ PHOTO GALLERY: Buying & Selling by Department of Unusual Certainties with Sara French