Galerie Largeness World of Art

1996-2001

Toronto

Galerie Largeness World of Art was a project initiated in September 1996. Each instalment of Galerie Largeness featured works by various artists produced especially for the Galerie. In the span of its thirty issues, Galerie Largeness presented work by some 90 artists, involving various solo and group exhibitions, 5 guest-curated projects, 5 audio-arts projects, one prayer project, one mail-art project, and 3 special events featuring video screenings and performances.

Current Contact Info:

Luis Jacob
266 Dunn Avenue #1
Toronto , Ontario
M6K 2R9 CANADA
luis.jacob@utoronto.ca

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Galerie Largeness World of Art (1996-2001)

GALERIE LARGENESS.01
Featuring a work by Luis Jacob.
Includes LARGENESS text.01.
edition of 40 copies
Release date September 14, 1996 ,
with a launch event at Free Parking, Toronto .

GALERIE LARGENESS.02
Featuring work by Nestor Kruger, Chris Kukiel, and Micah Lexier.
Includes LARGENESS text.02.
edition of 40 copies
Release date October 31, 1996 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.03
Featuring work by Arlene Stamp, and Luis Jacob.
edition of 40 copies
Release date November 16, 1996.
GALERIE LARGENESS.04
Featuring work by Angela Leach, David Armstrong, and Greg McHarg.
Includes LARGENESStext.03.
edition of 40 copies
Release date December 18, 1996 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.05
Featuring a work by Ho Tam.
Includes LARGENESStext.04.
edition of 50 copies
Release date January 26, 1997 .  

GALERIE LARGENESS.06
Galerie Largeness goes to Synthesis: a video room with four monitors showing works by Jubal Brown, Peter Flemming, Jill Henderson, Stefanie Marshall and Zeneida Pereira, Maris Mezulis, Robert Kennedy, Matthew Sloly, Richard Stipl and Lawrence Baldwin, Kika Thorne and Adrian Blackwell, and Tobaron Waxman. Programme sheet produced. Synthesis was a rave organized by Carlo Catallo of IAO, and Michael Thompson of TEST, and featured the video room floor, Video Propagandada -- the techno music floor, Technologica -- and the ambient floor, Cyborganic Lounge.
Release date February 22, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.07
Curated by Stefanie Marshall.
This issue of Galerie Largeness is the catalogue for the First Spank Performance Art Event. Featuring performance documentation and work by Terril-Lee W. Calder-Fujii, Neil Wiernik, Death Waits, Shannon Cochrane, Curtis Donnahee, Jason Smith, Keith Manship, and Jenny Keith. SPANK took place on November 3, 1996 , at the Rivoli in Toronto . edition of 50 copies
Release date March 31, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.08
A mail-art project by Alan Belcher.
Includes LARGENESSadvert.04.
edition of 104 copies, plus 1 artist's proof
Release date April 30, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.09
Curated by Hans Samuelson.
The first in a consecutive series of five audio-art issues of Galerie Largeness.
Featuring work by ecue (Phil Giborski); @ut.zones (Hans Samuelson); and Giorgio Magnanensi.
Includes a text by Hans Samuelson; and a text by NSCAD NETCO from 1969. This marks the beginning of a series of texts by artists from the 1960s and 70s.
edition of 50 copies
Release date July 7, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.10
Audio-art work by Barely Pink (Don Pyle and Andrew Zealley). Includes a text by Lawrence Weiner from 1967-77.
edition of 50 copies
Release date July 21, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.11
Curated by Neil Wiernik.
Featuring audio-art work by Jocelyn Robert, Kathy Kennedy, Neil Wiernik, Andra McCartney, Jean Routhier, and Susan Frykberg. Includes texts by each of the artists; and a text by Bill Vazan from 1971-73.
edition of 50 copies
Release date September 14, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.12
Audio-work by Dan Lui.
Includes a text by Rosemarie Castoro from 1970; and by Dan Graham from 1966.
edition of 50 copies
Release date November 20, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.13
Audio-work by dj sluggo (aka. Steve Reinke).
Includes a text by John Mitchell and Vincent Trasov from 1974.
edition of 50 copies
Release date November 20, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.14
A prayer project by Enoch Gray for the International Day Without Art.
edition of 50 copies
Release date December 1, 1997 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.16
Featuring work by Steve Rockwell, Sheila Gregory, and Daniel Olson.
Includes the Ossington Avenue Manifesto, written by Scott Childs, Sheila Gregory, Eugene Knapik, and Candy Minx.
edition of 50 copies
Release date January 28, 1998 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.17
Featuring work by Tomma Abts, Eric Glavin, and Luis Jacob.
Includes a petition for the Recall Harris campaign, with an essay excerpt.
edition of 50 copies
Release date March 31, 1998 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.18
Featuring work by Elizabeth McIntosh, and Anda Kubis.
Includes a petition for the Recall Harris campaign, with an essay excerpt.
edition of 50 copies
Release date March 31, 1998 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.19
Featuring work by Bradley Philips, Sally McKay, and Michael Amar.
Includes a petition for the Recall Harris campaign, with an essay excerpt. Also includes a call for artists from Copy Left, Switzerland .
edition of 50 copies
Release date June 3, 1998 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.20
Galerie Largeness goes to One-Night Stand at the Power Plant Contemporary Art at Harbourfront, Toronto : ambient music by DJs atu and ASI; video loops by Michael Buckland, Sandy Plotnikoff and Lucy Pullen, and Marina Polosa; performance art by Paul Couillard, and me and me; intelligent beverages by ACG Productions. Programme sheet produced. 'Dwellers at the Threshold' was second in the One-Night Stand series of evening events at the Power Plant.
Release date June 3, 1998 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.21
Featuring work by Cathy Thomas, and Jack Niven. Includes a text on the Anarchist Free School of Toronto.Also includes a call for artists for YYZ's 'MONEY, VALUE, ART: State Funding, Free Market, Big Pictures' exhibition.
edition of 50 copies
Release date December 8, 1998 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.22
Featuring work by Laura Teneycke, and Scott Silverthorn. Includes a petition for the Recall Harris campaign, with an essay excerpt. Also includes a text on the Anarchist Free School of Toronto.
edition of 50 copies
Release date December 8, 1998 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.23
Galerie Largeness goes to RAW2 at the Weave Art Complex: three monitors showing works by Roger Bywater, Emiliy vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Elizabeth Fearon, and Santiago Sierra. Programme sheet produced.
Synthesis was an event organized by Purnnita Kotecha and Richard Rose of ACG Productions, and was second in ACG's Shuga' series of evenings.
Release date January 23, 1999 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.24
Featuring work by Euan Macdonald.
Includes LARGENESStext.05.
edition of 60 copies
Release date September 2, 1999 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.25
Curated by Enoch Gray. Featuring work by Irina Schestakowich, Gene Trendal, Silvie Treuwalsh, Kevin Witzke, Enoch Gray, Amandah Hill, Rob Bloom.
Includes LARGENESStext.06.
edition of 50 copies
Release date September 9, 1999 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.26
Featuring a work by Alex Morrison. Includes LARGENESStext.06.Also includes a call for submissions to the Tingley Brothers Gallery, an exhibition space located in a safe at Struts Gallery, Sackville , Nova Scotia .

GALERIE LARGENESS.27
Featuring work by Glenn Gear, and Julie Voyce.
Includes a call for submissions to the Khyber Closet and Zippo Gallery, two exhibition spaces located at Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
edition of 50 copies.
Release date November 7, 2000 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.28
Featuring a work by Kyka Rye.
Includes a call for submissions to Solo Exhibition, Toronto .
edition of 50 copies.
Release date December 4, 2000 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.29
Featuring work by Sandy Plotnikoff and Michael Fernandes. Includes an edvertisement to Lisa Smolkin's museum, and LARGENESStext.08.
edition of 50 copies.
Release date January 4, 2001 .

GALERIE LARGENESS.30
Featuring a work by Si Si Penaloza. Includes a complete listing of Galerie Largeness World of Art instalments 01 to 30.
edition 50 copies.
Release date October 7, 2002 , with a reception at Art Metropole (and special guest Michael Morris from Image Bank).

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Galerie Largeness may reasonably appear to be an art gallery, but one that in its form remained both portable and mutable. Galerie Largeness may appear to be a magazine, but one whose content did not function as reportage, but was in every case work prepared by artists especially for publication at the Galerie. Galerie Largeness may appear to be an archive, in that it presented in a unified context the work characteristic of a determinate time and place. But it was an archive whose scope was neither documentary nor retrospective: the life of Largeness was about the involvement it required on the part of the dozens and dozens of artists and artist-curators who participated in it over the years, and the everyday strategies and negotiations it required to sustain it

In 1999 during an artists' panel discussion at the University of Western Ontario , I described myself to the audience as “an artist working as curator, publisher of artists' multiples, writer, organiser, and studio artist”. This range of activities is what constitutes my artistic practise. At any given time, many of us are publisher-as-artist, or curator-as-artist, or community-organizer-as-artist, or crate-builder-as-artist, or educator-as-artist, or archivist-as-artist -- as well as being traditional studio-artists. Running through all of these functions is the idea that the work of an artist is not exclusively the production of objects, but the making-dynamic of the culture in which we live. These various activities form the reality of what constitues our artistic work.

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