Blackwood at Nuit Blanche!

Emergency Room Recruiting Centre, Nuit Blanche, September 29, 2007

For this “all-night contemporary art thing” in Toronto, Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel has been invited to install "Emergency Room Recruiting Centre" at the University of Toronto’s Art Centre at St. George Campus, downtown. Between 7 pm and 7 am, Geoffroy will work with recruited artists who are either making art ‘on the spot’ that responds to current political events (local or world-wide) or bringing in artwork that responds to immediate political crises. Employing a manifesto and acting as the artistic director of this intense political art workshop and transitory exhibition, Geoffroy will work with each artist – hour by hour – to create an environment of cultural and political production, which in itself challenges notions of contemporary art. Curated by Séamus Kealy.

For more information contact the Blackwood Gallery: 905 828-3789.
To be a recruited artist, contact Blackwood Gallery Outreach Programmer Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot at Suzanne.Carte-Blanchenot@mississauga.ca


Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel
Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel was born in Nancy, France in 1961. His father was first a captain, then a colonel, in the French Army, and due to his service requirements, the family was stationed in Algeria.
Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel began experimenting with photography and visual arts in his early teens, using representation as an early form of self-inquiry. Between 1978 and 1981, Geoffroy studied Medicine at the University of Nancy. Since 1988, Geoffroy has exhibited and produced interventionist-like projects world-wide, including exhibitions at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Galerie Olaf Stüber in Berlin, and site-specific projects at the 2003 and 2007 Venice Biennale, and his ongoing project Emergency Room, most recently accomplished at PS1 in New York.
Geoffroy has also created many films and several publications, all of which continue his challenge of notions of identity and political representations. Geoffroy, a French émigré, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his wife and three children.
Geoffroy is a recipient of France’s “Chevalier des arts et des lettres”.
Images and further information are available online at:
http://conclusionism.com/heie_ps1/emergencyroom.html