Tough Guy Mountain
Curated by Mohammad Rezaei & Laurie MacInroy
October 4 - 31st, 2014

Please join us for the opening performance, as independent project for Nuit Blanche, October 4th, from sunset to sunrise.

A two-floor performance in a gallery split in half (horizontally). On the bottom floor, “corporate sponsored artists” perform, showing off their work. On the top floor, corporate executives grow dissatisfied and invent new demands to place on the artists.

The fictional corporation Tough Guy Mountain makes a contract with a fictional artist collective. A key stipulation in the contract is that Tough Guy Mountain can amend and append the contract whenever they choose, and so the contract and its consequences become an evolving narrative bereft with conflict as agendas clash, paintings are made, and board room meetings decide the fate of art.

This is an exaggerated celebration of the relationship between artists and corporate sponsorships. Compromises and negotiations by both artists and corporate sponsors are performed to an absurd and fantastical scale: Can the artist modify their voice? Will the corporation lose control of their brand?

Office Hours:
Fridays & Saturdays 12-6PM

TGM Talks:
Monday, October 27th, 7PM

Whippersnapper Gallery graciously acknowledges the support of Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and Toronto Arts Council