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The Communism of Forms: Sound + Image + Time – The Strategy of Music Videos is a fluid exhibition whose first presentation (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2006) has been remixed and restaged to resonate in the Toronto context. Containing over 50 international works, the playlist has been edited, with some works dropped out, others added, and new works specifically commissioned for Toronto. The exhibition itself is divided between two venues - Red Bull 381 Projects and the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) - and has insinuated itself into this year's Images Festival. While we have maintained the spirit of the original presentation, here, we also present exhibition strategies akin to the strategies employed in the works themselves, to create another “communism of forms.” At AGYU, a series of seven programs - Black Album, Flipside, Replay I, Replay II (a selection of work by Iain Forsyth + Jane Pollard), MyTube, After Party I (a program of work by the nomadic collective assume vivid astro focus), and After Party II - functions as an archive of various themes in the history of artists' music video while Red Bull 381 Projects features newly commissioned work and installations that diverge from specific reference to the genre to form new iterations of the interplay between sound, image, and time. The mash-up between the venues (i.e., Red Bull 381 Projects and AGYU) is also present inside the exhibition with an intervention programmed by the Images Festival of Ming Wong's Lerne Deutsch mit Petra Von Kant (Learn German with Petra Von Kant), 2007. Wong's installation, in the midst of the AGYU's exhibition, not only provides a filmic counterpoint to the themes taken up by artists working in the music video genre but also provides another dimension to the viewers' experience of the exhibition itself.

Exhibition at AGYU runs from April 8 to June 14, 2009
Opening reception Wednesday, April 8, 6 - 9 pm
Curated by: Emelie Chhangur + Earl Miller (Toronto), Fernando Oliva + Marcelo Rezende (São Paulo)

Exhibition at Red Bull 381 Projects runs from April 9 to May 14, 2009
Opening reception Thursday, April 9, 6 - 9 pm
Curated by: Nicholas Brown + Earl Miller (Toronto), Fernando Oliva + Marcelo Rezende (São Paulo)