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Colour Exchanges: Interview with Instant Coffee
“Colour marks exchange. It is border-work. Mixture is our calling.”—Lisa Robertson, How to Colour
In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh, whose practice adopts the “art of conversation” as a starting point for more dynamic explorations. Since 2005, Lundh has made over thirty interviews with artists, curators, and writers about their views on contemporary art and culture in his Conversations on Contemporary Art project, which is dedicated to the definition, development, and examination of art and culture in the world today.
Colour Exchanges follow a traditional interview format, but allow for and encourage participation by visitors in the midst of the conversation.
Johan Lundh interviews members of the artist collective Instant Coffee during this session.
- host:
- Instant Coffee
- date & time:
- January 7th, 2008 at 7 pm
- location:
- IDS building, ECIAD,1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective based in Toronto and Vancouver. Instant Coffee developed, in part, as a response to the division and exaggerated difference between studio and exhibition practice. Through formal installations and event based activities, it builds a public place to practice, where ideas, materials and actions can be explored outside of the isolated studio and in a manner that renegotiates traditional exhibition structures, but is still supported by them.
For Instant Coffee, the triad of art practice production, presentation & reception becomes jumbled incorporating the social as a priority. Instant Coffee defines this social as happening in a number of ways: in getting people invested in our projects and what we are up to, but also as satisfying a way in which we like to socialize—one that centers around production but is dependent on the work of others to sustain and facilitate a critical discourse or at least offer the potential for one.
Recently Instant Coffee exhibited as part MDE07 encuentro internacional curated by Jose Roca, Casa del Encuentro, Medellin, Colombia; Instant Coffee Nooks + Everyone, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto; If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, Henry Satellite, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle; and Instant Coffee Romance Posters, Art Metropole, Toronto. In 2008 Instant Coffee will participate in What We Bring to the Table, curated by Marnie Fleming, Oakville Galleries, On; Instant Coffee: Light Bar, Flaggfabrikken, Bergen, Norway and Instant Coffee Near You, MKG127, Toronto.
Instant Coffee’s current members are Cecilia Berkovic, Jinhan Ko, Kelly Lycan, Jenifer Papararo, Kate Monro and Khan Lee.
Instant Coffee: it doesn’t have to be good to be meaningful
Instant Coffee Loves Everyone
Event Images & Documentation
Image courtesy of Instant Coffee