Come Up To My Room 2011

Bruno Billio is a mad genius and artist in residence at The Gladstone. He has lived there for the last eight years!The above is his apartment at The Gladstone. He had a dinner party then flicked a switched (the dinner table revolves) sending glasses and chairs flying. Then left the resulting mess as his piece for CUTMR. The bottled water in the first picture is available to purchase in the hotel lobby at the main desk. This was easily my favourite piece. I loved the voyeur aspect of it.

Parts 1&2 of Mark McLean's Dollar Store Triptych. If you know me you will also know that I love/hate dollar stores and often buy random crap for my DIY projects there. Mark has taken that too the extreme and created actual art from items I would never even notice at the dollar store. Now, I'm secretly itching to melt some plastic soldiers together.

Treehugger by Map Collective

Part 3 of Mark McLean's Dollar Store Triptych. I think this was my favourite of the triptych the zipties fixed to hubcaps so simple and yet so beautiful. They reminded me of graceful anemones

Rena Grosman and Vivien Cheng

Face To Face by Xiaojing Yan. A beautiful and dreamlike way of representing portraits each piece looks heavy but suspends gracefully from the ceiling.

Rob Southcott (Room 212)

Dennis Lin (Room 214). Like the human psyche arranged on to shelves and then wrapped tightly in industrial cling film. Various objects and pieces of objects at first seemed random but gradually began to form a whole as I walked around the whole piece and peered into each nook and cranny with my camera.

Groundwork (Room 204)

Wish You Were Here! By Denise Ing and Ken Leung. The inflatable hand on the left is controlled by a motion sensor in front of it. The hand on the right is remotely controlled through their website, www.wish-you-were-here.ca. Are the hands waiving hello or goodbye?

A shrine to lost farmland and the structures that went with them by Lubo Brezina and Scott Eunson (Room 207I. This piece is based on a barn and reminded me of the skeleton-like shells of old barns that i used to love so much as a child. Give me a rotting barn over a condo anyday.

 Room 202 by Jana Macalik, John Peterson and Diana Watters

The bedroom from hell. It looks like it could be in some suburban basement but the harsh white lighting speaks more of an institution like a hospital.

Room 206 by Cyborgesses

A cozy and creepy alter-like installation. The drawing reminded me of indian illuminated manuscripts.

Chaos Theory by Becky Lane and Chrissy Poitras

Escapes III by Jen Spinner

Amanda Mccavour's reconstruction of her living room using thread sewn into dissolving fabric. The result is a drawing made of thread stitched into itself. I love that the mundane objects like the iron and the paint can are represented here too.

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I'm sorry for the overload of photos, I took so many what you see here represents about a third! So this may seem like a lot but it is actually the 'edited' down version. This just goes to show you how wonderful and diverse Come Up To My Room is. My one complaint would be the crowds of people but hopefully next year I will be able to get a pass for the media preview (shameless hint).