ART GALERY for VESNA PERUNOVICH. By Anna Totska.

SITE.

The site is a path that leads to a McCowan subway station in Srarborough. The interesting fact about the site is that is seems completely unoccupied, compare to the surrounding land. Where it is all busy shopping malls, highways, residences. In fact, this piece of "desert" is being used daily by a large number of people, as the path leads to a subway. Therefore, this territory needs some fresh look.

PLAN.

The concept is to create an unusual experience without interrupting people's daily routine. Where the routine is walking to or from the subway. The gallery simply becomes part of the path. While walking to the subway people could look at the exhibition. If they are interested, they are welcome to come in and take a look closely, if not, they would just follow their usual path. 

EXPERIENCE.

The order of the exhibition is designed in a way that viewer is thrown directly into interaction with the art work, knowing nothing about the author.  This, I believe, would clear all expectations and let viewer enjoy work as it is. Later, in the middle section of the art gallery viewer could learn about the author and more specific art works.

PERSPECTIVES.

MODEL.

DRAWINGS.

Exercise Seven, Anna Totska.

VESSNA PERUNOVICH

Farewell

"... The work of Canadian Artist Vessna Perunovich is about finding a balance, a way of understanding and (possibly) resolving the tension between conflicted or opposite states of mind and being. The cultural displacement, relationships and roles within family-life are all examined. The metaphoric qualities of her pieces lend themselves naturally to a multiplicity of readings. Her repeated use of materials such as pantyhose and elastic ribbon carry with them the inherent quality of being "stretched". Perunovich wants to explore, and wants the viewer to see, that the roles and confines which are put upon us as a society need to be streched, reshaped and redifined..." 

Virginia M. Eichhorn

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Link 2.

Exercise Six. Anna Totska

PROJECT ONE, Part One. By Anna Totska.

Project One, Part Three. Anna Totska. Katie Felton, Alanna McFarland

McCowan Station.

Katie Felton. Greenery.

Transportation. Alanna McFarland

Base Map. Anna Totska

Human Occupatin. Anna Totska

Exercise Four: Game Board and Rhizomes

GAMEBOARD MAPPING

-presented like a game board of contested territory with drifting and layering-the analytical seperation of different agendas and issues.
-Raoul Bunschoten-London based architect- developed a system fro mapping agents and players that draws out the urban potential. -different frames over the map represent conditions )ie: socio, economic,...)
-Rauol's plan for Bucharest can be shown on a larger scale relative to around cities situated around the Black Sea, depicting a sort of cartographic stage which shows grand scale relationships.

-Bunschoten memorized four fields:

TOPONYMY(masque) cultural plan of an ethnic society)
FLOW(market) new influx and regulatory mechanisms
BASIN(urban flotsam) regeneration of ecological environment.
INCORPORATION(liminal bodies) design of institutions for conflict and negotiation.

-He then created steeping stones between the four fields. mapping all possible scenarios between parties.
-the MAP evolves and is drawn and redrawn often by planners.

RHIZOME

-point to point connections arranged in hierarchal systems expanding outwards from a mid-point.
-milieu-defined as the urban center.

-difference between MAPPING and TRACING:
-MAPPING allows innovation, TRACING is redundant and often just repetitive overlaying.
- key is INTERCONNECTION-body of connections, graphic and notational systems depicting even the "unmappable."

-See: Joseph Minard's narrative map of the fate of Napoleon's Army-sythesizes relationships using geometric forms, vectors, etc. to tell the story of the terrain.-it is essentially a framework, a "data-scape" that may be read.
-frameworks such as these can use anything from images to infra-red photos of an aerial view-field plots to show agriculture.

-MAPPING should be a creative and immaterial representation of a multi-faceted world, free of hierarchal relationships, and depicting ideas that are able to affect change. -making logical but possibly fictional constructs- similar to a good argument.

"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention." -Rudolf Arnheim

Exercise Three. Anna Totska.

Project One, Part Two. Anna Totska.

Project One. Part One: McCowan staion. By Anna Totska.

People.

Based on observation, there is a dominance of elderly people and teenagers among other population in this neighbourhood. Shopping mall is a place for entertaining for both age groups.

Littering.

Garbage is a problem for this neighbourhood. The interesting fact is that there are signs, such as "No Littering" but there is a visible littering right beside this signs.

Contrast

There is a big contrast in this neighbourhood between busy, functional structures and useless bare areas; and all in within small area. This field for example, on the top left, is a trope that leads to the subway.

Places.

This Neighbourhood has all conveniences. Shopping centres, entertaining places, gas station and banks are all within a small area. These all places are mostly franchised. People are very multicultural in this area, with mostly Asian and Indian dominance. There are no signs of this multiculturalism in actual city structure.

Traffic.

This is a video of Elsmere and McCowan intersection at around 2PM. It shows very busy neighbourhood where buses and cars play an important role in transportation and connecting to larger urban areas. There are also other ways of transportation, such as GO train, SRT and shuttle buses. This neighbourhood is located far away from urban area, where well organized transportation system gives this area an easy and fast access to urban area. It also gives this area a busy and loud urban feel.

Exercise Two: Anna Totska

Exercise One: Anna Totska

Ten years from now I will be 32. It is hard to tell the future, but I am going to tell how I want it to be.  In ten years I want to find my career passion, probably become an architect.  Number one issue for me is protecting the environment. In future I want to be engaged in large projects. My dream is to build something that would be wold recognized, like a CN Tower for example; but it will be known as a symbol of a our new age - age of protecting and restoring our land.