PED.TORONTO
Millie Chen, Andrew Johnson, Joan Linder, Warren Quigley, Paul Vanouse
Exhibition
Koffler Gallery, 2016
Photo documentation by Toni Hafkenscheid
PED is a full service organization slated to inform, entertain and educate through a range of site-specific audio bicycle tours designed to reveal layers of a city’s life. Including Canadian artists Millie Chen and Warren Quigley, Americans Andrew Johnson, Joan Linder and Paul Vanouse, and honorary PED.Toronto member David Dressner, PED engages a spectrum of professional and amateur narrators to populate sound tracks delivered via bicycle-mounted speakers, transforming our experience of cycling through familiar streetscapes.
After mining the geographies and civic narratives of Buffalo, NY (USA), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Chongqing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and St. John’s, NL (Canada), the collective has now created a series of bike tours through Toronto’s West Queen West area that examine the city’s shifting identities, multi-faceted realities and imagined potentials.
Toronto the Good incorporates literary and filmic references revealing this city as a place rich in its own stories as well as a cinematic stand-in for other cities. Toronto the Better focuses on the current streetscape and local culture of the sites, start-ups, community organizations, businesses and personalities around the Koffler Gallery. Finally, Toronto the Best channels science fiction into a call to action for Toronto residents, whether they are long-time, new, or even yet unforeseen citizens.
A retrospective of past PED projects and a live feed observation centre inside the gallery extend the outdoor experience and interactive engagement with the city that aims to spark both our subjective and collective imaginations.
Toronto the Good incorporates literary and filmic references revealing this city as a place rich in its own stories as well as a cinematic stand-in for other cities. Toronto the Better focuses on the current streetscape and local culture of the sites, start-ups, community organizations, businesses and personalities around the Koffler Gallery. Finally, Toronto the Best channels science fiction into a call to action for Toronto residents, whether they are long-time, new, or even yet unforeseen citizens.
A retrospective of past PED projects and a live feed observation centre inside the gallery extend the outdoor experience and interactive engagement with the city that aims to spark both our subjective and collective imaginations.
Artists Info
Including Canadian artists Millie Chen and Warren Quigley and Americans Andrew Johnson, Joan Linder and Paul Vanouse, PED describes itself as “a full service organization slated to inform, entertain and educate” through a range of site-specific, audio bicycle tours designed to reveal layers of a city’s life. PED.Toronto also includes honorary member David Dressner.
PED re-imagines and transforms our experiences of familiar streetscapes, engaging a spectrum of professional and amateur narrators to populate audio tracks delivered via bicycle-mounted speakers. PED’s past projects mined the geographies and civic narratives of Buffalo, NY (USA), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Chongqing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and St. John’s, NL (Canada).
