1. Mattress City - Kika Thorne
A group of architects and artists lay down their beds in the public square to protest the homelessness and possible migration the Tory government would enforce.
Mattress City (1997)
2. Kika Thorne - Mike Hoolboom
Returning to city hall, they laid down sixty-six mattresses in a large grid, a public sculpture of roofless beds which stood in mute protest. As TV crews ...
The work of Kika Thorne follows a trajectory from the private sphere to the public. Each of her films carries a diary address and arises from personal encounters, or as Kika describes it, “just hanging out.” These casual, low-tech documents of the underclass come armed with a barbed politic, whether the sexy feminism of her early work or the address to urban homelessness in her more recent efforts. While she has used a variety of low-fidelity methods, super-8 has been her most reliable companion, providing both portability and an accessibility of means. Whenever the need arises, the camera can be passed on to participants for their point of view, and its no-budget results serve as example to any hoping to commit their own dreams to emulsion. A thoughtful intimacy passes through these desiring machines as they demonstrate new kinds of pleasure, even as the unyielding pressures of capital seek to reshape the body politic, threatening the usefulness, even the existence, of fringe media.
3. February Group - Kika Thorne
1 mrt 2024 · A group of architects and artists lay down their beds in the public square to protest the homelessness and possible migration the Tory government has enforced.
untitled (mattresses) (1997) Project by February Group
4. KIKA THORNE - highlike
Kika Thorne's constructivist installation partitions, dissects and parasitically claims the space it occupies through magnetic opposition.
Singularity
5. Experiments in Collective Form - Canadian Art
8 nov 2018 · Kika Thorne wants the Tar Sands shut down immediately. Short videos about the October and February Group actions are available at Vtape, CFMDC ...
Two Toronto artists reflect on performative gestures of protest in the 1990s Harris-era of Conservative provincial politics—a moment that has sharp similarities to our own
6. Kika Thorne + Collaborations
Ambience of a future city Kika Thorne + Adrian Blackwell 3 Posters 36" x 48" and 3 CD's 2hrs each, 2001 We asked groups critic...
C-SIDEFirgrove Community Redesign (2004)C-SIDE COLLECTIVE: Josephine Akyeampong, Adrian Blackwell, Sebastiao Dinguana-Sivuilu, Keriann Fraser, Kofi Frempong, Lisa Hassan, Clairandean Humphrey, Colanthony Humphrey, Lashai Mingo, Ashley Nkrumah, Francis Nkrumah, Kyle Montague, Skye Sepp, Kizzy-Ann Taylor, Kika Thorne, Fatma Yasin, Shadya Yasin. Commissioned by AGO Teen Council, Metro-Ago-Go, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004After touring the neighborhood, taking photos and sharing stories: using a 8 foot x 12 foot aerial photo of the Jane Finch neighbourhood, the C-SIDE Collective (specifically residents between ages 8 and 16) placed cyan and red dots to indicate personal and collective responses to existing public space. We numbered the photographs, found their location on the aerial, then created a list of proposals for the neighborhood.The map expands on these propositions.Health + recreation: Bigger playground, bigger Rec Centre, with more rooms to separate programmes. We need a jungle gym, indoor gym with a real basketball court (no concrete floor!), pool renovations to the existing outdoor pool, an Olympic size indoor pool, baseball field. Sports injuries clinic.Knowledge production: Kids library, employment services, media production lab, audio recording studio. Public art, more art expression in the communities, graffiti murals, sculpture.Landscape + lighting: Better sidewalk, plant more trees, greenhouse, urban farm, create landscape to link the neighborhoods to each other...
7. [PDF] Quantum Violin —Diana Beresford- Kroeger in Conversation with Kika ...
From a single pot on the patio to guerrilla actions on the roadside commons, from backyards to national parks, scientist and author.
8. Matress City | Media Queer
Kika Thorne. Identity: queer. Producers. Distributor: Vtape. Synopsis. On March 1rst and 2nd of 1997, a group of architects and artists lay down their beds in ...
1998
9. Mattress City -- femfilm.ca: Canadian Women Film Directors Database
Directed by Adrian Blackwell and Kika Thorne · Canada, 1997 (documentary, 8 minutes, colour / black and white, German / English) · Film Description: