Image by Claire Miglionico. Illustrations by Jennifer Crighton. Arrangement by Caitlind Brown. Image missing John Frosst and Brandon Dalmer.
It’s been an incredibly long week of deliberating, planning, discussing, culling, and re-deliberating for the eight Artist-Curators behind WRECK CITY. We were thrilled to receive 101 applications from Calgary and beyond – thrilled and terrified! Our task was a difficult one, made more difficult by the awesome people who submitted to us. We want to send out a sincere Thank You to the Artists, Dancers, Poets, Writers, Musicians, and Performers who applied to WRECK CITY’s Open Call for Submissions – we are so lucky that this brilliant community wants to support our crazy DIY Art Adventures!
On an unhappy note, due to limited space, extremely limited resources, and about 40 pre-selected submissions from our first phase of Curation, we simply couldn’t accept all applications. But we hope all applicants will take solace in the fact that there are tons of pre-demolition buildings all over Calgary just waiting for curious Artists to discover them and transform them into WRECK CITIES of their own! There are also other ways to be involved – we’re going to need dozens and dozens of volunteers! We’re also launching a Crowd-Sourcing Campaign through www.investyyc.com is t-minus several days and counting. Stay tuned to our blog for updates and new info!
To clarify our Curatorial process, the Artist-Curators began by directly soliciting a limited number of Artists to work inside each house during WRECK CITY. Direct Curation is responsible for about half of our participants, and this phase of the process was mostly completed before the Call for Submissions was circulated. Following this phase, the Artist-Curators were all invited to participate by circulating individual Calls as part of the Open Call for Submissions, welcoming proposals from the broader arts community. Some Artist-Curators chose not to participate (this is one of the freedoms of making your own rules), but all eight Artist-Curators read all applications, deliberated as a group, and collectively selected successful applicants. This process was conducted as unbiasedly as possible, and with fair consideration paid to each application. Thank you to everyone who submitted.
Now that we have laid our process bare, without further ado, the Artist-Curators are delighted to announce the Artists behind WRECK CITY: An Epilogue for 809!
In the House of MATTHEW MARK BOURREE:
Andrew Rodrigues
Janet Mader & Cimmeron Meyer
Jeremy Pavka
Kelsey Fraser
Mackenzie Boyle
Nate McLeod
Randy Niessen
In the House of CAITLIND r.c. BROWN:
Alia Shahab
Daniel J. Kirk
Eric Heitmann
Ivan Ostapenko & Studio North (Mark Erickson & Matthew Kennedy)
Jaye Benoit
Lane Shordee
Lauren Simms
The Satisfactory (Mynthia McDaniel & Jane Durham)
Renato Vitic
Steven Cottingham
Svea Ferguson
Wayne Garrett
In the House of JENNIFER CRIGHTON:
Desiree Nault
Karly Mortimer
Kiarra Albina
Sarah Adams
Stacey Watson
Suki Sawatzky
Suzen Green
Teela Jensen, Kataryna Gajewska, & Catalina Pop
Wednesday Lupypciw
Yvonne Kustec
Yvonne Mullock
In the house of BRANDON DALMER:
Brian Schirk
Kasia Koralewska
Lea Bucknell
Lindsay Sorell & Tammy Primeau
Morris Fox
Rebecca Noone
Sarah Van Sloten
Sasha Foster
Tiffany Wollman
In the house of ANDREW FROSST:
Alex Achtem
Bogdan Cheta, Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed, & Collaborators
Dana Buzzee
Erika Andriashek
Hye-Seung Jung
Jason Dyck, Dan Zimmerman & Chad Peters
JD Mersault
Laura Leif, Dana Schloss, & Kristi Woo
Sarah Storteboom
In the House of JOHN FROSST:
MUSICAL CURATOR: Kenna Burima
Amy Siegel
Camille Betts
Full Spectrum Arts Collective
Jessica McCarrel
Leslie Bell & the Pine Tarts
Robin Lambert
Stevyn Mars & Shelley Arnush
Studio Cartel
The Bum Family
In the House of SHAWN MANKOWSKE:
Aaron Giovannone
Chris Dadge
Eddie Dalrymple
Eddie Nyikes
Eric M Hamelin
Jack Bride
Jim Laing
Joe Kelly
Jordan Pasiuk
Joshua Alan Fraser
Kelly Jacqueline Smith
Kris Lindskoog
Larry McDowell
Mark Fleischhaker and Jay Sinclair
Megan Kirk (Jane Trash)
Melissa Croden
Natalie MacLean
Terrance J. Houle
Tia Halliday
Whitney Ota
In the House/Garage of RYAN MCCLURE SCOTT:
Alex Moon
Andrea Williamson
Christine Weera
Joleen Toner
Palmer Olson
Ryan Statz
Tomas Jonsson
Graffiti House:
Mikhail Miller
Rob Knudson
Toner
Documentary Filmmaker:
Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Resident Photographer:
Aran Wilkinson-Blanc
To all of our Artists, Welcome to the Team! We also want to send out a big THANK YOU to everyone who submitted to WRECK CITY’s Call for Submissions. Even though we can’t include all of you, we were so impressed, thrilled, and humbled by the 101 submissions we received. You are SUPER AWESOME! Keep up the grooviness.
Photo credit: Claire Miglionico
WRECK CITY | an epilogue for 809 
This is a brilliant idea and I am eager to check out the houses!!! Is the hope for this project to happen with other properties in Calgary that are going to be demolished?
WRECK CITY is a simple concept, and in that sense it could easily happen again in other spaces, organized by other artists. Or perhaps the same artists! Talk to us again after the Opening and we’ll let you know whether we’d do it again or not… but I guess we already have, considering The House Project in 2009! (www.housedemolitionproject.wordpress.com)
Yes, big thumbs up!! Great to see the amazing Studio Cartel crew in there too …very exciting!!
Looking forward to being there this week!
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