Exploring themes brought forth in writer Northrop Frye’s Words with Power, artist group Team Macho will take over the Weston Family Community Gallery between January and April 2012 by building a series of studio structures in which both the artists themselves and the public will be invited to take occupation.
A fully functioning studio, the installation draws on ideas related to the history of artists working in collaboration with one another, referencing the practices of General Idea, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven among others. Here Team Macho examines the manner in which these male artists also worked supportively alongside each other, developing structures that were both physical and personal to push forward their individual practices. The piece calls to question the role of community in artistic practice, using the studio itself as a way of reconsidering the role of the individual artist in a larger society.
The public is invited to register for use of Team Macho’s studio from January to April 2012 by submitting a letter of interest to: community_gallery@ago.net
Also if you want to keep up to date with Team Macho news, or just to see how the AGO installation is coming together pop on over to the Team Macho Tumblr page.