The Gladstone Hotel's 6th Annual

Urbanism, Landscape and Contemporary Art Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: April 18-22, 2018

Wed April 18: 79pm / Thurs April 19: 11am8pm / Fri April 20: 11am10pm Opening Party 7-10pm / Sat April 21: 10am9pm / Sun April 22: 10am5pm

Grow Op at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel celebrates its sixth year in the spring of 2018 as an exhibition of art and design that cultivates ideas across a broad range of disciplines, examining how humans and other species live within and without natural systems of growth, change, abundance, scarcity, decay and life.

In 2018, we contemplate AFTER THE FLOOD. What lies beyond once the floodwaters recede? What emerges once the smoke clears? As cataclysmic climate events multiply in tandem with our species continuously expanding footprint, we are re-conceiving our relationships with the organic and inorganic world around us in unprecedented ways.

Grow Op 2018 seeks projects that explore the actions of humans in both collaborating, exploiting, nurturing, sowing, stripping and growing among our fellow species, our soil, our waters, our neighbourhoods, our cities.

Projects engage participants through sight, touch, sound, and taste to create a landscape of immersive experience. Interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged, combining creative practitioners such as: artists, biologists, historians, anthropologists, musicians, botanists, architects, poets, craftspeople, chefs, geographers, filmmakers, ecologists, performers, landscape architects, writers, planners, agriculturalists and more.

GROW OP 2018 PARTICIPANTS:

AB Allison Home-Douglas Bohden Tymchuk, Ryan Phyper Ernestine Aying, J. Damron, Dawn George, Emily Guo, Emily Jan, [R]ed[U]x Lab, Eureka League Doug Donald, Claire Ironside Ruth Spitzer, Teresa Mak, Annette Hegel Deborah Margo, Jenny Odell, Hana Rotchild, Tammy Salzl, Lauren Schaffer, Adrienne Scott, Kathryn Bondy Stacey Sproule, Adrien Stimson, Claire Kurtin Sneha Sumanth, Sean Tamblyn, Ryan Van Der Hout

ADMISSION: Cash Only: General: $10 / Student: $5 Friday only with valid student ID / School Groups: $25 Advance booking only / Family of 4: $25

Banner Credit: Ryan Phyper Ernestine Aying