Please join us for the opening of our inaugural exhibition, ERRATIC ROOM | LYLA RYE.
The artist will be in attendance.

Exhibition opening and catalogue launch to be held in conjunction with the grand opening of Artscape Youngplace, Toronto’s newest community cultural hub comprising 75,000 sq ft of vibrant creative space!
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Event is free to attend. As space is limited, please RSVP
Reservations are being accepted through Artscape Youngplace. If plans change, please cancel your reservation or notify us a day in advance so that others may have the chance to attend.

Event location
TYPOLOGY Projects, 180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
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We look forward to seeing you!
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About the Erratic Room exhibition and catalogue
The Erratic Room exhibition comprises a video installation, a limited-edition photo series, an exhibition catalogue with original curatorial essay, and the first in a series of affordable limited-edition prints produced by TYPOLOGY. A new collection of wearable art buttons by Lyla Rye will also be launched in conjunction with the exhibition.

Erratic Room Opening and Catalogue Launch printable invite

Join us for an informal artist’s talk and family-friendly film screening, featuring the two Buster Keaton shorts, One Week and The Electric House, which inspired Lyla Rye’s Erratic Room installation. Bring your own pillow (chairs available as needed); popcorn will be served!

Each short is around 20 minutes long. Come around 1pm to see Lyla Rye’s installation and get your seat; first screening starts at 1:30. After a short break, the second screening will start, followed by a brief artist’s talk and kid-friendly Q+A. Stay for as long as you like!
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Event is free to attend
Suggested donation of $1 per bag of popcorn to cover costs.

As space is limited, please RSVP
Kids welcome accompanied by caregivers; recommended age range is 5 and up. If plans change, please notify us a day in advance so that others may have the chance to attend.

Event will be held at TYPOLOGY Projects
180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
See Google map of location

We look forward to seeing you!
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About Buster Keaton and the Erratic Room
The presence of Buster Keaton within Erratic Room is no accident or joke; his work fascinates Rye (as well as a long list of other artists who cite him as a major influence, from Jacques Tati to Jackie Chan, Samuel Beckett, Woody Allen, and Robert Wilson). Among the images Rye sourced for Erratic Room are key moments from two of his short films, namely One Week (1920) and The Electric House (1922). Both films feature the actor entangled in an epic struggle with structure — in One Week he vainly attempts to build a kit home for himself and his new bride; in The Electric House he gamely outfits a patron’s house with all manner of automated gadgetry which goes haywire to disastrous effect.

Both houses become impassive machines which offer not security but treachery in their baffling transformations; windows become exits to be launched through, a stairway propels people into a swimming pool. Walls flip upside down and turn inside out — in Keaton’s representation of the world, all that happens is contrary to reasonable expectations.

— Passage excerpted from the Erratic Room exhibition catalogue

Curator Shani K Parsons and artist Lyla Rye discuss the process behind Erratic Room, TYPOLOGY’s inaugural exhibition. A Q+A and reception will follow.
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Events are free to attend. As space is limited, please RSVP
If plans change after registering, please notify us a day in advance so that others may have the chance to attend.

Event will be held at TYPOLOGY Projects
180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
See Google map of location

We look forward to seeing you!
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About the artist
Lyla Rye is Toronto-based artist who began her studies in architecture. She studied at University of Waterloo, York University (BFA 1989), and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 1994) and currently works in installation, video, and photography. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally including San Francisco, New York, Adelaide (Australia), Paris, and Berlin, and she has work in the public collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, York University, Cadillac Fairview Corporation, The Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Harbourfront Centre and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Starting in the early 1990s she was a founding member of the sculptors’ collective Nether Mind. Since that time she has worked in a number of collectives including 5 things, hic and Persona Volare focusing on site-specific installations in non-gallery spaces. She has had exhibitions in a women’s prison, various industrial basements, a storefront window, a Debates Room, a juniper bush, a classroom, an elevator, and on the edge of the Canadian Shield.  She is a sessional faculty member in the Art and Art History joint program between Sheridan College and University of Toronto Mississauga and the founder of Mentor Lyla Rye.

About the curator
Over the past fifteen years, Shani Khoo Parsons has built a multidisciplinary practice focused on exhibitions and publications for cultural and educational institutions and organizations. Blurring the boundaries between art, exhibition, writing, and design, she has produced an eclectic body of work ranging from intimate book works and publications to immersive installations and exhibitions for venues including the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Museum of Chinese in America, and Mixed Greens, a contemporary art gallery in Chelsea. After nearly a decade of living and working in New York, Shani moved to Toronto with her family. Bringing together her experience in all aspects of exhibition-making — as artist, designer, editor, critic, and curator — she is building a hybrid space for collaborative and cross-disciplinary experimentation in TYPOLOGY Projects, an independent venue for exhibitions on all forms of local and international contemporary culture.

In this family-friendly workshop, learn principles of collage using found imagery culled from newspapers, advertisements and magazines. Through play and experimentation, we will explore how collisions of imagery or unexpected image/text combinations create new associations and ideas. The finished small collages will then be made into unique art buttons, perfect for stocking stuffers and holiday gift-giving!
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Workshop is free
Suggested donation of $5 per set of 3 buttons to cover material costs and benefit project space programming.

As space is limited, please RSVP
— Kids welcome accompanied by caregivers; recommended age range is 5 and up.
— Come any time after 1pm and stay as long as you like until 4pm.
— If plans change, please notify us a day in advance so that others may have the chance to attend.

Event will be held at TYPOLOGY Projects
180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
See Google map of location

We look forward to seeing you!
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About Lyla Rye’s art buttons
In conjunction with the Erratic Room exhibition, Lyla Rye has launched a a new collection of wearable Screen Grab buttons (Image/Text series). An exploration that comes from long hours of searching the web for imagery and editing video for her installations, Rye’s buttons are fun, often humourous, miniature works of art that capture moments in which alternate realities collide in too-perfect-to-be-planned ways.

Event will take place at TYPOLOGY Projects
180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
See Google map of location

We look forward to seeing you!