EXTRA EXTRA! FREE PAPER LAUNCHES FRIDAY!
GET YOUR COPY THIS FRIDAY AT WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY!
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CBC spot by Lily Ames – “A Regular Day in The Free Paper Office”
JP KING – FREE PAPER
Please Join us for the official launch:
Friday September 2nd
Whippersnapper Gallery
594 Dundas St. W. (west of Spadina)
7-9pm.
As this summer draws to a close at Whippersnapper Gallery, we are excited to announce the release of Jp King’s Free Paper. Available at the gallery, through out Kensington market and delivered paperboy style through the neighbourhood. Look to pick up a copy between September 2ND and 4th before the close of the exhibition.
The paper, developed over the past three weeks has been a labour of love as King has opened the doors to the gallery (though more appropriately thought of as an office) to the public and asked for their collaboration in the creation of a community newspaper.
With a specific interest in our relationship to the objects we purchase, consume, own, love, dispose of, waste and want, King developed a thematic basis to the exhibition that focused on the means by which we value these relationships. How do our relationships with our disposable or hoard-worthy objects compliment our understanding of work, labour and even our connections to the people that surround us. As one of his questions posted on the front window of Whippersnapper Gallery suggestively asks, “Do you get along better with people or objects?”. Similarly, King provided a survey that posed similar questions to potential takers; “What do you purchase that makes you feel guilty?” or ”What is the best thing your parents taught you?”.
Complimented by reading groups of selected texts, public discussions and poetry & fiction writing workshops, the paper has accepted 45 submissions of writing & art. Free Paper is an insight into the creative energies of those around us while asking participants to examine the way in which we mediate our lives – either through money, objects, people and work – and most often all four of these themes.
