LAUNCH: The Inventions Library & Archives + Exhibition
Eyelevel Gallery (ELG) is pleased to launch The Inventions Library & Archives, coordinated and constructed by Corey J. Isenor. Now in its 38th year of operation, ELG remains to be one of the oldest and most weathered artist-run galleries in Canada’s history. Through multiple moves to over 9 different locations in its history, endless quantities of printed matter, posters, and exhibition paraphernalia have been acquired. The Invention’s Library & Archives were created to house these items in a searchable database that could allow ELG members, and the public, access to the history of such an important cultural space.
With today’s cultural sectors constantly being threatened or cut, it’s more important now then ever that organizations such as ELG begin to look back and investigate their history. Not merely for the retrospective gratification of a job well done, but more to develop an understanding of how people, location, audience, and funding can operate and mutate in order to keep an important institution alive.
Accompanying the launch of The Inventions Library & Archives will be an exhibition entitled Look Back, to Where You Once Belonged, highlighting various alternative aspects of the galleries history while also providing an open-faced look back at events and exhibitions significant to ELG’s lifetime. This includes recent audio interviews with founding ELG board members Julia Schmit Healy, John Greer, and Roger Savage, the presentation of a poster re-print project using various collected imagery & archive materials, and an exhibit of various guestbook’s and visitor signatures kept over the ages including that possibly of Lou Reed.
For more information please contact:
Corey J. Isenor
Inventions Library & Archives Coordinator
publicrelations@eyelevelgallery.ca
Eye Level Gallery
(902) 425 6412
