YTB Gallery uses a van lined with video to show off creators' work for the Images festival. For some of the same reasons, an artist-run centre has partnered with a local film and video festival to hire one, just for an evening, to tour art around Toronto streets. On April 20, the opening night of Images Festival, Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery will present the video creations of five emerging artists and artist teams screened on an LED advertising van tasked to cruise the city. In a similar spirit, YTB Gallery will throw an exhibition of installation, sculptural and video works in July presented inside, on and around a corral of U-Haul trucks parked at several locations across the GTA. “We don’t have the power to stop rent from increasing or anything like that.” Rather, “they’re acts of resistance,” Verstappen says.

Source: thestar April 18, 2017 16:18 UTC