Notice to Membership: Annual General Meeting, June 26, 2012 @truck 7:00PM.

Second Story Art Society O/A TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary

Notice to Membership: Annual General Meeting

June 26, 2012, 7:00 PM @ TRUCK Gallery

TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary would like to invite our members and community partners to our Annual General Meeting on June 26, 2012. We will report to our members on the activities of the past year and our objectives for the coming year. Additionally, pursuant to section 15 of the Societies act, a special resolution of the members of the Society will be made to approve the alteration of the by-laws of the society with the by-laws attached hereto to the By-Laws. Attached to this call as Schedule A. We will also be taking nominations from our members for the election of Board Directors. In order to vote, or nominate members at the AGM you will need to hold a current TRUCK Membership prior to the AGM.

Agenda:

11.     Welcome to members and Introduction of Staff and Board

22.     Approval of the agenda

33.     Approval of the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting

44.     Reports

a.     Executive Director’s report

b.     President’s report

55.     Financial Review of the financial statements setting out TRUCK's income, disbursements, assets and liabilities and the auditor’s report

66.     Approval and appointing of the auditors

77.     New Business

a.     Special Resolution, approval of the alteration of the Society By-Laws

88.     Nomination and election of the Board Directors

99.     Election of the Board Directors

110.  Motion to adjourn.

Artists@TRUCK Interview Series

TRUCK is pleased to announce the launch of a new online video series in which our presenting artists talk about their works exhibited in our main gallery space. Check out the latest by John G. Hampton, "Virtual Capacities" June 1 through June 28, 2012.

Roundel

Pascal Dufaux and M.N. Hutchinson's Roundel

February 11, 2011 through to March 10, 2011

Presented as part of the Exposure 2011—Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival, Roundel uses tricks and techniques of photography to give a new perspective on ordinary images and form obscurity from the familiar. By creating a video-kinetic sculpture, Pascal Dufaux attempts to bring a new perspective to our surroundings and ourselves through an observation camera that moves about in closed circuits of slow hypocycloidal rotations. Drawing from his family history, M.N. Hutchinson uses a panoramic camera to create time-based still images that rely on the narrative functions of cinema to explore genealogical mapping.

LETTER PERFORMANCE

The first photograph is the quick information workshop for the Local Library group before heading to the sight of the final performance in Barclay Mall.

The second shot is one of many taken during the performance in Barclay Mall.

Belmont has different techniques for arriving at a phrase for each performance. The phrase for the first and second performances came from workshops. During the first workshop the participants brainstormed and wrote their memories, news and historical knowledge of the Bow River on a map hand drawn by Belmont. The participants were also given index cards to complete many sentences provided by Belmont, from this information Belmont decided on the phrase for the first performance. Belmont took a larger part in pre-planning for the second performance; the workshop participants were given the start of only two sentences to complete. Cécile Belmont through her research and time spent in Calgary had the start of the phrase already chosen. The third and final phrase was taken from a newspaper clipping found by Belmont while doing her research.

When the photographs from the performances are seen together they become a poetic animation of the performances. TRUCK will have monitors set up at the reception playing a series of images from each performance. The CAMPER will also be decorated with research, collected images and items from the performances.

The reception for Letter Performance will be Monday, September 27, 2010 in Olympic Plaza from noon to 5:00pm. There will be large posters produced from each performance available at the reception.

Final CAMPER Residency of Summer 2010

Cécile Belmont (Berlin, Germany) has been working with various people and groups in Calgary conducting performances. A "Letter Performance" involves a group of people meeting in a public place to perform a predetermined act of messaging or communication. The Performances provoke a reaction and bring people together to create a ‘buzz’. Final performance is Wednesday, September 22, 2010 in Barclay Mall at 6:30pm.

The first image above is from the first performance on September 16th, the participants included a group from the Alberta College of Art + Design, City staff from the Water Centre, and construction workers.

The second image is from the second performance on September 18th in Prince's Island Park. The participants for this performance consist of TRUCK members and friends.

These performances explore how we experience and react in public space.

Reception: Monday, September 27, 2010 in Olympic Plaza from noon to 5pm.

THE OBSERVATORY

Here are some pics of the piece at Edworthy Park.

THE OBSERVATORY

Current CAMPER artist José Luis Torres is beginning his final installation for the second installment of TRUCK’s collaboration with the City of Calgary’s Celebration of the Bow 2010. The architecture-inspired structures will be constructed in St. Patrick's Island near where the Elbow River and the Bow River meet. The final project for THE OBSERVATORY will also be the host site for the Reception this Friday, August 20th from noon to 5pm.

Until this site installation Torres has been building the elements of these installations in TRUCK's Main Space. These structures make you slow down and take in your surroundings and gently guide you to focus on the river. The locations of THE OBSERVATORY are mapped through TRUCK’s website, WWW.TRUCK.CA.