Psychotopes, sovaldi sale curated by Markus Muller includes Toronto artists Germaine Koh, Corinne Carlson, Bill Burns, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Andrew Reyes, Olia Mishchenko & Steve Kado, Instant Coffee, Lisa Kannakko, Corwyn Lund, Jay Wilson, Robin Collyer, Day Milman & Paige Gratland, Scott Lyall, Rose Kallal, John Massey, and Derek Sullivan.
The idea of the psychotope was initially presented by Austrian architect Richard Neutra in his book “Survival through Design” (1969). Neutra expanded the concept of a biotope (an area usually small and of uniform environmental condition) by introducing the psychotope. As an exhibition, Psychotopes investigates issues of the city – economic, socio-cultural, historical, personal – and transforms these existing realities into productive psychotopes, spaces that consider the possibility of alternate perceptions of reality.
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Artist Bio
Markus Muller
Markus Muller is an art historian with a PhD in American Studies from the Ruhr-Universitt, Bochum, Germany. He is on sabbatical from his position as Head of Communications and Curator of Contemporary Art, at the Westflische Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany. Mller has been Director of Communications for Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany and was, among others, responsible for organizing the first four platforms of Documenta 11 in Vienna, New delhi, Berlin, St. Lucia and Lagos. He is currently working on the application of the city of Mnster as Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010.
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