World of Threads Festival
The Red and The Black
2014 Exhibition: Gallery
The Red and The Black was our major exhibition of Festival 2014. Using our synchronistic curating method we realized that many of the submissions that year were red and black. So we decided to bring them all together into this striking exhibition.
Photography by Gareth Bate
Gallery
- The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.
City
- Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Dates
- Nov. 1 - Nov 30, 2014
Synchronistic Curating
Something that's different about World of Threads Festival is that we let the art guide us. Festival curators Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman don't have predetermined curatorial ideas or impose our concepts on the artists. Each new festival is a blank slate. Shows develop entirely out of the submissions we receive.
To find our main exhibitions we look for connections and common themes between thousands of artworks. These works were made by hundreds of artists from around the world. Often artists seem to be on the same wavelength during a particular period. Over time, through many hours of sorting through artworks, the exhibition themes just emerge and become clear to us. This method has been very successful and resulted in compelling and unique exhibitions.
