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Christine Mangosing & Robert Bolton

OF SILENCE

Artist Statement
OF SILENCE is a visual score for the Times Neue Roman song of the same title. The project examines silence -- its liminality, its spiritual significance, its role as artistic muse and its inherent incompatibility with commerce -- as a space for contemplation and resistance. The graphic notation routes a sonic cartography of Toronto’s loudest intersections, translating urban noise and its absence as text and image.

Artist Biography

Christine Mangosing: A multidisciplinary artist and typophile, her fascination lies in visual expression of hte written word. Christine is owner and creative director of C*MANGO DESIGN as well as a performer / playwright with the CBT collective. Christine is also a founding member of Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts+Culture. Christine has displayed her works at the Us and Them Exhibition presented by Manifesto Festival and Ignite the Americas, Toronto Arts Council’s Get Lit! exhibition and the renegade Nuit Blanche installation, Intimate Terrorist. Most recently , her installation piece “a/part” was featured at Jouissance, the MCD fashion accessory launch at the Great Hall. She is currently developing her second theatre production, In the Shadow of Elephants (2011).

Robert Bolton: is an award-winning poet and recording artist. He has performed across Canada, the US, Japan and Cuba. He is one half of hte band Times Neue Roman whose EP, Talking Sporty, will be released July 6, 2010. Robert has recently completed a Masters in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.