The Exhibition
What is CUTMR?
Come up to my room is an annual design event that takes place at the Gladstone Hotel. CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting design shows in Toronto. The four-day event is in its seventh year at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring 11 room and 14 public space installations, and over 50 designers.
How does it work?
CUTMR curators select participating designers and artists based on their past work. Once the designers have been selected, they are given a public space or one of the 11 exhibition rooms on the hotel’s second floor and the curators are not allowed in the room until the show starts. This indie approach ensures that the designers are given the freedom to rock out – creating new, site specific installations that are the ultimate personal expression. The final results are art and design mash-ups that challenge our pre-conditioned notions of both disciplines. The participants are pathfinders; continually pushing the limits and exploring new territories, opening up new worlds for every one to inhabit. Our strategy means that at this point we can only tempt you with what the design ers have done before and imagine what they will create for CUTMR 2010.
Design talks – Thrive Design for 100%!
Saturday Jan 23rd – 11am to 2pm – Gladstone Ballroom
CUTMR welcomes Victor Willis (PARC), Jordan Edmonds (Hildich Architects), Elizabeth C English, PhD (University of Waterloo), members of Public Displays of Affection and Sketch (Toronto Art Studio for Street Youth) at the 2010 CUTMR Design Talks.
Design education and design services are typically only available to a limited group of people in Toronto. While this minority benefits from the improvements and enhancements to their everyday lives, it leaves the majority living with inefficiencies and latent problems. This phenomena has left many institutions, buildings, and cities in the past, where the wealthy thrive the impoverished survive. Thrive: Design for 100% explores how we can bring design to 100% of the community, so that everyone can live satisfying lives..
When is Come Up To My Room? January 21st to January 24th 2010!
THURS JAN 21ST:
4PM-8PM – MEDIA PREVIEW
FRIDAY JAN 22ND:
12PM-8PM – EXHIBITION HOURS
SATURDAY JAN 23RD:
12PM-10PM – EXHIBITION HOURS
11AM-2PM – DESIGN TALKS – “THRIVE: DESIGN FOR 100%” - GLADSTONE BALLROOM
7PM-10PM OPENING RECEPTION
10PM-LATE LOVE DESIGN PARTY 10PM-2AM
SUNDAY JAN 24TH:
12-5PM – EXHIBITION HOURS
How much to Come Up To My Room?
MEDIA PREVIEW – THURS JAN 21ST – 4PM TO 10PM:
FREE – FOR MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA (PLEASE RSVP: MAYA@GLADSTONEHOTEL.COM)
FRIDAY EXHIBITION HOURS – JAN 22ND – 12PM TO 8PM:
1/2 PRICE – FOR STUDENTS W/ STUDENT CARD
$20.00 – FOR PRE-REGISTERED STUDENT GROUPS (TO REGISTER: MAYA@GLADSTONEHOTEL.COM)
GENERAL EXHIBITION HOURS – JAN 22ND TO JAN 24TH:
$8 – FOR GENERAL PUBLIC
FREE -FOR MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA
DESIGN TALKS – THRIVE DESIGN FOR 100%! JAN 23RD 11AM TO 2PM
FREE – FOR EVERYONE
LOVE DESIGN PARTY – JAN 23RD 10PM TILL LATE:
FREE – FOR EVERYONE
CUTMR is a part of The Toronto Internation Design Festival!
CUTMR is excited to be a part of the first ever Toronto International Design Festival! TIDF is a new festival celebrating local and international design. Between January 20 – 24, a variety of venues around the city will host contemporary design events, including exhibits, symposiums, lectures, and fairs. To learn more click the logo below.
