STONES : An exhibition of student artwork from Ciy Park Collegiate
November 25th - December 9th, 2005

As one of our partnerships within the Saskatoon community, AKA presents this exhibition by students in an integrated educational curriculum; they will design, promote, create and install this show.

May 20 - June 24, 2005
Luis Jacob - Open Your Mouth and Your Mind Will Follow

Call or email for more information on any of these events. AKA presents the second leg in a 3-city
series of performative gestural events, dinners and conversations. This project seeks to explore the complex permeability between cultural contexts - between the realms we call Art and Life - between artistic work (creating drawings, installations and videos; participating in exhibitions) and non-artistic work (teaching; baking; gathering together in social ways).

In partnership with the New Gallery in Calgary, AB and Artspace in Peterborough, ON, AKA will produce a major publication-based retrospective of Jacob's work (and of this ambitious project specifically) early in the new year. The publication will document the works in the exhibition, including adjunct activities taking place at the galleries as part of this project (bread-baking workshops, potluck vernissage receptions, class tours, artist talks).

April 7 - May 13, 2005 - installation at AKA Gallery
Charmaine Wheatley and Taketo Shimada - Drinking Games

Wheatley and Shimada first became interested in Saskatoon when they found out that strip clubs had been outlawed here. Much of their work centers around what women are allowed or encouraged to do in some situations but forbidden from doing in others, and about commodification of the female body; (Charmaine's body in particular). Wheatley and Shimada will make work specific to Saskatoon's community; namely a drinking fountain containing an optical illusion which, when full of water, clearly shows video of a nude woman (Charmaine) but when empty, obscures the image so that nothing can be seen. The project will culminate in a performative/participatory drinking game and public reception with live music, a semi-permanent semi-public sculptural installation, a public lecture, and an exhibition at AKA Gallery.

Jason Cawood


Sarah Oneschuk


Kiyoko Kato


John Noestheden


Jason Gress


Charley Farrero

February 25 - April 1, 2005
Centennial Show - Canadian Idyll

Board and staff curated exhibition celebrating Saskatchewan's hundredth birthday. On the occasion of Saskatchewan's centennial, AKA partners with galleries across the province (initiated by the Dunlop) to create a province-wide series of original presentations featuring Saskatchewan-based artists: Jason Cawood (Regina), Charley Farrero (Meacham), Jason Gress (Saskatoon), Kiyoko Kato (Saskatoon), John Noestheden (Regina), Sarah Oneschuk (Saskatoon).

January 7 - February 12, 2005
Adrian Norvid (Montreal, QC) - More Often than Not

AKA presents an exhibition of new work by Montreal-based Adrian Norvid, consisting of very large drawings and collages that include "a friend for every formal device, a bandwidth for the language that stretches from panda to devil to top hat to sputtering fuse." Norvid will present a workshop or lecture at AKA on Saturday, January 8 at 3 pm. Public reception Friday, January 7 at 8 pm. Call or email AKA for more information.

February 17, 2005 8 pm
Curator: Murray Toews - Videopool animation screening - Animator/re-animator

AKA hosts Videopool's travelling animation programme Animator/re-animator. The series is comprised of eighteen titles, is seventy-four minutes in duration and spans the time period from 1990 to 2004. This is a visual exploration of the evolution and changes technology has had on the practice of animation. This project also demonstrates the advent of traditional visual artist entering into this field, and how their contributions have stretched and challenged the animation field. These Canadian prairie artworks also offer a surprise in languages. The Cree language work is subtitled in English, the French language works are in French with no subtitling and the larger share of the Anglophone works don't use any words at all.