ONSITE
The Pocketology Collective
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2009
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
FIXT Point Studio
1550 Queen Street West
Toronto (map)

“ONSITE is a performative installation. It is an invitation initiated by The Pocketology Collective to reinvigorate public engagement through investigating and excavating the stories that lay within our pockets.

“ONSITE can be set up in any urban space. It involves a story exchange station where Pocketologist-participants are invited to dig into their pockets, produce a pocket artifact and share a story about the item anonymously. Participants are given the opportunity to write their own narrative based on the contents of their pockets. They will seal the written stories along with the pocket artifact in an envelope, which will be installed on a wall full of other visually stunning envelopes. In exchange, each participant will share another person’s pocket story in an ongoing storytelling circle. It is an evolving gallery of the interactive social landscape of Toronto and a rehearsal for a society in which spontaneous moments of connection occur between strangers.”

The Pocketology Collective is a collaboration of three interdisciplinary artists: Rachel Ellison, Coleen MacPherson and Camille Turner.