Instant Coffee

03.04.2008 @ Landmark 20:00

For God´s sake Kate, where´s the camera –
Instant Coffee

Instant Coffee; Light Bar

Instant Coffee Light Bar Bergen is an experiment, and imaginary social sculpture with a goal of creating a prototype of Light Bar with an assistance of flaggfabrikken residency program. Initially, the idea of Light Bar started in Vancouver where it rains all winter.
Instant Coffee wanted a place where community of artist, designers, scientists, writers, musicians and philosophers can meet and discuss their bright ideas to turn dark and soggy nights into affirmative and healthy future. In Instant Coffee Light Bar, social and presentation happens simultaneously, reading groups can meet to talk, watch videos, listen to music and discuss benefit of good lighting in a series of lecture and exhibition.

Following the launch on Thursday April 3rd, Instant Coffee will host a Karaoke night on Friday April 4th at this humble presentation of Instant Coffee Light Bar Bergen. Please enjoy the rawness and its state of experimentation. Future evolution of Light Bar relies on your bright mind.

Instant Coffee declares the year 2008 as THE YEAR OF BRIGHT DAYS.

Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective based in Toronto and Vancouver. Instant Coffee developed, in part, as a response to the division and exaggerated difference between studio and exhibition practice. Through formal installations and event-based activities, it builds a public place to practice, where ideas, materials and actions can be explored outside of the isolated studio and in a manner that renegotiates traditional exhibition structures, but is still supported by them.

For Instant Coffee, the triad of art practice production, presentation& reception becomes jumbled incorporating the social as a priority.
Instant Coffee defines this social as happening in a number of ways: in getting people invested in our projects and what we are up to, but
also as satisfying a way in which we like to socialize—one that centers around production but is dependent on the work of others to sustain and facilitate a critical discourse or at least offer the potential for one.

Recently Instant Coffee exhibited as part MDE07 encuentro internacional curated by Jose Roca, Casa del Encuentro, Medellin, Colombia; Instant Coffee Nooks + Everyone, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto; If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, Henry Satellite, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle; and Instant Coffee Romance Posters, Art Metropole, Toronto. In 2008 Instant Coffee will participate in What We Bring to the Table, curated by Marnie Fleming, Oakville Galleries, and Instant Coffee Nearest You, MKG127, Toronto.

Instant Coffee’s current members are Cecilia Berkovic, Jinhan Ko, Kelly Lycan, Jenifer Papararo, Kate Munro and Khan Lee.

Instant Coffee: it doesn’t have to be good to be meaningful