Outpost invites you to Hologram Bay
Outpost Gallery innovators Goran Dmitrovic and Syd Ursa like to egg each other on.
“We really do have a case of the winter blues,” notes Ursa.
“Lack of sun means there is no dancing on the beach and we all pretty well like dancing on the beach,” adds Dmitrovic, bursting into laughter.
“We collectively came up with it,” adds Ursa.
“It is a beach party in the middle of February,” said Dmitrovic, “so everyone gets their beach equipment together their towels, and bathing suits, then heads to the beach at the Hologram Bay. It is going to be all one beach. Each of the rooms in the gallery will be different but they will all be parts of the same bay, and the same vision on psychedelic seashore.”
Adventurous beach buddies will experience a celebration of three-dimensional sights and sounds in the surf and sun, with free snacks and an open buffet.
Hologram Bay’s “ocean” is a phantasmagoric aural wave featuring the deep watery tech-house of Outpost’s long time pal Toronto deejay Curtis Maranda (also of duo Tiger Suit with wife Renee Cross).
“We work with Tiger Suit a lot,” says Ursa. “They are fusion and innovation driven. They are wonderful people to work with and Curtis has a very slick deejay set which he will be bringing to the show. That will transcend into him collaborating with Frakture,” he adds.
Frakture creates a bright, sunny, quirky free-form electronica sound featuring Kathryn Ladano (artistic director of NUMUS). This award-winning bass clarinetist will also have Dave Klassen on percussion.
St. Catharines-based Windfall Found features a breezy atmospheric post-rock sound.
“They are actually associated somewhat with Frakture. One of the musicians from Windfall Found is half of Frakture (Dave Klassen) so they came as a package deal,” explains Ursa.
Global beats house music master Daddy Disko is hot, sandy, funk.
“Last year, Daddy Disko mailed us out a demo,” recalls Dmitrovic. “We were checking out the mail at The Outpost and we opened the package. It just said “Daddy Disko” on it. We thought “What is this?” We opened it and there were two CDs inside. We put it on the car and suddenly the funkiest beats started bumping,” says Dmitrovic.
Hologram Bay’s “sky” has been created by gallery avant-visionaries Spoopy Lewis, Shaun McFee, Dave Fox, Emily Young, Paige Haiden, Milan Kozomora, and Sabbie Mallon.
“For sure there are going to be lots of crazy things,” says Ursa. “Hologram” like in the event description will come out of nowhere and be a vision of full force. But it is difficult to describe all the little things in a way that will do them justice. Obviously there is going to be art, light and installations,” he says mysteriously.
“With the installations we are going to try and embody what it would be like to be at the beach,” adds Outpost’s visual artist Liz Shortreed-Porteous. “We figured that February is right about the time that everyone is itching for summer,” she notes.
Ursa says Outpost has an exciting show season lined up heading into the summer. But in terms of specifics, Ursa and Dmitrovic prefer to let people know about these events as they “pop up.”
Shortreed-Porteous recently joined the boys to help them run this unique art gallery/live music venue in the heart of downtown Kitchener.
“So now there are three,” said Dmitrovic. “The heads are growing!”