[Bcma-l] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday November 24, 2007

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday November 24, 2007
ATTENTION ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS

*Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art STUDIO 111 presents 
artist-in-residence: Eric Moschopedis*
/
*DEER HEAD CAFÉ
a project in art and social engagement*/

Welcome to Deer Head Café a project in art and social engagement. 
Created by Calgary-based artist, Eric Moschopedis, Deer Head Café is 
both an art installation and an on-going event. Deer Head Café is 
defined by a number of collaborative projects that invite dialogue with 
the citizens of Kelowna, transforming them from audiences to active 
participants and co-creators of the event/community. Through a series of 
public and venue specific interventions, assignments, and encounters 
Deer Head Café seeks to create community through walking, finding, and 
collecting. This project asks: who inhabits the downtown core and its 
surrounding residential communities? Where do people walk on a daily 
basis? With the heart of the city under constant renovation and 
migration how do we create a living map of the area? And are we tourists 
in our daily lives?

Several things will occur during the ten-days of Deer Head Café:

1. Over 100 plastic deer and 55 other items will be ‘lost’ in Kelowna’s 
downtown for people to find and to return to the café. Attached to each 
item is a personal anecdote handwritten by Eric Moschopedis.

2. A number of assignments will be posted around town for people to 
complete and to submit. Assignments are designed to encourage people to 
explore the community.

3. A café will be set up in the Alternator studio at the rotary centre 
for the arts.
All of the found items and assignments, plus artist Eric Moschopedis’ 
personal collection of Kelowna finds, will be on display at the café. 
Expect to see found photographs, birthday cards, signs, objects, sounds, 
videos and memories.

There is free tea, cookies, conversations with strangers, and encounters 
with neighbors at the café. The café will change daily as more and more 
items are found and returned and assignments are completed. Visit often.

The event will take place Downtown Kelowna and in the Alternator Studio 
111 in the Rotary Centre for the Arts December 4th-14th, 2007 from Noon 
to 7 pm.

Eric Moschopedis is an award winning and highly recognized creator, 
performer, facilitator, and curator. Since 2000, he has co-founded and 
directed the Calgary-based interdisciplinary performance company Bubonic 
Tourist (2000-2006), curated five Mutton Busting international 
performance and visual art festivals (2002-2006), presented over 550 
artists, created over thirty-five original works, and co-founded two 
performance and visual art venues (birds and stone and Motel).

For more information call (250) 868-2298, visit 
www.alternatorgallery.com or e-mail info@alternatorgallery.com.

-- 


Jennifer Pickering
Director

Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art
#103-421 Cawston Ave.
Kelowna, BC
V1Y 6Z1
250-868-2298

www.alternatorgallery.com
info@alternatorgallery.com


The Alternator Gallery is proud to present ON COMMON GROUND National 
Media Arts Festival & Conference, June 10-14 2008.

Exploring common visions while showcasing the history of Indigenous 
media art in the traditional territory of the Syilx Nation in beautiful 
Kelowna BC.
www.imaa.ca or www.alternatorgallery.com