A two-channel video and exhibition in collaboration with Alvin Luong, co-presented by Y+ Contemporary and the Images Festival in April 2017. With original music by Samuel Bayefsky, and an exhibition text by Marina Fathalla.
With production support from ArtReach Toronto, Gallery TPW, Graywood Developments, The Images Festival, KABIN, The Ontario Arts Council, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, The Toronto Arts Council, and Y+ Contemporary. With appearances by Aaron Densmore, Daniel Faria, Laurie Kang, Micah Lexier, Michael John Meyers, Clint Roenisch, Spenser Stewart, Gaëtane Verna, Madeleine White. With generous assistance from Rui Amaral, Faraz Anoushapour, Jan Braun, Chris Curreri, Jason Ebanks, Natalie Eckler, Michelle Forsyth, Amy Fung, Daniel Griffin Hunt, Aryen Hoekstra, Luis Jacob, Dorica Manuel, Katherine Rawlinson, Erica Russell, Ed Pien and Johannes Zits, Tiffany Schofield, and Nicholas Yim.
Video © Ivana Dizdar & Alvin Luong, 2017
Winner of the OCAD Off-Screen Award for the best new media work at the Images Festival, Bidding War follows the rivalry between two fictional CEOs in pursuit of the same plot of land. The parties are Alvin Luong of Luong Coyota & Lynxus, a high-end car dealership, and Ivana Dizdar of Ivana Dizdar Projects, a commercial gallery franchise. Drawing from disparate styles and genres—from corporate videos to science fiction—the work takes real estate, gentrification, and spatial politics in Canada’s cities as points of departure in this critical meditation on art, cars, and capital.