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Embassy Cultural House Hiding in Plain Sight exhibition catalogue will be in print this February 2021!

1/17/2021

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Ron Benner, "Trans/mission: November 17, 2019", 2020; Digital print & mixed media - Oaxacan cochineal & lime juice on watercolour paper
​​ On October 30, 2020, the Embassy Cultural House presented its inaugural virtual exhibition "Hiding in Plain Sight" organized by Ron Benner. The exhibition was an open call inspired by the book "Hiding in Plain Sight", 2020, by St. Louis-based journalist Sarah Kendzior. In her book Kendzior describes the former US President Trump's administration as "a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government."  

​The Hiding in Plain Sight Exhibition now has a digital catalogue! Click here ​to see what's inside! In February 2021 the digital catalogue will also be available in a print edition catalogue. If you would like to purchase a copy, please contact embassyculturalhouse@gmail.com
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January 18, 2021: Walker Cultural Leaders Series features artists Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

1/17/2021

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Brock University's Department of Visual Arts presents the Walker Cultural Leader Series, which continues in 2021. The WCL series begins with an engaging talk from artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner on Monday, Jan. 18. The series continues in a virtual format for the 2021 season. Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 at 7 p.m. View the presentation premiere and join in the chat on the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts YouTube channel.
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Ron Benner to speak at Green in the City Symposium

11/7/2020

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Ron Benner will be part of the City Symposium: Responsible Consumption and Production on Monday, November 16, 2020. The panel will explore the toll that humans are taking on the environment and the consequence of production and consumption. The event is inspired by the Sustainable Development Goal #15, which raises the question what does responsible consumption and production look like in London, Ontario?  Please register here. The event starts at 6:40 pm on November 16, 2020. 

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Ron Benner contributes to To:Beirut charity auction to raise funds for Lebanon

9/3/2020

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Digital print of photographic/garden installation, framed including dried plant material (maize) Dimensions 18 h x 44 w x 1.5 d inch (46 h x 112 w x 4 d cm) Edition 1/1
Ron Benner donated a digital print of photographic/garden installation, to the online charity art auction To:Beirut. The piece is now up for auction. Please share with your networks. You can also share directly from the To:Beirut Instagram account.

Cuiltlacoche: Your disease our delicacy, was originally a photographic/garden installation commissioned for Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario by Barbara Fischer and the project was curated by Su-Ying Lee in 2012. The garden consisted of images of cuilacoche, (corn smut), text and Native American plants including maize, tomato, marigold, morning glory...
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Juno award-winning performer Lorraine Klaasen visits Ron Benner's garden installation at Museum London

8/23/2020

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​On August 20, 2020, legendary Juno award-winning performer Lorraine Klaasen visits Ron Benner’s photographic/garden installation As the Crow Flies, and Black Lives Matter exhibit at Museum London. 

Daughter of legendary South African Jazz singer Thandie Klaasen, Lorraine Klaasen is one of the few South African artists preserving the classic sound of Township Music—the most distinctive genre to come out of South Africa. Born and raised in Soweto, now based in London, Ontario, Lorraine has electrified audiences worldwide with her dynamic stage presence and showmanship. As a promoter of the performing arts for Canadian youth, Klaasen has lent her support to various groups and organizations such as RapSohD Talented Teens Canada. see Lorraine's recent virtual living room performance here.
 
Photo Credits: Jamelie Hassan

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Huitlacoche found growing on garden installation, As the Crow Flies, for the first time at Museum London

8/17/2020

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For the first time in the 15 year history of Ron Benner's photographic/garden installation As the Crow Flies, huitlacoche was found growing on the top of one of the Purple Peruvian corn plants. Huitlacoche (or corn smut) is considered a delicacy in Mexico. It is fried in oil along with onions and chilies and served in a tortilla. It is very delicious.
 
Photo Credit: Dr. Sidney Siu
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2019 Flashback - Ron Benner's corn roast at Museum London

8/10/2020

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Flashback to last summer of a video of London artist Ron Benner at his garden installation As the Crow Flies at Museum London for his annual corn roast in August 2019. Part sculpture, part installation, and part performance, this event features Benner’s roving corn-roasting wagon Maiz Barbacoa. \

​Musician Frank Ridsdale music is in the background with resolute songs covering a wide geographical range from the Port Stanley harbour to Latin American revolutionary songs. visit www.ronbenner.ca for more about Ron's work. Due to health measures in response to the CoVid 19 pandemic, this year's corn roast has unfortunately been cancelled. 
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Sneak peak of #BlackLivesMatter exhibit opening at Museum London soon

8/1/2020

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Here is a sneak peak of an upcoming exhibit at Museum London on the #Black Lives Matter protest. ​Ron Benner and Bob Ostoff are seen here (photo left) installing Black Lives Matter placards from the demonstration that was held in London, Ontario.

The  demonstration in London, which drew over 10,000 people, was in solidarity with the global protest against the May 25, 2020, killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The video of the killing of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, drew an international spotlight on the issue of anti-black racism.  
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Museum London projects series of Thomas King's poems throughout July overlooking As the Crow Flies

7/15/2020

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Here are some shots of Ron Benner's garden installation, As The Crow Flies, 2005-present, with a projections of a series of poems by Thomas King; Museum London started these projections on Canada Day and is running them weeknights through July.

Ron’s As the Crow Flies is an ongoing body of work that includes a number of different pieces. This includes this pond in the Wolf Sculpture Garden overlooking the forks of the Thames River, on the grounds of Museum London. 
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Studio Magazine's Spring/Summer issue includes discussion of Ron Benner's Anthro-Apologies: And the Trees Grew Inwards

7/15/2020

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Ron Benner. Anthro-Apologies: And the trees grew inwards - for Manuel Scorza, 1979-1980.
The Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Studio Magazine is out. Download the digital version. In the issue, curator, author and activist Wanda Nanibush makes reference to Ron Benner's work Anthro-Apologies in the article ​"​The Things That We Build And Place There" an interview by Studio Magazine editor, Nehal El-Hadi with AGO curator, Wanda Nanibush. This issue of Studio focuses on the theme of land, and brings you stories about our relationships to craft, belonging and culture. Readers can connect with these meaningful insights into the ways that making and thinking are a crucial part of our social, cultural, political, geographical and economic realities. 
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Ron Benner (born 1949) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist whose longstanding practice investigates the history and political economics of food cultures. He is also a gardener and writer who currently lives and works in London, Ontario, Canada.

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London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.​

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