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ACTIVATE THE ARCHIVES Working with Archival Materials and Found Footage, an Intensive Seminar for Documentary Artists Friday September 25th to Sunday September 27th, 10am-5pm UnionDocs, 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 “History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.” (Voltaire) This intensive seminar will explore the creative use of archival materials for documentary art. Over the course of three… Continue reading Untitled

Tuesday, July 28 | 8PM Bad Asians 3.0 Stonewall Inn | 53 Christopher St. Curatored by Leeroy Kun Young Kang ManChyna, Chinese Up Them Eyes Like Beyonce, digital video, Canada, 2014 Lu Yang, Uterus Man, digital video, 11:19min., Shanghai, China, 2013 Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Dan Carter, video, 15min., Canada, 2006 Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, I’m Fine, video, 3:20min., Thailand, 2008 Yozmit, Sound… Continue reading Bad Asians 3.0, Dirty Looks July 28th, Stonewall Inn

Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Ryan Park, Roula Partheniou, Jon Sasaki and Josh Thorpe June 14 – August 2, 2015 Curated by Julia Abraham Special Events Opening Reception Sunday, June 14, 1 – 3PM A FREE shuttle bus will depart from Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street W) at 12:30pm and return for 3:30pm. Artists will be… Continue reading Always Already at Blackwood Gallery opens June 14th.

Photographs from the event on January 16th, 2015 focusing on a palm sized Food Diary from 1929. At Artscape Youngplace, Toronto.

January 16th, 2015 1929 Food Diary Tonight, two artists will be taking their audience through a food tasting. Matt Galloway spoke with Alison S.M. Kobayashi. She is one of two artists who will be speaking at Artscape Youngplace tonight in a talk called “Prunes, Arrowroots, Soup, Good”. http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2648220509

Friday January 16, 2015 6PM- 7:30PM @ Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw, Toronto ON Free, reservations can be made to ayp@torontoartscape.on.ca Join us for an artist talk by Alison S.M. Kobayashi an evening of sampling dishes listed in a found food diary (c. 1929). The diary, a matchbook sized book chronicling Mr. N. Sakaliuk every meal and whether it… Continue reading January 16th Personality Unlimited Closing Event & Artist Talk

The Possessed Artifacts and Detritus of Mrs. Florence Hazel Davis Bland Interactive Website: www.asmk.ca/bland, 2014 made during a residency at Elsewhere, a living museum The Possessed Artifacts and Detritus of Mrs. Florence Hazel Davis Bland is an interactive website created by Kobayashi that explores the life of a woman whose intriguing book collection has become a… Continue reading The Possessed Artifacts and Detritus of Mrs. Florence Hazel Davis Bland is live!

Saturday, December 19, 2014 Who Told You This Hurt: film and video work digging into first times/virginities/and creating tradition. Barely There Cinema @ Comfort Station 8PM Featuring work by Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Jesse Malmed, Ian Curry, Blair Bogin, Alee Peoples & Fern Silva

Personality Unlimited new work by Alison S.M.Kobayashi curated by Karie Liao Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw St. Toronto Opening December 12, 2014, 6-8pm A cross between a cabinet of curiosities and a thrift store, Personality Unlimited presents the collections of A.S.M. Kobayashi’s personally owned and borrowed found objects along with her artistic interpretations of them. The artist’s collections include… Continue reading Personality Unlimited at Artscape Youngplace December 12th

Hanging Out in Deephaven BEGINS SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22 Opening Reception Saturday, November 22, 2014 2:00 to 5:00pm Curator’s talk 3:00pm Viewing Hours November 22 to December 19, Monday to Friday, 10am to 5:00pm VTape 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8 Canada Deephaven is a place imagined by Sarah Orne Jewett in her 19th century novel… Continue reading Hanging Out in Deephaven opens November 22nd

Art Bazaar and Community Garage Sale Saturday, October 18 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Free admission Many lost treasures just waiting to be found Plus be on the look out for artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi – she will be searching for objects and community participants for her upcoming art project at Artscape Youngplace.… Continue reading Bazaar at Artscape Youngplace October 18th

2014 | Artist | Alison S.M. Kobayashi from Elsewhere on Vimeo. A short video about my project at Elsewhere, A Living Museum in Greensboro, N.C. link to the Elsewhere project page: http://www.goelsewhere.org/florence-bland/

Heliopolis presents FORMER ISLANDS A collaborative show June 6-29, 2014 OPENING RECEPTION Friday, June 6, 7-10pm +reading events tba FORMER ISLANDS comprises the results of 1-to-1 text/image exchanges between 11 pairs of artists and writers. Each pair was invited to trade works and then create new works in response, transferring ideas between media and generating provisional… Continue reading FORMER ISLANDS at Heliopolis, Brooklyn

Some images from the current project I am developing during my April residency at Elsewhere, NC.

The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival Non Fiction Meme tumblr. The IC DOGES special screening will be held on April 17 at FilmScene in Iowa City as part of the 12th annual Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, as a lead-in to Eric Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus’ TWOHUNDREDFIFTYSIXCOLORS. http://icdoges.tumblr.com/

Beginning work on a collaboration with poet, Christine Larusso, for an upcoming exhibition at Heliopolis, opening Friday, June 6th, 2014.