A variety show about local artists, made at 44 Gaukel Creative Workspace.

The third & final episode features another blast of live music, the making of a local artist’s sculpture project inside 44 Gaukel & time-lapsed artworks from The Beasting’s 2022 edition.

Bonnie Trash shreds two new songs from their 2022 record, Malocchio.
 
The Beasting is an exquisite corpse-making challenge by 24 artists with limited time & materials. See 2022’s six full beasts combinations take shape, set to a killer soundtrack.

Behind the scenes of filmmaker, fabricator & multimedia designer Torin Langen’s freak-folk installation creation, Crypt of the Tower Ghouls.

Bonnie Trash’s performance was filmed, recorded, edited and mixed by Good Company Productions: Amit Mehta, director, Isaac Bender, director of photography & Adrian Eitzen, sound engineer. Work-in-progress footage of the ghoul sculptures was shot & provided by Torin Langen.  

GAUKER is produced by the City of Kitchener’s arts & creative industries team.

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ICYMI: GAUKER episode two

Two incredible Arabic compositions performed on oud by Manar Naeem, paired with Kat Hernden revealing local pattern references in her artworks & Vintage Black Canada’s Aaron Francis in conversation with painter Christian Snyder about riffing on Warhol & Caribbean can culture for the VBCx series – plus three archival photo reinterpretations by other artists.

ICYMI: GAUKER episode one

The first GAUKER show features live music by Ramsay Almighty, two signature murals inside 44 Gaukel by Stephanie Scott & two tenant artists – sculptor Nicholas Rees & photographer John Spaulding – going deep on the meaning of Nicholas’ Ghost Ships. 

GAUKER episodes one & two were produced in partnership with Good Company Productions.