<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="749A6B53-DEA6-48C3-9B76-E1E9065A2353" src="cid:64235FBA-ACBA-42DF-BDDE-B59553FBAAF6@uwaterloo.ca" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" class="">University of Waterloo Fine Arts Presents</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">MFA Thesis One</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">Performance</span></strong></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Customer Service by Patrick Allaby</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Thursday April 18 at 6:00 pm</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></strong></span><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></strong></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Exhibitions continue to April 27</span></strong></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">Gallery One</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Lauren Prousky</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">JunkDrawerPhantomDressUpSoirée</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><em class="">JunkDrawerPhantomDressUpSoirée</em> analyzes the archive as a malleable tool for art making through the creation of a personal archive comprised of concepts for images that were then used to construct various projects over a two-year period. Combining sculptures, paintings, drawings and text, the archival form becomes the groundwork for storytelling and poetry, subverting the idea that the archive is something statically formal, bureaucratic or paramount to its anarchival byproducts. The poetic archive creates an evolving network within the exhibition space, where meaning is continually wrapped around the archive and subsequent projects through a non-hierarchical gathering of materials, text and images. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.laurenprousky.com/" target="_blank" class="">www.laurenprousky.com</a></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">Gallery Two</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Patrick Allaby</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Customer Service</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><em class="">Customer Service</em> is a 30-minute autofictional hand-drawn slideshow consisting of around three hundred and fifty drawings that explore that most ubiquitous twenty-first century labour experience: the call centre. Call centre employees are both dehumanized by callers fed up with waiting for hours on hold, and by their employers, who are eager to process calls at ever increasing rates. <em class="">Customer Service</em> weaves personal and political criticisms together against late capitalism, and focuses on the difficulty of reducing one’s self to the flesh appendage of a computer, a creature whose only function is to deliver algorithmic logic with an empathetic tone. <em class="">Customer Service</em> combines the artist’s interests ranging from pop music, cinema, early animation, experimental theatre, literature and comics into one cohesive work.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.patrickallaby.com/" target="_blank" class="">www.patrickallaby.com</a></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Exhibitions are free and open to the public.</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">East Campus Hall 1239</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">519.888.4567 ext. 33575</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">uwag.uwaterloo.ca</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uwag.waterloo" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">facebook.com/uwag.waterloo</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">CONTACT</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">519.888.4567 ext. 36741</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">HOURS</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Tuesday to Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm or by appointment</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">DRIVING</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">East Campus Hall (ECH) is located north of University Avenue West across from Engineering 6</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">MAILING</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">200 University Avenue West</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><img alt="logos" apple-inline="yes" id="6DA73D58-064B-4F23-B19D-535C7E139E5F" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" src="cid:60147207-D9F0-420E-A3DD-AFE3517669F3@uwaterloo.ca" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" class="">Images (left to right): Patrick Allaby, <em class="">Customer Service</em> (performance detail), 2019. Photo: Scott Lee.</span><br class=""></div></div>
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