Answers can be found at Contact 2008, the month-long photography festival opening today. With some 600 artists showing in more than 200 venues, you get a range, from Alice Lipczak's show of images of the Toronto club scene in the 1980s being held at Michelle's Beach House (1955 Queen St. E., to May 31) to Aron Portnoy's "A Journey to Ethiopia" at St. Michael's Hospital (to May 18).
"Between Memory and History: from the Epic to the Everyday," the 12th annual festival's grandiose theme, is also the title of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA, 952 Queen St. W., today to June 1). But big ideas can't exist without a big essay attached, in this instance written by MOCCA's David Liss and festival director Bonnie Rubenstein for the festival handbook.
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