WHEN: this saturday!!! March 15th!! Doors @ 3pm performances, artist talk, music.. till.. well.. at least 8 or 9 but maybe 10 or 11?

LOCATION: Eastern Bloc gallery, 7240 rue Clark, Montreal (metro De Castelnau or 10 minute walk from Jean Talon metro).

Gallery hours from now until saturday are 3pm – 9pm.
don’t forget that all this goodness is also FREEEEE! invite your friends!

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Intimacy in Public Space

Site Specific installations and interventionist works exploring the notions of Intimacy in Public Space through the disciplines of Performance, Dance, Mixed Media, Theater, Visual Arts and New Media.

SEE DETAILS and UPDATES (photos and dates) below or click on the right column for specific dates/events…

Curated by John Naccarato & Sarah Nesbitt

Concordia Campuses, Public Spaces & Eastern Bloc 7240 Clark Metro de Castelneau

SHOW DATES: Feb. 29- Mar. 15, 2008

VERNISSAGE: Saturday, March 15th from 3:00 to 8:00pm @ EASTERN BLOC, 7240 rue Clark – metro De Castelnau…

MEET THE ARTISTS/TALK from 4:00 to 6:00pm

PERFORMANCES from 6pm to 8pm

ALSO DON’T MISS….

electric carnaval électrique

Taking a new media twist on the traditions of 19th-century traveling carnivals,
electric carnaval électrique showcases Montreal student artists working in the domain of video, electronic and interactive art installations, as well as Internet, photography and sound-based art.

Curated by Shereen Soliman

Montreal, February 19th, 2008 – Art Matters, Canada’s largest student-run art festival, in association with Concordia U’s Intermedia/Cyberarts Student Collective proudly presents electric carnaval électrique, organized by first-time curator Shereen Soliman.

Electric carnaval électrique invites the public to peek inside the “circus big top” to reveal a peculiar world of carnivalesque, new media art installations from March 11th to March 15th, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., at Eastern Bloc gallery, 7240 rue Clark. The artists will be present on the public vernissage Saturday March 15th, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Title of Work: Positioning Subjectivity

Artist: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte

Project Type: Performance/Intervention

Description:
The work aims at illustrating the presence of two sets of subjectivities within an individual’s framework. Two video projections (material based on the Rorschach Inkblot Test) interact within the performance.

Location/Dates: EV Building: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008

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Title of Work: Pink Project

Artist: Marisa Hoick

Project Type: Performance/Intervention/Documentation

Description:
Through documentation and performance, Pink Project explores personal identity as a dancer and interest in the body. As reflected in the temporality of materials; my body won’t last forever

Location/Dates: EV Building: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 from 10:00 am to 11:00 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008

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Title of Work: 5 probable 20 seconds in a run

Artist: Jae Ok Lee

Project Type: Video Performance

Description:
Exploring the notion of probable time as an opposition to absolute time. (Video) The mystery of private running unfolds at a solitary segment of the city.

Location/Dates: EV Building, Concordia University, Montreal – March 05, 2008 – 10:00 am to 5 pm and at Eastern Bloc, March 13 – 16.

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Title of Work: Look in My Box

Artists: J. Bembridge, A. Alsip, A. Draghici, A. Bukojemsky, C. Deetjen-Woodward, P. Baldion Fischer, K. Nobin, P. Kadowaki, M. Beaulieu

Project Type: Performance/Intervention

Description:
Exploring the sexually explicit landscape using the medium of the peepshow. Six large black boxes will be placed on campus, allowing the public to interact through a peephole with the performers who are situated inside.

Location/Dates: EV Building: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008

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