Archive for February, 2008
Art Matters presents…
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.
Title of Work: Wait
Artist: Vincent Chevaller
Project Type: Performance/Intervention
Description:
wait for an appropriate moment /
disclose your hiv status /
wait /
Location/Dates: EV Building: Mar. 03 – 13, 2008 and Eastern Bloc Mar. 11-16, 2008
Title of Work: Wizard of Zoop
Artist: Guillaume Boudrias-Plouffe
Project Type: Interventionist Performance
Description:
Hey Kids !!! AstroClown the Superhero Scientist Clown, Yvan the European Gymnastic Instructor and Pow-Wow, Master of Hamster Style Aquatic Kung Fu, invite you to participate in their crazy adventures !!!!!
Location/Dates: EV Building March 3, 2008 – 12:30 – 1:30 pm and at Eastern Bloc Vernissage
Title of Work: Things Found at the Webster Library Which are Vaguely Depressing to Me
Artist: Anna Wilkinson
Project Type: Intervention/Installation
Description:
Playing with the conventions of museum exhibitions and the traditional curatorial voice, this installation piece narrates the sadness of everyday objects found in Concordia’s Webster Library.
Location/Dates: Library Building – Webster Library, 2nd floor: Mar 3 to Mar. 16
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
Title of Work: T H E H O L E T R U T H
Artist: Lauqa Maccaulay
Project Type: Site Specific Installation/Intervention
Description:
bookworms, come burrow into this cozy old paperback: illustrations of insignificance, divulging all molecules and constellations. a treatise on non being, a voidful volume to have on hands (!)
Location/Dates: Le 7ième sablier @ 5372 ave du Parc, coin St-Viateur (corner of St-Viateur on the west side of Parc (80 bus)) (it is a tiny and super-friendly, somewhat pungent-smelling used bookstore) Feb 28 to march 14, 2008
monday to friday 1-7pm
saturday & sunday 12-6pm
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
Title of Work: Synonymous
Artist: Juan Ortiz-Apuy
Project Type: Video/Intervention
Description:
Exploring writing as the construction of knowledge and how it is imprinted upon us – often violently and permanently – shaping our sense of ourselves and the world.
Location/Dates: EV Building: Thursday, March 06, 2008 and eastern Bloc March 11-16, 2008
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.
Title of Work: Out of Order
Artist: Michael Bishop
Project Type: Media Intervention
Description:
Out of Order is a work which allows the user to interact with a typeface whose main feature is randomness. “Sense the limits of the letter form: out of randomness; out of order.”
Location/Dates: EV Building, Concordia University, Montreal – Thursday, March 6, 2008 – 10:00 am to 5 pm – Eastern Bloc, March 11 – 16.
Title of Work: The Sand Paper Princess
Artist: Claudia Chan Tak
Project Type: Performance/Intervention
Description:
A new kind of ballerina: she is noisy, weirdly graceful and available for caress. An interactive intervention, please enjoy!
Location/Dates: EV Building: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 from 10 am to 4 pm.
Title of Work: Insular Museum Of Fenestral Artifacts
Artist: Anonymous (Artist does not wish his name published due to nature of work)
Project: Installation, Site-Specific Intervention/Documentation
Description: Insular Museum Of Fenestral Artifacts is a clandestine museum located just off the shore of the island of Montreal. It is built from the artifacts that are the focus of the museum’s sole exhibition.
Location/Dates: None disclosed location: off Montreal Island. February 28 – March 16, 2008. Documentations at the Eastern Bloc: March March 11-16, 2008
Title of Work: Fall Prey
Artists: Choreographer: Metanoiia (Jenn Doan) Interpreters: Forty Nguyen, Lesley Smith, Lea Paranoia, Vanessa Bousquet
Project Type: Dance Site Specific
Description:
in uncontrollable descent, grasping at straws…
fall_two_fall_three_fall_four_…
letting go only to find what is beneath…
Location/Dates: EV Building: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 from 12:30 am to 2:30 pm.
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
Title of Work: The Hypothetical Inside
Artist: Chloe Desjardins
Project Type: Video/Installation
Description:
“Self and subjectivity then are primarily an experience continuously constructed externally and remain open to change…” and that it is through contacts with institutions, artifacts and other subjects that the subject builds itself.
Location/Dates: EV Building: Thursday, March 13, 2008 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm – Eastern Blo, March 11 to 16, 2008
