Intimacy in Public Space – Artists
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. Program Dates and Venues: www.naccarato.org/sitespecific
Curated by John Naccarato & Sarah Nesbitt
Concordia Campuses, Public Spaces & Eastern Bloc 7240 Clark Metro de Castelneau
SHOW DATES: Feb. 29- Mar. 16, 2008
VERNISSAGE: [Mar. 15, 2008] Venue: TBA (see www.naccarato.org/sitespecific)
Insular Museum Of Fenestral Artifacts – Anonymous
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
Wizard of Zoop – Guillaume Boudrias-Plouffe
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 – first floor, by stairs going to gym. 12:30 – 1:30 pm and at Eastern Bloc Vernissage
Things Found at the Webster Library… Anna Wilkinson
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: Feb. 28 to Mar. 16
WAIT – Vincent Chevaller
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, 2008 and Eastern Bloc Mar. 11-16, 2008
Synonymous – Juan Ortiz-Apuy
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
The Sand Paper Princess – Claudia Chan Tak
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: Thursday, March 11, 2008 from 10 am to 4 pm.
Positioning Subjectivity – Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte
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: Thursday, March 04, 2008 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008
Pink Project – Marisa Hoicka
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: Thursday, March 05, 2008 from 10:00 am to 11:00 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008
Look in My Box – J. Bembridge, A. Alsip, A. Draghici, A. Bukojemsky, C. Deetjen-Woodward, P. Baldion Fischer, K. Nobin, P. Kadowaki, M. Beaulieu
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: Thursday, March 12, 2008 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008
Fall Prey – Choreographer: Metanoiia (Jenn Doan) Interpreters: Nick Nguyen, Leslie Smith, Lea Brousseau, Vanessa Bousquet
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.
The Hypothetical Inside – Chloe Desjardins
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
T H E H O L E T R U T H – Lauqa Maccaulay
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 (it is a tiny and super-friendly, somewhat pungent-smelling used bookstore) Feb 28 to march 16, 2008
Out of Order – Michael Bishop
Title of Work: T H E H O L E T R U T H
Artist: Out of Order
Project Type: Michael Bishop
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.
5 probable 20 seconds in a run – Jae Ok Lee
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.
