Come make Art Machines
1) Reminder our regular session this week is in the VAV Gallery Friday Nov. 18, 10 to 130, at our show.
Bring coloured paper etc. and any machine images you might have; our theme is Making Art Machines. It’s a unique project that was discussed at last week’s session at the VAV Gallery. Cassandra came up with the idea and everybody liked it.
Our show has been generating very good feedback and interest in becoming involved in what we’re doing.
2) It’s also getting some good visibility as it's been advertised on the main Concordia website for two weeks, on the News@Concordia home page.
Go to Arts & Entertainment, click on the item that says:
• The Art Collective exhibition, Nov. 7 - 18
VAV Gallery
And you go right to our home page.
3) Taking down show: our two-week VAV Gallery show comes down starting at 3 p.m. sharp on Saturday. Anybody who can drop by to help out for a few minutes would be most welcome. We have to paint a bit on our two walls after the pieces come down and take off the little bits of gum from each piece after it comes off the wall.
I’ve added quite a few images from the current show, take a look. It's at http://gallery.theartcollective.net
4) Also Friday: don’t miss the launch of a new zine on Friday, Nov. 18 at 9 p.m. in downtown Montreal, where collective member Joanna Nawracaj is doing live art. It happens at 1221 Crescent St.
5) We had a visit from the artists behind Bioteknica today, Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey, who are going to Australia for six months to pursue their research/art project. A link to their site is with the photo of their visit.
6) Another visitor to our show was Natasha Mazurka. Natasha is an MFA painting student who worked on the interactive pieces in the lobby in April 2003 at the Belgo building on the last day of the Trans-species Collective show with Art Collective member Rodrigo Marti, Simone Rochon, Emily Stoddart and Robert Winters, co-ordinator of The Art Collective. The show was curated by Juliana Espana Keller, an affiliated artist with The Art Collective and was co-sponsored by The Gazette, which provided $3,400 in advertising, and the VAV Gallery, which co-sponsored the interactive event.
This note is also being posted on our website’s home page:
www.theartcollective.net
Robert Winters
co-ordinator