The Art Collective

The Trans-species Collective is the forerunner of the current project, The Art Collective. One of the pieces done at the Feb. 3, 2006, session of The Art Collective refers to trans-species relationships; it can be viewed in Our Work.

In April 2003, Simone Rochon, Rodrigo Marti, Robert Winters and Emily Stoddart presened their show: trans-species collective* - Why are we so species-centric? The show was at the Belgo Building in downtown Montreal, the city's leading fine arts centre, with top galleries such as Galerie René Blouin, which represents such top Canadian artists as Nicolas Baier and Geneviève Cadieux. The Trans-species Collective show was co-sponsored by the Montreal Gazette, which provided $3,400 in advertising support, and the VAV Gallery, which supported an interactive collaborative art making event on the last day of the show. Work done that day was exhibited in November 2005 as part of the VAV Gallery's Inter/Activity show where The Art Collective led an interactive art making event.

Several Concordia Fine Arts alumni and students, undergraduate and graduate level, participated in the interactive event, including painter Kylie Sandford. Concordia Magazine published a photo and item about the interactive event. To read this item, click here:
interactive event story

Rodrigo went on to help co-found the current art collective and has provided advice on a continuing basis. Emily attended several of the first sessions of the current collective and helped develop the conceptual framework for the group's first show in November 2004 at the VAV Gallery. Simone, an affiliated artist with the collective participated in the interactive event at The Art Collective's VAV Gallery show. To read about an art project Simone worked on with Montreal artist Ulgen Semerci, click here:
Story about Simone

Montreal artist Juliana España Keller, who curated the Trans-species Collective show, is an affiliated artist with The Art Collective. Juliana attended the founding meeting of the current project and made the official First Mark that was placed on Interactive Wall No. 1 at the November 2004 show by The Art Collective at the VAV Gallery. To visit Juliana's website, click here:

Juliana's site

To visit Galerie René Blouin's website, click here:
René Blouin's site