Mapping body/Adrian Norvid feedback/Holly King collaboration
There is no session this week (Friday Sept. 29), but next week’s session (Friday Oct. 6) will include a special project to map the body of artist Julienne Bédard, who collaborated with a performance at The Art Collective’s first show at the VAV Gallery in November 2004.
This note has news about feedback from Montreal artist Adrian Norvid, a visit by Collective member to Holly King’s drawing class which did a collaborative project, member Cassandra Wittome’s blog, an Art Mur anniversary show opening Sunday with work by Holly and Juliana Espana Keller, a CDEx gallery opening tonight with work by Mathieu Lacroix of UQAM, François Morelli’s ongoing double show at the Belgo building and newspaper coverage this has attracted, new photos being posted of member Marisa Hoicka’s breakdancing performance at our CDEx show, and member Joanna Nawarcaj’s public zine project with events in Montreal through Sunday.
We have had some interesting feedback from Montreal artist and instructor Adrian Norvid about our work and what direction it should take, more on that later. One key suggestion is to incorporate previous images and work into our new images, even to “cannibalize” our previous work.
Collective members Stephanie Reynolds, Cassandra Wittome and Robert Winters visited Montreal artist Holly King’s Drawing 400 class last week to talk about the collaboration process and discuss collaborative projects her students worked on.
Cassandra’s blog, Misadventures and Metaphysics, can be found at:
http://cassandratheprophetess.blogspot.com/
Photos are also being posted shortly of member Marisa Hoicka breakdancing with a friend at our May CDEx show, a performance that drew a large crowd on the sidewalk outside the street-level gallery, as well as inside the gallery. New photos of the show are also being posted.
Photos are being posted of UQAM artist Mathieu Lacroix’s intervention at our CDEx show, and a text he has written about his intervention has been posted on our website. His project at our show was the third collaboration Mathieu was involved in with The Art Collective at UQAM: he also was very active at the Café des arts collaborative art making events in March 2005 and March 2006, both of which were part of the Art Matters festival.
The vernissage is tonight (Thursday Sept. 28) at 6 p.m. for a show featuring work by Mathieu and three other emerging artists at the CDEx gallery at UQAM (corner of St. Denis and Ste. Catherine Sts, as mentioned in last week’s note. More details below.
Montreal artist and curator Juliana Espana Keller has work featured in an Art Mur show called Art Fiction that opens this Sunday (1 to 5 p.m.) at the gallery, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special show. Juliana was curator of our May CDEx show. The show also includes work by Holly King, who has curated two shows for the Collective and continues to help as an adviser.
For more information about this show:
http://artmur.com/english/exhibitions/current/current.htm
On the subject of shows, don’t miss François Morelli’s two shows that are still on at the Belgo building in two galleries on the fifth floor, Optica and Joyce Yahouda Gallery. François, a high-profile artist who has helped The Art Collective, had his two shows highlighted in a major feature story in the Montreal Gazette.
Also, Collective member Joanna Nawarcaj’s zine project is in the midst of several days of public events in Montreal, ending Sunday. Information can be found at : http://www.naccarato.org/lip/
You can read more about Joanna’s project just below.
Robert Winters, co-ordinator of The Art Collective
Below are details of the Public Zine project and Mathieu Lacroix’s show:
The Public Zine
In response to the buy-and-sell comodification of public visual spaces, we proposed a temporary reclaiming. This is it. Five days of street performances & city wide postering of art & lit. Want to jump on the proverbial bandwagon?
Just keep on reading.
The Public Zine Fundraiser
Wednesday, September 27
Les Minot. 3812 St. Laurent.
9 pm. $5/ pay-what-you-can.
Featuring Music & Spoken Word by Carl Spidla, Jindalee Lehman, James Irwin, Larissa Diakiw, Una Mas, Jeremy Loveday & Special Guests.
Not only will this show rock, each person who attends this event sponsors the printing of 75 posters. Doesn't that give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside?
Free maps indicating the location of the posters will be available at the fundraiser. These maps will also indicate the meeting points for street interventions running Thursday-Sunday.
Here's a sneak peak of what we have in store for the city of Montreal:
Rotating public film screenings, street theatre and guerrilla poetry on the metro, and an open air show of dance, theatre and music.
All public. All free*. All for the sake of reclaiming public space.
Details about Mathieu Lacroix’s show :
>Saisir l’inutile
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>28 septembre au 14 octobre 2006
>Vernissage : 28 septembre dès 18 :00
>Lundi au samedi 12:00-18:00
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>Centre de Diffusion et d’Expérimentation Local JR-930 Université du
>Québec à Montréal Pavillon Judith-Jasmin 405, rue Sainte-Catherine est
>Métro Berri-UQÀM
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>Carte blanche sur l’inutile. Quatre artistes de la relève montréalaise.
>Sophie Bélair-Clément
>Jacynthe Carrier
>Mathieu Lacroix
>Mathieu Latulippe
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>Réceptives aux potentialités du banal, de l’anecdotique et du trop, nos
>prémisses motivant une thématique de l’inutile trouvent leurs sources
>dans un constat des problématiques qui génèrent une production
>artistique actuelle. Souhaitant sortir d’une logique binaire qui
>confronte et justifie l’utile face à l’inutile, nous proposons un
>concept d’exposition où sont rassemblées des œuvres qui questionnent
>ces termes et les détournent de leur sens commun.
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>Propulsés dans une société régie par la recherche du plaisir
>instantané, du rendement performatif et de la consommation effrénée,
>les artistes ici réunis proposent diverses stratégies réfléchissant
>l’inutile comme moyen de résistance. À la fois silencieuses,
>excessives, effacées et bruyantes, les attitudes déployées face à
>l’inanité manifestent sa nécessité. Que l’inutile devienne essentiel et souhaitable.