The Art Collective

You are invited to participate in The Art Collective’s Interactive Bunker show this Thursday (1 p.m. to 9 p.m.) and Friday (noon until 4 p.m.) in the lobby of the Visual Arts Building at the corner of Crescent St. and René-Lévesque Blvd. in downtown Montreal.

We will be creating a large-scale image of what life might be like if humans have to move underground to survive whatever calamity might take place on the surface of our planet.

Bunker habitations can suggest humans living like another species: eg. ants, other insects, burrowing animals. Our drawing will be interconnected large panels showing cutaway views of life inside the bunker. What can we see? Come and draw and paint your vision of life underground.

This is the first phase of a special project funded by the excellent Fine Arts Student Alliance at Concordia University; we have received $522 in special funding for materials so we’ll have lots of top-quality paper and materials, but feel free to bring your own materials to draw or paint with.

FASA's website is at:
http://fasa.concordia.ca/fasadirectory.htm

Adrian Norvid, visiting professor of painting and drawing, has contributed excellent ideas for implementing this project, which he conceived of. He is also expecting some artists from his class to come and work with us.

Adrian also has curated a new show of 20 collaborative pieces from our work since January and those will be on display during this ephemeral show. Pieces from the show will be posted in the Our Work section of our website.

You can see a drawing of one view of the Interactive Bunker in the Photos section of our website, done by Montreal artist Stephanie Reynolds, who is helping co-ordinate and curate the Bunker show. Member David King had his drawing of the bunker project chosen by Adrian for the show of our best work that will be displayed. Member Khadija C. Baker also worked on planning for the Bunker project.