The Art Collective

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.

Concordia site

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.

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How The Collective creates its art pieces owes a great deal to the processes of the Royal Art Lodge, a Winnipeg-based art collective whose world-class work is worth checking out.

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The Royal Art Lodge's show, Ask the Dust, was presented at such high-profile venues as The Power Plant in Toronto and The Drawing Center in New York.

The Power Plant

The Drawing Center

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Adrian Williams, a founding member of the Lodge, gave a detailed account of the Royal Art Lodge's processes and thinking during a presentation in January 2004 in VA-317, a painting and drawing studio in Concordia University's Visual Arts Building in downtown Montreal.

Williams's visit, which was attended by about 60 art students and faculty was arranged by painter Eleanor Bond, a Studio Arts professor at Concordia. An account of the event was prepared by Collective member Robert Winters for the university's Thursday Report publication. You can read Robert's story and see a photo taken at the event at:

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Information about Adrian Williams and his work can be found on the Other Gallery's website, at:

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Something to Look Forward to In case you haven't noticed, drawing's back. Amsterdam's Geert Dekkers capitalizes on its quiet renaissance by using webspace to disseminate art to an unlimited viewership. Nznl.com is a New Zealand-based weblog and 'a drawing a day' has been programmed to generate a new drawing daily at exactly 00:00 CET since May 2002. Dekkers explains that 'The drawings, even if they are not strictly drawings (but web pages or flash movies) are, in essence, plans, and I see them as the most basic form of an artistic idea. Which is of course why most of the content is in some way related to planning some event in the future.' The drawing a day project dovetails out of Dekkers' ongoing preoccupation with the concept of future, the basis for other threads such as 'One Day,' a series that 'takes a wish or desire and throws it forward into some unspecified future.' - Peggy MacKinnon http://www.nznl.com/

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