Raymond Gervais, Dans le cylindre, 1994. Photograph, cylinder phonograph and table. Purchased for the Prêt d’œuvres d’art collection, 1998; transferred to the permanent collection, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Photo: Jean-Jacques Ringuette.
Thursday November 3 at 5:30 pm
Meet the curator, Nicole Gingras
Entre conversation et montage, chronique d’une pratique
Nicole Gingras discusses the development of Raymond Gervais 3 x 1
In French, at the Gallery
A researcher and independent curator since the mid-1980s, Nicole Gingras has curated several major monographic and thematic exhibitions, as well as film and video programs on the notions of trace, absence, and the connections between sound and silence. She has also produced various tributes to pioneering video artists from Canada and abroad, for organizations such as FIFA in Montreal, where she has been a programmer since 2003. Gingras has frequently collaborated with numerous media art venues in Quebec and Canada. The curator of TraficART 2010, a biennial of contemporary art in Saguenay, Nicole Gingras will curate the next Manif d’art de Québec in 2012, Machines—Les formes du mouvement. Nicole Gingras lives in Montreal.
ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Gingras, Nicole, ed. Raymond Gervais 3 X 1. Montréal : Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen; VOX, Centre de l’image contemporaine, 2011.
Gingras, Nicole. “Time Invented: The Notions of Time and Place, and the Visual and Aural Imagery in the Art of Stansfield/Hooykaas.” Revealing the Invisible: The Art of Stansfield/Hooykaas from Different Perspectives. Eds. Madelon Hooykaas and Claire van Putten. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, 2010.
Gervais, Raymond and Nicole Gingras. Puisqu’à toute fin correspond: Entretiens. Montréal: Éditions Nicole Gingras, 2007.
Gingras, Nicole. Christof Migone: trou. Montréal: Galerie de l’UQÀM, 2006.
Gingras, Nicole. Traces. Montréal: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2006.
Gingras, Nicole. Frottements : objets et surfaces sonores. Québec: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2004.
Gingras, Nicole. Le son dans l’art contemporain canadien / Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art. Montréal: Éditions Artextes, 2003.
Gingras, Nicole. “Under Scrutiny – Video at Western Front.” Eternal Network: Video from the Western Front Archives, 1973-2001 / Eternal network : vidéos en provenance des archives de Western Front 1973-2000. Ed. Maija Martin. Vancouver : Western Front Media, 2003.
Gingras, Nicole. Mario Côté : tableau. Joliette: Musée d’art de Joliette, 2002.
Gingras, Nicole. “Body, Voice, Narrative.” Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video. Ed. Jenny Lion. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press/Walker Art Center; Winnipeg: Video Pool, 2000.
Raymond Gervais, The Passage,1978. Photo: Jean-Jacques Jabbour.
Saturday November 19 at 2 pm
Presentation by artist Raymond Gervais
on his work Re: Henri Roussseau, le tourne-disque et la recréation du monde
In French
J.A. de Sève Cinema, LB-125
Concordia University
1400 de Maisonneuve West
Guy-Concordia metro station
Raymond Gervais, 3 + 1 = ,1977. Photo: Pierre Boogaerts.
Saturday November 26 at 2 pm
Panel discussion with Martin Arnold, Paul Théberge, David Tomas
Presentations in English
York Amphitheatre, EV 1.615
Concordia University
1515 Ste-Catherine West
Guy-Concordia metro station
Presenters will explore numerous facets of Raymond Gervais’ art practice including the creative aspects of playing and listening to recorded music, narration, the role that various technologies of music play in his work, and his conceptually oriented methodology.
Martin Arnold is a composer and performer of music, an arts administrator, a writer and a teacher based in Toronto. He is an active member of Toronto’s improvisation and experimental jazz/roots/rock communities performing on live electronics, banjo, melodica, guitar, and hurdy-gurdy. His compositions have been played nationally and internationally. Martin works as a landscape gardener and lectures in the Department of Cultural Studies at Trent University in Peterborough. He is the 2012 Snider Visiting Artist in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
Paul Théberge is a Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University, Ottawa. He has published widely on music, technology and culture, and is author of Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music / Consuming Technology (1997). His recent research is concerned with music and the Internet; with the uses of acoustic space in Glenn Gould’s experimental recordings of the 1970s; and with the role of music and sound in audio-visual media, including a contribution on silence in the anthology, Lowering the Boom (2008).
David Tomas is an artist and theorist. He is the author of Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies (2004), A Blinding Flash of Light: Photography Between Disciplines and Media (2004), and Transcultural Space and Transcultural Beings (1996). He has exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe and held visiting research positions at CalArts, Goldsmiths College, and the National Gallery of Canada. David Tomas teaches at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal.