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Hans Namuth: Jackson Pollock (1951), 10 min. 14 sec. Bruce Nauman: Thighing (Blue) (1967), 4 min. 36 sec. Carolee Schneeman: Plumb Line (1968-1971), 14 min. 58 sec. Valie Export: Body Tape (1970), 3 min. 58 sec. Lynda Benglis: On Screen (1972), 7 min. 45 sec. Mako Idemitsu: What a Woman Made (1973), 10 min. 50 sec. Paul McCarthy: Whipping the Wall with Paint (1975), 2 min. Suzy Lake: Choreographies of the Dotted Line (1976), 13 min. Pippilotti Rist: I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), 7 min. 45 sec. APPROXIMATE TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 75 min.
Barbara Clausen is a curator and an art historian. She teaches art history at the Université du Québec à Montreal (UQÀM). Since the late 1990s she has worked at the Dia Art Foundation (New York), DeAppel (Amsterdam), and Documenta 11 (Kassel). She curated the exhibition and performance series After the Act (2005) at MUMOK, Vienna, and co-curated the performance and lecture series wieder und wider: performance appropriated (2006), also presented at MUMOK. In 2010-2011 she co-curated Push and Pull, a collaboration between MUMOK/Tanzquartier Wien and the Tate Modern, London. In 2011, she curated Down Low Up High, Performing the Vernacular at Argos in Brussels. She recently curated the first solo exhibition of works by the French/American filmmaker and artist Babette Mangolte for VOX, Montréal. This exhibition is on view until April 20. Clausen writes on performance art and performative curatorial practices and is the editor of After the Act: The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art (2006). ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION www.histoiredelart.uqam.ca/Pages/clausen_barbara.aspx Amelia Jones is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montréal. Her recent publications include major essays on Marina Abramović (in TDR), on feminist art and curating, and on performance art histories, as well as the edited volume Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003; new edition 2010). Her book, Self Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006) has been followed in 2012 by Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts and her major volume, Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History, co-edited with Adrian Heathfield. She has curated exhibitions and events on feminist art, queer visual culture, and faith and identity in visual culture, among other things, including her flagship show Sexual Politics from 1996 at the UCLA Hammer Museum. ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/people/faculty/jones Krista Geneviève Lynes is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. She is also the director of the Feminist Media Studio, which supports creative and critical research in feminist art, activism and experimental media. Her research examines how contemporary media art, documentary and independent film represent the complexity of feminist political struggles under globalization. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Signs, Theory & Event, and Third Text. Her first book, Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present, was recently published with Palgrave Macmillan (2012). ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION coms.concordia.ca/faculty/lynes.html 2012 EVENTSPORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE. The Art & Activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge ↓In conjunction with Martin Beck, the particular way in which a thing exists ↓ In conjunction with INTERACTIONS ↓ DEXTERITY : A series of lectures ↓ In conjunction with IGNITION ↓ In conjunction with TRAFFIC : CONCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980, Part 2 ↓ INHABITING THE ABSENCE OF MEDIATION. A lecture by Nikita Choi ↓ In conjunction with TRAFFIC : CONCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980, Part 1 ↓
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Martin Beck lives in New York and Vienna where he holds a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts. In conjunction with his artistic practice, Beck also writes about art, design, and architecture. He also occasionally works as an exhibition designer. Recent exhibitions and projects include Presentation at 47 Canal (2012), Remodel at Ludlow 38 in New York (with Ken Saylor) and Communitas at Camera Austria, Graz (2011); contributions to the Twenty-Ninth São Paulo and the Fourth Bucharest Biennales (2010); and Panel 2:"Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes" at Gasworks, London (2008). Beck is the author of About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (2007), An Exhibit viewed played populated (2005), and the recently published The Aspen Complex (2012). the particular way in which a thing exists, organized by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University in Montreal, is the first exhibition to bring together and examine projects produced over the last ten years. Vincent Bonin is an author and independent curator. From 2000 to 2007, he worked as an archivist at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology (Montréal). As a curator, he notably organized Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) (two exhibitions and a publication) at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University (2007-10). He is co-curator with Catherine Morris of Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art currently on at the Brooklyn Museum. Bonin is the author of numerous essays about the social meaning of archives and the refashioning of the documentary genre in the field of contemporary art as well as on institutional critique. Michèle Thériault is Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University where she has developed a program that reflects upon contemporary artistic production and curatorial activity in relation to the recent history of contemporary art. She has curated many exhibitions such as Timelength (2004); Claude Tousignant. 3 paintings, 1 sculpture, 3 spaces (2005); the first exhibition in North American of Harun Farocki's installations "One image doesn't take the place of another" (2007); Silvia Kolbowski. Nothing and Everything (2009). She is also the co-curator of Traffic, Conceptual Art in Canada, 1965-1980. Her essays and articles have appeared in exhibition catalogues, anthologies and journals. Thériault is interested in translational issues in art, reflexive frameworks, knowledge in art and in the site of exhibition. In the 1990s she was associate curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
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Since 1992 Rachel Echenberg’s work has been exhibited, performed and screened across Canada as well as internationally in Chile, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and the United States. Many of her videos are available through Vidéographe Distribution in Montreal. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada (1993) and an MA in Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts in the UK (2004). Rachel Echenberg currently teaches in the Fine Arts Department of Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec.
Hong-Kai Wang is a Taiwanese artist who works primarily with sound as a conceptual means to investigate social relations and to explore the construction of new social space in everyday life. Wang studied art and politics at National Taiwan University, and completed a master’s degree in Arts and Media Studies at the New School in New York. She has exhibited and performed internationally and represented Taiwan at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Her piece Music While We Work is included in Interactions.
Nicole Knibb is the Education Coordinator at the McMaster Museum of Art, responsible for developing innovative programs for McMaster University’s academic community, most notably The Art of Seeing. On a broader scale, Nicole designs and delivers tours and learning activities to meet the needs of pre-school, elementary, secondary, post-secondary school groups and visitors from the local, national and international community. This includes developing a successful Docent and Volunteer program that encourages members of the community to learn about the function of the Museum and to be an essential part of the Museum’s work. Nicole plays a key role in fulfilling the Museum’s mission for dynamic and multi-disciplinary programs, scholarly interpretation and innovative practices in museology. ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION Elder, N.C. et al. The Art of Observation: impact of a Family Medicine and Art Museum Partnership on Student Education. Family Medicine 38.6 (2006): 393-398. Kirklin D. et al. Cluster Design Controlled Trial of Arts-Based Observational Skills Training in Primary Care. Medical Education 41.4 (2007): 395-401. Naghshineh, Sheila et al. Formal Art Observation Training Improves Medical Students' Visual Diagnostic Skills. Journal of General Internal Medicine 23.7 (2008): 991-997. Schaff, Pamela .B., S. Isken, and Robert M. Tager. From Contemporary Art to Core Clinical Skills: Observation, Interpretation, and Meaning-Making in a Complex Environment. Academic Medicine 86.10 (2011): 1272-1276. Zazulak, Joyce et al. The Creative Art of Medical Inquiry: A Visual Literacy Program for Family Medicine Residents. Museums & Social Issues 5.2 (2010): 250-257.
Christof Migone is an artist, curator and writer. His work and research delves into language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity, endurance. He currently lives in Toronto and is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery.
Vancouver artist Kathy Slade works across various media including film, video, embroidery, sculpture, vinyl records, and books. Together with Keith Higgins she runs Publication Studio Vancouver. She collaborates with Brady Cranfield under the moniker Cranfield & Slade and as Co-Director of The Music Appreciation Society. Slade is the founding editor of Emily Carr University Press and in 1999 she started READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery. Slade’s work has been exhibited in North America, Europe, and Asia. Her recent exhibitions include Kathy Slade and Lisa Roberston: It was a strange apartment; full of books… (Malaspina, Vancouver), IS EVERYTHING GOING TO BE ALRIGHT? (Audain Gallery, Vancouver), Barroco Nova (Museum London, ON), Die Perfetk Astellung (Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg), and Cue: Artists’ Video (Vancouver Art Gallery). In 2009 she received the VIVA Award and in 2012 she was Artist in Residence at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna.
Since 2005, Vicky Chainey Gagnon is Director/Curator of the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University. She has curated a wide range of exhibitions with Canadian and international artists : Value, 2012; Charles Stankievech : Over the Rainbow, Under the Radar, 2011; Christina Battle : Filing Memory, 2010; Ron Benner :Growing Histories, 2010; Above and Below, 2009; Clive Holden : Utopia Suite Disco, 2008; Time Inside the Image I-III, 2005-2007). Her research scope is contemporary curatorial practice with specific interest in the intersections of social theory, civic engagement and public scholarship. She is the founder of the Foreman Art Gallery’s Community Art Lab, a cultural mediation project that appropriates civic spaces in the local community with the goal of building relationships between citizens. Yaël Filipovic is an education curator. She holds an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and a BA in Art History and Education from McGill University (Montreal). Her work combines her interest in research, art, activism and pedagogy. Past curatorial projects include Neighbour to Neighbour: Living Libraries (Foreman Art Gallery, 2011), ArtiFACTS of Belief (University of Toronto Art Centre, 2010), and Soliloquies: Reflections of Solitude (Two Rivers Gallery, 2008). Interested in the use of public space, her public interventions have taken place in both Toronto and Montreal. From May 2010 to August 2012, she was the Curator, Education and Cultural Action at the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec developing their Community Art Lab. She has held curatorial and public programs positions in various institutions across Canada including at the Darling Foundry Visual Arts Centre (Montreal, QC), the Justina M Barnicke Gallery (Toronto, ON), and the Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George, BC).
Michael Maranda is a visual artist currently living and working in Toronto. He has broad experience with publishing in the visual arts sector, from managing and editing BlackFlash and Fuse Magazines through to publishing catalogues for the Art Gallery of York University. His practice consists primarily of the production of artists' books, as publisher and author. He was educated at the University of Ottawa, Concordia University, and the University of Rochester.
Grant Arnold is currently Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where he contributes to the Gallery’s exhibition and collecting activities. He was previously Senior Curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and Extension Coordinator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. He holds an M.A. in art history from the University of British Columbia. Over the past twenty-five years he has organized more than forty exhibitions of historical, modern and contemporary art. Recent projects have included Ken Lum; Reece Terris: Ought Apartment; Mark Lewis: Modern Time; Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs; Real Pictures: Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft; Rodney Graham: A Little Thought (with Jessica Bradley and Connie Butler); and Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of A Greater Fragmentation. Catherine Crowston is currently Acting Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Alberta. From 1994 to 1997, Crowston was the Director/Curator of the Walter Phillips Gallery and Editor of the Walter Phillips Gallery Editions at The Banff Centre. From 1986 to 1994, she was Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of York University. In 2002, Crowston served as the Canadian Commissioner for the Sydney Biennale of Contemporary Art and was awarded the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal for Outstanding Achievement. In 2005, she received the City of Edmonton Salute to Excellence Award and is currently Vice-Chair of the City of Edmonton Public Art Committee. Barbara Fischer is the Executive Director/Chief Curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery as well as Senior Lecturer in Curatorial Studies in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. She has held curatorial positions in galleries and museums across Canada and has curated major solo and group exhibitions of Canadian and international artists. She was appointed commissioner and curator of Mark Lewis’ project for the Canadian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. She was the recipient of the 2001 OAAG Curatorial Writing Award in the Historical category for Love Gasoline; the 2004 Melva J. Dwyer Award for Excellence in Canadian Publishing from ARLIS for General Idea Editions; and the 2008 Hnatyshyn Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. Michèle Thériault is a curator, writer and editor and is currently Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University where she has developed a program that reflects upon contemporary artistic production and curatorial activity in relation to the recent history of contemporary art. In addition to her curatorial work, her essays and articles have appeared in exhibition catalogues, anthologies and journals. She is interested in translational issues in art, in reflexive frameworks, knowledge in art and in the site of exhibition. From 1988 to 1996 she was a curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and has taught contemporary art and curatorial studies at the University of Ottawa. She is adjunct professor with the Department of Art History at Concordia University. Vincent Bonin lives and works in Montreal. He organized Documentary Protocols (1967-1975), dealing with the history of artist-run spaces and parallel galleries in Canada in 2007 and 2008 at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University in Montreal. He edited the accompanying publication which was launched in 2010. Materialization of “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergene of Conceptual Art, organized by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin, opens at the Brooklyn Museum in September 2012. Alongside curating exhibitions on the 1960s and 1970s, he has organized exhibitions with artists (Jon Knowles and Sophie Bélair-Clément) in which professional categories are challenged. His writings have been published as chapters in such anthologies as Ouvrir le document: Enjeux et pratiques de la documentation dans les arts visuels contemporains (Les presses du réel), and Institutions by Artists (Fillip). Jayne Wark is Professor of Art History at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her book, Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America, was published in 2006 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She has published articles and exhibition catalogue essays on contemporary performance, video, feminist and conceptual art and is currently working on a monograph on the history of conceptual art in Canada. Peter Dykhuis has been the Director/Curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 2007 and was previously Director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University. Prior to that he lived in Toronto and worked at various galleries, notably the Art Gallery of Ontario where he installed their touring exhibitions. Dykhuis is also an internationally exhibiting visual artist and critical writer.
This lecture is presented in collaboration with the Department of Art History. Nikita Choi is the curator at the Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, and the co-founder of Ping Pong Space, an independent and self-managed art space also located in Guangzhou. She participated in the curatorial programme at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam during 2009-2010, where she co-curated I’m Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs. She has lectured at Casa Asia in Barcelona and is a regular contributor to The Independent Critique, LEAP, and www.artforum.com.cn. In 2011 she curated the exhibition A Museum That is Not at the Times Museum. Also in 2011, she initiated, along with Carol Yinghua Lu, Issues on Curating, a monthly discussion platform focussing on critical writing, context-responsive curating, and curatorial practice in China.
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Sean Mills is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He is a historian of post-1945 Canadian and Quebec history, with research interests that include postcolonial thought, migration, race, gender, and the history of empire and oppositional movements. In 2009 he co-edited New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, a major collection of essays reassessing the meaning, impact, and global reach of the period’s social movements. In 2010 he published The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal, a book which received the Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award (2010), as well as an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Historical Association's Sir John A. MacDonald Award (2011). In 2011, Les Éditions Hurtubise published Contester l'empire. Pensée postcoloniale et militantisme politique à Montréal, 1963-1972.
Johanne Sloan is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Art History, Concordia University. Her writings include the essays Conceptual Landscape Art: Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow (2007), Bill Vazan’s Urban Coordinates (2009), and Everyday Objects, enigmatic Materials for the Quebec Triennale 2011 catalogue. She is also the co-editor of Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir, a collection of essays published by University of Toronto Press in 2010.
Adam Welch is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto; his dissertation is entitled Borderline Research: Art between Canada and the United States, 1965–1980. His writing centres on minimal, conceptual and institution critical art, as well as art systems and networks among artists, curators, museums, galleries and artist-run centres. His MA thesis from Columbia University was an account of the technological work of Vancouver-based artist Rodney Graham. Welch has worked in curatorial departments at the National Gallery of Canada, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and most recently at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto.
Jean-Philippe Warren is Associate Professor of Sociology and holds the University Research Chair on the Study of Québec in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. In 2010-2011 he held the Contemporary Quebec Chair at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3). Author of more than 150 scholarly articles, he has published on a wide variety of subjects related to the history of Québec, including Native peoples, social movements, pop culture, youth, the Roman Catholic Church, and the arts. His work has appeared in literary, sociology, history, religion, literary, and anthropology journals. His book L'Engagement sociologique was awarded the Clio Prize and the Prix Michel-Brunet in 2003. Among his latest publications is L'Art vivant. Autour de Paul-Émile Borduas (2011). 2011 EVENTS!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION, a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Film screening ↓In conjunction with RAYMOND GERVAIS 3 X 1 ↓ SHOW & TELL. A lecture by Julie Ault. ↓ In conjunction with Jesper Just. Nomad in One's Own Mind ↓ DE / PROGRAM ↓ In conjunction with IGNITION ↓ In conjunction with Kent Monkman: My Treaty is With the Crown ↓ In conjunction with Martha Wilson: Staging the Self ↓ Rabih Mroué: Make Me Stop Smoking + The Inhabitants of Images. ↓
DURATION: 83 minutes Interviews: Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni , Judith Baca , Judith Brodsky , Cornelia Butler , Tammy Rae Carland , Judy Chicago , Alexandra Chowaniec , Beatriz da Costa , Claire Daigle , Sheila De Bretteville , Mary Beth Edelson , Howard Fox , Susan Grode , Guerrilla Girls , Harmony Hammond , Alanna Heiss , Lynn Hershman Leeson , Amelia Jones , Miranda July , Yael Kanarek , Mike Kelley , Joyce Kozloff , Robert Kushner , Suzanne Lacy , Krista G. Lynes , Howardena Pindell , Yvonne Rainer , Maura Reilly , B. Ruby Rich , Faith Ringgold , Martha Rosler , Moira Roth , Rachel Rosenthal , Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler , Miriam Schapiro , Lowery Stokes Sims ,Silvia Sleigh , Nancy Spero , Marcia Tucker, Camille Utterback , Cecilia Vicuña , Faith Wilding, Martha Wilson. Krista Geneviève Lynes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, holds a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and taught previously at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her research examines the intersections of video art and documentary in making visible feminist political subjects, questions of embodiment, gender and sexuality, postcolonial and transnational examinations of culture, and questions of witnessing, spectatorship and encounter. 
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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.
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.
Group Material. Arts and Leisure. Group Material: May 24 – June 24, 1986 at the Kitchen. New York: The Kitchen, 1986. Wallis, Brian, ed. Democracy, a Project by Group Material. Seattle: Bay Press, 1990. Ault, Julie. Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Ault, Julie, and Martin Beck, eds. Outdoor Systems, Indoor Distribution. Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, 2000. Ault, Julie, ed. Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985. New York: Drawing Center; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Ault, Julie, et al. Borne of Necessity: Julie Ault and Martin Beck, Peggy Diggs, Anthony Hernandez, Tom Hunter, Ken Lum, Samuel Mockbee and Rural Studio, Marjetica Potrć with Liyat Esakov, Michael Rakowitz, Temporary Services with Dave Whitman, Camilo José Vergara. Greensboro: Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2004. Ashford, Doug, and Ann Pasternak. Who Cares: 3 Dinners, 39 Artists, Curators, Writers, 1 Book. New York: Creative Time Books, 2006. Ault, Julie, ed. Félix González-Torres. Göttingen: Steididangin, 2006. Ault, Julie. Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita. London: Four Corners Books, 2007. Ault, Julie, ed. Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material. London: Four Corners Books, 2010. IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION JESPER JUST. NOMAD IN ONE'S OWN MIND
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IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION IGNITION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION KENT MONKMAN: MY TREATY IS WITH THE CROWN
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION MARTHA WILSON: STAGING THE SELF
2010 EVENTSIn conjunction with Out Of Grace ↓Adaptive Actions Camp ↓ The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at the NY Art Book Fair. ↓ In conjunction with NELSON HENRICKS. TIME WILL HAVE PASSED. LE TEMPS AURA PASSÉ. ↓ In conjunction with Congress 2010 ↓ In conjunction with the exhibition Magnetic Norths ↓ Boxed set launch: Charles Gagnon: 4 films ↓ François Lemieux and Michael Pohl, WLTWSAETLV ↓ Lecture by Jackie Sumell ↓ Launch of Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) ↓ In conjunction with the exhibition Collecting: The Inflections of a Practice ↓ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION OUT OF GRACESaturday November 13th at 2 pmCONVERSATION Lynda Gaudreau & Alexandre St-Onge in French at the Gallery ADAPTIVE ACTIONS CAMP
ADAPTIVE ACTIONS CAMP PROGRAM Adaptive Actions (AA) is looking for new contributions to its website and its next publication, as well as contributions that will serve to stimulate reflection, discussions, and presentations at the AA Camp at Concordia University. Register as a participant through the website or at the Camp and submit existing or imagined actions created by you or by others.
Collaborators - Adaptive Actions Camp at Concordia University : Marie-Pier Boucher, Aude Moreau, Gema Melgar et Jean-François Prost More complete information to follow. PARTICIPANTS BIOGRAPHIES Marie-Pier Boucher is a Ph.D. student in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Communication Sciences from the University of Montreal. Her work draws upon complex systems theory, and bio- and neurosciences in addressing architectural and spatial practices. She has been collaborating on Adaptive Actions as a theorist and co-editor since 2009. She is also a guest editor of InfleXions, an open-access journal for research-creation. Her research residencies include: SymbioticA, Center for Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia, Perth (2006), and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany (2010). She has presented her work in multiple venues across Canada, England, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Australia. Her research is supported by the Visual Studies Initiative (Duke University) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada). Aurélie Dubois is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in Montréal. She is currently pursuing a bachelor degree in Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. She obtained, in 2008, a Cégep diploma in arts plastiques of Cégep du Vieux-Montreal. In 2008, she realized her first solo exhibition, Aurélie, Peintures, at the Cégep du Vieux-Montreal. Furthermore, she participated in several group exhibitions, Place, a sculpture show in March 2010 and Consanguin. Fatal. Velu. in September 2010. She is also a member of the collective of interdisciplinary artists Internet is Dead. Jean-Maxime Dufresne is an artist trained in architecture and multimedia. Delving into psychogeography and the critical field of spatial practices, his work investigates transformations that shape urban territories and often problematizes the use of technological mediation. Architectural process is considered both as an inquiry and as a material production permeated by temporary experiences that mix installation, video, sound and urban intervention. His latest proposal, Agency, brought together thought-provoking interviews with key actors in Montréal’s cultural field on space as contested, shared and reinvented matter. His individual and collective work with artist Virginie Laganière or SYN- has been presented in Canada (Skol, Biennale de Montréal) and abroad (Temporary Urban Interstices, aaa, Paris; Actions: What You Can Do With the City, CC A / Graham Foundation, Chicago, USA). Since 2007, he has been a board member of DARE-DARE — an artist-run centre operating in the public realm — and been involved with the Educational Programs team at the CC A, both located in Montréal. Cynthia Imogen Hammond teaches architectural history in the Department of Art History, Concordia University. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 through Concordia University’s interdisciplinary Humanities Doctoral Program. After teaching in several Canadian universities, she held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Architecture, McGill University (2004-2006). Her book on gender, public memory and the built environment of Bath, England will be published by Ashgate in 2011. In addition to research and publishing on architecture, cities and landscapes, Hammond maintains an interdisciplinary studio practice that includes public art, painting and drawing, sound and most recently, digital video. Her last group exhibition, feminist practices, traveled to nine locations, concluding its tour at the University of Melbourne. More details about her publications, research and art can be found at www.cynthiahammond.com and at www.pouf.ca. Patrick Harrop is an architect and associate professor of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. He currently holds the CMRI Chair in Masonry Studies and is an active researcher with CAST (Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology). His research specialty is in Emerging technology and design with a particular emphasis in electromechanical hacking, digital fabrication and contemporary theory. He currently teaches graduate studios in time based architecture, daidala strategies, contemporary theory, and advanced computer / fabrication. Professor Harrop received his undergraduate architecture degree from Carleton University, and his post professional M.Arch degree from the History and Theory program at McGill University in Montreal. Patrick Harrop`s current work is in developing new approaches to embedded and interactive technology using abandoned infrastructures. He is currently developing work that seeks to embed interactivity into existing architectural structures. A good part of this work seeks a manifestation autopoietic systems, where immediacy and responsiveness is delayed and translated into autonomous complex behaviors and environments. Shauna Janssen is a PhD candidate in Humanities, at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University. Her doctoral work focuses on documenting the reoccupation and adaptive reuse of abandoned post-industrial sites for cultural purposes. Her research works across and in between the disciplines of architectural history, performance studies and oral history, and, more broadly, draws from relations between ruin theory and contested urban spaces, ideas of the interstitial, fragmention and spatial theory. Through these fields she seeks to identify the ways in which the gesture of reoccupying the ruins of post-industrial sites and historic architecture - how their reuse and the re/appropriation of these spaces - contribute to the architectural and socio-historical narratives of a city. In addition to her studies, Shauna Janssen also recently founded Urban Occupations Urbaines (UOU), a platform for creative engagements with urban environments in transition and decay. The current site in question is Griffintown, Montreal’s historic industrial district. For more information about UOU visit www.urbanoccupationsurbaines.org. Luc Lévesque, is an architect, professor in History and Theory of Architecture at Université Laval (Quebec City), his recent body of research traces the potentialities of an interstitial approach to urban landscape and urbanism. In 2000, he is one of the co-founders of the urban exploration workshop SYN- with whom he has produced different research works and interventions [www.amarrages.com]. As a member of the editorial committee of Inter actual art magazine [www.inter-lelieu.org], he has edited many issues dealing with architecture, landscape and urban practices. Patrice Loubier is a professor of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is interested in contemporary approaches to creation, with a particular interest in intervention art and furtive practices, and has published texts in numerous periodicals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues. Loubier has participated in the activities of various artist-run centres in Québec and has served on the editorial boards of ESSE and Inter. In 2001, he co-edited, with Anne-Marie Ninacs and through the Centre des arts actuels Skol, Les commensaux: Quand l’art se fait circonstances / When Art Becomes Circumstance, a first in-depth look at relational practices in Canada. He has co-curated a number of exhibitions including the first edition of Orange with Mélanie Boucher and Marcel Blouin through Expression – Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe (Saint-Hyacinthe, 2003), the MANIF D’ART 3 with André-Louis Paré (Québec, 2005), and Espace mobile with Marie-Josée Jean through VOX (Montréal, 2008). Aude Moreau lives and works in Montreal. She exhibits her works in Quebec, France, the U.S. and Luxemburg. Among her most recent solo exhibitions are Faire le vide (Plein sud exhibition centre, 2010), Tirer le ciel (Luxemburg Casino Contemporary Art Forum, 2009), and Tapis de sucre 3 (Darling Foundry, 2008). She has also contributed to group exhibitions that include Art souterrain - Nuit blanche de Montréal (2010), La Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (2010), and Orange événement d’art actuel de Saint-Hyacinthe (2006). Jean-François Prost, artist-architect. His interest in new urban research territories — neglected, undetermined spaces, and those overcontrolled, with no apparent specificity — has brought him to question the city, architecture and urban material in a non-disciplinary way. An act of constructive resistance, state of mind, device to enunciate and exchange ideas, P rost's work promotes social engagement, defends the presence of ‘art’ everywhere, at any time. His individual and collaborative work (l'atelier SYN-, AA...) has been shown by many galleries, and at international events: 3rd Montréal Biennale, Liverpool Biennial 06, and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. His work on the collaborative research platform Adaptive Actions, which he initiated in 2007, will be the subject of a series of actions/exhibits (2010-11) in Montréal and in the city of Miami. Long-time member of DARE-DARE multidisciplinary art centre's board of directors, he is working on the ongoing Dis/Location project and publication series promoting emerging urban practices and the mobile gallery. www.jean-francoisprost.blogspot.com Javiera Ovalle Sazie works with different approaches to the notion of displacement of writing, performing an active way of writing in the city. Her work involves installation, photography, video and recycling. Traveling and wandering provide the surfaces on which her curiosity finds the essence of making. Ovalle completed an artist’s residency at the Darling Foundry that brought her to Montreal in 2006. She has since exhibited in the VI Biennial of the National Fine Arts Museum of Santiago, Chile, and presented her work in Boston, Barcelona, Berlin, New York, Paris, Valparaiso, Santiago de Chile, Montréal, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba. Born in Chile she completed an Associate of Arts degree in Universidad Católica de Valparaiso and then a BFA in Universidad de Playa Ancha. Now she lives and works in Montreal where she is completing a MFA program in Studio Arts at Concordia University. Thomas Strickland is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Architecture, McGill University. A specialist in Canadian healthcare architecture, his research examines the tension between narratives of amusement, flexibility and emancipation in late-modernist architecture and the urge for increased scientific rigor and innovation within the medical profession. In 2009 he was a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and is an alumnus of the Health Care Technology and Place, CIHR Strategic Research Initiative at the University of Toronto. Actively involved in the design community, Strickland has worked with numerous award-winning architectural firms in Canada, is the past president of the Visual Arts Weeks Society, Calgary, and publishes regularly in contemporary art and architectural journals. He is a founding partner in the art and architecture research initiative Pouf! and has received grants from the Canada Council, the RAIC and the Calgary Foundation for his work as a curator. THE LEONARD & BINA ELLEN ART GALLERY AT THE NY ART BOOK FAIRThe NY Art Book Fair took place November 5-7, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Photo: Victoria Browne IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION |
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THE OUTER WORLD Screening of a program of videos selected by Nelson Henricks Sunday September 12, 2 PM at the J.A. de Sève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, LB-125 (Ground floor) FREE Videos selected by Henricks: |
 Colin Campbell, I'm a Voyeur, 1974. Video still courtesy of Vtape. |
Conspiracy of Lies, Nelson Henricks, 12 min., 1992.
Squeezing Sorrow from an Ashtray, Steve Reinke, 5 min. 45 sec., 1992.
Comédie, Nelson Henricks, 7 min., 1994.
Joan and Stephen, Monique Moumblow, 12 min., 1996.
Window/Fenêtre, Nelson Henricks 3 min., 1997.
Handy Man, Nelson Henricks, 10 min. 30 sec., 1999.
Sleeping Car, Monique Moumblow, 5 min. 38 sec., 2000.
Countdown, Nelson Henricks, 30 sec., 2007.
(approximate running time: 72 minutes)
CONVERSATION |
 Conversation between Nelson Henricks, Steve Reinke and Nicole Gingras. Photo: Anne-Marie Proulx. |
INNER SPACE |
 Nikki Forrest, My Heart the Rock Star, 2001. Video still courtesy of the artist and Vtape. |
Stravaig/Errance, Nikki Forrest, 9 min. 35 sec., 1999.
The Middle Distance, Yudi Sewraj, 9 min.10 sec., 2000.
Planetarium, Nelson Henricks, 21 min., 2001.
Satellite, Nelson Henricks. 6 min., 2004.
My Heart the Rock Star, Nikki Forrest, 2 min., 2001.
Failure, Nelson Henricks, 6 min. 41 sec., 2007.
Accordion, Monique Moumblow & Yudi Sewraj, 2 min. 30 sec., 2000.
Untitled (Score), Nelson Henricks and Jackie Gallant, 6 min. 50 sec., 2007.
(approximate running time: 66 minutes)
CONGRESS 2010
EVENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2010 AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY.
FRIDAY MAY 28Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION 4:30 PM MEET THE ARTIST Niki Mulder Click here for more information on the artist. |
 Niki Mulder, scrap city is now serving frybread paninis, 2010. Installation view, courtesy of the artist. |
SATURDAY MAY 29Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION 4:30 PM MEET THE ARTIST Zohar Kfir Click here for more information on the artist. |
 Zohar Kfir, PARA site, 2010. Installation view, courtesy of the artist. |
SUNDAY MAY 30Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION 4:30 PM MEET THE ARTIST Gwynne Fulton Click here for more information on the artist. |
 Gwynne Fulton, deep-six, 2010. Installation view, courtesy of the artist. |
MONDAY MAY 31Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION 6 PM LECTURE Buy(ing) the numbers: A Report on the Report (in English) Responding to a dearth of primary research on the socio-economic status of artists, Michael Maranda of the Art Gallery of York University undertook a major survey of Canadian visual artists. Published in 2009 by the AGYU, the Waging Culture report is the most comprehensive study of the socio-economic status of visual artists in Canada since Statistics Canada’s 1993 Cultural Labour Force survey. The results of the survey, while in many senses predictable, provide solid evidence of the dismal state of the discipline, at least in terms of economic return. In his talk, Maranda will not only review some of the key findings of the survey but as well will discuss the motivations for and methodological innovations of the Waging Culture study. Michael Maranda is currently an assistant curator at the Art Gallery of York University, an institution which fully supported the study. He is also a practicing artist who works primarily in the realm of artists’ books. He completed a Bachelor of Social Sciences Political Science at the University of Ottawa, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, and a Masters degree in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. His recent foray into quantitative analysis should be considered a statistical anomaly. Fore more information: www.theagyuisoutthere.org/wagingculture/ Click here to download the final report Waging Culture: A report on the socio-economic status of Canadian visual artists |
 Michael Maranda, Waging Culture Final Report, Art Gallery of York University, 2009. |
TUESDAY JUNE 1Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION 4:30 PM MEET THE ARTIST Sabrina Russo Click here for more information on the artist. |
 Sabrina Russo, Everything I read and everything I wrote last year, 2010. Installation view, courtesy of the artist |
WEDNESDAY JUNE 2Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION 5 - 7 PM RECEPTION Performance by Women With Kitchen Appliances (WWKA) at 6 PM. "We are three, four or five or six. Identical. Interchangeable. Disposable. And dead serious. We are a rock band, a sound project, a cabaret act, a synchronized rubber glove routine, a BBQ chicken washing machine, a confectionary flour Christmas jingle and Kitchen certification service."
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 Women With Kitchen Appliances 20th anniversary of Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal, April 9, 2010 Photo: Sandra Lynn Bélanger |
THURSDAY JUNE 3Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION 4:30 PM MEET THE ARTIST Marigold Santos Click here for more information on the artist. |
 Marigold Santos, land asuang, 2009. Courtesy of the artist. |
FRIDAY JUNE 4
Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 6 PM12:30 - 2:30 PM
Walk-in tours of the exhibition IGNITION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION
MAGNETIC NORTHS
CURATOR’S TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION
Saturday February 27, 2 PM
Tour of Magnetic Norths with artist and curator Charles Stankievech
At the Gallery
In English
SCREENINGS
Sunday March 14, 2PM |
 Peter Mettler, Picture of Light, 1994. Film still courtesy of Grimthorpe Film Inc. |
JOYCE WIELAND AND THE NORTH: CONVERSATION BETWEEN KRISTY A. HOLMES AND JOHANNE SLOAN
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 Conversation between Johanne Sloan and Kristy A. Holmes Photo: Anne-Marie Proulx |
Johanne Sloan is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, Québec. Her research and teaching often concern Canadian art and visual culture from the 1960s until the present day. Her books Joyce Wieland’s The Far Shore as well as Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir, a book of essays co-edited by Sloan and Rhona Richman Kenneally, will both be published later this year by the University of Toronto Press.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FREE ADMISSION
CHARLES GAGNON: 4 FILMS
BOXED SET LAUNCHThursday March 25, 8:30 PM
At the Gallery
The launch follows the screening of R69 [unfinished/inachevé], presented at FIFA - International Festival of Films on Art, in conjunction with Panorama of Quebec and Canada Video, curated by Nicole Gingras. The screening is at 6:30 PM in the J.A. de Sève Cinema at Concordia University.
Charles Gagnon: 4 Films
(DVD + publication)
- The Eighth Day/Le Huitième jour (1967)
- The Sound of Space/Le Son d'un espace (1968)
- Pierre Mercure 1927-1966 (1970)
- R69 [unfinished/inachevé] (1969-)
Soundtracks: Raymond Gervais, Mary Stephen
- Publication edited by Monika Kin Gagnon with texts by Monika Kin Gagnon and Mary Stephen in English, and by Raymond Gervais in French.
LAUNCH PRICE: $25
Charles Gagnon: 4 Films unites the 1960s experimental films of renowned multidisciplinary artist Charles Gagnon and highlights the intersection between film, painting, photography and music in his artistic œuvre. 4 Films resonates with the countercultural consciousness of the 1960s and is exemplary of avant-garde experimental collage and structuralist filmmaking aesthetics. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue of film descriptions, essays and interviews, this collection illuminates Gagnon’s artistic career, and Québec and Canada’s art scene of the 1960s.
Charles Gagnon was born in Montréal Québec in 1934, where he lived until his death in 2003. Gagnon exhibited his paintings and photography extensively throughout his lifetime in individual and group exhibitions. He was the subject of two retrospectives of his work: the first at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1978, which toured Canada, and the second, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2001, which included his three completed films. His works are in major museum and private collections nationally and internationally. He was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Ordre du Québec in 1991 and the Prix Borduas in 1995. He received an Honorary Doctorate from l'Université de Montréal in 1991, and a Governor General's Award in the Visual and Media Arts in 2002.
Monika Kin Gagnon has published widely on art, cultural politics and media since the 1980s, and teaches in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She is the author of Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art (2000) and with Toronto video artist, Richard Fung and eleven artists, 13 Conversations about Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002).
For more information : www.archivingr69.ca
Michael Pohl, Frommer Wunsch, 2009.
Installation view courtesy of the artist.
FRANÇOIS LEMIEUX, WLTWSAETLV
MICHAEL POHL, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Saturday March 27, 5:30 PMAt the Gallery
WE LEFT THE WARM STABLE AND ENTERED THE LATEX VOID (WLTWSAETLV) is a cooperatively organized artist residency, lecture series and project space located in François Lemieux’s Montréal apartment. It is run collaboratively by exhibiting artists and WLTWSAETLV. It presents talks, interviews and workshops through which a multiplicity of independent practices are launched into discursive motion. WLTWSAETLV has no program, nor does it have a board of directors or state funding to finance its operations. Its activities question current conditions of visual arts production and presentation in Québec. WLTWSAETLV has a predetermined lifespan of 20 months, after which it will cease its activities. For additional information: www.wltwsaetlv.org
Since 2006, François Lemieux has developed an art practice that makes reference to art, architecture, and design. His work explores and questions the economy as well as the relationships that exist between objects, the means of their production, and the circumstances of their exhibition and reception. Lemieux lives and works in Montréal.
François Lemieux will present WLTWSAETLV and the WLTWSAETLV residency program in French.
Michael Pohl completed his studies at the Kunstakademie Münster in 2009, under professors Maik and Dirk Löbbert. Since 2006, Pohl has operated a number of independent exhibition spaces including CLUB69, an independent artist initiative located in his Münster apartment. His work as an artist and as an exhibition organizer offers ironic commentary on the ways in which art is produced and presented. Michael Pohl currently lives and works in Münster, Germany. For additional information: www.michaelpohl.de
Michael Pohl will present his practice and his residency project at WLTWSAETLV in English
Michael Pohl and WLTWSAETLV wish to thank the Kunstakademie Münster, the StudienStiftung des deutschen Volkes.
LECTURE BY JACKIE SUMELL
Wednesday February 10, 6 pmAt the Goethe-Institut, 418 Sherbrooke E
For over thirty-six years Black Panther Herman Joshua Wallace has been in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Solitary confinement, or Closed Cell Restriction [CCR] at Angola consists of spending a minimum of 23 hours a day in a six-foot by nine-foot cell. In 2003 the activist/artist Jackie Sumell asked Herman a very simple question: "What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6-foot by 9-foot box for over 30 years dream of?" The answer to this question is a remarkable art project rooted in social sculpture and community building entitled The House That Herman Built.
FREE, Limited seating
Presented in collaboration with PREFIX INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Toronto and as part of Black History Month. This event is made possible with the support of the Frederick and Mary Kay Lowy Art Education Fund.
Additional information
on The House That Herman Built: www.hermanshouse.org
on the film The House That Herman Built: www.hermanshousethefilm.com
on Herman Wallace: www.whoishermanwallace.com
BOOK LAUNCH
DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS (1967-1975)
Saturday February 13, 5-7 pmAt the Gallery
Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) is the third part of an ambitious project that took place over a three-year period, and that also included two exhibitions (Documentary Protocols I and Documentary Protocols II) curated and presented at the Gallery in 2007 and 2008. This major historical publication reproduces over 250 documents from the 1960s and 70s drawn from 10 archival fonds and includes an introduction, a contextualizing essay and 6 case studies.
Launch price: $25
Click here for more information on the publication.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION
COLLECTING. THE INFLECTIONS OF A PRACTICE
TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION Thursday January 14th, 1–2 PM (In English)
with Mélanie Rainville, Max Stern Curator of the Permanent Collection, and Michèle Thériault, Gallery Director.
TOURS OF THE VAULT
Wednesday January 27th, 2–3 PM (In French)
Tuesday February 2nd, 2–3 PM (In English)
Thursday February 11th, 2–3 PM (In English)
with Mélanie Rainville, Max Stern Curator of the Permanent Collection. Places are limited and reservations are required.
SCREENING OF HERB & DOROTHY
Saturday January 30th, 6 PM
Megumi Sasaki’s award-winning documentary Herb & Dorothy (2008) tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections with very modest means.
In English with French subtitles. Running time: 89 minutes.
FREE
At the de Sève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, LB-125 (Ground floor).
www.herbanddorothy.com
LUNCHTIME TALK
Wednesday February 3rd, 12:30-1:30 PM (In French)
Talk by Francine Couture, Professor in the Department of Art History at UQAM and Suzanne Lemerise, Adjunct Professor at l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM.
Artistic coming of age in the 1960s: from marginality to institutional recognition
During the 1960s, the State’s intervention in arts and culture transformed artistic practice with the Quebec government’s creation of the Ministère des affaires culturelles and the Musée d’art contemporain. A new image of the modern artist also appeared, emerging from the fringes to take on a social and professional identity. This lecture will illustrate how the new environment changed the way artists were taught in the province’s various educational institutions, including the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and Sir George Williams University.
2009 EVENTS
In conjunction with the exhibition Off the Wall ↓Selected for their Formal and Technical Means: A lecture by Martin Beck ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Hadjithomas+Joreige. I'm there even if you don't see me ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Making It Work ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition The Wrong Corpse ↓
Lecture/Performance by Raqs Media Collective ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition As much as possible given the time and space allotted ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Silvia Kolbowski. Nothing and Everything ↓
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION OFF THE WALL
MEET THE CURATORTUESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Pierre Dorion, curator of the exhibition Off the Wall, in conversation with Michèle Thériault, Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Tuesday October 20, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
NEIL CAMPBELL
Thursday November 12, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
MICHAEL MERRILL
Thursday November 19, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
ALEXANDRE DAVID
Thursday December 3, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
BARRY ALLIKAS
Thursday December 10, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
GUY PELLERIN
Walk-in tours starting November 3. Bilingual guides on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 2:30 PM.
Selected for their Formal and Technical Means
A lecture by Martin Beck
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15, 4 PM
Martin Beck, About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe, 2007. Video still, courtesy of the artist.
Martin Beck’s artworks and projects have carved out a specific and critical position in the art arena that understands the exhibition as a medium within which fields such as design, architecture and popular culture can productively be interrelated. His methodical focus is on how, from the perspective of an artist, one can interconnect contemporary practice with historical discourses in a way that goes beyond reconstructions or surface looks. His specific topical interest lies in the history of exhibitions and communication formats, and how these impact the means of articulation in the present tense.
The lecture will address methodical issues of his practice and focus on two recent projects:
Panel 2 – “Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes…” takes as its starting point a conflict at the 1970 installment of the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado;
About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe relates the development of exhibition systems to transformations in work relations.
Free Admission
(at the Gallery, in English)
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION
HADJITHOMAS + JOREIGE. I'm there even if you don't see me
Tour of the exhibition with Johnny el-Alam (in English)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Johnny el-Alam is an Art History practicum student at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. He is currently completing an M.A. in Art History at Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture. His field of research is the effect of war on art.
Johnny’s tour will focus on representations of Lebanese war trauma in the works of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.
Light refreshments will be served.
JE VEUX VOIR
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, AT 7:30 PM
at the Goethe-Institut Montréal Screening of the feature film Je veux voir (I want to see) by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Free Admission
Goethe-Institut Montréal
418 Sherbrooke Street East (at St-Denis)
Metro Sherbrooke
24 Bus
JE VEUX VOIR (I WANT TO SEE)
July 2006. A war breaks out in Lebanon. A new war, but not just one more war. A war that crushes the hopes of peace and the momentum of our generation. We no longer know what to write, what stories to recount, what images to show. We ask ourselves, “What can cinema do?” We decide to translate that question into reality. We go to Beirut with an “icon,” Catherine Deneuve, an actress who to us symbolizes cinema. She will meet our favourite actor, Rabih Mroué. Together they will drive through regions devastated by conflict. Through their meeting and their presence, we hope to uncover beauty that we no longer see. It is the beginning of an unexpected and unpredictable adventure . . .
Lebanon/France, 2008
Directors: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Rabih Mroué
Duration: 75 min.
In French and Arabic with French subtitles
SCREENING
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, AT 9PM
Screening of Cendres (2003) and A Perfect Day (2005), both by Hadjithomas and Joreige at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.
Cendres
Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige [FR-LB, 2003, 26 min, 35 mm, Original with French subtitles) with Ali Cherri, Georges Hayeck, Nada Heddad
Nabil returns to Beirut with the ashes of his father who died after being hospitalized abroad. He attempts to mourn amidst a family who insists on a traditional burial for a body that no longer exists.
A Perfect Day
Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige [FR-LB-DE, 2005, 88 min, 35 mm, Original with French subtitles] with Ziad Saad, Julia Kassar, Alexandra Kahwagi
Twenty-four hours in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep apnea, in present-day Beirut. After persuading his mother to announce the death of his father 15 years earlier, he roams the city in search of ex-girlfriend Zeina. “In a sophisticated production oscillating between sensuality and abstraction, the story unfolds within a superb framework, like a musical score, in which the rhythm is provided by Beirut, city in permanent turmoil, marked by frenetic destruction and construction, air pollution, and exhilarating nights.” (Isabelle Regnier, 2006)
In the presence of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Program organized in collaboration with the Cinémathèque québécoise.
Cinémathèque québécoise admission fees.
La Cinémathèque québécoise
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est
metro Berri-UQAM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, FROM 4PM
As part of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal the artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige will discuss their work and CIBL Radio-Montréal’s Le 4 à 6 culturel will be broadcast live from the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION MAKING IT WORK
MEET THE COLLECTIVES AND THE CURATOR
WEDNESDAY MAY 20, 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Susannah Wesley
CRUM
Knowles Eddy Knowles
WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Susannah Wesley
DGC~CGA
Leisure Projects
THURSDAY JUNE 11, 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Susannah Wesley
PME-ART
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
SATURDAY JUNE 13, 3-5 PM
The collectives involved in Making It Work will discuss the ins and outs of collective process with exhibition curator Susannah Wesley and independent curator Vincent Bonin. With the public, they will explore how collectives work, what collaboration provides for the artists involved, and the role collectives play in the larger art community.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION THE WRONG CORPSE
MEET THE ARTISTS AND THE CURATORS
TUESDAY MAY 5, 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Julie Favreau, Marc-Antoine Phaneuf, Robin Simpson, Maryse Larivière
(French/English)
SATURDAY MAY 2, 6:30 PM
RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE
Lecture/Performance : TALKING TO KD VYAS (duration: 45 minutes to 1 hour, in English)
We are pleased to welcome to Montréal the New Delhi based Raqs Media Collective. Artists, media practitioners, researchers, editors, catalysts of cultural processes and most recently curators of MANIFESTA 7, their work takes the form of installations, performances, online interventions, objects and encounters.
York Amphitheatre
EV Building (EV 1.605)
1515, Ste-Catherine O., ground floor
Concordia University
FREE ADMISSION
Limited seating
Presented by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in collaboration with Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto.
RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE
Lecture/Performance : TALKING TO KD VYAS (duration: 45 minutes to 1 hour, in English)
We are pleased to welcome to Montréal the New Delhi based Raqs Media Collective. Artists, media practitioners, researchers, editors, catalysts of cultural processes and most recently curators of MANIFESTA 7, their work takes the form of installations, performances, online interventions, objects and encounters.
York Amphitheatre
EV Building (EV 1.605)
1515, Ste-Catherine O., ground floor
Concordia University
FREE ADMISSION
Limited seating
Presented by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in collaboration with Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE GIVEN THE TIME AND SPACE ALLOTTED
LUNCHTIME TALKS
Tuesday March 17 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Rebecca Duclos, David K. Ross - Curators
Mélanie Rainville - Max Stern Curator, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Wednesday March 25 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Mark Clintberg - Art History Department, Concordia University
Thursday April 2 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Janet M. Brooke - Director
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
Tuesday April 7 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Gerald Beasley - University Librarian, Concordia University
Thursday March 19 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Opening keynote address and reception
INTERDISCIPLINARY CARTOGRAPHIES: SPACE, ARCHITECTURE AND POLITICS
Rebecca Duclos + David K. Ross
Curators of the exhibition As much as possible given the time and space allotted
In progress at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
For additional information:
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IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION SILVIA KOLBOWSKI. NOTHING AND EVERYTHING
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11 AT 12:00 PM
Lunchtime tour of Silvia Kolbowski. Nothing and Everything/Rien et tout with Michèle Thériault, Gallery Director and exhibition curator (in English).
Light refreshments will be served.
FREE ADMISSION, ALL ARE WELCOME
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14 AT 1:30 PM
• Conversation between artist Silvia Kolbowski and art historian Rosalyn Deutsche (in English);
• Launch of the publication accompanying the exhibition.
Rosalyn Deutsche teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University and is the author of Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (MIT Press).
Light refreshments will be served.
FREE ADMISSION, ALL ARE WELCOME
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28 AT 3:00 PM
Lunchtime tour of Silvia Kolbowski. Nothing and Everything/Rien et tout with Michèle Thériault, Gallery Director and exhibition curator (in French).
Light refreshments will be served.
FREE ADMISSION, ALL ARE WELCOME
2008 EVENTS
In conjunction with the exhibition Ignition ↓In conjunction with the exhibition Tim Clark. Reading the Limits ↓
Book launch: Harun Farocki. One Image Doesn't Take the Place of the Previous One. ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War ↓
In conjunction with the exhibitions Documentary Protocols II and Conceptual Filiations ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition This is Montréal! ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition STOP ↓
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION IGNITION
MEET THE ARTISTS:
Thursday January 8, 12:30 – 1:30 PM, Steve Bates, Amélie Guérin and Malena Szlam.
Tuesday January 13, 12:30 – 1:30 PM, Mark Igloliorte, Miriam Sampaio and Meera Singh.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION TIM CLARK: READING THE LIMITS
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22 AT 3:00 PM
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
This informal public discussion will address the following topics: the interests that led to the organization of this exhibition, the relationship between specialized knowledge and the spectator, the role of the university in the elaboration of this kind of artistic practice, the question of philosophy in this work and the issues around curating ephemeral practices from the past. At the centre of these discussions is the role a university art gallery plays today in presenting practices such as Tim Clark’s and its positioning in the network of public art institutions. The discussion will be conducted primarily in English but comments and questions in French are welcome.
Participants : Tim Clark, Eduardo Ralickas, Michèle Thériault, David Tomas
FREE ADMISSION, ALL ARE WELCOME
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15 AT 6:30 PM
Screening of Tim Clark’s A Reading of three chapters from the Novel, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, Written by the Southern, American Novelist Cormac McCarthy, 2003 (96 min.).
J.A. de Sève Cinema, free admission
Book Launch
HARUN FAROCKI. ONE IMAGE DOESN'T TAKE THE PLACE OF THE
PREVIOUS ONE
TUESDAY OCTOBER 7 2008
6:00 - 7:00 PM
The first North American publication devoted to the installation work of the German filmmaker Harun Farocki. Various aspects of Farocki's work including his artistic process, his use of the museum space, his vision machines and the influence of Dziga Vertov on his work are discussed in a series of essays by Harun Farocki, Rembert Hüser, Michèle Thériault, David Tomas and Volker Pantenburg. In English and French.
Edited by : Michèle Thériault
Essays : Harun Farocki, Rembert Hüser, Volker Pantenburg, Michèle Thériault, David Tomas.
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery / Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University, $35
LAUNCH PRICE : $30
7:00 PM
Screening of
RESPITE
Harun Farocki's Respite resurrects film footage shot by Rudolf Breslauer, a temporary inmate of Westerbork, the transit camp for Dutch Jews. Commissioned by the camp's SS commander, Breslauer documented the loading and unloading of incoming and outgoing trains, processing of incoming prisoners, and the varied work and activities of inmates. The surviving, largely unedited, footage and Farocki's silent intertitle commentary are ambiguous in spite of the surprising specificity of the filmmaker's research – from a barely visible stamp on a suitcase the titles identify not only the person in the image, but the specific date on which the footage was shot as well as the person's date and place of death. That Rudolf Breslauer was a victim, and eventually a fatality, of the concentration camp system yet somehow was able to produce a documentary, however compromised, of daily camp life is remarkable in itself. Farocki's appreciation of and commentary on Breslauer's footage reconsiders generally accepted visual understandings and impressions of the concentration camp.
Harun Farocki in collaboration with Antje Ehmann, Christiane Hitzemann, Lars Pienkoß, Matthias Rajmann, Jan Ralske, Meggie Schneider video, b/w, 2007, 40 min. Silent with English intertitles
FREE ADMISSION
Goethe-Institut
418 Sherbrooke E
Montréal, QC H2L 1J6
(514) 499-0159
info@montreal.goethe.org
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION
SIGNALS IN THE DARK: ART IN THE SHADOW OF WAR
Thursday August 28 at 4:30 PM. Tour of SIGNALS IN THE DARK: ART IN THE SHADOW OF WAR with Séamus Kealy.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITIONS DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS II AND CONCEPTUAL FILIATIONS
Saturday June 14 at noon. Tour of DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS II with Vincent Bonin (in French).Tuesday June 3 at 6:00 pm. Screening of CONCEPTUAL PARADISE by Stefan Römer (110 minutes).
J.A. de Sève Cinema. Free Admission.
More information on Conceptual Paradise
Thursday May 22 at 7:00 pm. Video screening at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.
THE END OF UTOPIA :
Joyce Wieland’s Pierre Vallières, shot in 16mm, is an “impure” object in the structuralist film repertory in that it is suggestive of the minimalism of video productions during the same period. The tapes by Martha Wilson, Eric Cameron and Lisa Steele demonstrate this connection. Prefiguring postmodernism, the works by Vincent Trasov and General Idea use irony to explore the troubled relations between artists and the media in the latter half of the 1970s.
- PIERRE VALLIÈRES (Joyce Wieland),
- PREMIERE, ROUTINE PERFORMANCE, ART SUCKS, APPEARANCE AS VALUE (Martha Wilson),
- INSERTION (Eric Cameron),
- OUTLAWS (Lisa Steele),
- MY FIVE YEARS IN A NUTSHELL (Vincent Trasov),
- PRESS CONFERENCE (General Idea).
Cinémathèque québécoise admission.
Thursday May 15 at 7:00 pm. Video screening at the Cinémathèque québécoise.
SELF-MANAGEMENT AND VIDEO :
These tapes, made in the early 1970s, articulate the utopian discourse of artists’ collectives around the use of the Portapak while chronicling their alternative lifestyles. They also present the self-management of these collectives as a strategy for working outside existing institutions such as museums, galleries and private-sector audio-visual monopolies.
- THE RAYS (Raindance Corporation),
- PROCESS VIDEO REVOLUTION (Videofreex),
- ANT FARM’S DIRTY DISHES (Ant Farm),
- ENTRÉE EN SCÈNE/SÉLECTOVISION/ÉDITOMÈTRE (Vidéographe),
- INN COUNTER 1977 (Janet Miller).
In collaboration with the Cinémathèque québecoise. Cinémathèque québécoise admission.
Tuesday May 13 at 6:00 pm. Tour of CONCEPTUAL FILIATIONS with Michèle Thériault (in English), and tour of DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS II with Vincent Bonin (in French).
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION THIS IS MONTRÉAL!
Wednesday March 12 at 6 PM
Lecture by Andrew Hunter
Concordia University, Fine Arts Building, 1395 boul. René-Lévesque West, VA-323.
Thursday March 13 at 4:30 PM
This is Montréal! Tour of the exhibition with Andrew Hunter. In English.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION STOP
Saturday March 1st 8:00 pm to
Sunday March 2nd 2:00 am.
NUIT BLANCHE À MONTRÉAL at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
In collaboration with Festival MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE et Nuit blanche à Montréal, the Gallery presents performances by KARINE DENAULT and FRÉDÉRIC LAVOIE.
Launch of the publication START STOP.
Saturday February 9 at 6:00 pm.
SCREENING : CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE.
Screening of a selection of Charlemagne Palestine’s single channel videos made in the 1970s : You Should Never Forget the Jungle, St. Vitas Dance, Body Music I/Body Music II, Running Outburst, Four Motion Studies, Internal Tantrum (Approximate running time : 68 minutes). At the J.A. de Sève Cinema, 1400 boul. de Maisonneuve West, ground floor: Free.
Thursday January 24 at 4:30 PM
STOP. Tour of the exhibition with Christof Migone.
In English.
2007 EVENTS
In conjunction with the exhibition Ignition ↓In conjunction with the exhibition Harun Farocki. One Image Doesn't Take the Place of the Previous One. ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Adad Hannah. Recast and Reshoot. ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Documentary Protocols I ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition START ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theater, and Engineering, 1966 ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition La tête au ventre ↓
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION IGNITION
December 12 at 4:30 pmTour of the Exhibition with the artists
followed by the Exhibition Opening at 5:30 pm
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION HARUN FAROCKI
“ONE IMAGE DOESN'T TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE”
THURSDAY OCTOBER 18TH 16H: ARTIST TALK
At the Gallery
FRIDAY OCTOBER 19TH 2007 from 9 PM to 5 PM
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: IMAGE AND MEMORY
Organised by the research group "Médias et mémoire" (Canadian Center for German and European Studies, Université de Montréal), with the collaboration of the Centre de Recherche sur l’Intermédialité, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University), and the Goethe-Institut.
With the participation of Thomas Elsaesser (Univ. Amsterdam/Cambridge), Michael Cowan (McGill Univ.), Philippe Despoix (Univ. de Montréal), Volker Pantenburg (Freie Univ. Berlin), Christa Blümlinger (Univ. Paris III), Michèle Thériault (Concordia Univ.), Will Straw (McGill Univ.), Viva Paci (Univ. de Montréal).
OCTOBER 19TH TO NOVEMBER 9TH 2007
TRIBUTE TO HARUN FAROCKI
The Goethe-Institut Montréal will present a selection of his films made between 1986 and 2004
All films are presented with either English or French subtitles.
October 19 at 6:30 pm: Images of the World and Inscriptions of War (1988)
In the presence of Harun Farocki.
October 25 at 8 pm: As you see (1986), Workers Leaving the Factory (1995)
October 26 at 6:30 pm: Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
November 8 at 8 pm: Still Life (1997), Prison Pictures (2000)
November 9 at 6:30 pm: War at a Distance (2003), Nothing Ventured (2004)
For further information, please consult www.goethe.de/montreal / T 514.499.0159
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION ADAD HANNAH. RECAST AND RESHOOT
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13 AT 4:00 PM
TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION
At the Gallery
Curator Marie Fraser and artist Adad Hannah invite you to a tour of the exhibition Adad Hannah. Recast and Reshoot, presented in conjunction with the 10th edition of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS I
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 AT 4:30 PM
PRESENTATION BY THE CURATOR
At the Gallery
The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery invites you to a presentation of the exhibition DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS I by curator Vincent Bonin. He will discuss the practical considerations involved in organizing an exhibition that is confined to archival documents. The tour will be given in French.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29 AT 2:30 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION
Writing the history of dematerialized art of the 1960s and 1970s in Canada
At the Gallery
The participants in this panel discussion will concentrate on the articulation of a scholarly discourse centering around practices that ultimately take the form of archives. Each participant will deliver a 30 minutes presentation. The presentations will be followed by an open question period.
Johanne Sloan (Professor, Concordia University, Montréal) : Joyce Wieland and True Patriot Love (presentation in English)
Marie-Josée Jean (Director, Galerie VOX, Montréal) : Le document dans la pratique de N.E. Thing Co. et Iain Baxter (presentation in French)
Suzanne Leblanc (professeure, Université Laval, Québec) : Les technologies de l'information et des communications dans les années 1960 et 1970 (présentation en français)
Moderators : Vincent Bonin and Michèle Thériault
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION START
SATURDAY MAY 5th AT 3:00 PMTOUR OF THE EXHIBITION
With curator Christof Migone
At the Gallery
Curator Christof Migone invites you to a tour of the exhibition START where he will discuss notion of rhythmicity in the work of artist Olivia Boudreau, Peter Courtemanche, Cal Crawford, Stephen Ellwood, Marla Hlady, Adrian Piper and Liv Strand. The tour will take place in English
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION 9 EVENINGS RECONSIDERED: ART, THEATRE, AND ENGINEERING, 1966
THURSDAY MARCH 8 AT 4:30 PM
TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION with curator Catherine Morris
At the Gallery
Curator Catherine Morris invites you to a tour of the exhibition 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theater, and Engineering, 1966 where she will discuss the course of events that led to 9 Evenings and the unfolding of each performance. She will utilize the photographs, documents, film and sound recordings, and objects shown in the exhibition to illustrate the goals and intentions of 9 Evenings and its significance art historically. In addition, Catherine Morris will also speak about her interest in the subject, as well as how she developed and curated the exhibition.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 21 AT 5:30 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION When Artists and Engineers Meet: Divergencies in Concept and Process.
At the Gallery
Artists and engineers will discuss divergent approaches and objectives in research protocols for engineering and artmaking arising out their collaborations. Panel discussion organized by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.
Moderator:
- Sylvie Lacerte, Coordinator of the DOCAM Research Alliance, Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology
Panelists:
- Joey Berzowska, Assistant Professor, Design & Computation Art, Concordia University
- Ana Cappelluto, Associate Professor, Theater, Concordia University
- Sudhir Mudur, Professor, Computer Science & Software Engineering, Concordia University
- Reza Soleymani, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Concordia University
- Leila Sujir, Associate Professor, Studio Art, Concordia University
TUESDAY MARCH 27 AT 5:30 PM
LECTURE by Sha Xin Wei, Canadian Research Chair, Media, Arts and Science and associated Professor, Fine Arts and Computer Science, Concordia University, Topological Media Lab : The Re-enchantment of Public Space?
At the Gallery
The TML is a laboratory for the critical studies of media arts and sciences. It draws from the best social practices of the pre-industrial atelier, the art studio, and the theater or engineering collective. It is not a technology development lab. And it is not a personal studio nor an art production facility. The TML is a nexus and a home for art research with a family of themes with philosophical or critical value: ethico-aesthetic play, distributed agency, materiality, gesture and movement, phenomenology of performance, themes that together form a new area in the critical studies of media arts and sciences, which is the domain of practice for the Canada Research Chair associated with the TML and affiliate artist-researchers. We explore these themes materially as works of art, performance; as engineered instruments or systems; and as philosophical or critical essays, papers, books.
The presentation will showcase works and works-in-progress created by more than two dozen affiliates of the TML since 2005, and open discussions of historically significant labs such as the Bell Laboratories E.A.T. and the M.I.T. Media Lab.
For more information:
http://topologicalmedialab.net/
WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 AT 5:30 PM
LECTURE by Michelle Kuo Ph. D. Candidate, History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, Inventing Experiments in Art and Technology
York Amphitheater, room 1.615, EV Building, 1515 Sainte-Catherine West
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was a non-profit collective that facilitated a wide array of collaborations between artists and engineers beginning in 1966. Co-founded by engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer (both of Bell Laboratories) and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, the organization called for corporate sponsorship to partner art and industry. It promoted a cooperative process of production, transgressing bounds of discipline and medium and yielding works from sonic sculpture to televisual event. This lecture will focus on the early collaborations between Klüver and Jasper Johns (Field Painting, 1963-1964), Robert Rauschenberg (Oracle, 1965), and Andy Warhol (Silver Clouds, 1966), as well as the performance series 9 Evenings (1966). These group efforts were deeply engaged with postwar notions of invention and experimental method as indeterminate and non-functionalist concerns that led to the founding of E.A.T. in late 1966. The subsequent spread of E.A.T. as an international network (including groups in Toronto and Montreal) will also be addressed in terms of a global interest in disturbing norms of aesthetic production and technological innovation.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION LA TÊTE AU VENTRE
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17 2007, 6:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
As part of the opening of La Tête au ventre, Myriam Laplante will present a performance titled ELIXIR. This work questions scientific and artistic utopias through the creation of a genetically altered being.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 2007, 4:00 PM
TOUR
Curator Mathieu Beauséjour, along with artists Louis Fortier and Claude Perreault, invite you to a guided tour of the exhibition La Tête au ventre where they will discuss notions of the grotesque, parody, the body, excess and laughter. The tour will take place in French but comments are welcomed in English.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 2007, 5:30 PM
LAUNCH
On St. Valentine’s Day, join us for the launch of the catalogue La Tête au ventre. Chocolates and wine will be served to all lovers!
Special Launch price: $15.00
2006 EVENTS
In conjunction with the exhibition Ignition ↓In conjunction with the exhibition Cut ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Mike Hoolboom: The Invisible Man ↓
In conjunction with the exhibition Tracking the Traces 2 ↓
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION IGNITION
Walk-in tours from December 12 to 21. Bilingual guides on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 2:30.
Group tours available upon request.
Information and reservations: Marilou St-Pierre at 514.848.2424 ext. 4778 or mstpierr@alcor.concordia.ca
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION CUT
Performance by the violonist Malcolm Goldstein
Improvisation extensions on Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Saturday November 18 at 2 pm
Performance by the mine mine mine trio (Alexandre St-Onge, Éric Létourneau, Magali Babin). Presentation of an in situ piece and of a durational performance
Saturday November 25 at 2 pm
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION MIKE HOOLBOOM: THE INVISIBLE MAN
Mike Hoolboom will meet with students and the public on saturday, September 23rd at 1PM to discuss his work. For information please contact Marilou St-Pierre, Education & Public Programmes Coordinator at (514) 848-2424 ext. 4778 or mstpierr@alcor.concordia.ca.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION TRACKING THE TRACES 2
Beginning on May 2
Walk-In
tours
Bilingual guides
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12 to 2 pm
Group tours available upon request
Information and reservation:
514 848 2424 poste 4778
mhlemair@alcor.concordia.ca
APRIL 28 AT 3 PM
Conference: Carl Michael von Hausswolff will establish a link with the first exhibition of Tracer, Retracer. His talk will focus on Friedrich Jürgenson from Sweden whose work was exhibited in 2005.
York Amphitheatre (room 1.650 main floor) in the EV Engineering, Computer Science & Visual Arts Intergrated Complex, Concordia University, 1515 St. Catherine West. Admission free.
APRIL 26 AT 9 PM
(doors open at 8:30 pm)
Concert : Olaf Bender, Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Mika Vainio
Sala Rossa, 4848 Saint-Laurent Blvd. Tickets $15. Advance sale: Atom Heart (364-B Sherbrooke East) and Cheap Thrills (2044 Metcalfe 2nd floor)
              
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