Olivia Boudreau, Box, 2009. Video still. Collection of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Purchase, 2011.

The exhibition Interactions continues with the presentation of Box, by Olivia Boudreau with responses by Amelia Jones, Nicole Lattuca, and Claude Poissant.

Entrance of the Webster Library

Rachel Echenberg, Riez, 2012. Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Courtesy of the artist.

Performance by RACHEL ECHENBERG

Wednesday August 29, 2012
at the Gallery

Rachel Echenberg (Montreal, Quebec) is a visual artist who primarily works in performance and video. Echenberg’s continual interest in possibilities for active empathy has lead to artworks that highlight vulnerable, intimate and uncontrollable relationships.
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, Music While We Work, 2011. Video and audio installation. Photo: You-Wei Chen. Courtesy of the artist.

Artist’s Talk by HONG-KAI WANG

Thursday August 30, 2012
at the Gallery, in English

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.