TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION
With curator Amelia Jones
Tuesday February 26 at 6 pm
At the Gallery, in English
FREE ADMISSION
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.
The Two Gullivers, Star’s Anatomy, 2011. Detail, Nr 9.
STAR’S ANATOMY – performative installation
by Flutura & Besnik Haxhillari
(THE TWO GULLIVERS)
March 6 to 16 from 12 am to 5 pm
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With special events on Saturday March 9 and Saturday March 16 from 12 am to 5 pm
Galerie Joyce Yahouda
Belgo Building
372 Ste-Catherine West #516
www.joyceyahoudagallery.com
In conjunction with their drawings exhibited in Material Traces, Flutura & Besnik Haxhillari (The Two Gullivers) will present the performative installation Star’s Anatomy at Galerie Joyce Yahouda from March 6 to 16, 2013.
Heather Cassils, Becoming an Image, 2012. Photodocumentation of performance. Photo: Heather Cassils and Eric Charles. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
IN CONJUCTION WITH THE FESTIVAL EDGY WOMEN
PERFORMANCE
by HEATHER CASSILS as part of the event GAME ON AU CHAT BLEU
Saturday March 9th from 7 to 10 pm
Blue Cat Boxing Club
435 Beaubien West, 4th floor (corner of Durocher)
Tickets ($20 – $15) & information : 514.393.3771
http://www.edgywomen.ca
Multidisciplinary L.A.-based artist and bodybuilder Heather Cassils presents The Shape of Things to Come (on Saturday only). In this endurance piece, Cassils investigates violence as entertainment, exploring the relationships between art, photography, documentation and truth.
Suzy Lake, Choreographies of the Dotted Line, 1976. Video still. Courtesy of the artist and Vtape, Toronto.
SCREENING
Performative works from the 1960s and 1970s
Sunday March 10 at 3 pm
J.A de Sève Cinema, LB-125
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
FREE ADMISSION
There is a long and deep history of artistic strategies informing the activation of materiality and the gestural trace in the contemporary art works in Material Traces. The works screened in this program exemplify the interest in exploring the materiality of the body in relation to the materiality of modes of art-making which characterized the hybrid works involving the body and time-based media in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period, artists experimented with film (usually less expensive super-8 or 16mm formats), hand-held video (made available to artists for the first time only in the late 1960s), and installation structures, most often using their bodies and pushing these various media and forms of presentation in ways that open up our understanding of processes of enacting and making art.
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.
Heather Cassils, Becoming an Image, 2012. Photodocumentation of performance. Photo: Heather Cassils and Eric Charles. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
ARTIST TALK
By artist Heather Cassils, presented in collaboration with FEM.ME.S: Feminist Media Studio
Monday March 11 at 6 pm
At the Gallery, in English
FREE ADMISSION
Heather Cassils is originally from Montreal and currently lives and works in in Los Angeles. She completed a BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art And Design in 1996 and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in 2002. Studying closely with her mentor Michael Asher, Cassils was inspired by the history of Womanhouse, the legacy of conceptual art, and institutional critique. Cassils is a founding member of the Los Angeles based performance group the Toxic Titties.
Alexandre David, Untitled, 2013. In situ installation. Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2013.
CONVERSATION
Between Amelia Jones, Barbara Clausen, and Krista Geneviève Lynes
Tuesday April 9 at 6 pm
At the Gallery, in English
FREE ADMISSION
This conversation between Barbara Clausen, Amelia Jones, and Krista Lynes will discuss the status of the trace in contemporary art and concerns central to the processes involved in developing and presenting the exhibition Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art. Issues such as the nature of the exhibition layout in the gallery in relation to the narratives put forth by the curator and the various relationships between artists, artworks, and the audience will be explored.
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