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– I’D RATHER SOMETHING AMBIGUOUS. MAIS PRÉCIS À LA FOIS.
Jason Simon, Vera, 2003. Installation view, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Courtesy of the artist and Callicoon Fine Arts. Photo: Paul Litherland
Marie Claire Forté and Alanna Kraaijeveld, Collections de danses..., 2016. View of the performance, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Photo: Paul Litherland
K8 Hardy, Outfitumentary, 2016. Video still. Copyright K8 Hardy; Courtesy of the artist, Hardy Studio and Picture Palace Pictures
Chantal Akerman, No Home Movie, 2015. Video still. Courtesy of Doc & Film international © Chantal Akerman
Sophie Bélair Clément, She has a wonderful leather top desk, but she constantly has to lotion it, 2016. Installation view, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Paul Litherland
Isabelle Pauwels, ,000,, 2016. Installation view, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Paul Litherland
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November 12 – December 16, 2016

An exhibition project by Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté with Chantal Akerman, Simon Guibord, Philippe Hamelin, K8 Hardy, Raphaël Huppé-Alvarez, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Catherine Lalonde, Isabelle Pauwels, Jason Simon, Robin Simpson, Elisabeth Subrin, Michèle Thériault, and an anonymous contribution

Realised as part of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Program in Support of Artistic Production

Opening
Saturday, November 12, 3 – 5 pm

Events
Ways of Thinking

Exhibition Floorplan

Prompted by an invitation from Michèle Thériault, Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté question the impulse to move within the local context of the exhibition and beyond. Together, they work on the idea of being called upon, as well as the shifts and rifts in subjectivity produced by performance imperatives. They consider visibility and its limitations within an exhibition project that engages a constellation of voices, works and events through the contribution of guests.

This project offers responses that would manifest differently were they to be presented elsewhere, were they to have a different address or context. Embracing a process of dialogue between a reduced community of peers and friends, the works are articulated through lived experience. The task of giving an account of oneself calls for unending reframing and updating.

Performances by Marie Claire Forté and Alanna Kraaijeveld

Collections de danses de Christian Rizzo, Gene Kelly et Stanley Donen, Édouard Lock, William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, Saburo Teshigawara, Trisha Brown; Jeffrey Daniel, Michael Jackson et Vincent Patterson, Mats Ek, Dana Michel; Dana Foglia, Chris Grant et JaQuel Knight, Crystal Pite, Pina Bausch, Lloyd Newson, Tedd Robinson, Hofesh Shechter, Bob Fosse, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Daniel Linehan, Amanda Acorn, Jiři Kilyán, Akram Khan, Stijn Celis, Deborah Hay, Liz Santoro et Pierre Godard, Meg Stuart et Philipp Gehmacher, Marie Claire Forté, Trajal Harrell, k.g. Guttman, Benoît Lachambre, Jerome Robbins, Louise Lecavalier, Solange et d’autres

Schedule of performances:

Tuesday, November 15, 5 pm – Saturday, November 19, 4 pm – Saturday, November 26, 4 pm – Tuesday, November 29, 5 pm – Saturday, December 3, 5 pm – Saturday, December 10, 4 pm – Tuesday, December 13, 5 pm – Thursday, December 15, 5 pm

Screenings

At the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

K8 Hardy
Outfitumentary, 2016

Saturday, November 19, 5:30 pm
Tuesday, December 13, 6 pm

At the Cinémathèque québécoise, 335 Boul. De Maisonneuve E.

Chantal Akerman
No Home Movie, 2015

Monday, November 28, 9 pm

Public Reading

Catherine Lalonde
Relire, relier : une lecture sèche

Tuesday, December 6, 6 – 10 pm