Dear Fine Arts students,

This is to inform you that your participation is required for the Special General Meeting that will take place on Tuesday May 15th at 2 pm, in the CSU lounge (Hall building, 7th floor).

The proposed agenda for the Special General Meeting will be :

1.0 Updates and visioning for the upcoming year
2.0 Election
3.0 Government proposal
4.0 Strike

At this assembly, we will need to clarify the situation regarding the unlimited strike that is, technically, still going on. Also, as a student association, we will have to formulate our position on the recent government offer regarding tuition fees (only in French for now). It will be the last meeting until the fall semester, so it’s time to discuss future projects, mandates, positions and an action plan for the upcoming year.

Please note that the quorum for a SGM is now ±160 members instead of ±320. This has been part of the modifications to the by-laws as voted by the Annual General Meeting to be able to hold more meetings in the future in order to facilitate democratic decisions. Remember that as a member of the Fine Arts Student Alliance, everyone has the power to bring motions and ideas to the assembly, and has the right to discuss and vote on the issues.

Election : A position is open on the FASA executive. Everyone who wish to apply for the VP Clubs and Service interim position will have the opportunity to present himself/herself to the assembly. For more information, keep an eye on the website or Facebook group in the next few days, or feel free to write back to us.

Summer office hours : During the summer, the office hours of the executive will be on Thursdays from noon to 4 pm.

Cordially,

FASA executives

Please join us this Wednesday April 25, 4-7pm at the Loyola Chapel.

Click HERE to RSVP online or call Helen Downie 514-848-2424 Ext 3588.

See more details below

Tomorrow Dr. Frederick H. Lowy, the current interim President of Concordia University will be hosting a “Town Hall” meeting in H-110 from 12PM to 1PM concerning the strike. He will be there to field your questions, concerns and any proposals you have about/for the Administration.

As the strike extends into the end of the semester, students and faculty have been working together to develop viable solutions to the problems that are inevitably arising. Professor Jessica MacCormack (ARTX) and undergraduate student Evan Montpellier (IMCA) collaboratively drafted a letter that seeks to address the way that the strike has placed faculty’s responsibilities and students’ needs in structural conflict.

The letter locates the root of this conflict in the administration’s continued policy of willfully avoiding addressing the strike as a collective problem. It further attempts to offer constructive resolutions.

Specifically, this letter is intended to show faculty support for students in their demands for academic amnesty and opposition to the Quebec government’s tuition hike. It will be presented to university President Dr. Frederick Lowy at a public “Town Hall” meeting to be held this coming Tuesday, Apr. 10 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in H-110.

The full letter is available here:

http://theconcordiasituation.wordpress.com/

Please take a moment to sign this as a student, and forward this letter to your professors asking them to sign the document using the form at the bottom of the page. Please also ask them to forward this message on to other colleagues who they think might be willing to sign on. We are aiming to deliver the letter to President Lowy at the meeting on Tuesday, and therefore would need all signatures to be submitted by Tuesday at 10:00 am.

Finally, please suggest that your professors consider attending this meeting to show direct support for students and participate in dialogue with the administration about their handling of the strike.

In addition to this, FASA will be presenting a formal letter to the interim President on behalf of the membership to request academic amnesty. All students from across the entire student spectrum have in some way shape or form been affected and it is critical that our members are protected by Academic Amnesty.

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FASA / VAV ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TOMORROW! 

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HALL BUILDING H767

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//\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY APRIL 10/11  //\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//

Strike Referendum Polling is OPEN

12PM-5PM Tuesday & Wednesday (VA, MB, EV)

Art Matters Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Wednesday April 11th, 2012 430pm   

EV 7.745 

Dear Fine Arts students,

On April 3rd and 4th, FASA held its last official council meeting of the 2011-12 year. At this meeting, the FASA council approved a new provisional set of by-laws, which will be presented to the membership at our Annual General Meeting on March 10th in H 767. During this meeting, we also discussed the Special General Meeting on April 2nd, in which we were unable to reach quorum. After much debate amongst the council, a motion was passed to hold a referendum vote on the strike April 10th and 11th.

Referendum questions:
1. Do you agree to continue the Fine Arts Student Alliance unlimited strike?
(Yes / No / Abstain)

2. If the FASA membership agrees to continue on an unlimited strike, do you agree to revisit the mandate enacted by the Fine Arts Student Alliance membership on March 23rd, 2012 at a duly scheduled Special General Meeting?
(Yes / No / Abstain)

Note that a copy of the strike mandate from the March 23rd SGM will be available at every polling station.

FASA council felt that a referendum with polls open for two days would give Fine Arts students, whether for or against the strike, the opportunity to vote on the strike outcome without attending a lengthy SGM. Referendum polling stations will be situation in the EV lobby, VA lobby, and MB lobby. Polls will be open from 12h00-18h00 Tuesday, April 10th, and Wednesday April 11th. The referendum vote will be run by FASA CEO Katie Krawczyk, and ballots will be serialized in order to prevent duplicate votes.

An open forum discussion led by Erika Couto will take place Tuesday, April 10th on the 2nd floor of the VA building from 15h00-16h30. This is your chance to have an informal dialogue about matters you feel should be discussed in order to make an informed decision about the referendum and FASA strike mandate. A representative will be on hand from the CSU Advocacy Center to help answer strike related questions. The FASA website will be updated on Friday, April 6th with a Referendum Information page, to provide useful links and info leading up to the vote.

It is your responsibility to vote in the upcoming referendum and we sincerely hope you do so.

FASA held a special general meeting (SGM) on April 2nd and we were unable to reach our quorum of 315 members. As quorum was not met, the original FASA unlimited strike mandate will continue. At present, the Fine Arts Student Alliance remains on strike. 

THE ART MATTERS FESTIVAL SEEKS 2 FESTIVAL CO-ORDINATORS ADDITIONAL POSITIONS WILL BE CALLED IN MID-AUGUST, PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR MORE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

DEADLINE TO APPLY: MONDAY, APRIL 16th, 2012, 5pm

PLEASE LEAVE YOUR CV AND COVER LETTER AT VA038 FOR MORE INFORMATION: INFO@ARTMATTERSFESTIVAL.ORG

Art Matters is currently looking for 2 dynamic people willing to take on the challenge of organizing the next Art Matters Festival (one of the best festival’s in the city). Please read job descriptions carefully before applying. The Art Matters Festival showcases emerging student artists at various venues and galleries throughout the city in the form of a three-week festival. Art Matters is the largest student-run art festival of its kind in Canada. The festival aims to provide artists with experience, a venue, publicity, transportation, technical equipment and the opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional context. The festival introduces and connects Montreal with the Concordia art community. These jobs are rigorous and demanding with a steep learning curve, yet will be very rewarding for anyone who has the time and energy to commit to the project. We are accepting individual applications. You must indicate which position you are applying for in your cover letter. Applicants should have strong administrative and organizational skills, strong communication skills, and past involvement with the festival is an asset. APPLICANTS MUST: Be registered undergraduate Fine Arts students Possess organizational or curatorial or design experience on a substantial scale Have familiarity with office and computer/design software Possess excellent writing skills Have working knowledge of building and adhering to budgets Have past leadership or management experience (an asset, but not required) Have working knowledge of spoken and written French will be required from at least 1 incoming team member THE IDEAL CANDIDATES WILL POSSESS: Professionalism, collegiality, capability and readiness Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken Highly motivated, focused and detail oriented Demonstrated work ethic and previous related experience HOW TO APPLY Your application should include the following: A COVER LETTER outlining why you feel you would be qualified for the position as well as what you have to contribute to the festival. INDICATE IN YOUR COVER LETTER THE POSITION YOU ARE

APPLYING FOR AND WHY; A CURRENT C.V.

Please indicate the position you are applying for and why you are applying specifically for that position in your cover letter. THE POSITIONS: Outreach Coordinator: Coordinates targeted internal and external approaches to media, students and the public, managing the primary Art Matters email and social media accounts. Cultivates relations with the press both internally and externally, creates (with Design Coordinator) press packages, writes all promotional and publicity materials for the website, internal and external media releases, etc. Cultivates links with related external organizations to promote Art Matters and develop relations with the Montreal arts communities within the framework of the mandate of Art Matters. Cultivates relations between Art Matters and Fine Arts student run organizations, and promotes student access to Art Matters festival. Seeks and secures funding from internal and external sources, co-ordinates festival fundraising initiatives. Partners with the Exhibitions Coordinator in the organization of extra-curricular events within the Concordia community and other student-run operations. Organizes all internal communications to students and faculty, including call outs and Festival publicity. Liaises with Media Relations Assistant, Translator, Photographer and Videographer. Coordinates all festival documentation including artist and curator photo waivers, and oversees Art Matters archive. Ideally this candidate will have spoken and written French capabilities. Time and money: 12$ per hour / hours per week to vary / to be discussed at time of hire / position commences June 1st, 2012 Exhibitions Coordinator: Deals with locating and securing all festival venues and maintains venue relations throughout the festival. Obtains equipment donations, oversees the technical development of the festival, and coordinates the technical aspects of the festival including dissemination of equipment among curators and providing technical support at special events. Engages and acts as main contact for all curators, artists, and performers. Provides curators with venue information and floor plans, set-up, takedown and clean-up schedules, and coordinates bars and merchandise tables. Organizes the budget (with Festival team) and oversees all expenditures, keeps a balanced budget and facilitates all payments of invoices. Organizes all hiring committees and juries, including venue booking, catering and attendant follow up. Takes care of administrative tasks such as obtaining liquor licenses, ordering beer, organizing the transport schedule, drafting executive, curator and artist contracts, and ensuring that all venue contract requirements are met. Liaises with Technical Support, Volunteer Coordinator and Transporter. Creates contact databases for curators, artists and volunteers. Oversees several smaller events related to Art Matters Festival and student-run initiatives throughout the school year, in collaboration with other student organizers and Events Coordinator. Ideally this candidate will have spoken and written French capabilities. Time and money: 12$ per hour / hours per week to vary / to be discussed at time of hire / position commences June 1st, 2012 Shared Responsibilities: All festival co-ordinators are responsible for general festival vision planning, hiring executive members, curators and overseeing jury weekend. All festival co-ordinators recruit executive members, curators, artists and volunteers to participate in Festival. All festival co-ordinators are expected to assist in various technical office related tasks. All festival co-ordinators are expected to organize and facilitate the Festival including all required set up, maintenance and take down.

QUESTIONS: INFO@ARTMATTERSFESTIVAL.ORG

Join us in the LB atrium at Noon tomorrow (March 16) before we head to the Hall building lobby to temporarily redecorate the walls surrounding the escalators.

After that, meet on the 7th floor of the Hall building at 3pm for a Special General Meeting. 

“Laughter in the Metro” on April 1st (April Fools Day).
Laughter Flash Mob:
Sunday April 1st (April Fools Day)
Tracy Shafter

Followed by a an opportunity to be involved with World Laughter Day which is May 6.

For more information, please go to:
www.laughteryoga.org

About me:
Tracy Shafter is a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and Laughter Coach, trained in California by Master Trainer Sebastien Gentry.Throughout the years, she has completed numerous courses, workshops and retreats in the “alternative” healing field including Spiritual Psychotherapy, Breathwork, Empowerment and Energy Healing. She works with cancer survivors and the elderly and also leads staff enrichment programs in the workplace.

Tracy Shafter
www.HealariousLaughter.com
Montreal, Canada
tshaft@videotron.ca
514-895-1216

Popolo Press, the in-house print shop of the Casa del Popolo, Sala Rossa and Suoni per il Popolo music festival is looking for a printmaking/postermaking intern.

The candidate should have some knowledge or skill in relief and/or letterpress printmaking (use of a Vandercook and typesetting skills would be helpful), screen printing knowledge would also be an asset, but is not mandatory. I would prefer a printmaking student, but a graphic arts student with some printing skills would also be considered. The job would entail the printing of posters for the upcoming Suoni per il Popolo festival. The candidate should have a strong knowledge and/or love of music, especially avant-garde sounds. I would need someone 1-2 days a week for a couple of months. The candidate would be given a full festival pass for themselves plus a guest and the opportunity to design and print in house one poster of 120 copies and be paid 120$ for that poster.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED EMAIL KIVA AT: info@popolopress.com
Kiva Tanya Stimac
Propriétaire Popolo Press, Casa del Popolo, Sala Rossa & Suoni per il Popolo Festival
Montreal, Qc, Canada
www.popolopress.com
www.casadelpopolo.com
www.suoniperilpopolo.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

NOVEMBER 26 – DECEMBER 9, 2012

The VAV Gallery is currently accepting submissions for Concordia’s annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition. A tradition at Concordia for more than twenty years, the exhibition will showcase a selection of the strongest work produced at the undergraduate level. The exhibition is juried by representatives from the VAV Gallery, the Fine Arts Reading Room, and the Fine Arts Students Alliance. Hosted by the FOFA Gallery, this exhibition will introduce the work of Concordia’s emerging contemporary artists to the student body and the general public.

We encourage submissions from students in all departments within the Faculty of Fine Arts, working in all media. Please note that students may submit only one completed work (This includes a strong series or an installation including more than one element). All students enrolled in the undergraduate programs of Fine Arts, including those graduating this year, are eligible to apply.

A catalogue is produced for this exhibition with writers selected from the Department of Art History, and designers selected from students from the Department of Design and Computation Arts, under the guidance of Professor Nathalie Dumont.

HOW TO APPLY

PLEASE SUBMIT ALL MATERIALS (DOCUMENTS, IMAGES) by clicking SUBMISSIONS from the menu button on the VAV Gallery website:

vavgallery.concordia.ca

and then filling out the online submission form.

The application form is embedded below the application requirements.

Deadline: Monday, March 26 by 5pm.

For more information, or questions/concerns regarding your application, please contact the VAV Gallery:

vav@alcor.concordia.ca

vavgallery.concordia.ca

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APPEL DE DOSSIERS

26 NOVEMBRE AU 9 DÉCEMBRE 2012

La Galerie VAV accepte actuellement des soumissions pour l’exposition annuelle des étudiants de premier cycle. Une tradition à l’Université Concordia depuis plus de vingt ans, COMBINE 2012 présentera une sélection des meilleures œuvres créées au niveau du baccalauréat. Les créations seront choisies par un jury composé de représentants de la Galerie VAV, de la salle de lecture de la Faculté des beaux-arts et de l’Alliance des étudiants et étudiantes en beaux-arts (FASA). Accueillie par la Galerie FOFA, cette exposition présentera des œuvresd’artistes contemporains émergents de Concordia à la population étudiante et au public en général.

Les étudiants de tous les départements de la Faculté des beaux-arts sont encouragés à soumettre une proposition, peu importe la forme d’expression artistique utilisée. Veuillez noter que les étudiants ne peuvent soumettre qu’une seule œuvre achevée (ceci comprend les séries d’œuvres et les installations incluant plus d’un élément). Tous les étudiants inscrits à un programme de premier cycle en beaux-arts, y compris les finissants de cette année, sont admissibles.

Des rédacteurs du département d’histoire de l’art, ainsi que des designers du département de design et d’arts numériques seront sélectionnés parmi le corps étudiant afin de produire un catalogue de cette exposition sous la direction de la professeure Nathalie Dumont.

MODALITÉS D’INSCRIPTION

Pour soumettre votre projet artistique, merci de vous inscrire directement sur le site Internet de la Galerie VAV à l’adresse suivante :

vavgallery.concordia.ca

Ensuite, cliquez dans la section « SUBMISSIONS » afin de remplir le formulaire et de nous transmettre tous les fichiers nécessaires (documents,images).

Date limite : Lundi 26 mars, 17 h

Pour plus d’informations ou pour toutes questions concernant votre demande, veuillez communiquer avec la Galerie VAV :

vav@alcor.concordia.ca

vavgallery.concordia.ca

Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery presents:
La galerie FOFA de l’Université Concordia présente :

Wednesday, March 7 – 7p.m.
Mercredi le 7 mars – 19h

Round Table Discussion: Identity Politics and Performance Art
This round table discussion will illuminate a cross-disciplinary perspective on contemporary artistic practices, as well as how these practices are informed by and inform everyday experiences.

Table Ronde : Identité, politique et performance
Cette table ronde met en lumière une perspective interdisciplinaire sur les pratiques artistiques contemporaines, tout en élucidant comment ces pratiques influencent et sont influencées par les expériences quotidiennes.

Where | Lieu
Galerie FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
EV 1-715, 1515 rue Ste. Catherine Street Ouest.
Montréal, Québec (Métro Guy-Concordia)

Cost | Prix
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Entrée libre. Bienvenue à tous.

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Friday, March 9 – 5-7p.m.
Vendredi le 9 mars – 17h à 19h

Great Small Works Performance
Friday, March 9, 2012, 5 to 7 p.m.
Limited seating: RSVP required. First come, first served. Please email fofagall@alcor.concordia.ca to reserve your place.

Vendredi le 9 mars, 2012, 17h à 19h
Places limitées : RSVP. Premiers arrivés, premiers servis. Veuillez envoyer un courriel à fofagall@alcor.concordia.ca pour réserver votre place.

Finissage
Follows the Great Small Works Performance
À la suite de la performance de Great Small Works

Where | Lieu
Performance – EV 6-720, 1515, rue Ste-Catherine Street Ouest, Montréal, Québec (Métro Guy-Concordia)
Finissage – Galerie FOFA Gallery + Atrium, EV 1-715, 1515, rue Ste-Catherine Street Ouest, Montréal, Québec (Métro Guy-Concordia)

Cost | Prix
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Entrée libre. Bienvenue à tous.

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Current Exhibitions | Expositions en cours

GREAT SMALL WORKS
The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual: Episodes 1-12
York Corridor Vitrines | Vitrines York corridor

MELANIE PERREAULT
Vibrancy Trickling Into Tuesday Before Dawn
Main gallery + Ste. Catherine Street Vitrine | Galerie principale + Vitrine rue Ste-Catherine

CLARE SAMUEL
Otherwise Than Being
Black Box | Boîte noire

Information | Renseignements
FOFA Gallery website or 514-848-2424 ext. 7962 (no voicemail, call during gallery hours)
Site web de la galerie ou 514-848-2424 ext. 7962 (pas de boîte vocale, prière d’appeler lors des heures d’ouverture)

Gallery Hours | Heures d’ouverture
Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. To 7 p.m.
Lundi au vendredi, de 11h à 19h

Art actuel 2-22, qui regroupe Artexte, le Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec et VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, a le plaisir de vous inviter à son party d’inauguration officielle, le 16 mars 2012 à partir de 18h!

C’est un rendez-vous dans nos nouveaux espaces, au troisième et au quatrième étage du 2-22, nouvel édifice situé au coin de la rue Sainte-Catherine et du boulevard Saint-Laurent, porte d’entrée du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal.

Au menu de cette soirée unique et festive : découverte des espaces, visite des lieux, des expositions inaugurales et de la librairie Formats, hot-dog, vin et bière, piste de danse et musique!

18h : Inauguration officielle et présentations des fondateurs
19h à 21h : Visite des espaces d’Artexte, du RCAAQ et de VOX et présentation de l’application mobile
21h à … : Rendez-vous au 5e pour poursuivre la fête!

Entrée libre

Faites courir la rumeur et venez accompagné!

Art actuel 2-22
2, rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal (métro Saint-Laurent, bus 55)

Art actuel 2-22, which encompasses Artexte, the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec and VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, is pleased to invite you to celebrate its official inauguration, March 16, 2012, starting at 6 p.m.!

Come and meet us in our new premises, on the third and fourth floors of the new 2-22 building, at the corner of Sainte-Catherine Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard, the gateway to Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles entertainment district.

The agenda for this one-of-a-kind festive evening includes an exploration of the gallery spaces, a tour of the premises, a visit to our inaugural exhibitions and the Formats bookstore, hot dogs, wine and beer—not to mention a dance floor and musical entertainment!

6 p.m.: Official inauguration and presentations by the founders
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tour of the Artexte, RCAAQ and VOX spaces, and presentation of our new mobile app
9 p.m. to . . .: Meet-up on the 5th floor to continue the celebrations!

Admission is free.

Spread the word, and bring along someone special!

Art actuel 2-22
2 Sainte-Catherine Street East, Montreal (Saint-Laurent Metro station, 55 bus)

ART MATTERS
OPEN HOUSE 1st ed.
MAR. 9 – 11
3 days of events on events on events.
Read on for a detailed schedule.
artmattersfestival.org/openhouse

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◈ FRIDAY MAR. 9 ◈
SAINT-HENRI

17:00 – 22:00
SPEEDSHOW
@ Buanderie Gold Star
4690 Notre-Dame W.
Do your laundry while contemplating web art at this laundromat/internet café. The Art Matters festival joins forces with PVM to showcase HTML internet art in an entirely unique setting. The work of 7 Canadian artists will be presented in both original and censored versions. SPEEDSHOW challenges the idea of censorship. Show runs for 2 weeks starting March 9.

17:00 – 23:00
MUSIC
@ Bar de Courcelle
4685 Notre-Dame W.
Wind down your night with some laughs, some drinks and the tunes of local bands at Bar de Courcelle.

17:00 – 23:00
Saint-Henri businesses are opening their doors to Art Matters and to you.
Galerie Coatcheck – 5180 Notre-Dame W.
Pizza St. Henri – 4200 Saint-Jacques
Montreal Strip Club – 3802 Notre-Dame W.
Le Black Jack Bar – 3814 Notre-Dame W.
AA (poutine joint) – 3700 Notre-Dame W.
Resto Bar St-Jacques – 4210 Saint-Jacques
Café St-Henri – 3632 Notre-Dame W.
Le Caffe Mariani – 4450 Notre-Dame W.

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◈ SATURDAY MAR. 10 ◈
SAINT-HENRI → DOWNTOWN

12:00 – 13:45
The Poupart Gallery x Three Times (3 x 7 x 52 x y)
@ Coatcheck Gallery
5180 Notre-Dame W.
Practice your sketching skills in a drawing game that progresses through the gallery and view an art performance by Marie-Ève Joseph involving the preparation of hors d’oeuvres.Participatory art takes on a deliciously childish form as Art Matters curators Lianne Zannier and Zoe Wonfor push the boundaries of conventional art presentation.

14:30 – 15:15
Assemblage
@ VAV Gallery
1395 René Lévesque W.
Come take part in the action and watch where you step, artists will be performing silk screening processes and playing on a jungle gym at this energetic event. The 7 artists involved in this multimedia show put on an uproarious mix of performances to reflect the idea of assemblage.

16:00 – 16:45, 17:00 – 17:45, 18:00 – 20:30
3 EVENTS @ Belgo Building
372 Ste-Catherine W.

16:00 – 16:45
Citation
@ AB Gallery
#313
Artist Caleb Feigin performs Hey, Um, I’m Sorry That I Killed You. The “drag-memorial performance” contemplates contemporary queerness and takes a critical look at suicide culture.

17:00 – 17:45
My Pregnant Preteen Birthday Vacation With Dad
@ Les Territoires
#572
Can visual art encompass a moment? Curator Nafisa Kaptownwala leads a panel of 8 artists to discuss the question. Spencer Gilley + Andrew Hovi, Julian Stamboulieh, Talula C., and Theresa Passarello present and discuss their work.

18:00 – 20:30
From That Time
@ Studio 303
#303
Bring an object of sentimental value to take part in a participatory art piece. Curators Linnea Gwiazda and Carolann Shea use a polaroid camera to generate a collage of instant photographs throughout a performance by Anna Mayberry, Justin Friesen & Jared Goldman. Converse with artists Keivan Khademi Shamami, Michaela Gerussi, Anna Labarias and Anna Mayberry, Justin Friesen & Jared Goldman. The open house event (18:00 – 18:45) is followed by the first showing of From That Time (19:30 – 20:30), with a second showing on Sunday, March 11 at 16:00.

Vehicular Commodities
@thevanistheart
time & location to be disclosed on twitter
This is art. Wine and cheese in a van. E250 by Ford Motor Company, driver Pascha Montgomery. Although implicit within the discourse and function of art object consumption, the technical assembly of the “art show” spectacle and/or the art object itself is pervasively excluded from objectification. Curator Raphele Frigon seeks to remediate this by arming the support apparatus with the art object status.

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◈ SUNDAY MAR. 11 ◈
VILLERAY → PLATEAU/MILE-END

12:00 – 12:45
Subject To Change
@ Espace Projet
353 Villeray
Laura Sirois demonstrates her garment sculptures and Bo Jovanovic performs on a harp she created herself. Duck below the action to experience an immersive video projection in the basement, a light study of a corner in a room by Sébastien Kaufmann.

13:15 – 14:30
everything you see is real x The Unending Silence of Space x Artist as Shaman: Transformation
@ Eastern Bloc
7240 Clark
The 3 shows being curated at Eastern Bloc combine to generate a continous loop of performances and videos. Come for free bagels and a communal atmosphere as artists perform throughout the space. Witness an ongoing transformation piece by artist Robyn Crouch and another by GLAD collective.

Block Party
13:00 Van Horne x Parc
15:00 Monastiraki (5478 Saint-Laurent)
Follow curator Aditi Ohri on an Art Crawl through the Mile End. DJ Graham Van Pelt of Miracle Fortress provides a soundtrack for your walk on his fuchsia boombox. Meet up at the corner of Van Horne and Parc at 13:00 SHARP. If you get lost, rejoin the party at Monastiraki at 15:00.

15:15 – 16:00
SURVEYING SPACE
@ WWTWO Gallery
170 Jean-Talon W. #206
You will want to visit the SURVEYING SPACE exhibit twice. For the duration of open house, curator Levi Bruce deepens his study of space by transforming his exhibition with new physical divisions. Participating artists discuss the impact of space in art.

16:45 – 17:30
WEIGHS
@ Studio Béluga
160 St-Viateur E. #508A
Curator Florence Vallières presents exclusively and for the first time the rare and recently rediscovered archives of a little known Québecois artist, Jeri Matters. The open house event will reveal an intriguing, conflicted and enigmatic personality. Visitors will get to peek through Matters’ portfolio and discuss the impact of his oeuvre.

March 17th to April 28th, 2012

TRAFFIC : CONCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980
Part 2: Halifax / Winnipeg / Calgary / Edmonton / The Arctic / Vancouver

Curators : Jayne Wark (Halifax), Catherine Crowston (the Arctic + the Prairies) and Grant Arnold (Vancouver)

OPENING : Friday March 16th 5:30 to 7:30 pm

Organized by a group of prominent Canadian and Québécois curators, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is an ambitious travelling exhibition. It is an attempt to circumscribe the various ways conceptual art – an approach to art making that questioned the economy of the object – manifested itself in Canada in the 1960s and 70s. It is also an opportunity to better understand how conceptual practices in Canada were part of an international movement. Focusing on conceptual art practices in Montreal and Toronto, Traffic, Part 1, was visited by thousands of gallery-goers and enthusiastically received by the media. Le Devoir described Traffic as “necessary” while Voir called it nothing less than a “major achievement.” The Ellen Gallery now presents the equally anticipated Traffic, Part 2, highlighting conceptual art practices in Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, the Arctic, and Vancouver. Traffic will then travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2012 and ! complete its tour at the Badischer Kunstverein in Germany, in 2013.

In Part 2 projects realized at the famous Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax by artists such as Dan Graham, David Askevold, Martha Wilson and Gerald Ferguson, all at the forefront of conceptual art at the time, are featured. In Vancouver artists Vincent Trasov and Michael Morris sought to break down the boundaries between art and life while Christos Dikeakos and Ian Wallace used art-making strategies that addressed systems of capitalism. In Calgary, the University hired artists such as Clive Robertson and Paul Woodrow who embraced the ideas of a growing counterculture. The artist-run centre Plug In and Gallery One One One in Winnipeg were important places for experimentation for, among others, artists Gordon Lebredt and Max Dean. The exhibition Place and Process, organized by the Edmonton Art Gallery, was a major conceptual art event for which artists Hans Haacke, Robert Morris and Dennis Oppenheim produced works. The Arctic was also the scene of variou! s interventions by Lucy Lippard, NETCO and Lawrence Weiner.

The exhibition TRAFFIC is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (University of Toronto), and the Vancouver Art Gallery, in partnership with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University), and Halifax INK.

EVENTS

Tour with curator Jayne Wark, Curator of the Halifax section
Saturday, March 17th, 3 pm
At the Gallery, Free Admission

Round Table – Curating Traffic
The Ellen Gallery presents a round table discussion featuring curators Grant Arnold (Vancouver), Catherine Crowston (The Prairies and the Arctic), Barbara Fischer (Toronto), Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin (Montreal), and Jayne Wark with Peter Dykhuis (Halifax)
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 1 pm
J.A. de Sève Cinema, LB-125
Concordia University
1400 de Maisonneuve West
Guy-Concordia metro station
FREE ADMISSION, in English

***Please note that the Gallery is closed on Friday, April 6th and Saturday, April 7th.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM, Saturdays 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Address: 1400, boul. De Maisonneuve West, ground floor J.W. McConnell Library Building Métro Guy-Concordia
General information: 514 848-2424 ext. 4750

www.ellengallery.concordia.ca

Events & tours: Marina Polosa, 514 848-2424 ext. 4778 mpolosa@alcor.concordia.ca
Free admission – wheelchair accessible

Out of Place is an exhibition featuring Sabrina Dufour, Florence Boivin, Sophie Jaillet and Stephanie Coleman, four fibre artists from Concordia University. The show will run from March 29 to April 9, 2012 at Galerie Yellowfish Art.

The exhibition consists of multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary works presented along with a publication of writings by Felicity Hamer, Maya Cardin, Maryse Morin, Joanna Long and Allison Fairhurst from Concordia University Art History, Anthropology and Literature Department. The catalogue marks an ongoing dialog and collaboration around cross‑disciplinary praxis between the
artists and writers.

Vernissage and catalogue launch, Thursday March 29, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm

www.facebook.com/OUTOFPLACE2012

Out of Place
March 29 – April 9, 2012
YellowFishArt Gallery
3623 Blvd St. Laurent
Montreal, QC

514 840-­‐‑0808
Info@yellowfishart.com

Catalog available for presale at:
www.kapipal.com/36fbe2712e714f79becd114814e1a849

***Thanks for sharing this information with your students and for posting-it in your studios***

ARPRIM is pleased to announce that the Prix Albert-Dumouchel for Emerging Artists is now accepting applications. This annual competition is open to students in the visual arts who are exploring the art of printmaking in all its forms. Pre-graduate university students who have used the techniques or visual language of the printmaking arts, and who have a minimum of 45 credits, are invited to enter the competition by April 16, 2012.

The winning candidate will receive a cash prize of $500 and a creative residence at a printmaking studio, as well as several other prizes. The works of the finalists, selected by a professional jury, will be shown at ARPRIM’s Première impression exhibition in June 2012, and the winner will be announced at the opening.

Supporting emerging artists in the field of printmaking for over 20 years, the Prix Albert-Dumouchel aims to encourage new practices in printmaking by young artists. With Première impression, it is providing a unique showcase for this new generation of artists, while facilitating their transition into the professional community through exchanges and networking.

See Registration form and press release in files attached or at arprim.org

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Informations:

Caroline Cloutier
Coordonnatrice à la programmation

ARPRIM
372 Sainte-Catherine O. # 426, Montréal, QC
514-525-2621 | info@arprim.org | www.arprim.org
bureau : mercredi – vendredi, 10h – 17h
exposition : mercredi – samedi, 12h – 17h

NCECA
FUNDRAISER
BAR NIGHT! MAR 16th!
Concordia ceramics students are hosting a Bar Night Fundraiser March 16 to raise money towards their trip to NCECA Ceramic Conference in Seattle. Join the Ceramic Association for Live Music, Comedy Acts, Raffle Prizes and Cheap Beer! Ticket price includes a raffle draw.

When: March 16 doors at 8:00 till Close!
Where: Cro Bar 1221 Rue Cresent (Between St. Catherine and Rene Levesque)
Cost: $5 presale $8 at door

You can get your presale tickets at the Student Run Café X
EV Building 1515 St. Catherine W 7th Floor
VA Building 1395 René Lévesque W 2nd floor

CUP AND BOWL SALE
DATE CORRECTION!!

NCECA
FUNDRAISER!

Concordia ceramic students are having their handmade cup and bowl sale this month to fundraise their trip to the NCECA Ceramic Conference in Seattle. All the cups and bowls are molded and decorated, each one unique!

Come and Support our trip to NCECA! Because every cup deserves a good home!

Wednesday March 14th – VA Lobby at 1395 René Lévesque W.
Wednesday March 21st – EV 2nd fl at 1515 St. Catherine W.

All the sales are from 10am until 4pm.

Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery presents

Maria Ezcurra, Abiertas (Open): Performance Still, FOFA Gallery, 2012 ©Guy L’Heureux

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: IDENTITY POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE ART

This round table discussion will illuminate a cross-disciplinary perspective on contemporary artistic practices, as well as how
these practices are informed by and inform everyday experiences.

Where
FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1.715
Montreal, Quebec (Metro Guy-Concordia)

When
Wednesday March 7, 2012, 7 p.m.

Cost
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

Information
FOFA Gallery website or 514-848-2424 ext. 7962

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DR. ALICE JIM (ART HISTORY | HISTOIRE DE L’ART)
Dr. Jim’s main fields of research are in contemporary Asian art and Asian Canadian art with a particular interest in media art, theories of representation, and the relationship between remix culture and place identity.

DR. MARK SUSSMAN (THEATRE | THÉATRE)
Dr. Mark Sussman is a theatre artist and scholar working on the animation of public space and the integration of old and new technologies in live performance.
Great Small Works, a collective in which he is the founder and co-artistic director, is currently showing “TheToy Theater of Terror as Usual” in the York Vitrine at the FOFA gallery.

MARIA EZCURRA (PHD STUDENT IN ART EDUCATION | ÉTUDIANTE AU DOCTORAT EN ÉDUCATION ARTISTIQUE)
Maria Ezcurra’s performance/installation work Abiertas (Open), was shown in the Ste. Catherine Street Vitrine of the FOFA in January. Ezcurra’s installations intend to be simultaneously attractive and critical, exploring both personal and social identities through the use of clothing.

CHRISTOPHER MOORE (DESIGN AND COMPUTATION ARTS | DESIGN ET ARTS NUMÉRIQUES)
Christopher Moore’s work The Cuddle Commandos was shown in the York Vitrine at the FOFA in January. Moore uses humor and satire to address notions of hyper-masculinity. A series of performances took place in the vitrine space, which was turned into a “recruitment office” where a squadron of “Cuddle Commando” recruited new troops.

MELANIE PERRAULT (M.F.A. CANDIDATE, OPEN MEDIA | CANDIDATE À LA MAITRISE EN OPEN MEDIA)
Melanie Perreault’s work Vibrancy Trickling Into Tuesday Before Dawn is currently showing in the main space at the FOFA gallery. Perreault becomes Jillian, a character who is a cultural neurotic, in a constant search for knowledge. Jillian inhabits a cardboard oasis, a world which Perreault has created.

Eastern Bloc is finally opening the doors to its new Media Lab this month. As a sneak preview to the official inauguration of the lab, we have invited Givan Bella from OKNO, a Brussels-based organisation, to give a talk followed by a workshop on his work with “slow art” and digital ecology. The talk and workshop will be held this coming Saturday from 1pm until 5pm, in our lab space. The talk is free and open to all, and the workshop will be limited to 10 participants for a small fee of $10. Details are below.

We are incredibly excited to be achieving this step in our development as a production & exhibition centre. And we can’t wait to get your feedback on our new media lab. The official opening event will be happening later on in the month of March. Details for this event will come shortly. You will also be hearing more from Amber, our Development Coordinator, about next week’s members’ meeting. If you aren’t already a member, we would encourage you to consider becoming one and joining us next Thursday, March 8th (although the meeting is open to the general public as well).

SLOW ART
Artist Talk and Workshop with Guy Van Belle of OKNO (BE)
Preview activity of the Eastern Bloc Lab

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Artist talk 1–2:30 (FREE)
Workshop 3-5pm (10$)

Eastern Bloc Lab
7240 Clark, 2nd Floor
Montréal, QC
www.easternbloc.ca

Eastern Bloc is excited to welcome Guy Van Belle of OKNO (Brussels) to present an artist talk and workshop. This is the inaugural activity for Eastern Bloc’s new Research & Production Lab.

Van Belle will be presenting OKNO’s research into slow art, ecological media art and their work with natural elements, as well as the work of the TIK Project (Time Inventors’ Kabinet). TIK has been exploring several technologies for making art works that fall within the scope of media art and ecology. The concepts of Slow Art (after slow food, slow science and slow “everything”) will be presented, and different challenging contemporary approaches will be brought into the discussion with a focus on subversion and the experimental nature of art, as well as the possible impact of these slow approaches.

The workshop will be open to ten participants and is generally aimed at artists interested in and working with media, but it is also open to the general public. Members of Eastern Bloc will have priority for registration.

Guy Van Belle (XGZ) has been prominently involved in the use and development of media for artistic purposes since 1990. Since 2000 XGZ has been working under the name of the collective digital band mxHz.org (machine cent’red humanz), creating collaborative performances, concerts, workshops, exhibitions and unexpected experimental/abstract art projects. MxHz.org is co-organizer of the umbrella organization OKNO, a non-profit technological art organization situated in Brussels. For more than ten years Van Belle has been advising the Media Lab at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts Antwerp. He also worked for ten years at the University of Ghent, teaching and managing international research projects for education and arts, at the electronic studio IPEM.

OKNO is a Belgian non-profit cultural organization. The organization functions and is organized as a platform for several actual and virtual organizations, that work within the area of technological arts in the broadest sense. OKNO organizes a number of exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and performances. The themes are mainly: code and algorithms, communication systems, ecological technological art. The presentations are experimental, and basically demonstrate a process-driven or researching approach, within the domain of technological art and culture.

Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery presents:
La galerie FOFA de l’Université Concordia présente :

Great Small Works Performance

Great Small Works, The Toy Theatre of Terror as Usual: Episode 12: Crusade?, 2002

Performance
Friday, March 9, 2012, 5 to 7 p.m.
Limited seating: RSVP required. First come, first served. Please email fofagall@alcor.concordia.ca to reserve your place.

Finissage
Follows the Great Small Works Performance
À la suite de la performance de Great Small Works

Where
Performance – EV 6-720
Finissage – Galerie FOFA Gallery + Atrium, EV 1-715

Information | Renseignements
FOFA Gallery website or 514-848-2424 ext. 7962

Gallery Hours
Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. To 7 p.m.

About

GREAT SMALL WORKS: The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual: Episodes 1-12

York Corridor Vitrines

A popular and simple means of staging dramatic spectacles in the Victorian living room, toy theatre was the rage in homes across Europe and the Americas. During the countdown to the Gulf War in 1991, members of Great Small Works, inspired by Walter Benjamin’s notion of culture in a permanent “state of emergency” and by the political photomontages of Weimar artist John Heartfield, began performing a surreal news serial, entitled The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual. Using excerpted texts and cut-out images from current newspapers, magazines and philosophical works, the series, now in its twelfth episode, has dealt with issues ranging from the Gulf War and the Los Angeles riots to the condition of New York City real estate and American gun culture. Performed by five visible puppeteers hovering around a tabletop proscenium stage, Terror As Usual has become the company’s signature piece. The exhibition at the FOFA Gallery presents miniature versions of the theatres, a graphic timeline of performances and video documentation, and will conclude its run with a performance by the Great Small Works Troupe; John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi and Mark Sussman, in conjunction with the Festival des Castelliers.

FROM FEBRUARY, 29TH 2012 TO MARCH, 08TH 2012

www.cinematheque.qc.ca

De l’extase à l’emportement, 50 ans de l’autre cinéma espagnol

« Del éxtasis al arrebato » (« De l’extase à l’emportement, 50 ans de l’autre cinéma espagnol ») est le premier projet de diffusion internationale de Xcèntric, la salle de cinéma du Centre de la culture contemporaine de Barcelone (CCCB). Le souhait d’Xcèntric est de faire connaître le cinéma expérimental espagnol depuis les années 1950 jusqu’à maintenant au-delà des frontières de l’Espagne à l’aide de projections de films sur grand écran et de la publication d’un catalogue sur support DVD. La rétrospective est une production conjointe du CCCB et de la SEACEX (une société d’état vouée à l’action culturelle espagnole hors-frontières) bénéficiant de la collaboration de l’éditeur et distributeur Cameo DVD (www.cameo.es) et le soutien de la Cinémathèque de Catalogne.

En dépît de son importance, le cinéma expérimental espagnol est largement méconnu aussi bien en Espagne qu’à l’étranger et n’a pas été correctement mis en valeur depuis le début des années 1980. D’où la nécessité pour le CCCB de mener à bien ce projet. En regroupant des oeuvres qui circulent peu et qui ont été sauvées aussi bien sur des étagères des cinémathèques que des résidences des réalisateurs eux-mêmes, le CCCB met à la disposition des non-initiés une source de savoir et encourage une recherche rigoureuses sur ces oeuvres à la fois méconnues et fascinantes de l’histoire du cinéma espagnol. Le CCCB a déjà entrepris de documenter et de cataloguer de façon exhaustive plus de 1000 titres, dont 44 ont été sélectionnés par deux spécialistes de renom, Antoni Pinent et Andrés Hispano, pour former cette rétrospective.

Pour une programmation d’une irréprochable qualité technique, le CCCB a procédé à des restaurations, à des nouveaux tirages et à des transfert numériques.

Cinémathèque québécoise
335, De Maisonneuve Blvd East
Montréal, Québec, H2X 1K1
Berri-UQAM Metro (De Maisonneuve exit)

facebook.com/cinematheque.quebecoise

!!!SUPPORT THE CCSA’S Trip To NCECA CERAMICS CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE!!!

Handmade Cup sales up for grabs again! Don’t miss out on your original-priceless-one-of-a- kind ceramic mug for only $5-15!

No two are alike! But some may be similar!

3 DAYS!!! So no excuses!

Tuesday March 13th on the 2nd floor of the EV

Wednesday March 21st on the 2nd floor of the EV

All the sales are from 10am until 4pm

Don’t let these mugs go homeless!

The Concordia Volunteer Abroad Program is looking for a talented and experienced web developer for our new website. We are hoping to start work on the site by April 1st, and conclude the project for by August 1st, 2012.

We are looking for someone who is:

- Self motivated and able to work well independently
- Reliable
- Experienced

If you are interested, please apply by March 23rd. We will require:

- A resume
- Portfolio/Work samples
- References

Remuneration:
Payment for the project will be based on work completed. The contract is negotiable. Contact daniel@concordiavolunteers.org for further information, or reach us by phone at (514) 848-2424 ext. 7876.

Jin-me Yoon will be presenting an Artist Talk tonight at the MMFA at 6pm & Concordia EV1.605 at 10:30am (WED) FEB 29

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Artist talk: Jin-me Yoon

Temporal displacements and spatial constellations:
An overview of the work of Jin-me Yoon

Presented by the Department of Art History and EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group) in conjunction with Art Souterrain 2012

Jin-me Yoon, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University

When:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.

Where:
York Amphitheatre (EV 1.605)
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex
1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

For more information:
Visit the Department of Art History website or ethnoculturalarts.blogspot.com.

Event description:

Jin-me Yoon’s lens-based work in photography, video and installation explores questions concerning history and place supported by her underlying interest in the formation of the subject and subjectivities. Most recently, Yoon has been experimenting with displacing the vertical, bi-pedal way we typically move through the world by giving it a horizontal orientation. Lying on a moving platform, she has been performing lateral explorations (“crawling”) for the camera through cities, towns and sites that differ in their geography, history and culture. Through the sculptural use of plastic and multiple cameras, her latest work in Mexico City and Nagoya commences her interest in the line between living matter and inert matter and the body’s thingness as a material entity.

This artist talk will review her earlier work from the 1990s to her current work pulling the conceptual threads that link them together. For example, in staging performances for the camera – often using her own body as a sign of difference and more recently, evidence of an embodied corporality – Yoon investigates the distinction between memorialization and monumentalization as one line of inquiry.

About the artist:
For the past two decades, Jin-me Yoon has been staging performative actions for the camera – often using her own body as a sign of difference and more recently, evidence of an embodied corporality – setting into associative motion the complexities of our current conditions of accelerated globalization. Her latest body of work in cities – Seoul, Beppu, Nagoya, Vancouver, Vienna, and Mexico City – further extends her interest in the interconnectedness of history, materiality and the mutable
properties of time and space with a particular emphasis on horizontality of the body as a generative form to question progress. Yoon teaches studio courses and seminars in both the undergraduate Visual Art program and the MFA graduate program at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. Her most current projects include, Beneath, produced in Vienna to be exhibited this summer 2012 at the Vancouver Art Gallery and a project in Mexico City to be highlighted in a series of solo exhibitions this year in Mexico, organized by the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. Jin-me Yoon will be launching her Montreal Premiere of As It Is Becoming (Seoul, Korea), as part of Art Souterrain, February 25 to March 11, 2012.

This artist talk is made possible by the Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group (EAHR) sponsored by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, with the additional support of the Department of Art History at Concordia University.

http://ethnoculturalarts.blogspot.com/2012/01/artist-talk-jin-me-yoon.html

Defining Moments: Discovering our Canadian Stories

Youth from across Canada have been contributing to a national dialogue on what it means to be Canadian by submitting artwork that reflects their experiences living in this country. Since last August Defining Moments: Discovering our Canadian Stories (www.canadianmoments.ca) has received hundreds of submissions that reflect some of the most pressing viewpoints of our young generations.

We will be accepting submissions of your experiences living in Canada until March 1st! Any medium is welcomed – just go to the ART CONTEST page to submit your work. Submissions will be automatically entered into the online collection and could be seen in select locations across the country when our traveling exhibit launches in July, 2012.

Questions? Contact Annika – Annika@takingitglobal.org. www.canadianmoments.ca

Defining Moments is a project of TakingITGlobal and supported by Canadian Heritage and offered in partnership with the National Capital Commission, the National Film Board of Canada and Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

Hello FASA Members!

FASA has called a Special General Meeting. At a Special General Meeting any Fine Arts student can to vote on particular issues important to FASA. It gives regular students the opportunity to give their input, and makes the FASA Council legally responsible for carrying it out.

At the meeting, we’ll be discussing issues surrounding tuition fee increases and a possible student strike. There is no specific proposal that will be presented; instead, students are encouraged to bring their own proposals, so that a number of possible options can be discussed.

The SGM be held on March 1st at 1:30PM, in the “large lounge,” which is the area in front of the CSU office on the 7th floor of the Hall building.

The agenda for the meeting is the following:
1) Call to order
2) Discussion regarding tuition fee increases
3) Discussion regarding a potential strike
4) Adjournment

FASA

OKNO is focused on experimental, collaborative, and ecological creations of multidisciplinary art works, both locally positioned and internationally engaged. OKNO’s most recent international project, Time Inventors’ Kabinet [TIK], has been developed over the past two years (to be completed in May 2012). TIK brings together media artists and ecology-based practices, such as gardening and beekeeping, to create databases, sonifications and visualizations, to observe patterns in time and time control systems. Along with a discussion of their current TIK project, OKNO will be discussing their longer-term project, A Laboratory On The Open Fields [ALOTOF], to be developed over the next four years.

Givan Bela (aka Guy Van Belle) is one of the directors of OKNO, a Brussels-based artist run organization for art and technology. Their work asks: Could one say that art degenerates as it approaches
gardening?

http://okno.be

Recommended Readings available in the Fine Arts Reading Room (EV 2.785) – “A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects,” Artforum, September 1968. Robert Smithson.

Thursday, March 1st, 2012
6pm until 9pm
EV 6.720

The Friends of Dorothy Presents
Censorship & Oral History: 2 FREE Events!

The Friends of Dorothy queer film club has invited Aerlyn Weissman, a ground breaking and award winning film maker, to present her Master Class Archival Materials and Oral Histories in Popular Culture. We will also be screening her controversial and fascinating film Little Sisters V’s Big Brother (Canada, 2002) with a panel discussion on censorship after the screening.

March 9th, 6:30pm in EV 1.615 -Aerlyn Weissman Master Class: Archival Materials and Oral Histories in Popular Culture

March 10th, 6:30pm in EV 1.605 -Little Sisters V’s Big Brother (Canada, 2002) and panel discussion. Director in attendance.

This event is sponsored by FASA and The Fine Arts Reading Room!

www.thefriendsofdorothymtl.weebly.com
http://www.facebook.com/DorothySlippers

Come one come all to five days of banter at the VAV Gallery! NOTHING SPECIAL is a live talk show dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and the fitness of body, mind and soul. Artists Selina Doroshenko and Emily Kathleen McIntyre will be your hosts, generously suggesting lifestyle approaches.

The VAV Gallery has undergone a major makeover! It has been transformed into a talk show studio by way of building a custom set by the south floor to ceiling window facing the street. This window display, along with hanging cardboard cutouts, should encourage guests to feel welcome and invigorated. The show will air daily, activating the space with events, presentations and lectures concerning health, wellness, safety, humour, nutrition and other topics surrounding a positive lifestyle. There will be surprise guests, demos, and a merchandise stand complete with souvenirs and memorabilia. Audience participation is encouraged and for those who can’t make it everyday, recorded past performances, exercise videos and commercials will play on loop when the artists are not present. Stay tuned!

SCHEDULE:

MONDAY FEBRUARY 27TH
11AM
COFFEE TALK

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28TH
7-9PM
*VERNISSAGE*
**SHIT SHOW**

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 29TH
7PM
BOOK CLUB

THURSDAY MARCH 1ST
11AM
2D PRESENTATION
BRING YOUR OWN ARTWORK TO THE GALLERY
ANYTHING UNDER 18″x24″
SEE YOUR WORK ON STAGE!!!!

FRIDAY MARCH 2ND
3-5PM
CASUAL FRIDAY

For more details, visit:
NOTHING SPECIAL: http://vimeo.com/user10378059
SELINA: spuriosity.tumblr.com
EMILY: emilykathleenmcintyre.tumblr.com

Series CROSSOVER

THE WOODMANS – A documentary on Francesca Woodman
(DV, 82 min., 2010, USA) by C. Scott Willis

preceded by

THE FANCY

(DV, 36 min., 2005, USA) by Elisabeth Subrin

Thursday, March 8th at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 10th at 7:30pm (repeat screening)

THE WOODMANS:
“Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands.”
– Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/photographer), Francesca was a precocious RISD graduate, who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in 1981, as a despondent 22-year-old, she committed suicide. THE WOODMANS beautifully interweaves the young artist’s work (including experimental videos and diary passages) with interviews with her parents who have continued their own artistic practices while watching Francesca’s professional reputation eclipse their own. The film grapples with disturbing issues, among them: parent-child competition and the toxic level of ambition that fuels the New York art scene.

Winner, Best New York Documentary – Tribeca Film Festival

See the trailer here: www.thewoodmansmovie.com

ABOUT C. SCOTT WILLIS:
Although THE WOODMANS may be his first feature documentary for theatrical release, C. Scott Willis is a 30 year veteran of the News, Current Affairs and Documentary world – his experience includes 27 years with ABC News as a Producer, a Senior Producer of Nightline, and Executive Producer of an ABC News primetime series. He is the winner of 11 Emmy and two DuPont Columbia awards for his documentary work on subjects ranging from the fall of the Soviet Empire to the rise of the Clinton Years. In 2001, Willis started his own production company ,C. Scott Films LLC, and has produced and directed nearly a dozen documentaries for television, including a series of investigative stories for PBS’s NOVA.

THE FANCY:
In this speculative, experimental video essay, Subrin radically reorganizes information drawn from the published catalogues of Francesca Woodman’s work — both the photographs themselves and the critical writing about them — to raise questions about the parameters and ethics of biography, the boundaries between history and fantasy, and problems of female representation. The few catalogues published on Woodman’s art are exhaustively referenced, yet, Subrin’s video hints at conspiracy, calling attention to the Woodman family’s unwillingness to make the bulk of her body of photography available, as if they were intent on collapsing the artist’s chosen channel of communication.

ABOUT ELISABETH SUBRIN:
New York-based Elisabeth Subrin is an artist who continues to engage a wide range of genres, forms and contexts to create conceptually driven projects in film, video, photography and installation. Her work seeks intersections between history and subjectivity by investigating the nature and poetics of psychological “disorder,” the legacy of feminism, and the impact of recent social and political history on contemporary life and consciousness. Screened and exhibited widely in the US and abroad, Subrin’s award-winning work has earned solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Vienna International Film Festival, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Harvard Film Archives, and The San Francisco Cinematheque. She is currently Assistant Professor of Film and Media Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.

www.elisabethsubrin.com/

For more information visit: www.segalcentre.org/season-2011-2012/upcoming-events/cinema/crossover/the-woodmans/

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/CinemaSpace

CinemaSpace @ the Segal Centre for Performing Arts
5170, ch. de la Côte-Ste- Catherine
Metro Snowdon or Côte-Ste-Catherine | Bus 129 / 17 / 51

Box Office: 514.739.7944 and segalcentre.org

Regular: $10.00
Student (full-time w/ ID) / Senior (65+): $8.00

Quebec artist Paul-Emile Rioux’s work blurs the lines between art, nature, 3D visualization, and architecture. This part time internship (5 hours/week) will be largely research based. Applicants must be computer savvy, detail oriented, and bilingual.

Please send cv and cover letter to:
kristina@digital-art-project.com

www.landcuts.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
Continuing Discourses: Women and Art
An Undergraduate Art History Conference
MARCH 24, 2012

The Student Art Studies Association (SASA) would like to
announce the inaugural Undergraduate Art History Conference
at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. This conference, an
invaluable platform for undergraduate students to participate in a
community of young art historians, will showcase new research on
women and art.

Scholars have long questioned both the role and the representation
of women in art worlds and art historical discourses. Feminist
theory as well as gender studies present methodologies for
dialogues concerning space, artistic practice and identity. These
ongoing issues of inquiry ignite dynamic and challenging questions
for art historians. Re-readings of historical works and engagement
of concerns surrounding women’s art and art historical practice are
significant strategies through which to initiate dialogues that continue
to be relevant for contemporary understandings of art.

We invite undergraduate students interested in art and visual culture
to submit one page (250 words) abstracts. Papers addressing both
historical and contemporary issues are welcome, as are case studies
of specific artworks, artists, exhibitions, publications or institutions.
Potential topics include, but are not restricted to:
• Gendered Space
• Historical Works
• Issues of Representation
• Feminist Ideologies
• Contemporary art and artists
• Identity politics

We are accepting 12 participants. Presentations will be 15 minutes in
length (or approximately 6 pages double spaced). Presentations will
occur in a block of 3 presenters and will be followed by a discussion
period.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please send a one-page
abstract (in English or French), a short biographical note indicating
your name, department and institution of study and all relevant
contact information to sasa.art.studies@gmail.com, subject:
Undergraduate Art History Conference.
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE Friday, March 9th, 2012.
Accepted participants will be notified within a week of the
submission deadline.

ART IN ACTION is part of STUDY IN ACTION, which together not only cross disciplinary lines, but also transcend borders between academic and popular knowledge.

FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 4, 2012
7th Floor, Hall Building at Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve West, métro Guy-Concordia
wheelchair accessible — free — welcome to all

ART IN ACTION highlights creative expression on social and environmental justice issues through diverse mediums including: drawing, painting, photography, performance, film & video, installation, spoken word, zine, collage, watercolour, poster, and print.

This year ART IN ACTION includes close to thirty exhibits, installations and performances by students and community members.

ART IN ACTION Viewing Hours:

- Monday, February 27, 10am-8pm — vernissage from 5-7pm, with artists present
- Tuesday, February 28, 10am-5pm
- Wednesday, February 29, 10am-8pm
- Thursday, March 1, 10am-8pm
- Friday, March 2, 10am-10pm — “5 à 7”, with artists present
- Saturday, March 3, 10am-8pm — Screenings & Performances at Burritoville 6pm-10pm
- Sunday, March 4, 10am-6pm

- Art In Action-related performances will take place between February 27-March 4.
- After March 4 until the end of the month, Art In Action exhibits will be displayed at L’Escalier, Galerie X, the Concordia Greenhouse, QPIRG Concordia, and other locations around Montreal.

INFO: https://www.facebook.com/events/237215266364030
www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org – 514-848-7585

The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History is currently seeking articles to be included in our online publication. This can include artist interviews, art critiques, virtual exhibits and features. Take advantage of this great opportunity to get published in an internationally recognized peer-reviewed journal!

Criteria:
- Must contain art historical content.
- Articles must demonstrate a high level of writing, creativity and eloquence.
- Open to part-time and full-time students at Concordia University.
- The work must be between 1-5 pages in length and contain proper citations and bibliography if necessary.
- A Word format is highly recommended

Deadline is March 10th 2012

Send your submissions to info@cujah.com

CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS | MAPPE PROGRAM
For exhibitions from August to December 2012

Les Territoires is a non-profit art gallery dedicated to exhibiting emerging artists and curators. Exhibitions, projects and events at Les Territoires reflect a multi-disciplinary approach to the dissemination of art practices and will act as a place where exchanges and contacts can be made. The mentorship and exhibition MAPPE program supports emerging artists with the direction of their artistic careers through career management. Les Territoires is located on the 5th floor of Montreal’s well-known Belgo Building. Applications wishing to be considered for August to December 2012 should be submitted by Thursday, May 10th, 2012.

Deadline: Thursday, May 10th 2012 (postmark)
Eligible artists: less than 6 years of professionnal practice

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Included in the MAPPE program:
- an exhibition;
- a press release sent to our mailing list and published via social networks;
- a meeting with the general director to discuss the curating of the exhibition;
- the possibility to expand the artist’s and curator’s network in meeting art professionals;
- a meeting with the general director to determine the value of the work presented and to elaborate a price list;
- a discussion on the next career opportunities after the exhibition at Les Territoires;
- the artist retains the full proceeds of artwork sales;
- a permanent Web page on our Website;
- an artist talk or a round table with the curators, if interested.

Cost for the exhibition program is: $1500 CA ATI.
It is possible to participate in the MAPPE program by exhibiting in only one of the two spaces. The exhibition program cost is:
Territoire Est: $1000 CA ATI
Territoire Ouest: $ 800 CA ATI

Instructions to submit your project

Submissions should include:

- time period you wish to exhibit;
- your CV;
- your phone number, mailing and email addresses;
- a project proposal of maximum 500 words;
- visual material that represents previous projects and the project submitted:
10-15 jpegs images on CD and/or video clip on DVD accompanied by a descriptive image list;
- a self-addressed, stamped envelope (if you wish your documents to be returned).

Submissions should be mailed to:
Les Territoires / Submission for exhibition
372 Sainte-Catherine st. West, suite 323
Montreal (Quebec) H3B 1A2 Canada
Or sent by email to: info@lesterritoires.org

For more information contact us by e-mail at: info@lesterritoires.org

www.lesterritoires.org

The HTMlles 10
RISKY BUSINESS
Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture
10-18 November 2012

The 10th edition of the HTMlles will take up the notion of risk. To risk: to gain or to lose (it is uncertain), to expose oneself to a possibility… Risk is a potential. Whether used positively or negatively, the idea of risk implies that of evaluation, action and distribution, and thus, power. While the term “risk” evolved with the development of capitalism, the concept of “risk society” is about twenty years old and has been used by scholars to describe how modern society organizes around the idea of risk, that is, in response to a future (which society should be able to manage). By simply invoking or imagining the future, one immediately engages in risky behaviours. Anything and everything can become risky… Indeed, there exists a global economic and industrial complex organized around monitoring and moderating “risk”, from insurance companies to investment products, as well as technologies and approved, standardized methods of risk assessment and risk management. There are also whole sets of techniques of calculation, “optimization” and social control that rely on the presence of a notion of “risk,” from so-called “at-risk-populations” to who are considered “vulnerable,” “suspect” or, increasingly so nowadays, “insolvable.”

In such a critical moment, it is perhaps crucial to ask (ourselves) some questions. How does the language of risk articulate itself today? What is at risk today? How can one take risks today? What are the different levels of risk in our various (trans)actions? What is the relationship between risk, technology and power? How is risk both managed and created? How is it distributed? Since when does one “invest” in one’s future and what does it actually mean? Do “crises” serve to pacify the communities being affected by these “crises”? Who are they? What do artists have to say about these so-called risks and crises? How is making art risky today? Who speaks? To whom and in the name of what?

The HTMlles 10 welcomes project proposals from self-identified women, trans and gender non-conforming artists of all origins on the theme of risk, as well as proposals for risky projects… The HTMlles is a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture produced in Montreal by Studio XX, a bilingual feminist artist-run centre for technological exploration, creation and critique. Initiated in 1997, the HTMlles is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women’s, trans and gender non-conforming artists’ independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation, including but not limited to: digital storytelling, cyber art, short film and video art, audio and electronic art, radio art, installation, locative media, 3D animation, game art, augmented reality, electronic publishing, design, bio art, public interventions, community-based practices, performance and interdisciplinary practices.

The HTMlles 10 will be a multi-sited festival, which includes Studio XX’s new gallery space, the XX Files radio show, .dpi electronic periodical and Matricules online feminist archive. RISKY BUSINESS will be co-presented with several partner artist centres (to be announced) that focus on either (or both) media arts or feminist practices, in Montreal. Participants receive honoraria.

OPPORTUNITY FOR EMERGING CURATORS: The current call is also open to project submissions by self-identified emerging curators.

To submit a proposal to the HTMlles 10, please follow the guidelines and email it to: festival (at) htmlles (dot) net

Deadline: Monday, 2 April 2012
Download submission guidelines (PDF)

For more information: info (at) htmlles (dot) net
Websites : htmlles.net + studioxx.org

The Friends of Dorothy presents a FREE screening of When Night is Falling (Canada, 1995)
at 7pm on Saturday February 25th in EV 1.605, 1515 St. Catherine Street (Guy/ Concordia Metro).
In English avec sous-titres en Français.

If you are planning on going to Nuit Blanche on the 25th of February, why not come to our next screening!

Curator, writer and cinema student, Richie Daly will introduce When Night is Falling (Canada, 1995), a delightful film by Patricia Rozema.

See you next week!

www.thefriendsofdorothymtl.weebly.com
http://www.facebook.com/DorothySlippers

Call for Volunteers : 35 mediators!

Art Souterrain is presently looking for 35 mediators to volunteer for a new event, Ticket to the Arts.

We would need ambassadors, who will be working alongside another mediator, to be responsable for an artwork. These volunteers will be an integral part in the connection between the artworks to the public, during our night-time “treasure hunt” adventure.

The role will take place on the last night of the Art Souterrain festival, March 10th 2012, from 7pm to midnight.

We thank you in advance. Please forward your application and CV, or other inquiries, to: kcaruso@artsouterrain.com by Marth 5th 2012.

Description*: L’Affichiste Gallery – Internship
www.laffichiste.com
514-656-3301

L’Affichiste is Montreal’s only vintage poster gallery, specializing in original lithographic prints from the Belle Epoque to Art Deco periods (1890s-1940). The 3 month internship will offer students the opportunity to explore the fields of poster design/graphic design which are often overlooked in academic environments. General tasks will include photographing inventory, cataloging the galleries collection, and artist research. The internship will be on a part time basis (8-10 hours a week).

Requirements

Computer Savvy
Basic knowledge of Photoshop (image manipulation)
Bilingual (French/English)
Ability to commit to a three month internship.

Please send resume and cover letter kristina@laffichiste.com

KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR NOTHING SPECIAL!
SIX DAYS OF DAILY LIVE PERFORMANCE
IN THE FORM OF A FREE-FORM TALK SHOW
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS ENCOURAGED
@ THE VAV GALLERY FROM FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 4

IF YOU LIKE DEMOS, CONCERTS, AND MEMORABILIA, DON’T DESPAIR! FREE YOUR MIND WITH NOTHING SPECIAL.

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This will be the 3rd year that Concordia will be a host venue for FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art). This year the festival will be holding some of their MIFA (film market component for industry professionals) activities at the University. These workshops are geared towards filmmakers involved in creating documentary films on art related subjects

On March 21st in the E.V (Engineering and Visual Arts Building ) room 2.260 there will be 3 workshops that are free (no cost) to students with presentation of Concordia I.D. There is no need to pre-register for these events.

The workshops are as follows:

JOUR 1 / Mercredi 21 mars 2012

MATIN / Université Concordia (Montréal) – EV building

9:30 – 12:00

Formation « Comment pitcher votre projet de film sur l’art ? // La relève » : dédiée exclusivement à la clientèle spécialisée que constitue la relève de l’industrie de la production et diffusion du film sur l’art, cette formation sur les techniques de présentation et d’argumentaires de vente, offrira une expertise de taille par l’intervention de formateurs chevronnés […].

Formation en français

APRÈS-MIDI / Université Concordia (Montréal) – EV building

13:00 à 15:30

Training “How to pitch your film-on-art project? // Emerging Professionals”: dedicated to the industry’s new generation of producers and distributors, this training will provide a workshop on the techniques of presentation and selling with experienced training instructors […].

Training in English

APRÈS-MIDI / Université Concordia (Montréal) – EV building

16:00 – 18:00

Table ronde « Promotion et diffusion en arts médiatiques » : des artistes vidéastes, distributeurs, responsables de galeries, commissaires…, anglophones et francophones, nous feront part de leur expertise en évoquant les problématiques rencontrées et les défis relevés, quant à l’évolution de la promotion et de la diffusion des arts médiatiques […].

MUSIC FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE SERIES

Culture vs Nature: Harmony revisited

Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra,
Associate Professor, Department of Music
Acting Director, Hexagram-Concordia

When:
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8.255
1450 Guy St., Montreal

Abstract: We are living in a world reaching a critical point where the equilibrium between a healthy climate environment, the energy our society needs to maintain or improve this lifestyle and the interconnected economies could pass more quickly than expected from the current complex balance to a complete new reality where unbalance would be the rule and human beings would need to be as creative as never before to survive.

Have the arts a role in all this? Have artists a responsibility in this context?

The arts could play a major part in helping the global society to understand the magnitude of the crisis we are facing, and in promoting the awareness around environmental matters. And it could also be a very good vehicle to disseminate proposals that could produce changes in our behavior and decisions, influencing our chances for the future. Artists could promote inter and transdisciplinary actions focusing on the global environmental crisis and our responsibility regarding the turning point we are living in defining the future of life on Earth.

Music could be a key point in the network of creative actions to help each of us find reasonable and peaceful strategies of survival (and empowerment): the arts as a catalyst to explore transdisciplinary intersections between nature, science, technology and society.

Overfishing, pollution, acidification and more: what this has to do with music? What this has to do with us, artists/researchers?

Bio: Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra is Associate Professor at the Music Department of Concordia Univ. and Acting Director of Hexagram-Concordia, Montreal, Canada.
He has been director of the Multimedia Communication program at the National Ministry of Education, Argentina; Senior Consultant at Amauta – Andean Media Arts Centr in Cusco, Peru; Associated Researcher to the Music Technology and Innovation Research Center at De Montfort University, UK; coordinator of DOCAM – Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage international research alliance; and consultant and researcher at UNESCO, France, for its Digi-Arts program.

His new media works and electroacoustic compositions have been presented in over 40 countries and featured in 20 international recording editions.
He developed the largest available collection of electroacoustic music by latin american composers at and currently available at the Cinémathèque québécoise.

Dal Farra serves on the Editorial Board of Leonardo (The MIT Press, US) and Organised Sound (Cambridge Univ. Press, UK).
During 2011 he organized three successul conferences at Concordia: CLIEC – Concordia Live and Interactive Electroacoustic Music Colloquium; UVM – Understanding Visual Music (http://uvm2011.hexagram.ca/); and Balance-Unbalance. This last one brought artists together with scientists, economists, philosophers, sociologists, engineers, management and policy experts with the intent of engendering a deeper awareness and creating lasting intellectual working partnerships in solving our global environmental crisis. Following Balance-Unbalance, Ricardo is currently developing a project with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre to work on the possibities of art as a catalyst, collaborating with humanitarian actions in dealing with environmental challenges. More info here.

Cost: Free admission, everyone welcome
Information: 514-848-2424 ext. 4711
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The Art Education Department Presents…

A Free Workshop Exploring
The smArtmob; Collaborative & participatory art production strategies

In this workshop students will apply strategies of the networked age as approaches for contemporary art production.

Participants will develop a participatory art project by using concepts like crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and smartmobs. Students propose concepts to each other for a ‘smArtmob’ intervention: an interactive visual intervention in (virtual) public space. Out of these propositions the best idea will be chosen through voting and carried out by all of the participants in small groups. These production groups will follow the ‘rules’ of the chosen intervention, and may alter the original idea by choosing a creative approach or innovative materials &techniques. The best interventions are those who succeed in attracting the attention of as many people as possible – in real life or on the internet.

At the end of the day the ‘smArtmob’ approach and the artistic results will be critically discussed among the participants.

Tuesday February 28th, 10AM – 4PM, EV 6.735, SGW Campus, Concordia University

Email your name & contact info to scharb@alcor.concordia.ca to secure a space. All welcome.

If you have laptops, smart phones, and media capture devices bring them along. However, they are not required in order to participate. All other materials will be provided.

Instructor Biography:
Emiel Heijnen is a Dutch art/media educator and researcher. His field of interest is interdisciplinary arts education in connection to contemporary art, popular culture, media activism and urban interventions. He is a senior lecturer at the Amsterdam School of the Arts and researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is a member of the AHK Arts Education Research Group and initiator of (inter)national education projects like Media Connection, MediaCulture and Remix Culture.

With generous support from:
FOFA Gallery
Faculty of Fine Arts
FASA
Graduate Students Association
ArtEGS
Art Education Undergraduate Students Association

DD12 // OPEN CALL //

derapage.ca

DÉRAPAGE is a unique event of audiovisual exploration
that annually invites people from all disciplines
to create a non-narrative sonorized audiovisual
short piece of less than three minutes.

Your videos can be in realtime, in animation, working
with textures; shot in red, blue or green;
in black and white or in color; hysterical
or contemplative; they’ll find their place in Dérapage.
So, now is time to submit your non-narrative artworks
for the grand screening evening of Dérapage 12.

RULES AND SUBMISSION FORM

The piece must be original work and non-narrative.
The piece must contain sound.
The sound has to be original material.
The work must be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes.
All videos must be submitted as Quicktime files.

// RULES
// SUBMISSION FORM

PRIZES AND MENTIONS

- DÉRAPAGE Grand Prize
- Best Animation
- Best First Movie
- Best Video Editing
- Best Sound

IMPORTANT DATES

- DÉMARRAGE (start), Thursday, January 19th 2012;
- DÉCALAGE, February 14th to the 19th 2012;
- DEADLINE, submissions due date, March 16th 2012;
- DÉRAPAGE, Thursday, April 19th 2012.

Facebook //
Archives //

MAILING LIST //
info@derapage.ca

Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery presents

La galerie de la faculté des beaux-arts (FOFA) de l’université Concordia présente :

Great Small Works, The Toy Theatre of Terror as Usual: Episode 11: Strange Weather, 2000

GREAT SMALL WORKS
The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual: Episodes 1-12
York Corridor Vitrines | Vitrines York corridor

MELANIE PERREAULT
Vibrancy Trickling Into Tuesday Before Dawn
Main gallery and Ste. Catherine Street vitrine | Galerie principale et vitrine rue Ste. Catherine

CLARE SAMUEL
Otherwise Than Being
Black Box | Boîte noire

Exhibition | Exposition
February 13 to March 11, 2012 | Le 13 février au 11 mars, 2012

Vernissage
Thursday, February 16, 5 to 7 p.m. | Jeudi le 16 février, 17h à 19h

Finissage + Performance
Friday March 9, 5-7PM, EV 6-720 + FOFA Atrium
Vendredi le 9 mars, 17h à 19h, EV 6-720 + l’atrium FOFA

Where | Lieu
FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
Galerie FOFA, Université Concordia
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1.715
Montreal, Quebec (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Gallery hours | Heures
Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. | Lundi au vendredi, de 11 h à 19 h

Cost | Coût
Free admission. Everyone welcome. | Entrée libre. Ouvert à tous.

Information | Renseignements
FOFA Gallery website or 514-848-2424 ext. 7962
(no voicemail, call during gallery hours)

Site de la galerie or 514-848-2424 ext. 7962 (aucune boîte vocale, s.v.p. téléphonez pendant les heures d’ouverture de la galerie)

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GREAT SMALL WORKS: The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual: Episodes 1-12
A popular and simple means of staging dramatic spectacles in the Victorian living room, toy theatre was the rage in homes across Europe and the Americas. During the countdown to the Gulf War in 1991, members of Great Small Works, inspired by Walter Benjamin’s notion of culture in a permanent “state of emergency” and by the political photomontages of Weimar artist John Heartfield, began performing a surreal news serial, entitled The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual. Using excerpted texts and cut-out images from current newspapers, magazines and philosophical works, the series, now in its twelfth episode, has dealt with issues ranging from the Gulf War and the Los Angeles riots to the condition of New York City real estate and American gun culture. Performed by five visible puppeteers hovering around a tabletop proscenium stage, Terror As Usual has become the company’s signature piece. The exhibition at the FOFA Gallery presents miniature versions of the theatres, a graphic timeline of performances and video documentation, and will conclude its run with a performance by the Great Small Works Troupe; John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi and Mark Sussman, in conjunction with the Festival des Castelliers.

Moyen simple et populaire de monter des spectacles dramatiques dans les salons victoriens, le théâtre de marionnettes a fait fureur dans les foyers à travers l’Europe et les Amériques. Lors du compte à rebours de la guerre du Golfe en 1991, les membres de Great Small Works, inspirés par la notion de culture en « état d’urgence » permanente de Walter Benjamin et par les photomontages politiques de l’artiste allemand John Heartfield, ont commencé à jouer une série de nouvelles surréalistes intitulée The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual. Utilisant des découpes d’images et des extraits de textes tirés de journaux, de magazines et d’ouvrages philosophiques courants, la série, actuellement à son douzième épisode, a porté sur des questions allant de la guerre du Golfe et des émeutes à Los Angeles, à l’état de l’immobilier newyorkais et de la culture des armes à feu américaine. Interprété par cinq marionnettistes visibles œuvrant autour d’un mini théâtre à l’italienne, Terror As Usual est devenue la pièce emblématique de la compagnie. L’exposition présentée à la Galerie FOFA est composée de versions miniatures des théâtres, d’une chronologie graphique des performances et d’une documentation vidéo. Elle se conclura par une performance de la troupe Great Small Works incluant John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi et Mark Sussman, en collaboration avec le Festival des Casteliers.

MELANIE PERREAULT: Vibrancy Trickling Into Tuesday Before Dawn
Melanie Perreault’s installation provides a visceral experience of information overload infused with the sense of another dimension and the fantastic. Monochromatic and dense, Vibrancy Trickling Into Tuesday Before Dawn becomes a cardboard oasis for the durational performance of the character Jillian. Her actions are those of the culturally neurotic – seeking to read more, see more, learn more, know more – and her guarantee of failure has lead her to this fantastical display where she begins to fade into the site.

Les installations de Melanie Perreault offrent une expérience viscérale de surcharge d’information teintée de fantastique et d’une impression de dimension étrangère. Dense et monochrome, Vibrancy Trickling Into Tuesday Before Dawn devient une oasis de carton au cours de la performance du personnage de Jillian. Tel un être culturellement névrosé cherchant à lire plus, voir plus, apprendre plus, en savoir plus; et de surcroît avec sa certitude de l’échec, ses actions l’ont menée dans ce cadre fantastique où elle se fond peu à peu dans le décor.

CLARE SAMUEL: Otherwise Than Being, (2011), three channel HD video, approx. 20-minute loop
The title of Clare Samuel’s installation comes from a work by Emanuel Levinas, whose existential philosophy addresses the relationship between the Self and Other, particularly focusing on the the face, which calls forth a responsibility for exchange. Otherwise than Being also refers to the disappearance of the image. A photograph of a man’s face gradually disintegrates before us, eventually becoming an empty screen – a lack. The figure’s eyes are closed, cutting off communication, and yet holding our attention by belying the stillness of the image, as though at any moment he could “wake up”. The action of the piece is literally one of de-facing, but rather than violence, the subject’s pose and the beauty of the colours suggest a passive and willing surrender to the process and gaze of the viewer.

Le titre de l’installation de Clare Samuel est tiré d’une œuvre d’Emanuel Levinas, dont la philosophie existentielle porte sur la relation entre le Soi et l’Autre, en se concentrant particulièrement sur le visage comme objet évoquant la responsabilité de l’échange. Otherwise than Being se réfère également à la disparition de l’image. La photo du visage d’un homme se désintègre progressivement sous nos yeux pour faire éventuellement place à un écran vide, un manque. Les yeux du personnage sont fermés, coupant toute communication. Pourtant, ceux-ci retiennent toujours notre attention, contredisant ainsi l’immobilité de l’image comme si, à tout moment, l’homme pourrait se « réveiller ». L’action de la pièce est littéralement un acte de défiguration. Cependant, plutôt que d’invoquer la violence, la pose du sujet et la beauté des couleurs suggèrent une soumission passive et volontaire face au processus et au regard du spectateur.

Studio 7 – February Edition
Invitation and call for submissions

In an effort to bring together artists, friends, strangers, and potential collaborators, Concordia’s Contemporary Dance department is hosting our next Studio 7 on Friday February 17th , 2012.
If you’re not familiar with this event, it is a free monthly performance series, and an opportunity for all Concordia fine arts students to present works-in-progress in a casual, intimate setting. Students of Dance, Theatre, Music, Electroacoustics, Film, Intermedia/Cyberarts, etc. are invited to share their projects.
Whether as performers or spectators, all are welcome to participate at this crossroads of contemporary art.

For submissions, please fill out the document attached to this email and send to Michaela at studio7.concordia@gmail.com.

Friday February 17th @ 8pm
FREE
$2 BEER

Concordia University Dance Department
1450 Guy Street (MB), 7th floor
Montreal, QC

THE ARTIST’S PORTFOLIO: COMPONENTS AND PRESENTATION STRATEGIES : Volet Montréal
Duration: 14 hours
Date: 25–26 February 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration fee: 80$
Registration form : download the registration form

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The artist’s portfolio is artists’ main tool for representing and promoting themselves, and it must assembled as a convincing and coherent document. The portfolio is used for many things: to obtain funding (scholarships, awards, sponsorships, grants), present a project (call for portfolios, project proposal, submission), obtain representation by a gallery or agent, make a sale, make one’s work known to the public and the media, build one’s Web site, and so on. Because the portfolio is visual artists’ main tool for representing themselves, they must be well equipped to assemble and use it strategically.

Combining theory, group discussions, and a practical workshop, this training session is intended to familiarize artists with basic rules for putting together a persuasive, effective portfolio. Participants will be able to promote themselves better to potential purchasers, granting organizations, sponsors, juries, galleries, artist-run centres, and directors of art events, or to develop their Web site.

ABOUT THE TRAINER:
With a master’s degree in visual arts, VALÉRIE GILL has had a professional career in the visual arts during which her sculptures have been presented in numerous exhibitions in Canada and Italy. She has been a speaker, exhibition curator, and member of juries and selection committees, as well as an administrator of Galerie OPTICA. Because she has also worked in the media communications sector (television) she is a press attaché for singers and musicians, and she also translates and edits texts for a variety of publications. Ms. Gill regularly gives training for professional associations and regional culture councils.

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ELIGIBILITY: Under Emploi-Québec standards, to be entitled to the rates granted for these training sessions, you must meet the following eligibility criteria: you must be a professional artist and be either self-employed or employed as a cultural worker by a company not subject to The Act to promote workforce skills development and recognition and whose payroll is less than $1,000,000.

CANCELLATION: If you cancel your registration, you must do so in writing or by telephone ten business days before the training session begins to receive a full refund. RAAV reserves the right to cancel or to report a session if the number of participants is deemed insufficient; In case of cancellation all registration fees will be refunded.

REGISTRATION: Your registration is official once we receive your registration form, along with your cheque made out to RAAV. Please provide a separate check for each session in the date of the chosen session.

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Partnership with Emploi-Québec, le Conseil québécois des ressources humaines en culture and English Language Artist Network – ELAN.

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Festival Artefact; appel de dossiers
Vitrine, conférence et bourse
L’équation est simple, un partage entre les différents acteurs: groupes de musique, intervenants de l’industrie québécoise et adeptes de la musique émergente. Voilà le Festival Artefact.

Festival Artefact; call out for emerging music artists

Participer au Festival ARTEFACT c’est :
la chance de performer devant le public ET l’industrie : faites-vous voir, entendre et découvrir!

la chance de rencontrer, échanger et de créer des opportunités d’affaires avec les différents acteurs!

La chance de participer à toutes les activités du festival, et ce, gratuitement (laissez-passer inclus)!

Et surtout, la chance de remporter la bourse de 2500 $ en devenant le grand récipiendaire annuel!

Que vous soyez de Gaspé ou de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, inscrivez-vous sans tarder au Festival ARTEFACT. Toutes les candidatures reçues seront étudiées attentivement par l’organisation. De celles-ci, les 18 groupes, avec les plus grands potentiels, seront retenus afin de participer au festival.

Au terme du festival, c’est par un tirage au sort que l’un des dix-huit artistes ayant performé sur scène se verra attribuer la fameuse bourse ARTEFACT 2012, au montant de 2500 $. Intéressant non?

www.festivalartefact.com

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Ste. Emilie Skillshare and Sidetracks events!
steemilieskillshare.org

SKILLSHARES, WORKSHOPS + OTHER EVENTS

Aside from hosting Open Studios and community silkscreening projects, we also put on skillshare series’s every once in a while. Get on our mailing list to get updates about it.

If you have a skill to share, please let us know!

Skillshare’s can be on anything from crafting to survival skills to political education. We want to share them all

Events to happen soon;

Feb 17: Vernissage of Postacards from home (show running from the 18th till the 24th)
Feb 18: Open Studio
Feb 19: Silkscreening 101
Feb 25: Open Studio
Mar 3: Open Studio
Mar 10: Open Studio
Mar 17: Open Studio
Mar 24: Open Studio

Thank you! And don’t forget to get in contact with us for your friendly silkscreening projects!

ART IN ACTION 2012
Creative student and community contributions related to social and environmental justice

FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 4, 2012
7th Floor, Hall Building at Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve West, métro Guy-Concordia
wheelchair accessible — free — welcome to all

ART IN ACTION highlights creative expression on social and environmental justice issues through diverse mediums including: drawing, painting, photography, performance, film & video, installation, spoken word, zine, collage, watercolour, poster, and print.

This year ART IN ACTION includes close to thirty exhibits, installations and performances from: Claude Bernier-Tremblay * Al Blair * Karen Boyles * Anne Breton * Andrea deBruijn * Sylvia Chan * Emily Yun Ching Clare & Ryan Kai Cheng Thom * Shaw Desjean * Colectivo Dignidad Migrante * Arthur Gauthier * Guillaume Girard * GLAD Theatre Collective * Bianca Hlywa * Alix Hugonnier * Sophie Ingels-Fortier * Virginie Jourdain * John Lanthier * Naomi Large * Allison LaSorda * Emmanuelle Lippé * Kevin Yuen Kit Lo * Simone Lucas & Christian Scott * Cassandra Marsillo * Léa Radoslava Marinova * Erica Mazerolle * Nadia Myre * Sheryl-Ann Simpson * Keara Yim

- full details below or www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art
- facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/237215266364030/

ART IN ACTION is part of STUDY IN ACTION, which together not only cross disciplinary lines, but also transcend borders between academic and popular knowledge. For more information about STUDY IN ACTION: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction

STUDY IN ACTION/ART IN ACTION is co-presented by QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill.

ART IN ACTION Viewing Hours:
- Monday, February 27, 10am-8pm — vernissage from 5-7pm, with artists present
- Tuesday, February 28, 10am-5pm
- Wednesday, February 29, 10am-8pm
- Thursday, March 1, 10am-8pm
- Friday, March 2, 10am-10pm — “5 à 7”, with artists present
- Saturday, March 3, 10am-8pm
- Sunday, March 4, 10am-6pm

- Art In Action-related performances will take place between February 27-March 4; more details forthcoming.
- After March 4 until the end of the month, Art In Action exhibits will be displayed at L’Escalier, Galerie X, the Concordia Greenhouse, QPIRG Concordia, and other locations around Montreal.

INFO: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art – studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org – 514-848-7585″ target=”_blank”>http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art
- facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/237215266364030/

ART IN ACTION is part of STUDY IN ACTION, which together not only cross disciplinary lines, but also transcend borders between academic and popular knowledge. For more information about STUDY IN ACTION: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction

STUDY IN ACTION/ART IN ACTION is co-presented by QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill.

ART IN ACTION Viewing Hours:
- Monday, February 27, 10am-8pm — vernissage from 5-7pm, with artists present
- Tuesday, February 28, 10am-5pm
- Wednesday, February 29, 10am-8pm
- Thursday, March 1, 10am-8pm
- Friday, March 2, 10am-10pm — “5 à 7”, with artists present
- Saturday, March 3, 10am-8pm
- Sunday, March 4, 10am-6pm

- Art In Action-related performances will take place between February 27-March 4; more details forthcoming.
- After March 4 until the end of the month, Art In Action exhibits will be displayed at L’Escalier, Galerie X, the Concordia Greenhouse, QPIRG Concordia, and other locations around Montreal.

INFO: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art – studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org – 514-848-7585

Series ECHOES OF THE PLANET

QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US?
(HD, 82 min., 2010, USA) by Taggart Siegel

preceded by

JARDIN DU SOLEIL
(16mm, 2min., silent, 2010, France) by Rose Lowder

Thursday, February 16th at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 19th at 6:00pm (repeat screening)

QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US?

“The light bulb will go on in people in a different form. It went on for me after making The Real Dirt on Farmer John, my previous film. I wasn’t aware of bees back then, in 2005 or 6 – that they were so important. It wasn’t until 2008 when I read an article on the bees, and that Einstein said (it’s been disputed that he actually said it but it’s quoted everywhere) that if bees die out, man has 4 years to live.” – Taggart Siegel

“A remarkable documentary that’s also one of the most beautiful nature films I’ve seen.” – Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times

CinemaSpace is proud to launch the ECHOES OF THE PLANET SERIES, a new series on the environment, with Queen of the Sun: What are the bees telling us?, Taggart Siegel’s award-winning documentary exploring the deep link between humans and bees and how this historic and sacred relationship has been lost due to highly mechanized and profit driven industrial practices. Through animation, illuminated imagery and candid interviews, Queen of the Sun shows how bees were highly revered by the Egyptians, Mayans and Greeks, and places a unique emphasis on the biodynamic and organic communities often overlooked by the media and other ‘bee movies’. Siegel follows the voices and visions of beekeepers, philosophers and scientists from around the world, seeks to discover the causes and solutions behind Colony Collapse Disorder – a phenomenon where honeybees vanish from their hives never to return – and successfully relays a positive and hope-laden message signalling the true possibility of a sustainable, healthy and verdant future.

Queen of the Sun: What are the bees telling us? won the Director’s Choice Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Audience Award at both the Maui Film Festival and IndieMemphis Film Festival. Siegel’s 2006 feature documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005) won 31 international film festivals awards and was released theatrically around the world.

View the trailer

ABOUT TAGGART SIEGEL:

“It’s a miracle that we are even here. We don’t even have to get new age-y or anything, but it’s a miracle that we’re all here and connected together in such an amazing way”. – Taggart Siegel

An independent filmmaker since the mid 1980s, Taggart Siegel has produced and directed award-winning documentaries and dramas reflecting his own unique perspective on cultural diversity with a fearlessly absorbing style and vast choice of subject matter. The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America (2001) and Emmy nominated Between Two Worlds (2004) capture the struggle of Hmong Shamans trying to maintain their ancient traditions in America, while Blue Collar and Buddha (1986)explores the dilemma of a community of Laotian refugees adapting to life in a blue-collar mid-western town. Heart Broken in Half (2007) tells the complex story of a street gang in Chicago, Shadow of the Pepper Tree (1995) explores the mysteries and temptations of a Mexican healer, and The Disenchanted Forest (1999), filmed for National Geographic Television, follows the lives of endangered and orphaned orangutans on the island of Borneo. Siegel is also the co-founder of Collective Eye Incorporated, a non-profit media production and distribution organization based in Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, and his filmmaking practices continue to explore pertinent topics and perspectives rarely seen or discussed by mainstream media outlets.

www.queenofthesun.com

JARDIN DU SOLEIL

“Beginning with natural light, an element that played a major role in cinematographic development, the subject of the film revolves around solar panels in two different places, Cascina Piola, Capriglio, Asti, in Italy, and Le Vieil Eclis, Asserac, in Loire-Atlantique, France. We find ourselves in the middle of sparkling light, exposed to the wind, like the butterflies, the bees and the little clouds”. – from www.lightcone.org

ABOUT ROSE LOWDER:

“I want the subject that I’m filming to be living its own life… When everything is under control, it’s dead. My filming processes are set up as a dialogue with reality.” – Rose Lowder

Born in 1941 in Lima Peru, French filmmaker Rose Lowder has made over 50 avant-garde and experimental films since the 1970s influencing generations of filmmakers and environmental enthusiasts worldwide. Her work in 16mm involves frame-by-frame composition demonstrating a profound and sincere investigation of rural Europe and Lowder’s unique ecological concerns. Originally trained as a painter, Lowder turned to filmmaking as a form of artistic practice as well as method of research in photographic and visual perception.

roselowder.blogspot.com

For more information visit: www.segalcentre.org/season-2011-2012/upcoming-events/cinema/echoes-of-the-planet/queen-of-the-sun/

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/CinemaSpace

CinemaSpace @ the Segal Centre for Performing Arts
5170, ch. de la Côte-Ste- Catherine
Metro Snowdon or Côte-Ste-Catherine | Bus 129 / 17 / 51
Box Office: 514.739.7944

Regular: $10.00
Student (full-time w/ ID) / Senior (65+): $8.00

The Friends of Dorothy presents a FREE screening of Love Is The Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (UK, 1998)
at 7pm on Saturday February 11th in EV 1.605, 1515 St. Catherine Street (Guy/ Concordia Metro).
Curated by Carlos Rojas.

Love Is The Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon stars Daniel Craig, Derek Jacobi and Tilda Swinton.
Set in the 1960′s, this film focuses on the tumultuous relationship between between the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon and his lover George Dyer.

Please note, we will be having a general club meeting at 5pm before the screening on February 11th in EV 1.605.
See you next Saturday.
www.thefriendsofdorothymtl.weebly.com

http://www.facebook.com/DorothySlippers

Department of Music concerts and events, February 2012
Concordia University

Roots of Rock & Roll Concert
California Dreamin’: Music From the Golden State
Craig Morrison and the Momentz
When:
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Where:
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal
Cost:
$20 regular, $16 for seniors, $13 for students (plus service fee)
Information:
514-848-4848
Read more

Music Faculty Research Lecture Series
Culture vs Nature: Harmony revisited
Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra, Associate Professor, Department of Music
When:
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8.255
1450 Guy St., Montreal
Cost:
Free admission, everyone welcome
Information:
514-848-2424 ext. 4711
Read more

Jazz Studies Faculty Concert – Steve Amirault Trio
When:
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Where:
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal
Cost:
$10 regular, $8 for seniors, $5 for non-Concordia students (plus service fee). Free for Concordia students with ID
Information:
514-848-4848
Read more

For up-to-date event information, including changes to the schedule: http://music.concordia.ca/news-and-events

For other events at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall: http://oscar.concordia.ca/events/hevents.html

Enjoy!

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Concerts et activités du Département de musique, janvier et février 2012
Université Concordia

Concert Roots of Rock and Roll
California Dreamin’: Music From the Golden State
Craig Morrison and the Momentz
Date :
Vendredi 10 février 2012, 20 h
Samedi 11 février 2012, 20 h
Lieu :
Salle de concert Oscar Peterson, Université Concordia
7141, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal
Coût :
20 $ (16 $ pour les aînés et 13 $ pour les étudiants) plus frais de gestion
Renseignements :
514 848-4848
En savoir plus

Cycle de conférences des professeurs de musique
Culture vs Nature: Harmony revisited
Ricardo Dal Farra, PhD, professeur agrégé, Département de musique
Date :
Jeudi 16 février 2012, 17 h 45 – 18 h 30
Lieu :
Département de musique, Université Concordia
Pavillon de l’École de gestion John-Molson, 8.255
1450, rue Guy, Montréal
Coût :
Entrée libre, ouvert à tous
Renseignements :
514 848-2424, poste 4711
En savoir plus

Concert des professeurs d’études en jazz – Trio de Steve Amirault
Date :
Jeudi 16 février 2012, 20 h
Lieu :
Salle de concert Oscar Peterson, Université Concordia
7141, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal
Coût :
Billets sur place. 10 $ (8 $ pour les aînés et 5 $ pour les étudiants d’une université autre que Concordia) plus frais de gestion. Entrée libre pour les étudiants de Concordia munis de leur carte d’identité
Renseignements :
514 848-4848
En savoir plus

Renseignements complémentaires et mises à jour : http://music.concordia.ca/news-and-events

Autresévénements de la salle de concert Oscar-Peterson : http://oscar.concordia.ca/events/hevents.html

Bonne écoute!

Remarque : Les activités se dérouleront enanglais.

S’abonner/Se désabonner : concerts-request@concordia.ca

http://arcencieldafrique.org/massimadi/en/the-festival/

” Arc-en-ciel d’Afrique presents Le Festival Massimadi , a film festival taking place from February 6th to February 12th in three locations: National Film Office, the Cinémathèque Québécoise and l’Université du Québec à Montrèal.

‘Massimadi’ evolves from two Créole words ,“masisi” and “madivinèz” , both pejorative terms for gay and lesbian. Reclaiming words that are meant to hurt, Arc-en-ciel d’Afrique proudly named this yearly festival Massimadi. As one of the very few festivals exclusively dedicated to Afro-Caribbean LGBT films, Massimadi’s goal is to address homophobia in Afro-Caribbean communities as well as to inform Québec society about the challenges facing their LGBT Afro-Caribbean neighbors and friends.

Massimadi is already four years old! This year the festival highlights two Montreal documentaries which give voice to living the intersectionality of being Black, LBGT and Québécois. African, European and U.S. feature films will introduce many personal stories of people across the world. The challenges of Sero-positivity/AIDS, resisting homophobia, and coming out are but a few of these films themes.”

*Public Talk and Screening: Richard Fung*

*Video Artist/Writer/Theorist *

*Friday, February 10 — 1:30 pm — 2:30 pm*

*Hall 110: 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. *

Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, writer, theorist and educator. He holds a degree in cinema studies as well as an ME in sociology and cultural studies, both from the University of Toronto. He is Associate Professor in the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

His work comprises of a series of challenging videos on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. His tapes, which include *My Mother’s Place*(1990), *Sea in the Blood* (2000) and *Uncomfortable* (2005), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States.

His essays have been published in many journals and anthologies, and he is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of*13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics *(2002), recently updated and translated into French. Richard is a past Rockefeller Fellow at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video as well as the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art.

Fung has always seen himself as much as an educator as an artist, and in Helen Lee’s essay ‘Dirty Dozen: Playing 12 Questions with Richard Fung’ from *Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung* (Images Festival and Insomniac Press, 2002), Fung says he aims to produce work which is ‘pedagogical, but hopefully not pedantic’. Richard is a public intellectual who has pushed forward the debates about queer sexuality, Asian identity and the uneasy borderlands of culture and politics.

TERRITORIUM
By
Mouna Abed

Opening: Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

Wilder & Davis Gallery is pleased to welcome Territorium, the first solo exhibition of monotype prints and mixed media on paper by artist Mouna Abed, from February 17 to May 11, 2012. The artist will be presenting a body of work that deals with the relationship between humans and their natural habitat. The notion of land is explored through landscapes seen from different angles: space that is occupied, abandoned, fabricated, constructed, dismantled or unfinished. Since 2010, Mouna Abed has incorporated drawings with India inks and photo-transfers to her monotypes. Her artistic approach is directly connected to the environment and ecology, often questioning how the land is being altered and how it correlates over time.

The general public and the media are cordially invited to meet the artist at the opening of the exhibition on Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

The artist will be available to speak to the media and answer any questions journalists may have.

Born in 1980 in the South of France, Mouna Abed has a BFA in visual arts from UQAM. Upon completion of her studies, she went on to do a printmaking residency at the Martha Street Studio in Winnipeg. She has participated in several juried group shows, such as the International Juried Print Exhibition in 2009 at the Ottawa School of Art and the 3rd Guanlan International Print Biennial in China in 2011. She was awarded with an honourable mention for her body of work during the Festival International Montréal en Arts (FIMA) in 2011. Mouna Abed is represented by the Guilde Graphique and by L’espace contemporain Galleries in Montréal. She is also a member of Atelier Circulaire.

Wilder & Davis Gallery
257 Rachel Street East, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2W 1E5
Telephone: (514) 289-0849 / Fax: (514) 289-9894

http://galeriewilderdavis.wordpress.com

wilder_davis@yahoo.com

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PHOTOFORUM | PORTFOLIO REVIEW
deadline: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Reviews: Saturday, April 28th and Sunday, April 29th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exhibition: Saturday, April 28th to Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Cocktail reception and vernissage: Saturday, April 28th at 6 p.m.

Les Territoires invites contemporary art photographers and videographers to submit their portfolios for Photoforum, a weekend of sharing between talented artists and art professionals. Les Territoires will host some of the area’s most dedicated curators, artists-run center directors, gallery owners and critics for 20-minute scheduled one-on-one critiques of photo and video-based works. Portfolio reviews can help artists with project development and career opportunities. The juried process ensures the participation of artists with well-developed projects who are ready to discuss conceptual approaches and future projects. Photoforum is also complemented by various satellite events such as a one week group exhibition in the gallery and a cocktail reception.

Selected participants will pay a registration fee and have the opportunity to choose reviewers. Participants and reviewers will be paired by a lottery system, based on the artist’s preferences.

Please note that the registration fees are applicable once the artists are selected. The call for submission is free of charge.

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Registration cost: $170 for a minimum of 5 reviews and participation to the satellite events.

Confirmed reviewers:

FRANÇOIS BABINEAU, assistant director, Galerie Simon Blais
MARIE-ÈVE BEAUPRÉ, independent curator
JEAN-FRANÇOIS BÉLISLE, director, Espace Arsenal
ANNE-MARIE BELLEY, independent curator
GEORGE BOGARDI, artist, critic and writer
DIANE CHARBONNEAU, curator of contemporary decorative arts, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
MEREDITH CARRUTHERS, independent curator
MYRABELLE CHARLEBOIS, independent curator
LYNE CREVIER, critic and writer
ÈVE DE GARIE-LAMANQUE, independent curator
ELIANE ELLBOGEN, artistic director, Eastern Bloc
BETTINA FORGET, director, Visual Voice
EMILIE GRANDMONT-BÉRUBÉ, director, Galerie Trois-Points
NADÈGE GREBMEIER FORGET, artist, curator and marketing agent for esse editions
ROBERT HÉBERT, director, Centre de documentation sur la photographie
VIRGINIE JOURDAIN, exhibition coordinator, La Centrale
JO-ANN KANE, curator, corporate art collections
MARIE-CLAUDE LANDRY, contemporary art curator, Musée d’art de Joliette
PATRICK MIKHAIL, director, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa
CLAIRE MOEDER, critic and exhibition coordinator, Joyce Yahouda gallery
JAKE MOORE, director, FOFA Gallery
ANNE RAMSDEN, artist and professor at UQÀM
LILIAN RODRIGUEZ, director, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez
PABLO RODRIGUEZ, writer
DAVID K. ROSS, artist and critic
CHERYL SIMON, artist and writer
MICHAEL TOPPINGS, artistic and executive director, MAI
ANDREA WONG, critic
JOYCE YAHOUDA, director, Galerie Joyce Yahouda

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Submissions should include:
10-15 jpeg images (maximum 1mb each)
artist statement or project statement, maximum 250 words (PDF)
CV, maximum 2 pages (PDF)
These documents can be packaged in a single PDF or as a PDF with a zipped folder of images.

Submissions should be emailed to:
territoires.portfolio@gmail.com (subject: portfolio submission)

For more information contact us by e-mail at territoires.portfolio@gmail.com or visit our website for Photoforum 2012!

Project Futures Canada is excited to announce our first “Vernissage for a Cause,” happening February 9th in the Old Port of Montreal. This is a themed art exhibit hoping to raise awareness about human trafficking. We were given your information from the Concordia University’s Students Associations, with hope that our cause may appeal to your interests. Canadian artists have submitted their creations for the exhibit, each of which will be on silent auction, with all proceeds going to Project Futures Canada! With the support of Nationally renown art gallery Studio 10 King, and Barefoot Wine, we know the event will be a success.

We would love for you to attend our vernissage, and hope to see you! Please let us know if you’d be interested in complimentary entrance so we can add your name to our Important Guests lists. We have attached our poster for the event and would really appreciate for you to pass it on to whomever may be interested.

For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact us, as displayed below. We sincerely appreciate your support for the fight against trafficking and would love to collaborate with you in the future. We cannot wait to see you at the event!

Thank you,
Tracey Regimbal, Sonia Duda and Cori Chong

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Directors
Project Futures Canada
1-514-566-8635
www.projectfutures.ca

“Raise awareness
Engage a generation
End sex trafficking”

Faculty of Fine Arts news & events e-broadcast

February 1, 2012

Congratulations to Fine Arts faculty, students and alumni on their many recent accolades!

Cinema professor Luigi Allemano created the music and sound design for Patrick Doyon’s Dimanche/Sunday, which has received both Academy Award and Jutra nominations for Best Animated Short Film. In addition, Luigi was credited with special thanks for his animation and sound editing contribution to another Oscar-nominated animated short film, Wild Life, by Amanda Forbis and former Cinema professor Wendy Tilby. Watch the Oscars on Feb. 26 and Jutras on Mar. 11.

Also receiving Jutra nominations for Best Animated Short Film are Cinema alumni Mathieu Tremblay (for D’aléas) and Dominique Étienne Simard (for Paula).

Two music faculty have won 2012 Prix Opus with the Conseil québécois de la musique:

Part-time faculty member Gary Schwartz won “Concert de l’année – Jazz, Musiques du monde” for “Lettingo: The Music and Influence of Ornette Coleman”. Gary was also nominated for “Concert de l’année – Montréal”.

Professor Christopher Jackson and Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal won “Disque de l’année – Musiques médiéval, de la renaissance, baroque, classique” for “Orlando di Lasso – Lagrime di San Pietro (ATMA Classique).

Associate Professor Jeri Brown, also in Music, has been nominated for a 2012 East Coast Music Award for Jazz Recording of the Year for her solo album Storytelling. The winners will be announced April 11 to 15, 2012.

Part-time Studio Arts faculty member Nicole Gingras, curator of Quebec City’s Manif d’art 6 biennial exhibition, was named Curator of the Year by the Contemporary Art Galleries Association. She was also nominated for Best Exhibition, Best Art Event and Best Regional Exhibition.

Performing Arts inauguration named “Newsmaker of the week”

The new downtown facilities for the Departments of Music, Theatre and Contemporary Dance were officially inaugurated on January 19 with a ceremony, student performances and a reception. Concordia named the event “Newsmaker of the week”. Read more about the inauguration.

Radio-Canada welcomes Design professor as guest contributor

Associate Professor Martin Racine has been invited to become a regular contributor on Radio-Canada’s radio show, L’après-midi porte conseil, to talk about his research and new technologies in the field of sustainable design. Tune in to Martin’s segments on Tuesdays at 2:35 p.m. at 95.1 FM.

FOFA Gallery, faculty and alumni featured in Canadian Art’s “Top 3” lists for 2011

Concordia Fine Arts figured prominently in Canadian Art Magazine’s “Top 3” editors’ lists for 2011.

· FOFA Gallery – Anima and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery – Kent Monkman, My Treaty is with the Crown

· Quebec Triennial – Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, which featured 32 Concordia laureates out of 50 artists/artist collectives

· Big Bang, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal – which featured the work of photography professor Geneviève Cadieux.

Beyond the Headlines with Joanna Berzowska

Associate Professor Joanna Berzowska (Design and Computation Arts), whose research focuses on intelligent textiles, was featured in a new Concordia initiative called Beyond the Headlines. Read about her conversation with Hal Myers of Thought Technology, the Montreal-based company specializing in biofeedback products.

President’s Conference – Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games

From February 4 to 6, Concordia and the Grande Bibliothèque will host the President’s Conference Series, an international event examining Japan’s media mix and its wider commercial and cultural impact. Read more about the keynote lecture, symposium and TAG “Mixcade”.

Sandeep Bhagwati: World premiere in Germany on Feb. 10

The world premiere of Sandeep Bhagwati’s orchestral work Limits and Renewals will take place on Feb. 10 at the Eclat Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. Other upcoming events include outdoor concerts in Montreal’s Old Port on Feb. 26 and Mar. 4 and a video installation of his work Racines Éphémères at the National Library of Quebec Mar. 8 to Apr. 1. Sandeep is a Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory and associate professor in music and theatre.

Speaking of Photography: Lecture by Deborah Willis on Feb. 10

The Department of Art History welcomes Deborah Willis of the Tisch School of the Arts on Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m. in EV 1.605. Her lecture, Posing Beauty in African American Culture, will explore the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in art. Read more.

Faculty of Arts and Science lecture on Feb. 10: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

The departments of Philosophy and Biology will welcome acclaimed science journalist Emma Marris on Fri., Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. in MB 2.210, to give a lecture about our relationship with the natural world. The lecture, Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, is free of charge and open to everyone.

Studio Arts student exhibitions (Read more on Studio Arts website):

· Undergraduate students “Ceramics” exhibition: Feb. 6 to 24

· MFA in Studio Arts “Open Studios and Art Auction”: Feb. 15

FOFA Gallery: Vernissage – Feb. 16, 5 to 7 p.m.

The FOFA Gallery presents three exhibitions from Feb. 13 to March 11 (Vernissage: Feb. 16 from 5 to 7 p.m.):

- Vibrancy Trickling Into Tuesday Before Dawn, Melanie Perreault (MFA candidate) – Main Gallery and Ste. Catherine St. vitrine

- The Toy Theatre of Terror as Usual: Episodes 1 – 12, Mark Sussman (Associate Professor, Theatre) – York Corridor vitrines

- Otherwise Than Being, Clare Samuel (MFA 10) – Black Box

Exhibition february 10 to march 18, 2012
Opening friday, february 10, 7pm
Artist talk with Shuvinai Ashoona
and screening of Ghost Noise
by Marcia Connolly
saturday, february 11, 3pm

- Inuktitut press release here -

La Centrale is proud to present the second edition of Women of the Arctic, a series of exhibitions and events presenting the work of Inuit women artists from Nunavik and Nunavut. This second edition of a three-part series has been made possible through the generous support of Dorset Fine Arts and Feheley Fine Arts in Toronto.

SKY ECCHYMOSIS

The drawings in this exhibition have not been chosen to articulate a common theme in the work of these two artists, but rather to create an assemblage of images that traces, through its rhythm, atmosphere, details, and movement, the fictive portrait of a territory.

The two artists share in the unusual fullness of their gaze on everyday life. This vivid scrutiny is turned upon the land’s jutting reliefs, the scattered objects, the creatures and the beliefs that populate the terrain. It lingers on the relations between beings, on crossing paths, on time, while being subjected to the singular imaginary of each artist: Shuvinai Ashoona’s is violent, colorful, and provocative while Ningeokuluk Teevee’s is tender, direct, and witty.

The work gathered here portrays daily life as luminous fiction, all at once fabulous, banal, and impossible. The images carry us through a land made of beauty, clarity, and danger. A danger that could just be passing by: through the creature of a legend, through the sad look in two children’s eyes, or through a few men armed with sticks.

Sky Ecchymosis is one of those twilight skies that fill us with wonder with its neon pinks and unnatural blues. A condensed image that dazzles us more than daylight but also signals the arrival of nightfall. A moment of extreme lucidity in which wonder gives way to a sense of vulnerability.

S. Chabot

BIOS

Ningeokuluk Teevee developed her art practice among the community of artists at Kingait Studio in Cape Dorset, where she continues to work as one of the most prolific members of the cooperative. Her first solo show was held at Feheley Fine Arts in 2009. Since then, her work has been seen in many exhibitions across Canada including Uuturautiit; Cape Dorset Celebrates Fifty Years of Printmaking, at The National Gallery in Ottawa (2009), and Paralleling the Permanent Collection: Contemporary Art by Inuit and First Nations Artists, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto (2011). Her work is presently featured in New Art from Cape Dorset, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and in Women in Charge, at the L. Pigorini National Museum in Rome. In 2009, Teevee wrote and illustrated Alego , her first children’s book, which was nominated for the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award in the category of Children’s Literature – Illustration.

Shuvinai Ashoona works primarily in drawing and printmaking. Her art practice began and evolved at the Kingait studio in Cape Dorset where she continues to work and to sustain a prolific art practice. Her work has been shown at Art Basel Miami as well as in many exhibitions across Canada and abroad. Among others: Shuvinai Ashoona Drawings, at the Carleton University Art Gallery; Uuturautiit; Cape Dorset Celebrates Fifty Years of Printmaking, at The National Gallery in Ottawa (2009); Earth and Sky (a collaboration with John Noesthedan), at Nuit Blanche in Toronto (2008); and, Noise Ghost: Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle, at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto (2009). Her work is presently featured in Women in Charge, at the L. Pigorini National Museum in Rome. Next spring her work will be featured in Oh, Canada, at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, and in the 18th Biennale of Sydney.

Marcia Connolly is an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer and video-journalist. Her independent films have shown internationally and nationally, including at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Toronto International Film Festival, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Her short film, Ghost Noise, received the 2010 Lodestar Award for Best Canadian or International film at the Dawson City International Short Film Festival and Jury’s Choice First Prize at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. Since 2000, Connolly has produced and directed segments for various award-winning programs at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), including Street Cents, CBC News: Sunday, and most recently Connect with Mark Kelley.

The curator would like to thank the l’Araignée collective, Minnie Napartuk, Bill Ritchie and Libby Shea. This project was made possible with the help of Dorset Fine Arts, Feheley Fine Arts, First air, Government of Nunavut et Avataq Cultural Institute.

Image by Shuvinai Ashoona.

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
4296 boulevard saint-laurent
montréal qc canada h2w 1z3
www.lacentrale.org

Le Carrefour jeunesse-emploi Montréal Centre-Ville est actuellement en période de recrutement pour son Projet Arts et Culture (PAC).

Ce projet vise l’intégration socioprofessionnelle des jeunes travailleurs culturels de la relève aspirant à travailler dans les domaines suivants : cirque, danse, humour et variétés, musique, théâtre, arts visuels et métiers d’art, cinéma, littérature, patrimoine, multidisciplinaire. Il s’échelonne sur 24 semaines, du 5 mars au 17 août 2012 Les participants recevront une allocation hebdomadaire durant les 11 premières semaines et un salaire pendant le stage (12 semaines).

Supervisés et encadrés par une équipe de professionnels issus du milieu, les participants suivront diverses formations les aidant à structurer leur carrière en déterminant et en mettant en œuvre un projet artistique ou culturel. Sous forme de mentorat ou autrement, ils effectueront ensuite un stage en milieu professionnel.

Les candidats recherchés doivent :

o Être âgés de 18 à 30 ans

o Résider à Montréal

o Maitriser la langue française

o Ne pas être aux études et être sans emploi dans leur domaine

o Démontrer un intérêt marqué pour le domaine culturel ou artistique

o Éprouver des difficultés à intégrer ou réintégrer le marché du travail

o Être disponibles 30 heures par semaines pendant 24 semaines

*Une attention particulière sera accordée aux candidats résidants au centre-ville de Montréal et aux jeunes vivant un manque de soutien familial, social ou professionnel.

Pour assister à la rencontre d’information

Contacter Luanda Almeida au (514) 875-9770, poste 212

Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 24 février 2012 à 17h

www.cjemontreal.org

www.facebook.com/cjemcv

www.twitter.com/CJEMCV

We are looking for submissions of Video Artworks for a screening on February 16th at Le Plant. This event is being organized by IMCA SC.

imca-sc.com

“The Radical Vulvas” originated in 2007 in Halifax, at the Dalhousie University Women’s Centre. It is a community response to the Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler, a play that started a necessary dialogue that should absolutely not end there, or be limited only to a certain kind of woman, or limit itself to women at all. The Radical Vulvas aims to be a multi-disciplinary art and discussion forum, enabling further discourse about women’s experiences and feeding into broader discourses of gender identity.

Radical Vulvas invites anyone and everyone to express themselves, through any medium (song, monologue/dialogue, poetry, visual art, dance, performance, etc.) on the subject of women, or “femininity”, or the very notion of women. As a “write your own” production, the Radical Vulvas is whatever the community makes of it. Since its original performance in Halifax, it has been performed by diverse groups in Victoria BC, Ottawa, and a few times here in Montreal! We hope that this winter’s incarnation will be an empowering evening of respectful communication and a celebration of women everywhere.

The event itself will take place on February 11th 2012, at Café L’Artère (7000 Avenue du Parc, Metro Parc) at 8:30 pm.

*****

Les Vulves Radicales a pris forme à Halifax au printemps 2007 et est la création du Centre des Femmes de l’Université de Dalhousie. C’est une réponse de la communauté à la pièce Monologues du Vagin écrite par Eve Ensler : elle a amorcé un dialogue nécessaire qui ne devait absolument pas s’arrêter avec Les Monologues du Vagin, ainsi qu’ être limité à un certain type de femme, ou être limité seulement à des femmes. Les Vulves Radicales a le but d’être une plate-forme d’art multidisciplinaire et de discussion, amorçant une discussion profonde sur les expériences des femmes et alimentant des discours plus larges concernant l’identité de genre.

Vulves Radicales invite tous à vous exprimer, à travers n’importe quel médium (chanson, monologue/dialogue, poésie, arts visuels, danse, interprétation, etc.) au sujet des femmes ou de la « féminité », ou même sur la notion de femme. Étant donné qu’il s’agit d’une production «autogérée», le projet Les Vulves Radicales devient ce que la communauté fait de lui. Depuis la première représentation à Halifax, il a été organisé et présenté par divers groupes à Victoria, à Ottawa et même à Montréal! Nous espérons qu’avec la réincarnation de ce projet théâtral cet hiver, l’auditoire va se doter de moyens de communication respectueuse ainsi que d’un espace de célébration des femmes!

L’évènement lui-même se tiendra le 11 février 2012 au Café L’Artère ( 7000 Avenue du Parc, Métro Parc) à 20:30 h.

Concordia’s Department of Print Media and the Student Printmaking Association invite you to participate in HIGH ROLLERS 2012- Print Media Graduating Show.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, March 4th

ELIGIBILITY: all Undergraduate Concordia students graduating in April or December 2012 who have completed 300- and 400-level print courses in the last two years.

Multiple submissions, installation and group projects are welcome. Only well-documented works in-progress will be considered.
Deadline to deliver all FINISHED work is Friday, March 16th.

Submission forms are available online at spaconcordia.blogspot.com and in EV 9.436 (Digital Lab).

spaconcordia.blogspot.com

Concordia University’s Department of Theatre presents

Theatre ___ Business: Fill Us In

Written by the students of Annabel Soutar
Directed by Harry Standjofski

Concordia University theatre students attempt to connect with their business student co-tenants when they find themselves sharing the same building. Their struggle plays out against the backdrop of Canada’s fierce debate about public funding for the arts.

Theatre ___ Business: Fill Us In is an original play created in the style of verbatim theatre where scripts are development word-for-word from transcripts.

When:

February 16 to 19, 2012 (F. C. Smith Auditorium)
Feb. 16 at 8 p.m.
Feb. 17 at 8 p.m.
Feb. 18 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Feb. 19 at 2 p.m.

Feb. 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. (D. B. Clarke Theatre)

Where:

F. C. Smith Auditorium, Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal

D. B. Clarke Theatre, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal

Cost:

Tickets available at the door only: $10 regular, $5 for seniors and students

Information:

Tel: 514-848-2424 ext. 7928
Web: http://theatre.concordia.ca/theatre.concordia.ca

PRIM / MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) Joint Residency

Deadline: February 1st, 2012

PRIM and Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI) have joined forces to assist
artists wishing to produce a multidisciplinary work incorporating sound
and/or the moving image. Under the agreement, PRIM will give the selected
artists access to its equipment to create the work, which will later be
presented within the context of the MAI’s subsequent programming season. The
artists will enjoy full logistical and promotional support from the MAI in
addition to PRIM’s technical expertise. Exhibition and reproduction rights
will be in keeping with current standards (RAAV, CARFAC).

PRIM will make the following services available:

 The equivalent of $4,000 in sound and/or video studio time and/or camera
equipment use (based on the hourly rates in effect and subject to
availability)

 The equivalent of $1,000 worth of training in sound and/or video
(non-transferable, no cash value)

 Presented in the context of MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels’ regular
programming (2013-2014 season)

The selected artist will have a maximum of 8 weeks to complete the proposed
work within the year of allocation of the grant.

a) The artist must assume any fees in excess of those allotted in the
context of the residency.

b) Any fees incurred as a result of digital or analog support material
provided by PRIM to the artist will be billed to the artist.

c) The artist agrees to work alongside qualified technicians, approved by
the organisation, for usage of any equipment and machines offered by PRIM.
It is understood that the production budget does not cover any technician
fees. Technical support and instructors will be provided by PRIM.

Artists must submit the following:

- Completed application form

- Professional CV

- Artistic statement (max 250 words)

- Detailed description of the project including technical requirements (max
400 words)

- Support material of current or past works (max 10 images and/or 3
sound/video clips)

All completed submissions must be mailed by February, 1st 2012, 5pm, to the
following address:

PRIM/MAI Joint residency
C/O MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) Programming Committee
3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, local 103
Montréal (Québec) H2X 2K5

Erika Kierulf,
Coordonnatrice à l’accompagnement
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)
3680, rue Jeanne-mance – local 103
514-982-1812, poste 230
accompagnement@m-a-i.qc.ca
www.m-a-i.qc.ca

EXPOSITION : Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo et Marigold Santos / PERSONAL
MYTHOLOGIES
Du 14 janvier au 18 février

Le Centre des arts actuels Skol invite / invites

Appel à projets :: Call for proposals
Programmation régulière & Programme d’été SKOOL /
Regular programming & SKOOL summer program

//English message follows//

http://www.skol.ca/fr/

Skol invite les artistes et plus largement la communauté à soumettre des propositions pour des projets de courte ou de longue durée, ou, encore, de propositions qui donnent continuité à des recherches déjà en cours dans notre programmation.

http://www.skol.ca/fr/past/

À partir de maintenant, les propositions pourront être envoyées tout au long de l’année. Il s’agit dans ce cas d’ouvrir un échange avec les différents professionnels de l’art dont les recherches et l’expérimentation pourront activer différents espaces et produire différentes formes autant dans l’espace de la galerie que hors-les-murs. Il pourra s’agit d’une intervention, d’un partenariat, d’un projet de commissariat, d’ateliers de production, d’un cours de maître, d’une publication, d’un séminaire ou colloque, de performances, conférences, ou projections ponctuelles ou en série, d’une fouille dans les archives, d’une initiative de financement ou même d’un ensemble de ces formes dans un projet d’envergure.

Skol lance également un appel à projets dans le cadre du programme d’été SKOOL http://www.skol.ca/fr/apprendre/skool , qui s’adresse aux artistes et travailleurs culturels issus de la relève. Les propositions de stages/résidence d’été d’une durée de 10 semaines nous parviendront d’équipes administratives temporaires constituées pour travailler dans le contexte d’un centre d’artistes autogéré. En transformant le centre en lieu d’apprentissage, le programme SKOOL met les ressources du Centre à la disposition d’une équipe qui pourra expérimenter différentes formes de recherche artistique dans un cadre professionnel, et ce, avec l’appui d’un mentor. Les propositions pour le programme SKOOL doivent être envoyées au plus tard le 15 mars 2012, le cachet de la poste faisant foi.

Tous les dossiers (pour SKOOL ainsi que pour la programmation régulière) doivent comprendre :
Un texte présentant votre projet de même que son inscription dans votre parcours artistique;
Un curriculum vitæ (max. 3 p.) par participant, selon le cas ;
Un CD/DVD comprenant un maximum de 15 images (JPGs n’excédant pas 1 Mo ou 1024 X 768 pixels), et/ou un CD/DVD vidéo ou audio (5 min. max.). Un maximum de 2 CD/DVD de documentation est alloué – tout matériel supplémentaire ne sera pas considéré ;
Une description détaillée de vos images ou vidéos;
Une enveloppe pré-affranchie pour le retour de votre dossier.
Information générale :
L’appel régulier est ouvert aux professionnels en art de tout âge et expérience ; l’appel SKOOL s’adresse exclusivement aux étudiants et récents diplômés universitaires (qui ont moins de 3 ans de pratique professionnelle) ;
Les dossiers seront évalués par un comité de pairs ;
Skol paie les droits de diffusion et honoraires selon les taux recommandés par la CARFAC ;
Un plan de la galerie http://www.skol.ca/fr/appel/ est disponible sur le site Internet en format PDF.
Les dossiers seront postés ou remis en personne à l’adresse suivante, en précisant s’il s’agit d’un projet pour la programmation régulière, ou pour le programme SKOOL :

Équipe de programmation
Centre des arts actuels Skol
372, rue Sainte-Catherine O., espace 314
Montréal, QC H3B 1A2

Pour la programmation régulière, une réponse vous sera transmise par la poste dans les quatre mois suivant la réception de votre dossier. Les candidats au programme Skool recevront une réponse tôt en mai 2012.
Information : 514-398-9322 et skol.ca http://www.skol.ca/fr/appel/

Skol invites artists and more widely, the art community, to submit proposals for short or longer-term projects, or for new phases of current research in our programming.

http://www.skol.ca/fr/past/

From now on, proposals can be sent at all times throughout the year. In this case, proposals signal the start of a conversation with art professionals whose research and experimentation can activate a variety of spaces and produce different forms in either the gallery space or off-site. Proposals may include interventions, partnerships with other organisations, curatorial projects, workshops and master classes, publications, one-off or recurring performances, lectures and screenings, archive-based research, alternative fundraising projects, or any combination of forms toward a more ambitious proposal.

Skol is also calling out for projects by temporary administrative teams interested in working within artist run culture. By activating the centre as an educational space, the SKOOL http://www.skol.ca/fr/apprendre/skool summer internship (now entering its 5th year), offers teams of 2-3 emerging cultural producers the time, space and resources to experiment with forms of artistic research within a professional framework, with the guidance of a mentor. Proposals for the SKOOL summer internship must be postmarked no later than March 15, 2012.

Submissions (for both regular and SKOOL proposals) should include:
A description of your project and how it fits into your artistic process;
One resume per applicant (max 3 pages);
One disc with up to 15 numbered digital images (JPGs under 1 MB or 1024 X 768 pixels), and/or one video or audio disc (5 min. max). A maximum of 2 CDs or DVDs is allowed;
A detailed description of your images/videos;
A self-addressed return envelope (include a postal cheque in Canadian funds for international destinations).
General information:
The regular call is open to art professionals of all ages and levels of experience whereas the SKOOL program is intended exclusively for students and recent university graduates (less than 3 years of professional practice) ;
The proposals will be reviewed by a committee of peers;
Artist fees and honorarium based on CARFAC schedule;
A floor plan http://www.skol.ca/fr/appel/ of the gallery is available in PDF format.
Please mail or deliver in person to the following address, indicating whether you are submitting a proposal for regular programming or for the SKOOL internship, to :

Équipe de programmation
Centre des arts actuels Skol
372, rue Sainte-Catherine O., espace 314
Montréal, QC H3B 1A2

Results will be mailed to all applicants. For regular programming, please allow up to four months for our response. Skool applicants can expect an answer by early May 2012.
Information: 514-398-9322 and skol.ca http://www.skol.ca/fr/appel/

Check out EAHR’s BLOG and FB about the 2 upcoming artist’s talks in town that you really shouldn’t miss!!! Hope to see you all there!

Ed Pien – MMFA – Feb 16 @ 6pm – FREE

Learn more about how a work is acquired and how an artist gains museum recognition. Toronto artist Ed Pien and Gaëtane Verna, MAJ’s executive director and chief curator (2006-2012), will talk about the dynamics of the relationship between the artist and the museum. The talk also offers the opportunity to take a long look at the phantasmagorical work of this well-known artist. Presented by the Musée d’art de Joliette in collaboration with the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM), the discussion will take place at the MBAM (Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings, 1379, Sherbrooke St. West, Montréal) and will be conducted in English.

Information and registration: 514 285-2000

museejoliette.org/en/activities/collectors_month

Jin-me Yoon – Concordia EV1.605 @ 10:30am – FREE

For the past two decades, Jin-me Yoon has been staging performative actions for the camera – often using her own body as a sign of difference and more recently, evidence of an embodied corporality – setting into associative motion the complexities of our current conditions of accelerated globalization. Her latest body of work in cities – Seoul, Beppu, Nagoya, Vancouver, Vienna, and Mexico City – further extends her interest in the interconnectedness of history, materiality and the mutable.

finearts.concordia.ca/newsandevents/events/artist-talk-jin-me-yoon.php

WE NEED A PROGRAMMER!
The Plant Life Support System is currently looking for a dynamic programmer who is interested in developing a wireless 2.0 version of an existing arduino soil sensor
system.

ABOUT PLSS-ANNEX:
The Plant Life Support System is a collaborative project running out of the Topological Media Lab (TML) that aims to engage the Concordia student body with plant life through interactive technology.

ABOUT THE TML:
The Topological Media Lab (TML) was
established in 2001 as an atelier-lab to
experimentally explore how we sense and shape our environment or each other via
corporeal gesture and movement.

ABOUT THE SOIL SENSOR SYSTEM:
In 2010, members of the TML developed a
cutting-edge Arduino senstor system that is able to extract data (such as soil moisture
levels) from our lab’s research plants.

SKILLS NECESSARY TO PAY THE BILLS:
We are looking for a programmer to carry the torch with this exciting collaborative project!

The following skills would be indispensable to the development of the system:

Soldering
Max programming
Arduino programing
C++ knowledge
Electronics skills
Ability to understand, measure & debug
electronic circuits
MaxMSP programming
Comfortable computer skills (especially on Mac OSX)

Your talents shall be compensated with a modest honorarium and our undying love.

Please contact Zoë at zoeyuristy@gmail.com with your CV and a cover letter
highlighting any relevant experience by

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH, 2012

More info here.

In this issue, Interfold will present work that deals with process heavy artworks in form of artistic preoccupations. Process heavy art carries strong ties to its medium, subjects and motives. An idée fixe, an obsessive method, a compulsion within your creative.

What are the repeated focuses within your artistic method? These may range from the mundane to the peculiar. What are the ideas and interests that influence the focus of you art? Whatever your technique, Interfold is interested in the motives that lead towards art with a process heavy focus. Where does an idée fixe or an obsessive method fit into your practice or the practices of other artists?

Please send completed works or articles to info@interfoldmagazine.com

DEADLINE FEB 6th

GUIDELINES
-Artworks must be completed pieces
-Please submit high quality photographs (300 dpi)
-Please submit a short artist statement and project descriptions.

-Articles, creative writing and reviews should be no longer than 2000 words

-Articles should attempt to include relevant images.

Céline Huyghebaert studies the mark for its potential for effacement as well as for material survival. By means of writing, drawing and silkscreen printing, the artist reflects on these traces and their imprint on the present in the form of affects. The exhibit Livre de Foie (Liver Book) questions the notion of identity tied to the materiality of the organic body. Through a series of prints, combining text and image where drawings on transparencies, China ink and silkscreen printing are superimposed, the artist invites the viewer to follow the protagonist through a search for her history.

Livre de Foie is inscribed in a larger project by the artist that attempts to rebuild minute markers which make the memory, while also reflecting on the manner in which these markers wind around the present time to create a complex and hybrid time.

Image: Pas dans la maison, screenprinting on paper, 20 x 14 in, 2011

In the exhibition A-B, Jérôme Nadeau explores the creative process of photography. The artist draws from various analogical methods of the darkroom such as the photogram, the chemigram and the Cliché Verre, and externalizes what usually remains invisible. In using such methods, Jérôme Nadeau complicates the mechanism of reproduction of the photographic medium and heightens the tension between image and material. The works shorten the distance between those two by revealing the analogue process through the subject matter.

The works by Jérôme Nadeau confront the viewer to look at what is photography rather than looking through it. His photographs do not appear as windows onto a reality, but as reality themselves.

image: 02, photographic print on fiber paper, 8 x 10 in, 2010

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Seeking artists

In collaboration with Montreal’s established Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT), MASSIVart is presenting the 3rd edition of their Chromatic event next May. This event will offer a 360 degree panorama of art, bringing together Montreal’s emerging artistic community with industry professionals.

We are currently looking for new artistic talent within diverse disciplines to exhibit, perform and/or animate this year’s Chromatic.

The event is an excellent opportunity for all exhibiting artists, and will benefit from varied visibility:
- Exhibition catalogue, featured online and in print, with a distribution of 10,000 copies
- Online presence via websites and social networks via MASSIVart and its many partners (SAT, Yves Laroche, MUTEK, Trusst, etc)
- Chromatic’s new website for 2012
- Based on the 2011 edition, an attendance of 375 VIP guests and 1300 members of the public

Exhibition

Headlined by a jury composed of Monique Savoie [SAT], Kristian Manchester (Sid Lee), Jean-Sébastien Baillat and Guillaume Cardell (Baillat Cardel & Fils), Andrew Ly and Melissa Matos (TRUSST), Francis Théberge and Ximena Beccera, the exhibition presents a selection of approximately 100 works.

We are looking to exhibit works in the following categories: Painting/ Photography/ Illustration and design/ Video/ Installation/ Live Performance

Video Lounge

A section of our event will be dedicated to the projection of original video works. The section will be equipped with seats and headphones, allowing guests to take a moment to appreciate the sight and sounds being offered. Each video will be alloted a maximum time of 5 minutes each.

Art films, short films, documentaries, experimental video, animation, stop-motion, fashion films…we are open to all proposals.

Le salon

Un salon de lecture sera aménagé afin d’accueillir vos publications en art, design, et plus encore. Celui-ci devra se démarquer par son originalité et la qualité de son contenu.

New in 2012: Festival theme Monochromatic VS Chromatic

For the third edition of the Chromatic festival, MASSIVart invites you to explore the duality between

Monochromatic & Chromatic.
Some things to think about…
In the visual arts field, the term monochromatic is defined as an image in which many shades of only one color is used, whereas chromatic refers to a multitude of colors used within one image.
The artworks presented must be inspired by the theme, however, your interpretation is open to reinterpret the definitions.

YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A CHROMATIC CONTRIBUTOR?

Deadline for submission: February 20th 2012.

Subscribe here

MASSIVart is an organization specializing in exhibition production and artistic projects with a mandate to create presence and accessibility at the helm of Montreal’s cultural community.

Series Parallax Views at CinemaSpace presents

NITRATE KISSES (16mm, 67 min., 1992) by Barbara Hammer

Saturday, February 4th at 7:30pm

“Hammer’s intense productivity places her on the scale of Brakhage or Warhol as a major force in the independent cinema; Hammer neatly inverts the patriarchal forces implicitly and often ‘invisibly’ at work in independent cinema practice.” – Wheeler Winston, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema

“As an experimental filmmaker and lesbian feminist, I have advocated that radical content deserves radical form” – Barbara Hammer

CinemaSpace is very excited to present Nitrate Kisses (1992), Barbara Hammer’s groundbreaking documentary and undoubtedly one of the best films she has made. Weaving together fragmented images from past and present, and voices of gay women and men narrating their experiences, Nitrate Kisses is a film about what is left out of history – repressed and marginalized stories of lesbian and gay lives in Western society since World War I.

Nitrate Kisses won the Polar Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Best Documentary Award at the Internacional de Cine Realizado por Mujeres in Madrid and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.

ABOUT BARBARA HAMMER:

“As a visual artist who primarily uses film and video in experimental, nonlinear time based work, my practice includes performance, installation and digital photography. I embrace critical and formal complexity while promoting an active and engaged audience. Thematically, my work deconstructs a cinema that often objectifies or limits women. My work makes these invisible bodies and histories visible. As a lesbian artist, I found little existing representation, so I put lesbian life on this blank screen, leaving a cultural record for future generations.” – Barbara Hammer

Born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California, New York-based Barbara Hammer is a visual artist working primarily in film and video and has been awarded retrospectives at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and most recently at the Tate Modern in London. Recipient of the first Shirley Clarke Avant-Garde Filmmaker Award and the Women In Film Award from the St. Louis International Film Festival in 2006, Hammer is renowned for creating the earliest and most extensive body of avant-garde films on lesbian life and sexuality. Influenced by the second wave of feminism in the 1970s, she became a pioneer of queer cinema and has since made more than eighty films and videos. Hammer is a pivotal figure in experimental film and her work remains of fundamental importance for new generations of artists exploring new voices and new modes of experimenting with moving images. In 2010, Hammer published her autobiography Hammer! Making Movies out of Sex and Life from The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

www.barbarahammer.com

Also: CinemaSpace unveils a brand-new series on the environment, a long-awaited retrospective of Phil Solomon’s exquisite work and a four-part series on the great master Stan Brakhage!

About CinemaSpace:

CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts is Montreal’s premier alternative screening venue dedicated to showcasing a wide range of innovative works that go beyond the boundaries of conventional cinema.

CinemaSpace @ the Segal Centre for Performing Arts
5170, ch. de la Côte-Ste- Catherine
Metro Snowdon or Côte-Ste-Catherine | Bus 129 / 17 / 51

Box Office: 514.739.7944

segalcentre.org

Regular: $10.00

Student (full-time w/ ID) / Senior (65+): $8.00
Package: $15.00 for two programs

FAUX LAB

26 janvier – 8 février 2012

Vernissage : 26 janvier, 18:00
Discussion avec les artistes & table ronde : 28 janvier, 14:30
Ateliers & finissage : 4 février, 14:30 (@ Foulab, 999 du Collège, Suite 33B)

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FAUX LAB, une exposition collective des membres des Laboratoires Foulab – un hackerspace basé à Montréal, présente le travail de hackers, imprégné de la culture du « DIY ». Que ce soit des installations interactives, électroniques ou électromécaniques, les projets présentés lors de cette exposition questionnent la frontière entre la science et l’art. Ils soulignent les implications de l’utilisation des outils de communication, mettant notamment en lumière l’anonymat et l’isolation des individus dans l’ère numérique.

Les dualités en jeu – entre fonctionnalité et beauté, hacker et artiste, données invisibles et objets visibles – ont amené les commissaires de l’exposition, Eliane Ellbogen et Amber Berson, à recréer l’espace d’un laboratoire à l’intérieur même de la galerie Eastern Bloc. La scénographie de l’exposition permet ainsi au spectateur d’évoluer à travers l’univers chaotique caractéristique de chez Foulab; d’un autre côté, le but des commissaires est de donner une cohérence aux mystérieuses machines qui ont été démontées puis réassemblées par les hackers de Foulab. Leur goût de la réutilisation et du bricolage mis à l’œuvre nous fait porter un nouveau regard sur l’électronique.

Fondé en 2008, Foulab est ouvert à la communauté et propose de nombreuses ressources sur les nouvelles technologies, notamment en termes de connaissances « open source » et de matériel informatique. Foulab fait également partie du réseau international des hackerspaces.

www.foulab.org

TABLE RONDE

Quelle est la place qui revient aux hackers dans l’espace de la galerie ?
28 janvier, 15:30

Conférenciers : Sofian Audry (artiste membre de Perte-de-Signal), Maxime Damecour (membre fondateur de Foulab), Rupert Brooks (membre de Foulab) et Walter Langelaar (membre de WORM, Rotterdam)
Modératrice : Sophie Le-hat Ho (membre fondatrice d’Artivistic)

FAUX LAB

26 January – 8 February, 2012

Vernissage: 26 January, 6pm
Artist talks & roundtable discussion: 28 January, 2:30pm
Workshops & finissage: 4 February, 2:30pm (@ Foulab, 999 du Collège, Suite 33B)

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FAUX LAB, an exhibition of recent works by members of Les Laboratoires Foulab – a hackerspace based in Montreal, aims to demonstrate the work of hackers, whose work is steeped in a DIY ethos. Whether interactive, circuit or electro-mechanic based, the projects presented question the limits of science and art, and the position of hackers as hobbyists. The projects provoke the user to examine the isolating implications of common communication tools in our daily lives.

The binaries at play between function and beauty, hacker and artist, invisible information and visible objects, led the curators of the exhibit – Eliane Ellbogen and Amber Berson – to imagine a simulated lab space within Eastern Bloc’s gallery walls. The exhibit aims to mimic the chaos that typically reigns at Foulab, and also to make sense of the mysterious devices which were taken apart and pieced together by the hackers. The members of Foulab, motivated by a desire to reuse and repurpose ‘obsolete’ technologies, invite the viewer to reconsider the ubiquitous presence of electronics in the world around them.

Foulab, founded in 2008, is a non-profit organization that aims to provide a collaborative and well-equipped environment that allows its users to explore new technologies while sharing knowledge and ideas. They are specifically involved in “open source” knowledge and are part of the international network of Hackerspaces.

www.foulab.org

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSION

What space do/can/should hackers occupy in the gallery?
28 January, 3:30pm

Panelists: Sofian Audry (artist member of Perte-de-Signal, Maxime Damecour (founding member of Foulab), Rupert Brooks (member of Foulab) and Walter Langelaar (member of WORM, Rotterdam)
Moderator: Sophie Le-Phat Ho (founding member of Artivistic)

www.easternbloc.ca

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION
TRAFFIC : CONCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980

Lecture by Adam Welch
BOUNDARY DISPUTES: CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ART AROUND CONCEPTUALISM
Wednesday February 1 at 6 pm
At the Gallery
FREE ADMISSION

Beginning in the late 1960s, artists working in Canada initiated a dialogue with their American counterparts that was, in many ways, unprecedented. Many took up the figure of the border as a means of reflecting on this newfound, and often fraught, transnational relationship. This talk will trace a few of these cases—including works by General Idea, Greg Curnoe, Dennis Oppenheim and Carl Andre—which engaged explicitly with the international boundary. Such engagements open onto larger political debates of the period: deep-seated fears of American cultural imperialism and a concomitant Canadian nationalism.

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.

Lecture by Jean-Philippe Warren
LES HIPPIES QUÉBÉCOIS: TENDANCES LOCALES D’UN PHÉNOMÈNE GLOBAL
Wednesday February 8 at 6 pm
At the Gallery, in French
FREE ADMISSION

Other than a few superficial generalizations, little is known about the Québec hippies of the 1970s. Although it was part of a global – mainly American – phenomenon, the Québec hippie movement was also part of a local context. In this regard, the social and political career of Pierre Vallières can serve as an example: a former editor of Cité libre who became a terrorist leader, Vallières then became involved with the counter-culture. How did this transition occur? What were the steps and the notable influences? In reconsidering this period, which was colourful – to say the least – Jean-Philippe Warren describes one dimension of a changing Québec whose place in recent history we tend to underestimate.

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).

Image: Bill Vazan, Canada Line, 1970. Courtesy of Bill Vazan and VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine.

ellengallery.concordia.ca

Exhibit your art in Loyola’s Vanier library

Vanier Library is currently exhibiting Art works by Concordia’s Barbara Tolloczko. The library is also hoping to attract other Concordia fine arts producers to show off their creations.

This is an excellent exhibition space with space for sculptures and walls for hanging paintings.

By simply filling out a form and approval from the director of the Vanier library your art work can be up on display.

For more information and submission of work, please email
loyolaartsmatters@hotmail.com

Artist: Barbara Tolloczko
Inner landscapes

This project addresses issues of multiplicity of personalities, emotions and perceptions. Like landscapes altering with time and location, our states of mind and feelings not only differ from person to person but are a subject to constant changes. Abstract drawings reminiscent of landscape and containing elements of intracellular structures are a metaphor for our inner selves.

The Friends of Dorothy are going to have a short general club meeting at 5pm on Saturday the 28th of January in EV1.605 before the screening of BENT at 7pm.

This meeting will be an update meeting. Those of you who are students or recent graduates who would like to volunteer or give input to the club, please come and take part.

Cheers,

-Ben Owens

www.thefriendsofdorothymtl.weebly.com
www.facebook.com/DorothySlippers

The Friends of Dorothy presents a FREE screening of BENT (UK, 1997)
at 7pm on Saturday January 28th in EV 1.605, 1515 St. Catherine Street (Guy/ Concordia Metro).

BENT, set in Berlin in 1934, is an award winning film and play written by Martin Sherman.

BENT is see by many as one of the most important plays of the late 20th Century, and the film staring Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Sir Ian McKellen and Mick Jagger is certainly one of the most important films in the canon of queer cinema.

See you next Saturday.

www.thefriendsofdorothymtl.weebly.com
www.facebook.com/DorothySlippers

The Montreal Documentary Film Festival (RIDM) is proud to announce Bombay Beach as the opening film of their new monthly series Docville. The American-Israeli filmmaker Alma Har’el’s film will be shown THURSDAY JANUARY 26 AT 7 PM AT THE EXCENTRIS CINEMA. The screening will be followed by a conversation via skype with the filmmaker.

Bombay Beach is at the crossroads of documentary, fiction, music video and fever dreams. On the shores of the Salton Sea – an artificial saltwater lake in the middle of the Colorado desert – a community of outcasts has taken up residence in the decrepit resort of Bombay Beach, now a ghost town. With music by the likes of Beirut and Bob Dylan, Bombay Beach is a tragic lyrical journey to the edge of America.

Watch the trailer and read more here:

www.ridm.qc.ca/en/docville

la radical queer semaine 2012
‘Xpose’ à FRESH PAINT

This year the RQS art exhibit will take place in the Fresh Paint Gallery. It is a temporary exhibition space that shows street and public art, run by the Under Pressure graffiti festival. The building is located at 180 Sainte-Catherine East on the last remaining sketchy part of downtown Sainte-Catherine, between the Quartier-des-Spectacles and Quartier-Latin. It’s a huge space with 16 foot ceilings and huge windows looking out onto Sainte-Catherine’s. It attracts a lot of random walk-in visitors. Shock them! Stimulate them! Confuse them!

We want people to talk about what they care about, what makes them angry or sad or happy. What they love, whom they love. What and whom they hate. Expose information, knowledge and experiences that you want to preserve or help rediscover. News and ideas and events that are not otherwise heard, or that are just talked about for a second. Works that are loud or quiet or contemplative or nerdy. Ludicrous art, sexual art, identity art, political art, interactive art, food art, garbage art.

Vernissage : February 24th, 7-11pm.
Exhibit: February 23d to March 17th.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12-7pm.

* Nuit Blanche will host an event in the space on February 25th, 2012.

Fresh Paint and RQS are volunteer-run organizations with negligible budgets. The walls of the building are fragile so it may be difficult or impossible to hang heavy pieces from them. There is only one electrical outlet so access to electricity for pieces is almost non-existent. Security in this space is sparse and there is no insurance for the artwork. In order to provide better security and continuous access to the second floor of the exhibit, we would really appreciate it if each artist could do a day of gallery-sitting during the span of the exhibit. Gallery-sitting is a great opportunity to talk about your work and to network.

Under Pressure
www.underpressure.ca/

The Fine Arts Student Alliance presents What Does It Mean, And What Can You Do About It?

Problematic Automatic: Screening and Q & A with Hennessy Youngman
Artist Jayson Musson aka. Hennessy Youngman presents and outsiders view of the art world in “Art Thoughtz,” delivering a powerful summation of contemporary art history, and the realities of post-college art production. Hennessy considers everything from the sublime, to relational aesthetics, how to make an art, or win the esteem of curators. This is not to be missed.
*** Hennessy Youngman will be premiering a new Art Thoughtz video ***

THURSDAY JANUARY 26TH
DOORS AT 6PM – EV 6.720 – FREE
WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Please note that space for this screening limited. Should we reach capacity, we will be live-streaming the event into a nearby room. Please arrive early.

Hennesy Youngman
Lecture series info