| Femmes br@nchées Salon #50
Home (Closing Session)
Michelle Kasprzak, Scrub
Friday, June 13th at 6 p.m. - Studio XX
Members: free / Non-members: $3
Studio XX, Montreal’s foremost women’s digital
resource centre, is proud to present the 50e édition
of its popular Femmes br@nchées salons, a Studio signature
bringing together artists, theoreticians, authors and people
interested in the relations between and impacts of information
technologies on contemporary women's conditions. To close
its programming season on the theme of the Home, Studio XX
presents Doctor Perla Serfaty-Garzon et Toronto artist
Michelle Kasprzak. With complementary points of view,
both speakers will elaborate upon the notion of intimacy as
attached to this space conventionally associated with women.
Doctor Serfaty-Garzon will present excepts of her recent research
on the relations between intimacy and territory while Michelle
Kasprzak will show her interactive video installation - Scrub
- which explores eroticism and domesticity.
The evening will continue with an end-of-season party for
the 50th anniversary. Sushi, music and an audiovisual presentation
on past Salons will be featured. Everyone is welcome.
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Perla Serfaty-Garzon - http://www.perlaserfaty.net
With doctorates in Sociology and Psychology, Perla Serfaty-Garzon
directs the Economic and Urban Development Service at the
Montreal's City Hall. She is author of several publications
on the home, including Psychologie de la maison. Une archéologie
de l'intimité (published in Montreal in 1999) and Une
maison à soi. Déterminants psychologiques et
sociaux de l'habitat individuel. She has recently written
several articles for the Dictionnaire critique de l'habitat
(to be published in Paris), several chapters for collective
works and articles delimiting the meaning of habitat and the
stakes of appropriation of one's home.
Michelle Kasprzak - http://michelle.kasprzak.ca/
An award-winning artist, researcher and lecturer currently
investigating interdisciplinary practice, performance and
collaboration. Through her role as faculty with the Canadian
Film Centre's new media programmes, she develops and delivers
curriculum that addresses methods of prototyping in a collaborative
environment. She brings the most current issues in new media
to the attention of the public through her efforts as the
Producer of the Interactive Arena, a lecture series presented
by the Canadian Film Centre that invites influential thinkers
to share their critical insights with the community. With
her artistic and pedagogical pursuits as inspiration, Michelle
is investigating experience engineering, 3D visualization,
interface design, prototyping, performance techniques and
technology, and hybrid environments.
Scrub is an interactive video installation. Visitors to the
gallery approach an area that resembles a kitchen. There is
a sponge on the countertop, and a video monitor in the cabinet
above that has been left open. The sponge is the visitor's
interface to the piece.
On the screen, footage of the artist wearing rubber gloves
and performing domestic tasks with a sponge appears. When
the user scrubs the sponge, s/he is also scrubbing through
the video footage. Visitors will also discover that if they
scrub in a particular direction, or at a particular speed,
they get another surprise.
Infos: 514.845.7934 / www.studioxx.org / programmation@studioxx.org
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