SPECIAL EVENTS
Discover the international web piece Reverie
- Virtual Cities with audio streamed live and explore
Lies, Lies,
Lies [http://projets.studioxx.org/residente],
an interactive site by Emily
Hermant,
Studio XX’s artist in residence.
Enjoy a moving picture project by Justyna Latek and
a performative installation by Marguerite Bromley.
Eat cake prepared by patissière Michelle Marek
!
DJ Lynne T et Bernie Bankrupt
and surprises for all !
http://artsbirthday.net/
http://reverie.aaeol.ca/
S T U D I O X X
338, Terrasse Saint-Denis,
Montreal, Quebec, H2X 1E8
T: 514 . 845 . 7934 F: 514 . 845 . 4941
programmation@studioxx.org
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Reverie “is a virtual urban landscape (on the
Web). Inside this city, an ever-expanding group of international
sound artists will build venues for their work. Reverie imagines
an urban landscape that includes a variety of poetic extrapolations
on the types of regions that exist in our cities” (http://reverie.aaeol.ca/)
While experimental audio is at the core of the international
celebration of art's birthday, the noise that XX is offering
up is of a different kind.
Acts of subtle resistance in the practices of shopping, fashion,
misinformation and pure physical expression are the residue
of these artists' navigation of urban and virtual spaces.
“I wish to take violent elements of the city (industrial
noise, aggressive advertising and lighting etc.) and transform
them into a space of contentment and/or poetry – a space
of alternating heightened perception/communication, daydream
or disconnection, where the participant is lulled into alternate
states by movement” justyna latek
Urban nomadic spaces have been much discussed as depersonalizing.
In Pascal Augé’s concept of “un espace
quelconque” ( any-space-whatever), those places we pass
through on the way to something else - the metro station,
the city streets, waiting rooms, are sites wherein our selves
are denied or made non-evident. Gilles Delueze argued that
in fact that “un espace quelconque”, “is
a condition for the emergence of uniqueness and singularities.”1
It is this sort of détournement, that we celebrate
with our art’s birthday offerings!
1. Jeffrey A. Bell Thinking with Cinema: Deleuze and Film
Theory
Studio XX schedule for Art's Birthday
2:00 Ambient music welcome
2:15 launch of dpi.
Editor extraordinaire Sarah Brown will demonstrate
the site and present the content and blog scenario. Joey
Berzowska will be present, but has decided to save her
dresses for HTMElles. This will be a small teaser….
2:30 emily hermant presents:
lies ,lies, lies, residency project
(and "reverie" component)
With a project born of a textile-based installation, Hermant
has been in residence for 8 weeks at XX. The techniques of
embroidery, burnout, and screen-printing used to create a
personal space have found their parallel in the hyper text
mark up and other languages of virtual space. You are invited
to share your own deceptions on this interactive site.
3:00 screening of justyna latek's
"product: in the elevator"
Justyna’s aim is to push the aesthetics of commercial
spaces and reveal their hyper-hypnotic effect, bring to light
the dance between hypertrophy and atrophy.
She works on space and movement in commercial centers. The
film is composed of a multitude of shots taken from the elevators
of a couple of shopping centers in Montreal and shopping carts
in supermarkets. This hyperactive omnipresence may provoke
slight vertigo.
Swept along by the fluid and jerky movement of the elevator
and the shopping cart, the spectator may experience a moment
of disconnection, or instead, make a direct conection with
themselves as the hypnotic imagery takes one further inside
while at the sametime making one very conscious of their own
body.
3:15 and a special performance,
Spun Out by marguerite bromley
- a whirling dervish spins to emulate the movement of the
earth and the eternal movement of all things. He dons a headdress
to negate his ego hoping to become one with the universe and
achieve perfection. Marguerite Bromley spins in a slightly
more humourous manner with equally moving effect. Her soundtrack
is constructed of percussion and Tibetan prayer bowls, also
made active through repetitive cyclical movements. More fluxus
than all that, but oddly joyful and optimistic
3:30 And then we cut the cake
made with particular panache by the patissiere Michelle
Marek
we sing in arts birthday under the toutelage of pascale
malaterre
patissieres will cut and serve the cake, more drinks can
be had and then its audio up as...
and then guest dj's lynne t and bernie bankrupt keep
things spinning.....
a listening station for the noise city webjam between western
front and kunstradio vienna along with guided tours of the
reverie: virtual cities site, dpi, and lies lies lies.
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