Celldance at Edgy Women Festival

The Edgy Women Festival will premiere three artworks created during the Celldance workshop at Tangente (840 Cherrier).

On display:
March 24 – 27, 2010, 6:30 - 10:00pm
March 28, 3:00 – 6:00pm

Marie Martine Bédard
Le corps cérébral post-traumatique… ou la psychose de l’artiste…

Improvised music and images. Rhythms drawn from one’s soul. Soul haunted by trauma or filled with obsessive creativity?

Recently awarded a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music Online, Marie Martine Bédard is first and foremost a female visionary activist with a rich and diversified practice based in the arts, environment and communications. She currently combines her experiences to create artistic projects, allowing the joining of her two passions – music and the environment – with social equality, that which she holds dear.

mihee nathalie lemoine
100_baek_uk and 100_baek_fr

In a 100 second clip, a poem is written in a still shadow. They used to tell me often, "don't move, don’t talk," and I learned that silence is gold.

mihee nathalie lemoine is a korean-born adoptee belgian… an activist and multi media artist… interested in minds and bodies displacement… believing in social justice and art and action.

http://www.myspace.com/nathalie_cho

Lena Marie Stuart
Fragments du narcisse

Inspired by Paul Valéry’s poem of the same name, this work investigates the endlessness of the self and the illusion of existence. This video reflects the drama of an inner secret life, revealing an intimate experience that is both emotional and physical.

Lena Marie Stuart’s approach to art-making is a hybridity of artistic practices, particularly contemporary dance, video and digital photography. Born in Vancouver, she has lived in Montreal since 2001.

http://lenamariestuart.com/

Co-produced by Studio 303 and Studio XX, CellDance was an intensive creative videodance workshop where dancers and new media artists were introduced to filming, editing and disseminating techniques using KODAK Zi8 Pocket Cameras (HD) and Final Cut Pro software. The artworks created offer personal perspectives on the body and its deployment in space.

Led by Natacha Clitandre and Aurélie Pédron, the Celldance workshop took place between March 8 to 19, 2010.

Natacha Clitandre obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts in 2000 from the Université de Québec à Montréal, where she also studied Graphic Design at the École de Design, and Concordia University. In 2007, she completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art and New Media Theory and Practice at the Université Paris 8. During her studies, she received a research grant at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. Her artistic practice focuses on the screen as a mediative interface between the artist and the public, supported by mobile diffusion systems and other Internet supports in an everyday context. In 2004, Natacha was Artist in Residence at Recyclart (Bussels). Her work has been shown at the public art event Midi (Komplot, Brussels, 2004), Conflux (Glowlab Gallery and Centre for Architecture, New York, 2007 and 2008), Pocket Films (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2006 and 2008), among other festivals. Natacha lives and works in Montreal.

Through her training in the Dance Department at the Université de Québec à Montréal, Aurélie Pédron explored interpretation, creation, videodance and film animation. Her current research focuses on image and video movement, examining the deformation of movement through the camera’s perspective and how it is re-choreographed through editing. Aurélie’s work has been circulated throughout Quebec, Canada, the USA, Asia and Europe.