Wired Women Salon # 70 :: Top Chrono
The time has come for our 2008 TOP CHRONO Salon! Once again, Studio
XX will showcase the work of talented women artists who will share
sneak peeks of their latest artworks, productions or
performances. Some even in their complete glory!
Audiences
will enjoy performance pieces, presentations with images and sound,
spoken word, music, video and other magnificent surprises true to our
artform.
Invited artists will be subject to the playful
random rules of the universe : each will have between 4 to 7
minutes to execute their presentation. The lenght will be determined by
the cast of the dice!
Join us for a fabulous
celebration capping off a prolific year of creative
endeavours !
With : Lorella Abenavoli, Beewoo, J.R. Carpenter, Darsha Hewitt, Virpi Kettu, Maroussia Lévesque, Hélène Prévost, Nelly-Ève Rajotte and Victoria Stanton.
Curator : Chantal Dumas
Tech team : Amélie Bourbonnais, James Douglas, Ximena Holuigue, Marielle Levine
Documentation : Chloé Camonis
Wired Women
Salon # 70 [Dec. 18] :: Top Chrono
Thursday, December 18th 2008, from
6:00 to 8:00 PM
@ Geordie Theatre Space:: 4001 Berri St., Ground Floor Montreal
Entrance Fee : 6$, free for Studio XX members.
*** Top Chrono Special : one-night
only !
Become a member of Studio XX at the event and receive a complimentary
copy of our limited
edition xxxboîte : http://www.studioxx.org/en/xxxboite
STUDIO XX
4001 Berri St., Suite 201, Montreal (Quebec) H2L 4H2
Between Roy and Duluth
Sherbrooke Metro, or the 24 bus (Sherbrooke)
http://www.studioxx.org
Information :: 514.845.7934 :: by e-mail
Lorella
Abenavoli
Presentation of
Souffle de la Terre
Photo: Lorella Abenavoli, Self-portrait, 2008
Lorella Abenavoli is an artist living between France and Canada. Since 1996 she has devoted her time to sound sculpture, transforming into sound the internal flows of the Earth, trees, body, cosmic events, working with scientific institutions. She makes exhibitions in France, Italy, Canada and the United States. She has been awarded grants from the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the French Ministry of Culture, for her artwork The Pulse of the Earth. She’s presently working on sound creation for dance, collaborating with the French choreographer Bernardo Montet. Their last creation, Batracien, l’après-midi, has been showing around the world. Whilst currently doing a PhD art program at UQÀM in Montreal, she's producing research about sound medium in the visual art field.
Works http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/f/media.php?NumObjet=6035
Articles
http://www.paris-art.com/art/a_numeriques/d_numerique/zoom/105/...
http://www.connectsavannah.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A355
http://www.sat.qc.ca/post.php?id=40&post_id=938&lang=en
http://www.ccntours.com/danse_evenement/IMG/pdf_pdf_2._Revue_de_presse.pdf
http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/articles/070607a.cfm
Beewoo
Project
Re_mapping DTES
Re_mapping
DTES, screen capture.
Photo : Beewoo, 2008
In November, Bérengère Marin Dubuard (Beewoo) collaborated
with 6
inhabitants of the Downtown Eastside neighbourghood (W2 residency,
Vancouver) as part of The TransCanada Pipeline Project.
Beewoo has worked in
photography, video and installation. She has travelled throughout Asia,
Europe and North America showing her real-time video performances with
the group Battery Operated. She has been involved in making multimedia
artwork of various forms as part of collectives such as KIT and Battery
Operated and has performed with Montréal's sound artists Alexis
Bellavance, les Platinistes Numérique and
virgilage&jmx. Her
work has been presented at electronic festivals
such as
INVIDEO, Italy; Split 2001, Croatia; FCMM, Canada and in places like
The Anchorage, New York City and Stubnitz Rostock, Germany. OFFF,
Spain; FCMM, Elektra and Mois Multi in Canada. She is a founding member
of the multimedia label C0C0S0L1DC1T1.
Based in Montreal since
2001, she has done research involving real-time video processing and
interactivity in the Interstices research group. She was a member of
the Mix_Session Committee at SAT (Society for Arts and Technology)
where she often performed as a VJ.
She has served as Production
Director at Studio XX since 2005, focusing on promoting the use of Open
Source multimedia software and collaborative Web tools with projects
like Digital Ludologie and Autonomy and Activism at Studio XX. She
co-hosts The XX Files, a talkshow on women and technology on McGill
University's CKUT Radio Station.
http://www.interstices.ca
http://www.cocosolidciti.com
J.R. Carpenter
Performance
Reading
J.R. Carpenter,
drawing by Sherwin Tjia, 2005
J.R. Carpenter
is a two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story
Competition and a recent winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Prize.
Her short fiction has been translated into French, broadcast on CBC
Radio and anthologized widely. Her electronic literature has been
presented internationally. Her first novel, Words the Dog Knows,
is published by conundrum press.
http://www.luckysoap.com/
Darsha Hewitt
Performance
Darsha Hewitt, 2008. Photo: Max K
Darsha Hewitt is
a Canadian artist from Ottawa, Ontario, interested
in experimenting with electronics in order to capture traces of the
invisible ethereal realm. By handcrafting, rebuilding and cross-wiring
basic electronics, the artist intervenes with the commercial
obligations of today's ubiquitous electronic products, and exposes them
to the noise of an invisible realm. Her main areas of research are late
19th and early 20th century audiovisual and communication technology,
which amateur electronics enthusiasts used in their reinterpretation of
the world around them. She often draws on the formulas and aesthetics
found in vintage D.I.Y. electronics magazines, such as Popular Mechanix
and Electronics Illustrated, in order to create "homemade sensing
devices for invisible matter."
http://www.darsha.org/
virpi kettu
stop motion animation film and violin performance
Photo: virpi kettu 2000
about little power
little power (=music from the constant disappointments of people)
oh! there is of course a story before this apocalypse: she was born by
the cold border bewteen russia and finland in 1975, a land where
witches are the ordinary people. at 5 years old, she blackmailed her
parents into buying her a violin, as she believed all her needs at that
time would be fulfilled by this instrument.
she was right. but, by the time she turned 15, she noticed she could
capture funny pictures with a pencil and a camera, so she bought
herself a pet rat and moved away from home. (this was not hard as her
parents moved so much they just dropped her off on their way...)
after that, life twirled her about with it's infinite power to move the
ground under her feet, whisking her into several countries and wonders;
like the uk and canada.
since 2002 she has been working as an animator on several music videos
(radiohead.knife.turbo negro.thrise.the bees etc.) and productions
(wallace & gromit -the curse of the were-rabbit. creature
comforts etc.) she finds happiness and contentment in this painful
& meditative work. and playing with several bands when it seems
like fun.
Links:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=142655462
• Rachael
Dadd , Willow
Rutherford ,
Jetfly
- you tube virpi kettu
Maroussia Lévesque
Presentation of the project Passage
Oublié
Maroussia Lévesque, Element of
the performance Passage Oublié
Photo : Obx labs, Toronto, 2007
Maroussia Lévesque holds a BA in Computation arts from
Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, where she was the conceptual lead at Obx
Laboratory for Experimental Media, Hexagram. She is more interested in
politics than computers, and tries to reconcile both through her
studies in political science and new media. Her experience in hip hop
and community work (both in Brazil and Canada) is motivated by the
potential of subcultures as social emancipators as well as a
potentially revolutionary stance against the current order. In her free
time, Maroussia enjoys blinking the lights of large buildings and make
relaxing computer yoga programs with her partner. She is also a
freelance journalist, and participates to a community radio show. She
is learning a fifth language (Arabic), to establish an ssh tunnel
between the cultures flowing in her blood.
Sites:
www.passageoublie.net
www.elaborate.ca
www.digital-spa.com
Hélène Prévost
Sound performance: Hands Full of Noise
Photo : Hélène Prévost, the
noise kit, 2008
Sound artist, musician and radio producer, Hélène Prévost holds a
master’s degree in composition from the faculty of music of the
Université de Montréal. She has written music for theatre,
documentaries, TV commercials and songs. As a radio producer at
Radio-Canada, she has produced a number of programs on the two major
radio networks. From 1985 to 2007, she produced two important radio
shows in the field of new music, musique actuelle, free improv,
electronic and experimental music and sound art, with a major interest
in new technologies and their application to music: Musique actuelle
(1985–95) and Navire
« Night » (which she also hosted; 1995–2004). From 2004 to
2007 she participated in Bande
à part,
a multi-platform intermedia project (radio, Web, satellite
radio)
producing concerts and creating content for the Web and satellite radio
(SIRIUS 93) in the field of exploratory and experimental
music.
During that period, she coordinated the radio’s artistic
participation in a range of music festivals : New Music
America,
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV),
MUTEK. Through participation in a number of events, she has placed the
radio in unconventional situations, such as the J.I.M for which she won
the Prix du Président of Radio-Canada, the Harbor Symphonies of
Montreal, the Silophone project with The User, Prométhée Numérique with
the Goethe Institut and the WDR and many studio, radio and internet
projects.
Parallel to her radio career she has pursued a personal
practice of sound exploration, through field recordings, editing and
mixing. Since 2006, she has participated in live
performances for the Montreal Sound Matter and Victoriaville
Sound
Matter projects, Rencontres de Musiques Spontanées, l’Art des Bruits
(hommage to Luigi Russolo) and cds : HMMM remix, Ladies club,
vol
2 (le-son666), Vente de Bagages and has written articles for Artexte,
Esse, Circuit.
Hélène Prévost is Vice-President Studio XX’s Board of
Directors.
Nelly-Ève Rajotte,
Video Presentation
Nelly-Eve Rajotte, Excerpt of
the
video Link, 2008.
Nelly-Ève Rajotte has been a member of Perte de Signal since 2003.
In 2006, she obtained a Master in visual and media arts at UQÀM
(Montreal). She works in single-track digital video, installation and
sound art. Her work is directed towards the mono digital
video
bandages, installation and sound creation. It is research, closely
related to the sensitive body that explores the correspondences
between videographic sound and image. Her videos have been
shown
in several festivals throughout the world, including Transmedial and
International shorts film of Berlin (Germany), EXIS (Korea) and The 809
International New Image Art Festival (China). Her installations have
also been presented at the Parisian Laundry, the Darling Foundry, the
Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) and the Occurrence and Clark
galleries.
Nelly-Ève is a member of the Studio XX’s Programing Committee.
Victoria Stanton
Spoken Word Performance
Victoria Stanton, Stanton
Roadside – excerpt from
the
video-performance Roadside Attractions performed at
the Centre Vaste-et-Vague, Carleton-sur-Mer, Self-portrait, 2008.
Victoria Stanton
is a performance artist, video-maker, and writer
of fiction, poetry, critical texts, and songs. Her time-based work
includes sound on stage, group actions in public spaces, one-on-one
encounters to "consult," interview or feed. She has presented
text-based, visual and relational time-based work, as well as
performance videos / videopoems, in Canada, the U.S., Europe, the U.K.,
Australia and Japan. Her creative and critical writings have been
published in Canadian and American anthologies and
art/literary/lifestyle magazines. She is the co-author with Vincent
Tinguely of Impure:
Reinventing the Word (conundrum press, 2001).
