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Mini Viva! May 15 – June 1st, 2008
In anticipation of the next “official” Viva! Action Art event planned for 2009, six artist-run centres from the Montréal region are staging a “Mini” Viva! from Thursday May 15 to Sunday June 1st, 2008. Loosely organised around performative projects taking place this spring at La Centrale, Dare-Dare, articule, Skol, Praxis and Clark, this edition of Viva! derives its theme from a performance and workshop entitled Performance & Activism in Everyday Life presented by La Centrale, which aims to provide a space for the sharing of tactics and stories amongst peer artists. Viva!, in many respects, shares this collaborative spirit by providing a space for like-minded centres to share dissemination tactics for art practices that might not be as visible. Considering that the first edition of Viva! Action Art consisted of a full blown performance art festival featuring a wide variety of actions by more than sixty artists from around the world, this event, more modest in scope, aims to draw attention to each centre’s unique mandate and ongoing efforts to support emerging, ephemeral, ethereal, and process based art practices via their regular and special programming. Other artists featured include Kerri Reid as well as the launch of Livraison #9, As if all were well with Stephen Wright et al. (Skol), Andrew Chartier (Praxis), Andrea Cavagnaro (Dare-Dare), The Black Market Type & Print Shop (curator: Joseph Del Pesco) and Michael Toppings (articule), Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Lori Blondeau & Adrian Stimson (La Centrale – curator: Joanne Bristol), an exhibition organised by Ayesha Hameed, Nahed Mansour, Tatiana Gomez and Leila Pourtavaf (La Centrale), and an open studio event with nearly 100 artists (Clark).
Michael Toppings: Single Dwelling Monologues
articule
From May 29 to June 1st, 2008 – A performance / installation incorporating live and pre-recorded video, Single Dwelling Monologues was conceived as observational theatre and was ‘written’ as non-fiction fiction, both poetic and sociological.
more…The Black Market Type
& Print Shop
articule
From May 23 to June 22, 2008 – Oganized by curator Joseph del Pesco, The Black Market Type & Print Shop presents typography as a vehicle for the dissemination of art. The project involves a number of local and international artists, curators and designers.
more…Performance and Activism in Everyday Life
La Centrale
From May 15 to May 18 – performances and workshops with Cheryl l’Hirondelle (Vancouver), Lori Blondeau (Saskatoon), Adrian Stimson (Saskatoon). — Curator: Joanne Bristol (Banff).
more…Open Studios
Centre Clark
May 23 to May 25 2008, Open Studios in the Mile-End, with over 80 artists.
Details at www.clarkplaza.org
Andrea Cavagnaro:
All love is powerful
DARE-DARE
From May 5 to May 28, 2008, Andrea Cavagnaro will intervene with the Mile-End Community Mission upon the building that houses it and on its premises. Using various materials from a kitsch aesthetic, she will open breaches in daily life and its power struggles, by proposing a transformation of the building’s facade and a new reading of its interior space.
more…Andrew Chartier : ARB-Ô-
CITOYENS + A-machines
Praxis
Thursday, May 15, from 10am to 6pm (ARB-Ô-CITOYENS) and at 7pm (A-machines) intervention et événement de Andrew Chartier (Sherbrooke), présentement en résidence au «Laboratoire» Praxis.
more…Livraison #9 : As if All Were Well
Centre des arts actuels Skol
Friday May 16, 2008, Launch of issue 9 of Livraison, dedicated to the 2006-2007 programming season at Skol on the theme As if all were well…
more…Kerri Reid : Material Concerns
Centre des arts actuels Skol
From May 16 to June 14, 2008 – In her multidimensional and relational project —deployed in the gallery, in the city, and in the marketplace (in the manufacturing sector and on eBay)—, Toronto artist Kerri Reid proposes a reflection on the status of the artist, on modes of production, and on the power of metaphor and poetry.
more…Les centres d'artistes participants remercient les organismes suivants pour leur soutien :
