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Jenny Lin and Shie Kasai at Art Souterrain

2012-02-22T20:22:14Z

Saturday, February 25 to March 11, 2012

"Maintenant Ouvert / Temporairment Fermé" is a site-specific installation by Shie Kasai and Jenny Lin which will be shown at the McGill Metro station during Art Souterrain. The installation is on the same level as the metro ticket booths, close to the entrance to Complexe des Ailes. There is a Carlton Cards store across from our installation. The artists will be present from 7-9 pm on Feb. 25 and there will be flyer distribution "performative" component of the work at that time as well.

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PORTFOLIO SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE FOR FALL 2012

2012-02-21T21:22:45Z

Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Please note that the fall 2012 application deadline for undergraduate programs is March 1.

All programs offered in the Department of Studio Arts require a portfolio for admission. The portfolio must be sent by March 1 directly to the Department.

Important details:

The University will be closed on Friday, February 24 and it will not be possible to submit portfolios in person or by courier that day.

In-person portfolio submissions will not be possible on weekends. Portfolios must be submitted during regular business hours.

For information on portfolio requirements, visit the Faculty of Fine Arts website.

Trevor Gould: Darwin's Nose

2012-02-21T20:19:04Z

February 24 to April 15, 2012
Dunlop Art Gallery

Trevor Gould: Darwin's Nose

Curator: Dr. Curtis Collins
Exhibition organized by the Dunlop Art Gallery

February 24 to April 15, 2012
Dunlop Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, February 24 at 7:00 pm
Artist's Sneak Peek Talk: Thursday February 23 at 7:00 pm

Dunlop Art Gallery
Regina Public Library, Central Branch
2311 - 12th Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
http://dunlopartgallery.org/

Darwin's Nose makes reference to the famous 19th century English naturalist's inductive method of scientific investigation, whereby close observation and the collection of purely descriptive data precludes postulation and the formation of a hypothesis. Drawing parallels between this mode of scientific inquiry, speculative fiction and the scientific imaginary, the allegorical convention of Western painting traditions that place animals in human contexts, and contemporary cultures of display, Gould has constructed an exhibition that brings together a series of recent watercolours, sculptures, and video that examine trans-species interaction and the relationship between viewers, subjects and objects within exhibition spaces.

Among the works included in Darwin's Nose is a 2011 video piece shot at the Metro Toronto Zoo. For this project, two of Gould's sculptures - one abstract and faux-Modernist, one figurative and humanoid in form - were placed in the orangutan enclosure for its inhabitants to encounter. The resulting video documents the orangutans' interactions with these foreign and curious objects. A series of elegant watercolour studies of orangutans accompanies the video. The congruity of the exhibition, however, is complicated by the presence of two undeniably strange, silver and seemingly malleable hominid figures that occupy the space in an uncanny and unsettling manner. Like the orangutans in the video, the viewer is faced with a task of interpretation, allowing the strange and the familiar to coalesce in order to make meaning of the surrounding environment. Caught in the act of hypothesizing, the viewer is also implicated as a subject within the constructed space of the installation.

Artist's Bio: Trevor Gould was born in Johannesburg and studied in South Africa as well as Canada. He has made Montreal his home since the early 1990s and teaches sculpture at Concordia University. In 1998, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal organized a major touring exhibition of his work, entitled Posing for the Public. Over the past decade, Gould's work has been exhibited in public galleries across Canada and Europe. Among the numerous permanent collections retaining Gould's work are the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Gaia Cuneo Foundation in Italy, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Osler Hoskin and Harcourt LLP, Montreal, and private holdings in Germany, France and the United States.

The Dunlop Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, and Saskatchewan Lotteries. Trevor Gould gratefully acknowledges the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres Quebec.

Ed Pien Artist Talk

2012-02-15T18:59:43Z

Thu, Feb 16, 2012 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Ed Pien was born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to Canada when he was 11 years old. He received his Master of Fine Arts from York University in 1984. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, in venues that include The Drawing Centre, New York; La Biennale de Montréal; W139, Amsterdam; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and the Goethe Institute, Berlin. His work is in the collections of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum London, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Pien draws on sources both Eastern and Western to create his work, including Asian ghost stories, hell scrolls, calligraphic traditions and the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya, creating sensual, drawing-based installations using ink and translucent paper (like Earthly Delights in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). The spectator is invited to walk into these floor-to-ceiling environments and approach the half-human, half-animal monsters within. In his most recent body of work, Pien has replaced ink and gouache with an xacto knife in order to produce large-scale paper cuts. In the summer of 2004, he travelled to China to continue research on myths and legends found in Chinese folklore; he returned from the trip excited about a form of art that is centuries old in its tradition.1 The artist states: "I resort to the use of large-scale to counter this craft-based process and attempt to avoid and sense of sentimentality and preciousness that seem to go hand-in-hand with most paper-cuts"

Thu, Feb 16, 2012 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Germaine Koh Talk

2012-02-15T18:53:09Z

Wed, Feb 15, 2012 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Germaine Koh is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver. Her conceptually-generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places. Her exhibition history includes the BALTIC Centre (Newcastle), De Appel (Amsterdam), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Bloomberg SPACE (London), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Liverpool, Sydney and Montréal biennals. Koh was a recipient of the 2010 VIVA Award, and a finalist for the 2004 Sobey Art Award. Formerly an Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, she is also an independent curator and partner in the independent record label weekwerk. Koh is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

Wed, Feb 15, 2012 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

MFA Open Studio and Art Auction

2012-02-15T18:37:56Z

Get an inside look at contemporary art being produced at Concordia. Feb. 15, 2012.

The MFA Open Studio and Art Auction offers the public a chance to view works-in-progress, performances, film and video screenings and on-campus exhibitions.

When and where:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Open Studio: 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.
EV Building
1515 St. Catherine St. W.

Open Studio: 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Building
1395 René Lévesque Blvd W.

Art Auction: 6 to 8 p.m.
MFA Gallery, VA 102
1395 René Lévesque Blvd W.

The Art Auction will be run as a silent auction following the Open Studio event. Works can be previewed online ahead of time. Open bids will be set at $40. Refreshments will be available. Cash bar.

Cost:
Admission to the MFA Open Studio and Art Auction is free of charge. Everyone welcome.

Information:
Sabrina Russo, MFA Events Coordinator.
Tel: 514-848-2424 ext. 5672
Email: sruss@alcor.concordia.ca

Event description:
The Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University has a long-standing international reputation for excellence and innovation in contemporary art. The MFA in Studio Arts program currently has 120 students in Fibres, Film Production, Open Media, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Print Media, and Sculpture and Ceramics.

The MFA Open Studio and Art Auction offers the greater Concordia community an opportunity to engage with one of Canada's foremost environments for the study and creation of visual art. View works-in-progress, performances, film and video screenings and on-campus exhibitions and purchase affordable artworks by students, alumni and faculty.

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Tirtza Even : The Story of Telling

2012-02-09T20:23:51Z

Friday, February 17, 2012
1:00 - 3:00 pm
EV Building, 11.705

Tirtza Even and Brian Karl. Definition. Installation. 2005.

Commissioned by the Jewish Museum, New York City.

Topological Media Lab And Hexagram Research-Creation Are Excited To Present:

Friday, February 17, 2012

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Hexagram Resource Centre

EV Building, 11.705

Concordia University

1515 St. Catherine St. W.

Montreal QC

The Story of Telling
Tirtza Even's presentation, "The Story of Telling,"will review her efforts to communicate social and political realities in visual media. Even's linear and interactive video work have consistently been engaged with representing the encounter with a variety of groups and individuals, typically ones whose lives embody complex or decentralized social/political settings (in Palestine, Turkey, the U.S and Germany, among other locations). At the same time (and perhaps especially) the work could also be described as an exploration of the inevitable, yet nuanced, failure of this very act of representation.

Even's most recent projects include Natural Life (a feature length documentary on incarcerated youth, in progress, 2011), Failed (a multi-channel video installation, in progress, 2011), All Day (a short experimental documentary made in collaboration with an inmate locked for life at a Michigan State prison, 2012), and Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains (a multi-channel video/ 3-D animation reflecting on personal encounters in Palestine, 2009.

Biography
A practicing video artist and documentary maker for more than ten years, Even has produced both linear and interactive video work representing the less overt manifestations of complex and sometimes extreme social/political dynamics in specific locations. Her work has appeared at the Modern Art Museum, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many other venues in, the United States, Israel and Europe, and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Modern Art Museum (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others. She has been an invited guest and featured speaker at numerous conferences and university programs, including the Whitney Museum Seminar series, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, Art Pace annual panel, ACM Multimedia, The Performance Studies International conference (PSI), The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference (SLSA) and others.

Currently an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Even has been teaching Video and Multimedia Production and Post-Production, Experimental and Documentary Film Theory, Video Art and Media Theory and Production at the School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan, at New York University, at Columbia University, NY and at a number of other colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, and has published articles about video art history and theory in Israel and the United States.

A Fulbright scholar, she completed a Masters Degree in Cinema Studies (with a focus on Documentary and Ethnographic Film Production and Theory) and a second Masters in the Interactive Telecommunication Program, both at New York University.

Artist Talk Supported by: Department of Design and Computation Arts, Open Media / IMCA MFA, SAVAP, CEREV and Hexagram.

Adrian Norvid: Finkola High / The Cantankerous Krank

2012-02-09T18:22:06Z

February 9 - March 17, 2012
Vernissage: Saturday February 11, 2012, 4-6 p.m.

Adrian Norvid, Finkola High (détail/ detail), 2011
Peinture vinylique Flashe sur papier / Flashe Vinyl Paint on Paper

Drawing, installation and performance

February 9 - March 17, 2012
Vernissage: Saturday February 11, 2012, 4-6 p.m.

There is a hermetic world assembled in Finkola Highpopulated by nerds and heads, disco enthusiasts, jocks and misfits, all with their attendant clothing and hairstyle blunders.

Performances
Sometime (though by no means all the time - Thursday, Friday, Saturday) between the hours of 12 and 5:00, Herr Krank (the erstwhile Adrian Norvid) will fashion an improvised musical texture with the help of a number of diminutive keyboards and the odd biscuit tin.

NUIT BLANCHE Event
Saturday February 25, 2012, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.

The performance will continue right through the celebrated Montreal Nuit Blanche where Herr Krank (the erstwhile Adrian Norvid) will be making noises infernal from 9:00 until he drops around 1:00. Free entrance

Evergon presents Shanghaied: Barking Dogs Boys Silent Koi

2012-02-09T18:04:47Z

Feb 23rd to Mar 07 2012
Vernissage Thur Feb 23rd
5 to 8 pm

Bojana Videkanic: Visiting Speaker from University of Waterloo

2012-02-08T21:12:22Z

Thursday Feb. 9th, 12:30-1:30 VA-234

Thinking of graduate school?
Join us on Thursday February 9th to find out about the University of Waterloo's MFA programme. We are a small programme with an international edge, fostering practiced-based research grounded in critical thinking and contemporary art theory. The distinction within our programme is the prestigious Shantz Summer Internship. Fully funded, the programme offers each first year MFA student the opportunity to travel and work with an established artist anywhere in the world. Past host artists include: Dana Shultz, Martin Creed, Kim Adams, David Batchelor, Thomas Demand, Stephen Ellis, Ceal Floyer, Nicola Hicks, John Hartman, Philip Pearlstein, Thomas Scheibitz, Jana Sterbak, and Donald Sultan, to name only a few. This informal presentation is part of a graduate field trip; current MFA students will be present to share their experiences.

RICHARD FUNG: Visiting Artist

2012-02-08T20:27:44Z

Thu, Feb 9, 2012 from 9:15am to 12:30pm

RICHARD FUNG, award-winning video artist, writer and theorist, has produced a series of challenging videotapes on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. He is recipient of the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video Art and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art. Richard Fung is a public intellectual who has pushed forward the debates about queer sexuality, Asian identity and the uneasy borderlands of culture and politics. He will discuss his art practice and the contexts that shape it.

CFI funding for Studio Arts professor

2012-02-06T19:47:35Z

Barbara Layne, a fibres professor in the Department of Studio Arts, is one of three Concordia University researchers to receive significant funding for leading-edge infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

The funding, over $407,000 in total, enables Layne to purchase the Tajima 101 Laying Machine to further her research/creation in intelligent textiles. This powerful digital tool allows three-dimensional layering of multiple technical fibres in complex geometries, resulting in the creation of intricate electronic textiles, fully approximating that of a soft circuit board.

CFI grants, earmarked for research infrastructure and equipment and provided through the Leadership Opportunity Fund, are matched by the Quebec government and supported by Concordia.

Two other Concordia professors also benefited from CFI funding.

Nadia Chaudhri, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, will acquire high-tech equipment to develop new therapies for the treatment of drug addiction.
Dylan Fraser, assistant professor in the Department of Biology, will put his grant towards a DNA analyzer that will help carry out genotyping studies of certain species that are of economic, cultural or conservational importance to Canadians.

According to CFI President and CEO Gilles G. Patry: "Canadians from coast to coast can be assured that Canada's research community is bringing its talents to bear on the problems that matter to them. This round of investment illustrates the value of research and innovation in building stronger, healthier and more prosperous communities."

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With files from NOW Concordia

Fanciful: Small Media Moments

2012-02-03T20:54:25Z

10/02/2012 to 13/04/2012
Media Gallery, Loyola Campus

Event description: The Media Gallery in the Department of Communication Studies proudly presents the exhibition Fanciful: Small Media Moments, curated by Kim Sawchuk and Rae Staseson. Featuring the work of Margaret Murphy, Emily Pelstring, Kelly Thompson and Karen Trask, this exhibition plays with our notion of scale and challenges us to reconsider intimacy, domestic display and the role of whimsy in communication. The artists all use a combination of old technologies in conjunction with new media, in highly unique ways, to create surprising connections.

Vernissage: Thursday February 9th, 4:30-6:30 pm, and the artists will be in attendance.

Fanciful: Small Media Moments runs from February 10th until April 13th, in the Media Gallery, CJ Building 1.419, located at Concordia University's Loyola campus, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 9-4:45 pm and Friday 9-12:45 pm. For additional information please contact Rae Staseson at 514-848-2424 x2535 or x2555.

REBECCA BREWER

2012-02-03T20:41:08Z

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
12:30 to 1:30pm
Visual Arts Building, #323

MATERIAL CULTURE: Annual Ceramics Show at Concordia

2012-02-03T20:05:59Z

Monday, February 6 to February 24, 2012
Vernissage: Tuesday, February 7 (6:00 to 8:00pm)