Art’s Birthday 2005

Studio XX invites you to celebrate Art’s Birthday, an international network art happening live on the Net with art centres from Japan to Austria.

Come eat your cake and data too!

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
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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. With “product: in the elevator”, 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 connection with themselves as the hypnotic imagery takes one further inside while at the same time 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 humorous 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 art’s birthday under the tutelage 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.