Art POP 2009 has an amazing roster of emerging and established artists sure to engage and entice POP Montréal festival-goers. This year, we have curated some of the most cutting-edge, fun and vibrant art from this city and beyond. We have two main venues — Notman House and La Place Ubisoft: Espace Réunion — as well as a pile of additional special projects and co-productions throughout the city. With all this to offer, Art POP 2009 is sure to be the aesthetic heart, bone (oh my!) and soul of this year's POP Montreal. Read on to find out why!
Dominique Sirois's atelier-cum-nightclub manifests itself with an intense and enticing glow. Come see how this minimalistic office turns into a public and cult-ish discotheque before your very eyes!
In a room created by Bridget Moser and Jessica Campbell, giant domestic objects made of papier-mache piñata are offered to the public as objects to (potentially) destroy or at least paw-at directly.
Kim Kielhofner’s video installation A Dragnet for Lost Feelings pulls viewers into a small tent with an entertaining, yet unsettling offering about family mys(his)tory, crime & violence, and the wild west.
In the main hall, people-photographer Richmond Lam exhibits a gorgeous collection of photographs that will surely bring to mind the most memorable moments of Pop Montreal 2008.
Jean-Philippe Harvey and Adam Bergeron, two young artists from Québec, are covering the walls with their electrifying, naive and stunning collaborative murals.
This year, Art POP, the Symposium and Film POP are all hanging out in a new segment headquarters, Place Ubisoft: Espace Réunion. Located in a recently renovated flour factory, the events held there (from workshops and panels to interactive art installations and after-hours parties) are sure to blow your mind, if not make your heart feel a wee leaky.
The Engineer/Artist duo David Beaulieu and Christian Pelletier have created a giant, room-sized theremin with sixteen antennas so we can all create music with our bodies! A performance that needs you to make it happen, and one not to be missed!! The team behind this mad installation will be telling you all about it in a presentation for the Symposium at 3pm on Sunday October 4th.
Paul Warne's interactive installation brings participants (as you surely will be) down a psychedelic and luminous mineshaft using 3D, 2D and computer programming effects.
New York based-computational artist Daniel Iglesia draws viewers into an abstract three-dimensional world that blends red-and-blue 3D with actual computer-generated 3D. Come see how Iglesia uses the software Max/MSP to create rad, computer-automated, audio/video jockey in a presentation for the Symposium on Sunday October 4th at 12:30pm.
Steve Topping, whose practice integrates architecture, sculpture, conceptual art and activism in site-specific (mostly urban) spaces, is behind the structural design and completion of the exhibition space. He is also offering the Symposium space a strucure and a presentation in which he will be presenting his incredible body of work (Sunday October 4th at noon).
Artist and musician Brendan Reed will exhibit a video installation on the imagined possibilities of his inner psyche in relationship to Montreal as a city. This project is presented in collaboration with the Werner Whitman Gallery.
For the duration of the festival, performance artist Lalie Douglas will be wandering around the Pop circuit, encouraging strangers to eat her sculptures of birds cast in chocolate and small houses made of cake. Her daily recordings of the participants' performances will be on display at the exhibition in an on-going, ever-changing video.
Finally, Art POP 2009 is thrilled to announce the return of ruffin, cad and general artistic genuis Adrian Norvid who will be hanging large format drawings with a plethora of hilariously thought-provoking phrases that perfectly echo Art POP's spirit of play and curiosity.
Art POP Everywhere!
We're tickled (pink) to have the honour of being involved with some amazing artistic projects and aesthetic productions throughout this fine city. Read on to see who we've teamed up with this year to offer you the best of the far-reaching and diverse art worlds colliding this fall here in Montreal.
101 Song Scores by Michelle Lacombe & Sheena Hoszko, co-presented by Agence Topo
an ongoing project, starting now and until the end of the festival!
101 Song Scores addresses the subjective ways of relating to song lyrics and their meaning. The artists compiled a database of song "scores" (text-based performance directions) culled from the lyrics of western popular music of the last 50 years. These scores propose gaps for shared moments of action by appropriating Pop Montreal's design aesthetic and parasiting festival web media. In addition to this, the database in its entirety is made available to the public in the form of a web page produced in collaboration with Agence Topo.(http://www.agencetopo.qc.ca). With an emphasis on waiting, the 101 Song Scoresweb page highlights the integral relationship between an action and its duration..
Scenographic Installation by Mathieu Blanchette
Green Room, 5386 Boulevard St. Laurent, September 30th - October 4th, every night!
Mathieu Blanchette, formerly part of the Fynal Glayse collective, works his flamboyant trash aesthetic with all of the bands gracing the stage at the Green Room for the duration of the Pop Montréal festival. There will be chaos, cardboard, papier mâché, mascots and mayhem.
En Masse at Art Pop, co-presented with the Red Bird gallery, En Masse and the English Montreal School Board
135 Rue Van Horne - October 1st - October 31st, Open House every day from 12-6pm
The Happiness Project by 8 very special artists
5202 Hutchison, 30 sept - 4 oct, 14h00 - 20h00
Presented by Artist Bloc and Sweetietruck, featuring Marijke Bouchier, Svea Vikander, David Collier, Marianne Collins, Nicole Legault, Amy Vickberg, Corri Lynn Tetz, Crush, Inc. and Beluga Studio
The Happiness Project will jump your heart into you mouth and make it smile big and wide. A mulitdisciplinary, experimental apartment exhibition based on Charles Spearin's (Borken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think) record of the same name, it features a stellar cast of artists who take over every room of a storied apartment. Drop by for a visit!
A group exhibition that showcases the work of twelve emerging artists who can also be found behind the counter of Montreal's popular music/art venue Casa Del Popolo. Each piece of this interdisciplinary exhibition is connected in one way or another with music. The vernissage features live music by Molly Sweeney.
With the art of: Popolo Press, Jacinthe Loranger, Aimée van Drimmelen, Naledi Jackson, NOMNRYN, Sarah Taylor, IPAPURW, Niki Jessup, Marielyne Tarabulsy, Chandra Murdoch and Molly Sweeney
Smile On Your Brother with over 50 national and international artists, co-presented with Furni Creations & Contributor
Off-the-Hook, 1021a Ste-Catherine Ouest - October 3-9, 12-5pm
Vernissage: October 2nd, 7-11pm
Smile on Your Brother is an exhibition of old-school-shaped skateboards designed by over 50 highly influential contemporary artists, with the goal of raising funds and awareness in support of Contributor's first goal: donate 100 skateboards to disadvantaged youth across Canada for Sprin 2010. (www.wearecontributors.com)
Greyscale Rainbow by Matt Shane & Jim Holyoak, co-presented with articule
articule, 262 Fairmount Ouest, 30 sept - 4 oct, 12h00 - 17h00
Finissage : 2 oct 17h00
Over the course of one month, Matt Shane and Jim Holyoak will be transforming artist-run-centre articule into an immersive and interactive drawing landscape. The artists will live, work and sleep on-site, and viewers/participants will be encouraged to wander through their creations and to react and participate in the process of their creation.
HOT HOT GOLD II by Tyler Rauman
Casa Del Popolo, 4873 Rue St. Laurent, October 1st - 31st
HOT HOT GOLD II is a continuing series emphasizing the one-of-a-kind and unique nature of original artwork by employing unreproducible techniques and media, such as sparkles, gold and other metallic pigments, sculpture, fluorescents, glossyness, and translucency.
Hatchmatik à la Galerie Emporium
The Emporium Gallery, 3035 St-Antoine Ouest, #74, 8 - 14 oct
Vernissage : 8 oct, 19h00 - 22h00
While generally known for his production and remix work (MIA, Chromeo, Thunderheist, etc), Hatchmatik (Coco Machete) is also an award-winning printmaker. His mixed-media installation at the Emporium Gallery will be his first solo installation in Montreal.
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