@ POP Quarters everyday of festival. 

VERNISSAGE: with intro by Richard Kerr, Wednesday September 21 @ 19h30.

Richard Kerr :

" Marshall Mcluhan, for me, opened the classroom door which lead directly to the studio. In 1975, as a naive and unformed student I volunteered to document a "talk" given by Marshall McLuhan at the Sheridan School of Art & Design. Coincidence, lead to opportunity, which turned to epiphany. My encounter with McLuhan formed my understanding of the Arts and shaped the ensuing 30 years of studio practice. Marshall McLuhan {my} teacher... classroom to studio is an installation which includes: McLuhan - a 60 minute video, a 4-screen digital projection from the I.S.S.C. project, and a recent selection of Motion Picture Weavings. "

Statement: >>McLuhan is a 60 minute monologue recorded in 1975 and re-worked in 1993 for the installation, Overlapping Entries, shown at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina Saskatchewan. In McLuhan, Kerr recontextualizes a “question and answer period” for design students delivered by media theorist Marshall McLuhan at Sherdian College in 1975. Operating from McLuhan's own aphorism “the medium is the message,” Kerr combines footage of the address with two scrolling texts in the borders, in one showing an asynchronous transcript that weaves around McLuhan's dialogue, and in another, reinforcing McLuhan's talking points like a ticker on cable news. It has the effect of sharply re-conceptualizing the semantic and rhetorical values of the lecture in particular, yet also provides a fascinating perspective on McLuhan's own ideas and intellectual form of address.

Acknowledgements

Collaborator: Stephane Calce   |   Support: Mel Hoppenhiem School of Cinema/C.A.L.Q.   |   Hexagram 

Richard Kerr is a teacher/practitioner based in Montreal since 2000. He is a film/video maker and visual artist, with a wide range of interests and vast body of work that has been exhibited and collected internationally. Richard is currently preparing an exhibition, titled, "Drawing from Photography", that will encompass his interests and influence of the formal properties of photography on his body of work in all media.

www.richard-kerr.ca   |   http://vimeo.com/richardkerr

Take a picture, it lasts longer.   |   Anna Edell & Adam Wilcox

2011. Painting / Sound; Installation 

A set of two installations considering the personal phenomenon of “instant nostalgia” and the conventions of memory through the mediums of paint and sound. The combination of the works repositions the once-purposeless artifacts of inconsequential moments as powerful reminders of personal alienation and time passed.

What do you create when you take a snapshot; what do you want to remember? 

@ POP Quarters eaxh day of festival.

VERNISSAGE : Wednesday, September 21. 16h to 19h30.

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The walls are covered with paintings, various sized images of familiar scenes expressed with saturated colour and contrast. Intangible sound fills the room, layers of sound that are both distant and familiar. The visitor’s mind picks out those audible triggers, that coupled with the strong visual images, piece together a sense of nostalgia that is all at once at once inviting yet disorienting. A synesthetic effect is produced by varying proportions of colour palette and sonic textures.

Significant events that are experienced by the body and all five of it’s senses commonly become replaced by memories conjured from watching yourself on a screen. Mechanical documentation confuses the process of recollection, resulting in false memories; a deviance; an account of the past.  A collaborative installation of images and sounds which were sourced from common documentation methods. Obsolete mediums such as VHS and 35mm, are found to manipulate the senses and create a feeling of nostalgia that examines the confluence of artificiality and authenticity.

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Anna Edell is a recent graduate of Concordia University with a combined degree in Art History and Studio Arts. She has participated in various group shows, and continues to initiate curatorial studies within her community. In 2010, her paintings were featured in the Void literary magazine. Anna continues to live and work in Montreal. Anna’s work looks to evoke an uncanny, unsettling view of the world that both seduces the human senses while leaving the mind weary of the ambiguity of its expression. 

http://annaedell.tumblr.com/

Adam Wilcox is an electronic music producer with a background in film. He Graduated from Media Arts at John Abbott College, where he directed several short films, reflecting a strong focus on sound design. His work involves formal recreation and engages ideas of associative meaning. Without any formal training, his is an intuitive and memory-based approach, central to which is a reliance on images and the potential of modern technology.

In celebration of the 10 Year Anniversary of POP Montréal, Richmond Lam presents Portraits of POP. Featuring the many faces of Montréal's music community, this monochromatic series will be the third installment of Lam's exploration through portraiture. It will be exhibited at the SAT and the POP Quarters, as a part of Art Pop.

@ POP Quarters : each day of festival. VERNISSAGE: WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 21: event

@ SAT café : september 23 - 25th. event

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Richmond Lam is a freelance photographer based in Montréal. His portraits and documentary photographs celebrate music, fashion and youth culture. 

http://richmondlam.com

Art POP is absolutely delighted to have Julie Doucet's involvement, and there too will be original printed collages, drawings, writings exhibited in and around the space as well. 

JULIE DOUCET

to look at, read through, touch, enjoy - AND FOR SALE!

Writings/poetry/collages.  Comics.  Artist's books.  Old/New.  Zines. 

titles presented include:

- Der Stein fanzine series 

- J comme JE 

- Panalitaire (various and special limited editions)  

- Elle-Humour

on exhibit: silk-screened monograph edition(s) of Elle-Humour

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@ POP Quarters. VERNISSAGE : September 21, 16h.

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Bio 

Born in 1965 in Montréal, Julie Doucet was educated at a girl Catholic school. Then she began Fine Arts studies, first at the CÉGEP du Vieux Montréal (the equivalent of junior college), later at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she completed a degree in printing arts. During her studies Julie Doucet took interest into drawing comics, and eventually devoted herself completely to that funny artform. Dirty Plotte began life as a photocopied fanzine. In it Doucet would document in french and in english her day to day life, her dreams, angsts, fantasies...The series was first published in 1991 by Drawn & Quarterly, in the comic book form. Shortly afterwards she won the prestigious Harvey Award for Best New Talent. She left for New York city, where she spent a year related in « My New York Diary ». And then moved to Seattle. From 1995 she spent three years in Berlin, during which time L'Association in Paris published her first book in french : « Ciboire de criss ». Returning to Montréal in the late 1990s, she abandoned the medium of comic books and went back to printing. Woodcuts, linocuts, silkscreen printing, followed by an abundant production of artist's books. She took part in many group exhibitions and, finally, in 2006 she had her own solo exhibition of her print work at the galerie B-312. Julie Doucet now writes and makes collages. Mostly.

BARK

2011. Mixed Media + Painting.

A place where surfaces cry warning, yet wish trespass; Where softness meets teeth. Yet panic finds comfort.

"It is the quiet, the different that cradles you. Extended arms and mind soon learn that new projections are safer than memories, now is more important than before. Twigs in mouth, dirt in ears, you decide to build bridges, one capricious thought and one steadfast limb at a time." (Zoe Koke)

Edward Kwong is an illustrator and designer who hails from Vancouver, BC and now works out of Montreal. Upon graduation from the Alberta College of Art and Design's Visual Communications Progam, he has gone on to create work for the video-game, fashion, editorial and comic industries as a visual artist. His recent work includes: The Antholology Project, DC Comics, Rumble Productions and the University of Alberta.

Depth Breadth Length Width enables participants to uncover the image of a landscape within a large abstract mural through the use of video-enabled sightseeing binoculars. The installation pairs abstract painting with optical illusions and camera effects, tracing the source of the image back to a contemplative video of an industrial Canadian landscape.

Using sightseeing binoculars as a familiar tool to focus, participants will be able to view the landscape at varying levels of clarity - implying that clarity may bring us closer to reality while abstraction and blurriness may bring us closer to thought. In this way, the work suggests ophthalmology as a metaphor for interpreting art and as a universal medium between abstraction, landscape and photography in the history of Canadian art. Our point of view affects our landscape. This installation invites participants to focus and find a point of view.

@ POP Quarters. VERNISSAGE : le 21 septembre, 16h. 

Edward Maloney is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator based in Montreal. His work and collaborations were featured at Le Festival Montréal en lumière and Nuit Blanche in Montreal, and in multiple Canadian galleries including Show and Tell Gallery, Toronto, Red Bird Gallery, Montreal, and Les Territories, Montreal. This is his second year at Art Pop following a previous collaboration with Ubisoft in 2008 entitled Laser Pop.

Connor Willumsen Bad Summer

2011. Illustration, ink, transcripts, comics.

Bad Summer is the most popular season of the year. Deranged and malicious, during the day it makes an annotated list of it's friends and enemies, at night it watches TV and then cries and then goes to sleep. Observe entertaining melodramatics with a boring ending.

Connor Willumsen is a visual artist from Calgary, Alberta now working in Montreal. After seeking education from preeminent cartoonists like Paul Pope and David Mazzucchelli in New York, he moved back to Canada to establish a station where he can continue to publish his own work online and in print. Connor has exhibited internationally in book fairs and galleries. As a freelance illustrator he has accumulated an impressive roster of clients including: DC Comics, All Tomorrow's Parties, Warner Bros., and recently illustrated the packaging and titles of Stanley Kubrick's A Killing Time for The Criterion Collection.

“Salut les amis les artistes/Hello fellow artists/Hola companeros artistas”, each in glowing neon is a welcoming gesture of kinship and camaraderie to both audience and artist alike.  

@ POP Quarters september 21 - 25

VERNISSAGE : wednesday, september 21. 16h - 19h30. 

These 3 sculptures will seamlessly illuminate POP quarters - each as a progression for those who walk through the various spaces and events of POP segment-events.

Thérèse Mastroiacovo’s work is about art itself as an idea, artistic process itself as methodology. It is about the precarious relationship art has to its own definition, open, half open, or slightly open for reclassification at any given time. The varying degrees of openness create space in-between, a space that gives way to meanderings, processes, and procedures. Her work is situated here, in a space of potential created in the middle of existing structures. It is this—this large, large thing stated so, so plainly—that makes her work both familiar and unknowable.

Thérèse works out of her studio at the Darling Foundry, and is a very active member in the Montréal art community. She has a number of solo shows under her belt - locally, nationally, and internationally. She is p/t faculty at Concordia Fine Arts, teaching classes in Drawing and Computation Art. Thérèse has her MFA in Open Media from Concordia, and BFA with honours from York University in Visual Arts.