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Happening in and around the White Cube this week: Paper art and sustainable making solutions

Paper has always been something fascinating to me. Delicate and natural, this material is often overlooked as mundane and common.

A problem I have with art-making lies in its material. I love to make, I love painting, drawing… I hate making waste. When I began to teach, I stopped painting. I hate having to throw away dried up paint tubes almost as much as I hate watching people squeeze too much paint on their disposable palettes.

Last year, while I was interning at Concordia University’s Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR), I was taught to make paper, and led several workshops throughout the year. I was hooked. I am hooked. I ripped up old anthropology readings to make a test sheet. The acting of ripping, blending, and pulling the wet pulp was so liberating that I didn’t stop until I had collaged a rather large pulp sheet on multiple smaller sheets of felt. The uneven patched felt foundation allowed for ridges and bumps in the paper. Once it dried, it was as stiff as a board.

Since then, I’ve made several sheets of paper with all kinds of old drawings. I plan to make a series with old issues of The Concordian at some point.

So it goes without saying, when I got word of Mylene Boisvert’s “Spinning Paper Thread” workshop at the Visual Arts Centre, I was ecstatic. The workshop was part of her exhibition at the McClure Gallery, a collection of delicately woven and crocheted paperworks. Lace-like, they clung to the gallery’s walls, blowing ever so slightly anytime a door opened.

Some looked like netting and shedded reptilian skin. Others swirled so tightly and intricately, it was hard to believe Boisvert used paper to make them.

In the workshop, we learned the artist’s spinning tricks and affinity for Japanese paper, which is thin and tough, made with plant fibers, both by hand and industrially. I was brought into a world of new possibilities. A place where I could continue to make without worrying about the material I would be leaving behind.

I believe that at the time we are living in, facing the climate crisis, art-making practices cannot be excused. No one is above it; no politician, no economist, no student, no teacher, and especially no artist.

If you are interested in papermaking and spinning paper threads, I recommend attending a workshop at Atelier Retailles. Mylene Boisvert will be leading a spinning workshop on Oct. 10, following the beginner papermaking skillshare on Oct 5.  

 

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Mesmerizing. Ingenious.

Those two words come to mind when thinking about Ragnar Kjartansson’s A Lot of Sorrow. I’ve visited the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) to see it three times. I’ve never seen the whole thing (it’s six hours long) – so every time I go it’s at a different part. Kjartansson, an Icelandic performance artist, convinced The National, an American band he was obsessed with, to perform their song “Sorrow” for six hours straight at the MoMA PS1 in New York City in 2013. The recorded footage, now property of the MAC, is exhibited every three years or so.

With each repetition, new sounds are heard. Whether it is just you paying attention to different notes or the band experimenting, I couldn’t say for sure. The room is big and dark, walled with black curtains and a long comfy stool, or perhaps it’s a couple of smaller stools pressed together, existing in the centre of the space. People sit and lie there, watching. They also sit or lie on the floor, some for a couple of minutes, others for hours to watch the endless concert.

The song loops perfectly, a consistent light drumming tying it all together. By now I’ve memorized the lyrics too, but they were my own. I know the actual ones too, they just evolve after each listen. “Cover me in ragan balm,” it’s rag and bones, “and sympathy…” “It’s in my honey. It’s in my bed,” it’s in my milk. Everyone in the room hears something different. Some are smiling, laughing quietly to themselves, others look solemn, they feel the sorrow, a whole lot of sorrow.

In an article by The Art Newspaper, Kjartansson is quoted saying, “the notion of melancholia creates something that makes me happy, in creating.” Wallowing in sorrow rarely stays as such, especially when listening to The National on repeat. It’s silly. It’s beautiful. It’s tiring.

The band’s exhaustion sets in, their suits disheveled, sweaty, hungry, and drunk. The stage becomes littered with bottles, water and wine, platters of fruit, candy… I would have stayed all six hours too if I could eat and drink in the exhibition hall.

The concept is simple enough. The song is the right one.

A Lot of Sorrow will continue to loop at the MAC until Oct. 6. Admission is $7 for students, half-price on Wednesday evenings from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m and free on the first Sunday of the month for Quebec residents.

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Happening in and around the White Cube this week: Our Happy Life 

In May, after school had ended, I spent my time drawing and listening to podcasts, waiting to leave for my long awaited trip to visit a friend in Vienna. One of the very few times I got out of the house was to see Our Happy Life:  Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). The exhibition has stuck in my mind ever since, and after recently revisiting, I’ve decided this is one of the best shows I’ve seen to date.

Categorized into small segments, the exhibition is concerned with the growing international happiness index and the specific factors that influence it. Ranging from ‘Safety,’ ‘Air Quality,’ and ‘Community Belonging’ to ‘Walking Alone At Night,’ ‘Views’ and ‘WELL™’ the categories, backed up with visual findings, express the ways in which they have had an effect on various lives.

Most notably, the impact of accessible housing and location on the happiness index were exemplified by those living in temporary homes on the site of a volcano in Hawaii. In order to live the lifestyle they desire that fits within their budget, they are fully aware the volcanic grounds they live on could be subject to another disaster at any moment.

The ‘Social Life’ category describes how an apartment complex in Brooklyn Cultural District used the promise of a specific social lifestyle to sell homes by partnering with founder of Rookie Magazine, Tavi Gevinson. Although Gevinson announced her disbandment in June 2018, her contribution to the #ApartmentStories hashtag was significant, and gave those seeking such a lifestyle something to idealize.

But how is this Arts Chloë? The White Cube does not need to contain what we traditionally recognize as arts (painting, drawing, sculpture…) – it can be anything. The answer is in the curation. Our Happy Life presents a research project in the most formidable way. Curated by Francesco Garutti, Irene Chin, and Jacqueline Meyer, and designed by OK-RM (London), the exhibition takes visitors through rooms ranging from white and clinically archival, to yellow and fluffy, and finally through a long, comforting blue corridor. Large images hang on the walls accompanied by texts stating things like “OUR SENTIMENTS HAVE BECOME STATISTICS AND DATA,” and “HAPPINESS RULES ARE DEFINING SPATIAL VALUES.” The exhibition itself is designed and curated in such a way that makes viewers feel happy, despite the topics they confront within.

I left (both times) feeling quite pleased and thinking, “they’re not wrong.”

The exhibition ends by exploring various cities, where Vienna is ranked first in the 2018 Quality of Living Survey, according to Mercer and The Economist.

Our Happy Life remains in the main exhibition hall at the CCA until Oct. 13. 

 

Graphic by Ana Bilokin (Archive) 

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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

30×150 Women Artists and Architects Film Festival

In collaboration with the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative and the Atwater Library’s Digital Literacy Program, students registered in ARTH 381, Feminism & Art History, have made 30 short films highlighting Canada’s female artists and architects. Each film is 150 seconds long and includes interview testimony from art historians and fans of the artists, as well as a general overview of their lives and works.

  • Where: MB-9.EFG
  • When: April 9 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
On the edge

Featuring various printmaking and collage works by Alex Guèvremont, Catherine Desroches, Austin Henderson and Sandrine Haineault, On the edge  is “a poetic walk across the abstraction and the figurative space.” Mouseprint Gallery, founded in 2008 by Patrick Visentin, technician and professor of print media at Concordia, is an exhibition space that showcases artwork from both established and emerging artists.

  • Where: Mouseprint Gallery (EV-9.416)
  • When: Now until April 12.
  • Finissage on April 9 at 4 p.m.
Ineffable

Ineffable is a product of the Fine Arts Reading Room (FARR) winter residency, culminating to students’ research in playwriting and dramaturgy. According to the Facebook event page, Sue E. and Ollie V. will be reading the latest version of their script, which examines silence in the lives of two queer, African and Caribbean people. The same source states that, “within this liminal space, Pharah and Mars remember their youth together in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. To them, this was an island of sexuality and creativity; an island removed from their families overseas and encased in silence.”

  • Where: EV Junction, EV-2.785
  • When: April 12 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
External Memory

With pieces ranging from video and performance art to sound, electronic arts and virtual reality, External Memory showcases the Intermedia Cyberarts (IMCA) 400 graduating student exhibition. Open for one night only, 16 students question the concept of the “external memory,” how it affects the environment and exists in our recollections. As described on the Facebook event page, “traces of our experiences can reside on a hard drive, in an object, on the internet, or in the mind of someone else. Smells, sounds, movements, tastes and sights have the potential to provoke the resurgence of buried thoughts, emotions, and impulses.”

  • Where: Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clark St.
  • Vernissage and performances on April 12 at 6:30 p.m.
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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Pop-up Exhibition: ICEBREAKER

ICEBREAKER is a multidisciplinary, one night long exhibition featuring the work of over 30 of Concordia’s emerging undergraduate artists. The exhibition will include drawing, printmaking, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, film and performance in the university’s spacious Black Box Theatre.

  • When: April 3 from 6 to 10 p.m.
  • Where: Black Box Theatre, EV OS3-845 (Basement)
  • Admission is free.
Conversations in Contemporary Art: Dean Baldwin

Concluding the 2019 Conversations in Contemporary Art is time-based artist, Dean Baldwin. Baldwin lives and works in Montreal, focusing on installation, performance, and photography.According to the Facebook event page, the talk will explore the artist’s search for a collective that, “elevates and underscores our relations. His [work] is the happy chaos of making things happen from the things to hand.”

  • When: April 5 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
  • Where: VA building, VA-114
  • Admission is free
Response to Jet du bas dit AA l’eau geut avec l’invisible by Marie-Douce St-Jacques

Local, sound-based artist, Alexandre St-Onge, will work in collaboration with Marie-Douce St-Jacques, an interdisciplinary artist, to engage in an improvisation-based dialogue, “guided by the various performative traces collecting in the exhibition spaces over the past month,” as stated on the Facebook event page. St-Onge’s performative installation, Jet du bas dit AA l’eau geut avec l’invisible will be at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery until April 6.

  • When: April 6 from 3 to 5 p.m.
  • Where: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery
  • Admission is free.
  • The event will be held in French.  
Film Screening – After the war with Hannelor – A Berliner War Child’s Testimony from 1945 to 1989

The Concordia German Language Student Association will be screening a touching documentary filmed and directed by G. Scott MacLeod. The event will conclude with a talk led by the director himself.

  • When: April 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Where: Concordia Hall Building room H-1070
  • Admission is free.
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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Theatrical release: Dérive

What does it take to make a film? After 13 years of planning, writing and filming, Concordia film production graduate, David Uloth’s feature film was finally released in theatres on March 8, International Women’s Day. A drama, Dérive showcases the strength of a mother and her two daughters navigating a recent loss in the family.  

For showtimes, consult www.cinemamontreal.com

 

FARR Art Book Symposium

The Fine Arts Reading Room (FARR) is a library resource at Concordia University which offers residencies, computer access and printing services. The symposium will consist of a series of events and workshops. On March 26, Tommi Parrish will lead an artist talk at 3 p.m., followed by a zine-making event. At 3 p.m. on March 27, Taylor of Bookbinder’s Daughter will lead a binding workshop, and on March 28, the symposium will end with a zine fair from 12 to 5 p.m. and a publication grant finissage from 5 to 7 p.m.

  • When: March 26-28
  • Where: EV Junction (EV2.785)
  • All events are free and required materials will be provided

 

apəTHē/

apəTHē/, or “apathy” is a play created and written by the students of PERC490, Performance Creation Mainstage, a year-long theatre production class. Sara Jarvie-Clark, FASA general coordinator, theatre student and musician (who performed at Somewhere Shared’s event, Somewhere Inside), and Scarlet Fountain, intern at Concordia University’s Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR) and artist behind the Rope Project, are among several students involved in the production.  

  • When: March 27-30
  • Where: F.C Smith Building, The Cazalet Theatre (Loyola Campus)
  • For show times and tickets visit www.facebook.com/events/2249566458636290/
  • Tickets are $12 for general admission and $7 students and seniors.
Conversations in Contemporary Art presents Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron

Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron is a Montreal-based artist, teacher, Concordia alumna and current artist-in-residence at Concordia University as the 2017 recipient of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. Abbondanza-Bergeron is inspired by architecture, working with sculpture and installation to “point out the disparities between inside and outside, as they point out to various forms of built and social structures of control; dictating access or rejection into a specific structure or relationship,” as described on the event page. For more information about the Conversations in Contemporary Art talk series, visit concordia.ca/cica.

  • When: March 29 at 6 p.m.
  • Where: de Sève Cinema, McConnell Library Building (LB-125).
  • The event is free and open to the general public
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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

In its 19th year, Art Matters is the largest student run, non-profit art festival in North America. Every year, Art Matters selects curators for 10 exhibitions, who are then tasked with selecting up to 10 artists to complete their exhibition. This year, the festival began on March 2 during Nuit Blanche, with an ephemeral, outdoor exhibition at the Darling Foundry’s Place Publique. Would You Bury Me? was curated by Megan K. Quigley and featured eight multidisciplinary artists whose work questioned the act of saying “no.”

The suffocating, impractical desire to name is a weekly radio show that will be hosting a live performance event on March 15 from 6 to 10 p.m. Tune in to CIBL 101.5 on March 11, 19 and 26 at 6 p.m. to listen to nine works selected by the show’s curator, Emily Sirota.

Sous nos souffles // Vulnerability Lingers will feature the work of seven artists, surrounding ideas of touch. Curated by Tina Lê and Éloïse Joubert, the exhibition is open until March 17 at Galerie POPOP in the Belgo Building.

Opening on March 7 at NOMADNation, Interface takes its inspiration from the emergence of software development with the Jacquard loom. The exhibition includes a satellite exhibition at the Concordia Webster Library Visualization Studio on Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until March 26.

The first week of the festival ends with a special, double vernissage on Friday, March 8 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. At Espace POP, porpos asks viewers to question the purpose behind the nine artworks exhibited and at the Rialto Theatre, Digital Dreams / I’ll dream about this someday considers the digital era’s ability to absorb visual information.

Opening on March 10 at Studio XX, In search of delicious features the works of seven artists who search for pleasure, satisfaction, well-being and care.

At Espace 8, students Nina Molto and Louise Campion have curated Look at what you made me do, an exhibition that looks at popular culture’s meme society and the relationship between images and text. The vernissage is on March 20 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

With a vernissage on March 22 at 6 p.m., MALAISE shines light on how women’s bodies and feminine power are “demonized” in today’s society, through explorations of gender, the bizarre, and feelings of unease.

And finally, from March 11 to 22, in collaboration with Art Souterrain and the VAV Gallery, Sites of Embodied Silence questions the political nature of silence and censorship in this era of resistance.

For more information about Art Matters’s events and exhibitions, consult @artmattersfestival on Facebook or artmattersfestival.org.  

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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Miss Chief is back! And boy am I thrilled. As someone who grabs every chance they have to write and talk about Kent Monkman, attending the press conference on Feb. 5, for the artist’s new exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience at McCord museum, was a dream come true (I was even lucky enough to meet him!).

I’ll just go out and say it, Kent Monkman is the most relevant artist today and possibly ever. The Canadian-born artist of Cree ancestry comments not only on our current sociocultural conditions, but also colonial history and colonial art history.

“I look for places to take inspiration or to challenge art history told by different perspectives,” Monkman explained at the press conference. Both artist and curator of Shame and Prejudice, he works with existing art and artefacts in McCord’s collection to “jostle tradition” and “rep a Cree worldview.”  

A beautifully set table transforms from lavish hors d’oeurves set for colonial officials and polished wood, to splintered bark topped with boney leftovers representing those that were left to scavenge or starve.

Monkman creates masterpieces, both painting and installation/sculptural work, inspired by great classical artists like Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Leonardo Da Vinci, as well as more arguably problematic work by Pablo Picasso.

 

Monkman comments on the art world’s (post)modern minimalist trends by comparing them to Indigenous overpopulation in prisons, which he emphasises as the ultimate minimalist dream, living with the bare necessities (Minimalism, 2017). Monkman even comments on natural history by making sculptural pieces, such as in Nativity Scene (2017), which mimics installations in natural history museums; neanderthals and dinosaurs sharing their space with Native Americans with the same head and body in different scenes, wearing different clothing.

Monkman’s favourite piece, The Scream (2017) depicts the violently emotional removal of Indigenous children from their families.The massive painting is centered on a black wall in a black room, surrounded by beautiful handmade baby carriers, ghost-baby carriers (grey, empty carriers symbolising those that were lost), chalk outlines, and work created by Indigenous children in residential schools. There are no words to describe the sense of dread one feels walking into this room. When asked by a CTV journalist, Monkman agreed that it’s about time the impact of colonialism is brought to the public eye in such a visually discerning way.

Monkman’s work checks all the boxes, and surpassing its aesthetic and artistic qualities is its ability to educate, supported by Indigenous voices and knowledge. Present throughout is the gender fluid, twospirit teacher of the century, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.

Visit Miss Chief in Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience at the McCord Museum until May 5. Miss Chief’s newly released video performance, Another Feather in Her Bonnet, in collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier and part of a larger installation, is now a part of the permanent collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Drama Hive: Miniature Worlds Edition

Similar to the Art Hive, Concordia’s Drama Hive provides a safe and fun space to create! Through drama practices, participants can get creative, experiment with materials, interact with others, and relieve stress. For this edition of the Drama Hive, the focus will be on miniature worlds—participants can create their own miniature environment, evoking their imagination, and translating this into physical, material form.

Drama Hive will be taking place on Jan. 29, at Concordia’s Art Hive (EV 5.777), from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free.

 

Interlacing: Fibres Student Association Lacemaking Event

Concordia’s Fibres Student Association is hosting a day long event, centered around lace-related activities. The day will include a workshop, a talk and a lunch. The lunch will allow participants to interact and mingle with one another, the guest speaker and workshop facilitator. The workshop, led by MFA fibres student Etta Sandry, will look at bobbin lace, which will be followed by a talk by artist Veronika Irvine. The talk will focus on digital lace making, based on Irvine’s practice in creating lace patterns, through the use of bobbin lace techniques and computer algorithms.

Interlacing will take place on Jan. 30, from 12:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., in various locations in the EV and VA buildings. Admission is $15—contact the Fibres Student Association at fsa.concordia@gmail.com if you want to attend, but can’t afford the fee!

 

Moving Gender: The case for home museums in Israel and Germany

How do home museums, specifically in Israel and Germany, incorporate gender into their art, and how are they influenced by it? In a presentation by Dr. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, this question is considered, based on research in nine home museums in the two countries, over the span of three years. Dr. Vinitzky-Seroussi is a sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who studies collective memory and commemoration. In this presentation, she considers the nuances of the private and public spheres in connection to home museums, and how gender plays into this relationship.

The presentation will be held on Feb. 1, from 12 p.m. to 1.pm., at LB 671. Admission is free.

 

Interested in visiting some of the galleries around Montreal, and learning about their art, in depth? Gallery Day Montreal is providing a day of free art focused talks around the city, given by Canadian Art Magazine’s editors and contributors. Each talk is approximately thirty minutes long and each gallery visit is about an hour. Participants can make their own itineraries, and drop-ins are welcome. At the end of the day, there will be a launch for the Winter 2019 issue of Canadian Art Magazine, which is also open to the public.

Gallery Day Montreal will take place on Feb. 2, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., and will occur at various art gallery locations around the city. It will conclude with the Canadian Art launch party at Parisian Laundry (3550 Sainte-Antoine St.), from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. More information can be found in the Facebook event.

Graphic by Ana Bilokin.

Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

Fine Arts Reading Room & Mobile Art Lab: Bookbinding workshop

Joining forces with the Mobile Art Lab, funded by the Concordia University PT Professional Development Grant, the Fine Arts Reading Room introduces a bookbinding workshop. The 5 hole pamphlet, codex with multiple signatures and Japanese stab binding are the methods being taught.

Where: EV Junction (EV2.785)

When: Jan. 23 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

The workshop is first come first served.

Vernissage and artist talk: Little Egypt Doesn’t Dance Here Anymore

Presenting a work featuring Little Egypt, the first belly dancer to perform in North America, Articule and Nahed Mansour have curated an installation of drawings and video, documenting the direct and indirect interpretations of belly dance throughout the last 100 years.

Where: Articule, 262 Fairmount W.

Vernissage: Jan. 25 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Artist talk: Jan. 26 at 3 p.m.

Admission is free.

OLYA ZARAPINA : H3B 1A2: 2019.TBD
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Olya Zarapina studied and now practices in Montreal. Her work explores one’s relationship to their environment through photographic and film processes. OLYA ZARAPINA : H3B 1A2: 2019.TBD documents visitors’ experiences in Montreal’s beloved Belgo Building, home to many art galleries and artist-run centres.

Where: Centre Skol, Belgo Building (372 Sainte-Catherine St. W., suite 314)

When: Now until Feb. 16

Admission is free.

Les Baigneurs:  Victor Yudaev

Presented as part of the project “Conversations Montréal-Lyon,” Victor Yudaev is inspired by his four passions: working, walking, swimming and sleeping. These activities intertwine, creating a musical harmony through improvisation. The artist works through diverse mediums. Each piece is different and the star of its own show, but is simultaneously tied to a larger narrative.  

Where: Diagonale, 5455 av. de Gaspé, suite 110.

When: Now until March 16

Admission is free.


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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

The Centaur Theatre is ringing in the New Year with the Wildside Festival, in its 22nd year. Along with showcasing many shows by different production companies, the festival is in partnership with the Offside Festival. This partnership dedicates Thursday and Friday nights to sounds from Montreal’s musical landscape being performed in the Centaur Gallery after the last show of the evening, with this Saturday dedicated to Patti Smith. Although the Festival is already underway, take a look at what shows are left for the remainder of the week!

Body So Fluorescent

A one-woman show featuring Amanda Cordner asks questions about blackness, otherness and oppression. Fluorescent, written in two parts, is about Gary, a gay, white male, and Desiree, a straight, black woman, who are trying to figure out how they ended up in an explosive fight the night before. In the process, Desiree goes through the motions of trying to imagine what her life would be like as Gary and stunning revelations are made.

When: Jan. 16 and 19 at 9 p.m., and Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.

 

Hyena Subpoena

Another one-woman show, Hyena is performed by Montreal’s own Cat Kidd. The storyline is inspired by Kidd’s tour in South Africa in 2007. Mona Morse, Kidd’s character and the narrator of the poems based on the trip, shows the connection between humans and animals. She shows how both species can be quite similar by bending the boundaries between human and animal form on stage.

When: Jan. 15 and 17 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 20 at 3 p.m.

 

Crime After Crime (After Crime)

This is the story of three different crime periods in Crime City: a film noir of the 50s, a heist of the 70s, and a buddy cop story of the 90s. The comedy thriller, full of everything you hope to see in a cop production—murder, mystery, car chases and more—won the Just For Laughs Best Comedy Award at the 2018 Montreal Fringe Festival.

When: Jan. 15 at 9 p.m. and Jan. 16 at 7 p.m.

 

Sapientia

The story of Sapientia comes from Hroswitha of Gandersheim, a poetess of 10th century Germany. It’s about the Christian martyrdom of a woman and her three daughters as they face persecution. Instead of people, the Scapegoat Carnivale Production company uses everyday objects such as mirrors, teacups and pomegranates to let the story unfold.

When: Jan. 17 and 18 at 9 p.m., and Jan. 19 at 3 p.m.

 

The Gentle Art of Punishment

This multidisciplinary performance—filled with dance, music and text—is a piece about three young women unravelling their childhoods in a dream-like narrative. It is a piece that was created by the Daughter Product, a group of young female Montreal artists. The Gentle Art of Punishment explores the world we live in today, what it means to be a woman in today’s world and what we do when dealing with a crisis.

When: Jan. 19 and 20 at 7 p.m.

 

To purchase tickets, visit https://centaurtheatre.com/wildside-festival.html.
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Happening in and around the White Cube this week…

 

Vincent Meessen. Blues Klair

Tackling issues of history, colonialism and the imaginary, Vincent Meessen seeks to test the present by “proposing rich transcultural and political rereadings and rewritings,” according to Art & Education. Artworks are exhibited under a blue light filter and accompanied by video documentation of a performance by African-American poet Gylan Kain. Following the same themes of black radical tradition and archiving, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday will perform Exilic Hope / We Don’t Disappear on Nov. 27 at 5:30 p.m.

When: Now until Feb. 23
Admission is free.

 

Hyper Real: Black History Screening

In collaboration with Art Matters and Cinema Politica, the VAV Gallery will be hosting an evening of short and feature films that explore several issues. Among the short films, Black Men Loving and Yellow Fever tackle beauty culture and fatherhood, while the feature film Ninth Floor documents the 1969 anti-racist protest at Concordia.  

Where: VA Amphitheatre, VA-323 (1395 René-Lévesque Blvd. W.)
When: Nov. 22 6 p.m to 8:30 p.m.
Admission is free, donations accepted.

 

DHC/ART Book Launch

Celebrating their 10th anniversary, the DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is releasing a major publication on Nov. 21, documenting their work to date. Accompanying the book launch, their current exhibition, Everything That You Desire and Nothing That You Fear, in which artist Jasmina Cibic explores state-sanctioned spaces and archival research through diverse media, will be open until 9 p.m.

Where: DHC/ART (451 & 465 St-Jean St.)
When: Nov. 21 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Admission is free.

 

Compared to What? Vernissage

For its second exhibition, Le pop up Galerie + is showcasing work by current and past undergraduate fine arts students, including Jose Guillermo Garcia Sierra, Carlo Polidoro Lopez and Alexia McKindsey. Compared to What? was named after a song by jazz singer Roberta Flack, which repeats, “trying to make it real, compared to what?” The song is concerned with highlighting differences and struggling though the human experience, a theme which is portrayed throughout the exhibition in a variety of the artists’s styles.

Where: Le pop up Galerie + (3915 St-Denis St.)
When: Nov 24, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Admission is free.
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