Image: Untitled, Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux, 2018.
Saturday March 3rd, 2018
9pm-midnight
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Metro Georges-Vanier or Guy-Concordia
1920, rue Baile, Montreal (H3H 2S6)
Free, Facebook event
On the occasion of the fifteenth Nuit blanche à Montréal, the Canadian Centre for Architecture hosts a mini-festival of television inspired by its current exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture. As part of this special program, VIVA! Art Action presents an evening of performances that activate poetic and playful processes of reception and transmission.
Performances by Sarah Wendt & Pascal Dufaux, Sophie Castonguay, Hugo Nadeau, and Alain-Martin Richard.
See CCA’s full Nuit Blanche program here: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/55316/nuit-blanche-2018-on-air
A performance artist and manœuvrier, Alain-Martin Richard lives and works is Québec. He has been creating for over 30 years and his work has been presented in North America, Europe, and Asia. He also has a parallel practice as a curator, critic and author. While his productions are often deployed on multiple planes of reality, his latest works are rooted in the local community and always incorporate the some aspects of what he calls the “human landscape”. In all cases, his work questions how the social can unfurl within political, economic, and libidinal relations.
Hugo Nadeau is a visual, action, new media, and poetry artist who has presented his work in Canada, the United-States, Brazil, Central Europe, Poland, and China. He is the recipient of multiple local, provincial, and national art prizes and awards. His multidisciplinary background and interest in conceptual art lead him to create of a number of perpetual projects. His artworks react to spatial and temporal contexts. He believes in the permeable power of art and a generalized democracy. Nadeau is born in St-Zacharie, Chaudière- Appalaches and works in Montreal.
Sophie Castonguay creates performative scenarios that stage spectator’s speech. These directed happenings often occur within the context of exhibitions or in public space, where site-specific stories can emerge. By using the narrative form, she seeks to interfere with one’s reception of an artwork or perception of site. Castonguay therefore works at the intersection of the tangible image and the projected one as a means of interrogating the relationships between the visible and the spoken. Her work has been show in a number of Québec galleries, as well as in Canada and Europe.
Born in Charlottetown, PEI, Sarah Wendt, is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work often involves choreography, performance, musical scores/conducting, installation/sculpture, and is developed as a kinaesthetic response to the contingencies of collaboration. Pascal Dufaux, born in France, is a visual and media artist based in Montreal whose sculptural practice explores the relation between camera, perception, topology, and space. His work has been presented at venues across Canada, Mexico, USA and Europe. The artists have been collaborating since 2015.
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