Robert Labossiere. decentre: concerning artist run culture/ à propos de centres d’artistes
Sunday, June 8 2 pm
Off The Grid: Art [Space] Crawl
we are not alone
May 17 - June 18
Opening: Saturday May 17, 8pm
Artists Talk: Sunday May 18, 2pm
we are not alone is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach to installation that is evocative rather than instructive. Six artists, Emily Goodden, Susan Hawkins, leannej, Wesley Mulvin, my name is scot, and Frances Zorn will create a space to accommodate shifting relationships between diverse works where the non-linear, non-unified nature of experience is acknowledged. Whether as a fragment or a fully-formed story, narrative is inherent in the configuration of sculpture, music, text, and still and moving images the artists will present.
Knock on Woods International Residency and Dwelling for Intervals
Here’s your chance to do an International Artist Residency without suffering jetlag or airport taxes.
Knock on Woods International Residency is a nomadic temporary site that dedicates itself to offering local and international artists a sense of rootedness and respite from a hectic and bewildering globalism. The residency is a para-site that consists of a rustic tent-cabin and a forest of tree-flags that can be situated at almost any host location. Hosts offer backyards, rooftops, neighboring sidewalks, grassy knolls, decks and galleries as wildernesses for residents. Artists are invited to do a residency with Knock on Woods for a minimum of four hours and a maximum of 24. Proposals are being accepted from now until June 7, 2008 for the Mayne Island site. Selected residents will be responsible for their own transportation, food and materials.
Voice ++
May 3-10, 2008.
The 4th annual Open Space Voice++ Festival, Voicing Up a Storm, descends on Victoria May 3rd to 10th, 2008. This year’s festival features a Vocal Swarm through downtown streets, a live virtual performance with players spread across North America and Europe and the premiere performances of works by iconic American composer Pauline Oliveros, Vancouver composer Jeremy Turner, local composer Cathy Lewis, Coast Salish artist Bradley Dick and Montreal sound artist Kathy Kennedy.
Voice++ performers include the Coast Salish Unity Drummers and Singers, members of Hexaphone, Viviane Houle and Stefan Smulovitz, Christine Duncan, Hypatia, Nick Fairbank, Cari Burdett, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and many more. Works by these performers and by John Cage, Meredith Monk, Alvin Curran and others are included in the program.
