Concert: $10/$12 (students, seniors, members)
Workshop: $5

http://jasonkahn.net/

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVODEEn7ZUE

www.openspace.ca

Helmcken Alley behind Open Space, 510 Fort St.
Entry by parking lot at Fort and Langley streets
 

Eidola
William Brent (USA), Ellen Moffat (Saskatoon)
Curated by David Cecchetto, Ted Hiebert

Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Friday August 28, 2009, 7pm
Public Panel Discussion: Saturday August 29, 2pm with Mowry Baden and others TBA.
Show runs August 29 - October 3, 2009

Through a sound-based installation, what Alan Licht migth call "Sound Art", Eidola confronts disciplinary biases that linger in the  discursive history of the gallery tradition. Invoking interdisciplinary approaches to sound composition and visual installation, Eidola brings together distinct disciplinary practitioners – one (William Brent) a musician who makes objects, and the other (Ellen Moffat) a visual artist who makes sound; between the two, a cross-pollination occurs as sounds emerge through object presences. A rupture to disciplines and their media come apart in an effort to locate a symbiotic whole.

William Brent's creative work encompasses experimental music performance projects and various non-musical undertakings, such as the compilation of conflated idioms presented at www.conflations.com. His electroacoustic performance projects combine human, robotic, and computer-realized sound, and are controlled by software written in the SuperCollider and Pd programming environments. In addition to traditional concert-based projects, William is also active in the areas of remote network music performance, and interactive sound installation. Current research areas are signal processing techniques for timbre identification, and the disconnect between gesture and sound in the performance of live computer-based music. www.williambrent.com

Ellen Moffat's practice spans visual and media art installation, artist residencies, writing, curating, teaching and arts administration. She is the former Projects Coordinator at Paved Art + New Media in Saskatoon, where she co-ordinated the SPASM II Public Art Festival. Moffat has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in public galleries, artist-run centres and off-site locations across Canada, including the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (2004), AKA Gallery, Saskatoon (2003), Museum London, London (2003), and Niagara Artists Centre, St Catherines (2003). Her public art projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally in Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton (2004); Utopia Station, Venice Biennial (2003); SPASM Public Art Project, Saskatoon (2002). www.ellenmoffat.ca

Audiospace 2009 ‘Visiting-Inviting: a dialogue of sounds’

Open Space announces an open call for submissions to Audiospace 2009, deadline August 15, 2009.

Composers and sound artists are invited to create a short web-based sound piece that will be presented for public listening and active discussion in the Audiospace web gallery from August 20 to October 20, 2009.

At the close of this period, 3 works will be selected for an honorarium award, and will be presented through a public networked performance and discussion at Open Space with Chantale Laplante on October 23, 2009. All submitted Audiospace 2009 works become permanent additions to Audiospace, and remain featured on openspace.ca until the next Audiospace edition in 2011.

The selection of honoured work will be made by a jury process and based on the quality of the submitted work and supporting texts, the work’s adherence to and realization of the theme, and by comments left by public visitors to the site.

For details please visit here.

Audiospace

Opening Reception: Friday July 3, 8pm

Open Space presents, Us Ones In Between,  a group show bustling with young local talent, featuring the work of eight emerging artists: Ty Danylchuk, Caitlin Gallupe, Cody Haight, Liam Hanna-Lloyd, Cameron Kidd, Brooke Semple, Eden Veaudry and Erik Volet. Us Ones In Between is curated by Nick Robins.

The artists in Us Ones In Between are very productive, whose profusion of output appears unlinked to careerist objectives. With bee-like instinct, these artists have produced striking visual cornucopia, while sketching out their place in other art contexts outside of the studio/hive. Working in media ranging from paint, paper and assemblage to crochet and video, Open Space will be filled to the brim with fustian colour. Us Ones In Between is a celebration of a niche community and an examination of art practice in Victoria, today.

An opening reception will take place on Friday July 3, 8pm featuring music by Xarl Marx and DJ St. Christopher.  

The closing will feature a screening, Tough Stuff from the Buff: experimental & activist video from the fringes of buffalo, ny. on Friday July 24 at 8pm.

http://tuffstuffbuff.wordpress.com/

Every Tuesday at 8pm throughout the show’s duration Art Jams will commence, featuring film screenings and drawing jams.

Art Jam Schedule:

July 7: Releasing The Lions, Artist Panel Discussion

July 14: Free Form Cinema, Film Screenings by Ty Danylchuk

July 21: Psychodoolia, Drawing Jam

website: http://www.usonesinbetween.com/

Opening February 13, 8pm

Open Space is pleased to welcome Australian Fiona Macdonald, an artist who makes history itself a material part of her artistic process. While in Victoria, Macdonald will create the Index Project: renovated, intended to catalyze the subtle, enduring influences of history— specifically art history—as it animates contemporary art production. Macdonald investigates how art made during the 1970s and 80s continues to inhabit contemporary art production with particular emphasis on how historic ‘translation’ adapts to the creation, presentation and reception of art. Macdonald based this project on the influential collaborative conceptual art group Art & Language, whose Index Project was presented at the international art fair Documenta 5 in 1972—the same year Open Space was incorporated. Art & Language was part of a massive shift in art practices during the 1970s and 1980s, a shift that hard-wired the dialogic framework of conceptualism and art theory into artist-run culture, art education and production. Macdonald’s project reviews assumed histories and self-reflexive habits of presentation. She proposes to “locate modalities of meaning and interpretation as conditions of necessity and contingency relative to differences of circumstance.”

Index Project: renovated demands active response, which Macdonald will include in videotaped and written forms. To that end Macdonald has issued a casting call seeking respondents whose videotaped response will form a component of the installation.

The Index Project: renovated involves two parts. The first part will involve a large-scale wall text—an index of conceptual formulations—with accompanying catalogues and ample space for the addition of notations and concatenatory entries. The second part is performative, and will be videotaped and included in the exhibition as a projection. It will spark subsequent annotation to the wall work.  As the work is modified, it becomes an experiment in modality: generational, regional and political.

Fiona Macdonald will install the Index Project: renovated from Monday, February 9 until Friday, February 13. She will be videotaping participants on Tuesday, afternoon from 2:00 to 5:00pm. To participate, please contact Open Space Director Helen Marzolf at director@openspace.ca or 250-383-8833. Participants interested in written contributions can stop by at any time.

Join Fiona Macdonald and Open Space for the opening of Index Project; renovated on Friday evening, February 13. At 7:30pm, Fiona will present an informal artist talk about this project and previous works. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Fiona Macdonald acknowledges the support of the Visual Arts Board of the Australian Council for the Arts and the Monash University.

Open Space acknowledges the support of the Type 'N Write Shop of Victoria, BC. 

Open Space hosts a discussion and listening session with New York author and musician Alan Licht on Saturday June 27 at 1pm. Licht is in town to perform in JazzFest International (Friday June 26, 8 pm, with Michael Snow and Aki Onda).

In Licht’s talk he will present a brief historical overview of Sound Art, and provide examples and commentary on the genre’s recent developments and trends. About SOUND ART will be attractive to experimental, rock and contemporary musicians and enthusiasts; visual artists; filmmakers and anyone curious about the evolving cultural and artistic movements of the day.

Alan Licht (New York) is an American composer, guitarist, music writer, and a widely respected figure on the experimental music scene. Over the past two decades, Licht has worked with a veritable who’s who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends (Rashied Ali, Derek Bailey) and electronica wizards (Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke) to turntable masters (DJ Spooky, Christian Marclay) and veteran Downtown New York composers (John Zorn, Rhys Chatham). Licht is also renown in the indie rock scene as a bandleader (Run On, Love Child) and as a supporting player to legends like Tom Verlaine, Arthur Lee, Arto Lindsay, and Jandek. He has released five albums of compositions for tape and solo guitar, and his sound and video installations have been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. With Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, he founded Text of Light, an ongoing ensemble which performs freely improvised concerts alongside screenings of classic avant garde cinema.

Licht has written extensively about the arts in many magazines and has authored two books: Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Rizzoli, 2007) and An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn (2000, Drag City).

“Even if he had never touched a guitar, Alan Licht would still be god-send. He's probably one of the best music writers around and that's just something he does on the side.” – Jason Gross

June 26 to 28

All shows: $18

SNOW/ONDA/LICHT TRIO
FRIDAY, JUNE 26 at 8PM
Although most renowned as a visual artist and experimental filmmaker, Canada’s Michael Snow has been a professional jazz pianist since the 1950s. An originator of free improvisation, this bold innovator continues to explore the farthest shores of modern music. He meshes well with the long-term duo of Onda and Licht. Japan’s Aki Onda is a composer and performer of electronica who manipulates multiple tape sources in concert.His partner and fellow avant gardist is Alan Licht, a guitarist whose unique approach has earned him gigs with everyone from John Zorn to DJ Spooky.

JASON HWANG’S EDGE
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 at 8PM
Asian music is the primary inspirational source for this virtuosic New Music quartet from NYC. Led by violinist/violist Jason Kao Hwang, a brilliant performer and composer, Edge is a unique hybrid that embraces world music, jazz harmonics, the structure of chamber music and the freedom that comes with disciplined imagination. Their second CD, Stories Before Within, was a remarkable, multi-layered exercise in musical synergy that was on the 2008 top 10 lists of Coda Magazine and All About Jazz. Hwang’s equally gifted collaborators include Taylor Ho Bynum cornet/flugelhorn, Andrew Drury drums and Ken Filano bass.
 
MONK’S CASINO
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 at 8PM
Angular and unmistakable, the music of bebop originator Thelonious Monk is now regarded with a reverence that was lacking when he was alive and writing beauties like “Ruby My Dear.” Now, a virtuosic quartet from Germany named Monk’s Casino have dedicated themselves to finessing all of the master’s 70 plus compositions for live performance. Lead by Alexander von Schlippenbach piano and featuring Rudi Mahall bass clarinet, Axel Dörner trumpet and Uli Jennessen drums, Monk’s Casino is more reinvention than retro when they showcase the genius and jagged beauty of one of jazz’s most distinctive voices.

For more information about JazzFest International 2009, visit jazzvictoria.ca

Open Space and Camosun College are pleased to announce a joint Artist in Residence project with artist, curator, storyteller and writer Peter Morin. During his May-June 2009 residency, Morin will activate twelve “Indigenous Dada” actions, choreographing interactive events that borrow from his Tahltan culture and from contemporary art strategies. As an adjunct to the residency and installation, Open Space will publish Bannockology, a book edited by Morin.

Camosun College will provide a working studio for Morin and host three events for 12 Making-Objects. Open Space will present an ever-changing installation that will grow with each successive performance. Morin will present actions every week (or so) during the residency at different sites at Open Space, at Camosun and at S.J. Willis Alternative School. After each action, he will transcribe it at Open Space. He might install mementos or objects from one of the performances, or photos, or writing, or perhaps draw and /or write directly onto the gallery walls —in effect transforming Open Space into a map navigating and recording where his stories go. We, as listeners and participants are left with the introspective task of tracking where Morin’s stories take us.

[please note date change] Friday. June 19 @ 12noon National Aboriginal Day, A Blanket for the Earth
Hosted by Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services
S.J. Willis Alternative School yard, 923 Topaz Avenue, featuring the work of students from Victoria High School.

Friday, June 19 @ 7pm
Reclaiming Space
Open Space, 510 Fort Street.

Thursday, June 25 @2pm
Sound Making/A Circle about the Closing
Open Space, 510 Fort Street