DouBle-Stéréo (DBS) is pleased to host Devora Neumark for the 2015 international artist residency and exhibition program hosted by 23.03.fr and the École des arts de Szczecin in Poland. Devora will be travelling to Poland at the end of May to initiate her research-creation process and then again in the fall to complete the live art performance project.
Lenka Novakova is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal. Born in the Czech Republic, she received her undergraduate degree in sculpture from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and her masters in video installation and interdisciplinary practices from Concordia University in Montreal. Currently, she is pursuing research/creation PhD in Humanities, positioning her work interdisciplinary between Theatre, Cinema and Computation Arts. Her current research is looking at crossovers between theatre and interactive installation with focus on positioning performance within redefined notions of space. She has been recipient of numerous fellowships, awards and has an active exhibition record in Canada, USA and abroad. Selected Fellowships from: The Coring Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, Vermont Studio Center or La Chambre Blanche in Quebec and Santa Fe Art Institute. Selected projects with: Integral Sao Paulo-Quebec, SASC Sao Paulo, Brazil, DMZ festival in Korea, Gallery Puls, Alvik, Norway and USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway.
June 1 – June 4, 2015:
6th Annual Conference of Visual and Performing Arts, Athens, Greece, ‘Space as Performance: Optical Architectures of Cinematic Spaces’
April 8 – April 11, 2015:
Institute of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Re-visioning Space(s), Time and Bodies Conference, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, ‘Unfolding Baroque: F O L D – Performative Environment and Performance’
March 13 – March 14, 2015:
Re-Originality: Concordia’s 2015 Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Lighting Round, Concordia University, Montreal: ‘F O L D: Space as Performance’
March 5, 2015:
Hexagram, 180 SEC, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Research-Creation Talk
January – March, 2015:
Theatre Gargantua, Round Table, Toronto, ON, Canada
June 8, 2015
Nâzım Hikmet Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Lenka Novakova will be performing ‘F O L D: Space as Performance‘ in Istanbul as part of the CONTEMP Art 15, Contemporary Art Conference. The program for the event may be found here.
April 20 – May 10, 2015
Hexagram Black Box, Concordia University, EV Building
1515 St. Catherine St. West, EV OS3-845/855, Montréal, QC
Research Project: ‘Reflective Space, in junction with developing scenographies for Title 66 Productions’
‘Reflective Space’ is a working title of a new research project exploring performative elements of an environment, as an ephemeral and poetic landscape where light, sound and movement along with thin water surface form an actual architectural space. Layers and transparencies of ephemeral optical architectures interlaced with movement of bodies are constantly shaping and reshaping the performative nature of the environment. ‘Reflective Space’ attempts to combine three types of Spaces: ‘Cinematic Space,’ ‘Scenographic Space,’ and ‘Corporal Space’ into one performative unity where the technology along with the elements become the extension of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ as spatial performance and environment. The prototype developed during the P A R E residency in the Black Box is the first step of a new forward looking research of performative elements for ‘Reflective Space’ (2015-2016). Specific research elements will be also formed in junction with developing scenographies and scenographic studies for ‘Nuclear Sky’ and include creative discussions and experiments with the involved designers and researchers: Joe Browne, Omar Faleh, Cédric Delorme-Bouchard, and Nikolaos Chandolias.Elements developed specifically for the ‘Nuclear Sky’ will appear in scenography which will be further designed exclusively for Title66 Productions, and presented at ‘Theatre Rouge de Conservatoire’ Montreal, Quebec, June 3 – 7, 2014.
January 30 – February 6, 2016
For location, click here.
‘O V A L’ is a collaboration between Lenka Novakova and Otso Lahdeoja developed with the support of Hexagram, presented in 2013 in the Hexagram Black Box at Concordia University in Montreal, QC, and Currents International Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2014.
Concept/Description: O V A L is a large-scale installation combining glass, sound and light into a multimodal sculptural space. 10 glass sheets (190 x 60 cm) are hung from the ceiling, forming an oval shape (12m x 5m). 10 large sheets of glass are hanging in a dark room. The glass sheets vibrate and emit sound, forming a spatial polyphony of sonic objects. Video footage of the spectators themselves is projected on the glass sheets, creating a maze of self-portrait reflections and transparencies. The spectator is immersed into a chimerical space of sonic and visual illusions.
More about Otso Lahdeoja here.
Conservatoire De Musique De Montréal
June 3, 2015 – June 7, 2015
NUCLEAR SKY: THE EXPERIMENT is a multimedia theatre piece exploring the dehumanizing consequences of contemporary society, war, and technology. Read more here.
The Ottawa Art Gallery
June 4, 2015 – September 20, 2015
Opening reception on June 4, 5:30 pm
“The interactive video installation Terrors of the Breakfast Table, by Hamilton-based artist Tyler Tekatch, invites viewers to alter the story through the use of their breath. In the centre of the gallery space is a table upon which sits a wooden, pyramid-shaped object. Visitors are encouraged to sit in the chair placed in front of the table and blow into this sculptural device, while discovering the interactions at their desired pace. The subtle technologies sense the viewer’s breath, triggering thoughtful interactive elements in the video’s narrative and visuals. Such elements include a dream montage, the pace of a scene, ambient 8-channel surround sound and the brightness of images.” Read more here.
A new video of Adam Basanta‘s installation “The sound of empty space” filmed by Emily Gan.
“The sound of empty space” explores relationships between microphones, speakers, and surrounding acoustic environment through controlled, self-generating microphone feedback.
By amplifying and aestheticizing the acoustic inactivity between technological “inputs” and “outputs” – stand-ins for their corporeal correlates, the ear and mouth – the notion of causal sound producing object is refuted; we are listening to the empty space between components of flawed communication systems.
Through a series of new, interrelated works, sound is revealed not as an object or autonomous event, but a product of a complex, interdependent system of relations.
On March 6, matralab hosts a one-day symposium focused on utopian ideas about sound art in landscape contexts. The event includes ten poster presentations of utopian environmental sound art projects, a keynote by Walter Boudreau and a performance of Julian Klein’s piece “Interpreters IV” by The Montréal Sound.
If you can’t be with us in Montreal, we’re happy to announce that you can still join us on the live feed from 9am to 5pm!
You can find the lifestream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/uphonias
For more information about the symposium, visit http://matralab.hexagram.ca/uphonias/