On Monday, March 12 at 5pm, Sandeep will give a talk (in French) about the genesis of his video installation “Racines Ephémères” (currently on view at the Grande Bibliothèque until April 1). Please note: this talk will not happen at the Grand Bibliothèque itself, but at the Centre d’Archives de Montreal, 535 Avenue Viger Est. During this talk Sandeep will also, for the first time, present a new fixed-media composition, conceived as an element of the video installation. This installation is part of the Montreal Lifestories Project and its great Rencontres Festival

Web Links:
“Racines Ephémères”
Centre d’Archives de Montreal
Montreal Lifestories Project

Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.

On Saturday March 10 at about 5:20pm, Sandeep will talk with host Jacques Bertrand about his intercultural music projects and musical life in Mumbai (Bombay), on the Radio Canada 1ere chaine radio show “La Tete Ailleurs” (in French).

Web Links:
“La Tete Ailleurs”

Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.

Racines éphémères will be exhibited at the Grand Bibliothèque from March 6th through the 1st of April, 2012

Racines éphémères va être exposé à la Grande Bibliothèque du 6 mars au 1er avril 2012

Racines éphémères is a theatrical Installation produced by the matralab that explores the involuntary and strange hybrid gestures made by Montréalers that have been displaced by war, genocide and other human rights violations, while they tell their life on camera.

Racines éphémères » est une installation-théâtrale de Matralab qui explore les étranges gestes hybrides et involontaires de Montréalais déplacés par la guerre, le génocide ou d’autres violations de leurs droits alors qu’ils racontent leur vie devant la caméra.

Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.

Sandeep Bhagwati has been commissioned to conceive and compose a “new harbour symphony” for this year’s Symphonies Portuaires, an annual concert in the frozen Old Port of Montréal. He has been given the opportunity to use the sirens of all ships “stranded” in the port by winter ice, the bells of the churches and many other sound sources to create half-an-hour of musical elation to a walk along the frozen river, on a Sunday afternoon. For this event Bhagwati will be collaborating with the 30-voice women’s choir Choeur Maha led by Kathy Kennedy on a composition called Rives & Dérives.

The concert will take place the follow Sunday March 4, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.

Symphonies Portuaires 2012 – Rives & Dérives (concert ii)
Mar 04, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières

For more information about the project click here and see the links below.

Web Links:
Rives & Dérives
Les Symphonies portuaires de Pointe-à-Callière
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières (directions)

Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.

Emergency INDEX is a new yearly publication documenting performance in the words of its creators. This first volume documents 249 performances of dance, poetry, protest, theater, music, therapy, scientific research, advertising, terrorism, and more in over 500 pages and includes a comprehensive index of terms. We will celebrate the book and its contributors with a performance-filled evening at The Kitchen on March 20, 2012 beginning at 19h00.

Two of the featured performances documented in this inaugural issue, published by the Ugly Duckling Presse, are The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited II (hosted at the Gelber Conference Centre) and Home Beautiful – Inviting the Ancestors (hosted at the matrabox). These live art events were initiated by Devora Neumark within the cycle of her research/creation project entitled Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: the (un)making of home.

Web Links:
Pre-launch discount (50% off with code: beeftongue)

Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.

Sandeep Bhagwati has been commissioned to conceive and compose a “new harbour symphony” for this year’s Symphonies Portuaires, an annual concert in the frozen Old Port of Montréal. He has been given the opportunity to use the sirens of all ships “stranded” in the port by winter ice, the bells of the churches and many other sound sources to create half-an-hour of musical elation to a walk along the frozen river, on a Sunday afternoon. For this event Bhagwati will be collaborating with the 30-voice women’s choir Choeur Maha led by Kathy Kennedy on a composition called Rives & Dérives.

The concert will take place this Sunday Feb 26, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.

Symphonies Portuaires 2012 – Rives & Dérives (concert i)
Feb 26, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières

A second concert will take place the follow Sunday March 4, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.

Symphonies Portuaires 2012 – Rives & Dérives (concert ii)
Mar 04, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières

For more information about the project click here and see the links below.

Web Links:
Rives & Dérives
Les Symphonies portuaires de Pointe-à-Callière
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières (directions)

On March 28, 2012, Devora Neumark will be a guest presenter at the Culture and Community Researcher’s Network (Melbourne). Using the series of community live art events she has convened over the past several years as case studies, her talk — entitled Collaborative Performance Art in Search of Beauty and Home: Making a Case for Participatory Research and Co-creativity — will focus on the relationship between the aesthetics, politics and ethics of co-emergent research/creation projects.

The Culture and Community Researchers’ Network is a partnership between the Cultural Development Network (CDN) and Victorian College of the Art and Music’s Centre for Cultural Partnerships PhD students. It brings together researchers from Victorian universities who are interested in cultural development, social change, creative methodologies, artistic intervention, and/or community research themes. It provides opportunities for presentation and discussion of new research in an informal and supportive collegial environment for students and by students.

Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.

Web Links:
http://www.culturaldevelopment.net.au/about/

Adam Basanta will be in the matrabox this week presenting work-in-progress of an upcoming audiovisual installation, “Room Contour”, for 12 light bulbs and 12 channel sound. Open viewing sessions will take place at the matralab Friday and Saturday 5-8pm, as well as Sunday noon-3pm.

The completed work will be presented at Eastern Bloc Gallery, Montreal QC on June 6-8.

Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.

Web Links:
http://vimeo.com/31472934
http://vimeo.com/26818113

Devora Neumark will be traveling to Hobart in March to present her paper entitled “Drawn to Beauty” during a 2-day Housing Theory Symposium sponsored by the Housing and Community Research Centre of the University of Tasmania.

Drawing out the connections between home and beauty, this paper presents some key findings from Neumark’s PhD research/creation and addresses the following questions: What role does beauty play in the complex process of making home anew in the aftermath of displacement? How do the stories we tell about home, influence our experiences of home?

In his letter of invitation, Keith Jacobs, Associate Dean of Research and Director of the Housing and Community Research Centre wrote: “There is a strong interest from researchers in the field of housing studies to engage with interdisciplinary scholars and artists.”

Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.

Web Links:
http://www.utas.edu.au/sociology/HACRU/news.htm

The World premiere of Sandeep Bhagwati’s monumental orchestra work “Limits & Renewals” will take place at the Eclat Festival Stuttgart on February 10, 2012.

“Limits & Renewals” is a cycle of three intertwined compositions: “Entrances”, “Inscapes” and “Apparitions” – together about 45 minutes.

It is scored for large conventional orchestra with 6 madrigal singers. Texts by William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wallace Stevens.

The world premiere will be performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, by the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, conducted by Matthias Pintscher.

Web Links:
ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart 2012
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Matthias Pintscher