A selection of work by Karen Zalamea is included in Proof 17, an exhibition of emerging Canadian talent in contemporary photography at Gallery 44 in Toronto.
The exhibition will be presented from July 9th to August 7th, 2010.
More info:
http://www.akimbo.ca/events/?id=19756&day=9&month=7&year=2010
www.gallery44.org
Karen Zalamea is a matralab research assistant.
Abstracts and ordering information for the inaugural issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture are now online at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1835/.
Devora Neumark‘s article Performing aesthetics, performing politics: The Jewish Home Beautiful and the re-shaping of the Jewish exile narrative is one of the seven texts featured.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
[IR]Rationnel, l’oeuvre audio-visuelle réactive de Michal Seta sera présentée les 11, 12 et 13 juin 2010 aux quais du vieux port de Montréal en face de Centre des sciences dans le cadre du festival Eurêka!2010. Veuillez consulter le communiqué de presse pour les plus amples détails:
http://www.molior.ca/communiques/comm-Eureka-MoliorEn.pdf
Michal Seta’s audio-visual reactive work [IR]Rationnel will be presented on June 11, 12 and 13, 2010 during the festival Eureka!2010 on the quays in front the of the Science Center in Montréal’s old port. For more details please consult the press release:
http://www.molior.ca/communiques/comm-Eureka-MoliorFr.pdf
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Two more performances of NEXUS:
As part of Concordia University’s series of Branché events, NEXUS is a comprovisational (composition+improvisation) journey that will interpret the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in a unique musical form.
Five musicians, each equipped with a laptop computer, loudspeaker, and “Follow Me” sign, wander on different paths through Concordia’s downtown campus. Connected and inspired via wireless network, the musicians improvise their takes on a complex score by Sandeep Bhagwati, reacting to place, space and pace. Like pied cyber-pipers, they perform intertwined music walks all over campus – until they finally unite all their listeners at a breathtaking location for a final musical ritual.
Performances:
June 1 & June 3
from 17h00 to 18h00
throughout Concordia University, SGW campus & gathering at the Cloud Deck, 3rd floor atrium of the MB building (1450 rue Guy).
Featuring:
Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)
Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Guy Pelletier (alto flute)
Jen Reimer (french horn)
Emily Shapiro (clarinet)
Michal Seta – Wireless technology
Gaïa Orain-Wark – Costumes
Navid Navab – Machine improvisation
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Sandeep Bhagwati showed two screenings and read one essay on the theatre production Lamentations at the conference of the Canadian Association of Theatre Research during Congress 2010.
For further details about Lamentations please visit http://matralab.hexagram.ca/matraprojects/lamentations
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Bhagwati will be moderating the Canada Research Chairs panel entitled Digital Media in Society at Congress on June 2, 2010, 13:00 to 15:00, Room MB 3-270 Concordia University.
http://experience.congress2010.ca/archives/473
For further information about the Digital Media in Society panel, please contact Michael Adams, Media Relations Advisor at the Canada Research Chairs Program: michael.adams@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
Emsemble Chorum will perform works by Sandeep Bhagwati and Gabriel Dharmoo this Thursday, June 3 @ 8PM at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal.
Sandeep Bhagwati’s Sangit Sambhav (The Origin of Music) stemmed from a creative collaboration with Ashok Renade, an Indian ethnomusicologist. Renade had sent Bhagwati a mixtape of popular and ritual music of India and asked if he could set it for western orchestra.
Gabriel Dharmoo will perform his new composition Moondraal Moondru (for chamber orchestra) with Ensemble Chorum. Dharmoo will also sing and play on the cello various musical works learnt in India during his carnatic music studies in 2008.
PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS
About Moondraal Moondru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nApBiDsgUVI
About the concert in general: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMNfnConjw
About Sandeep Bhagwati’s piece Sangit Sambhav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NffO8vku8o
Thursday June 3rd, 2010 @ 8pm
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal (Concert Hall), 4750 ave. Henri-Julien (Montréal)
Tickets : $20 (regular) and $10 (30 and younger)
Online ticket sale (no extra fees): http://www.ensemblechorum.com/evenements.html
matralab was recently featured in an article by InnovationCanada.ca. The article showcases Canadian universities at the forefront of multimedia research.
View the article here
WIRELESS MUSIC IN PATHS AND PLACES
As part of Concordia University’s series of Branché events, NEXUS is a comprovisational (composition+improvisation) journey that will interpret the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in a unique musical form.
Five musicians, each equipped with a laptop computer, loudspeaker, and “Follow Me” sign, wander on different paths through Concordia’s downtown campus. Connected and inspired via wireless network, the musicians improvise their takes on a complex score by Sandeep Bhagwati, reacting to place, space and pace. Like pied cyber-pipers, they perform intertwined music walks all over campus – until they finally unite all their listeners at a breathtaking location for a final musical ritual.
Performances:
May 30, June 1 & June 3
from 17h00 to 18h00
throughout Concordia University, SGW campus & gathering at the Cloud Deck, 3rd floor atrium of the MB building (1450 rue Guy).
Featuring:
Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)
Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Guy Pelletier (alto flute)
Jen Reimer (french horn)
Emily Shapiro (clarinet)
Michal Seta – Wireless technology
Gaïa Orain-Wark – Costumes
Navid Navab – Machine improvisation
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
19:30 – 21h00
FOFA Gallery
EV 1.715
“The Jewish Home Beautiful” – Revisited is an interactive live art event hosted by Devora Neumark at the FOFA Gallery in conjunction with Congress 2010. The event aims to invite critical reflection about how the deliberate engagement with beauty and home can on the one hand strengthen intracultural alliances, while on the other, perpetuate cycles of violence: in other words, how very often the affirmation of beauty and the settling at home of one population sets into motion homelessness for others. Specifically, “The Jewish Home Beautiful” – Revisited deliberately complexifies and intentionally problematizes the performance of a beautiful Jewish home in light of the Palestinian Diaspora created by Jews settling in the “Promised Land”. The gallery will be the site of a dialogue involving cheesecake, video projections and ritualized gestures. Audience participants will quite literally be invited to take a seat at the table.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Devora Neumark will be participating in the upcoming RAIQ conference Arts Interdisciplinaires: Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech? (May 28 and 29, 2010) at the MAI (www.raiq.ca). Her talk, which begins at 15h15 on Friday the 28th, is called The Jewish Home Beautiful: A Case Study in Interdisciplinarity.
Working with ‘The Jewish Home Beautiful’ community play as a critical case study, Devora will examine the ambivalent status of both beauty and home in identity politics. Her analysis will necessarily be interdisciplinary and intercultural as ‘The Jewish Home Beautiful’ – first written in the 1930s and performed on occasion by North American Jewish congregations ever since – was committed as much to the affirmation of beauty as to the affirmation of home and thus straddled the worlds of aesthetics, religion and politics; strengthening intracultural alliances amongst different Jewish communities, but resulting in a disastrous lingering impact on the non-Jewish people of Palestine.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Short performances with audience participation.
Programmed by Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz of Wants and Needs Dance.
Artistes : Sophie Castonguay, Leanne Dyer, Laurel Koop, Patrick Lloyd
Brennan / Kerwin Barrington, Isabel Mohn
Discipline : Danse / Performance
Date : 29 mai à 19h & 21h
Lieu : Studio 303
12$
Studio 303 : 372 Ste-Catherine O. 3e étage, 303