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Fine Arts e-broadcast - November 2013
Members of the Fine Arts community are invited to attend the Fall 2013 convocation ceremony to be held on November 21 at 3 p.m., at Place des Arts, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. In order to confirm your attendance, please complete the online registration form by the end of today.
The Concordia Centraide 2013 campaign is underway. Please consider donating to Centraide to help power its network of 370 agencies that provide direct support to over 500,000 people in the Greater Montreal area.
Amélie Proulx, BFA (Studio Arts) 06, was awarded the 2013 RBC Emerging Artist Peoples Choice Award. Proulx was awarded the $10,000 prize for her piece entitled Jardinet Mécanique, which explores objects and environments inspired by the natural world that merge with architectural environments to reopen our perception of natural phenomena.
The work of Kingston Prize for Canadian Portraiture finalists Noa Ne'eman, a student in the Department of Studio Arts' undergraduate painting and drawing program, Tammy Salzl, a current MFA in Studio Arts student, and Ian Shatilla, MFA 08, will be featured in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Calgary, opening on November 2. The winner of the $20,000 grand prize will be today.
The FOFA Gallery presents COMBINE 2013, the 28th annual exhibition of Fine Arts undergraduates, on view from November 4 to December 6. The exhibition includes a variety of media: photography, sculpture, drawing, video and installation. The assembled works demonstrate a broad spectrum of aesthetic and technical concerns, reveal current interests in contemporary art, and showcase an unparalleled vitality.
- Vernissage: Thursday, November 7, 5 to 7 p.m.
- Finissage and catalogue launch: Friday, December 6, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Do you have a future Concordian in your life? If so, don't miss Open House and Portfolio Day on November 9. This is your opportunity to find out what Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts has to offer.
Research highlights
Welcome to two new post-doctoral fellows: Toni Pape and Marie Hélène Breault. Pape completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at Universite de Montreal and his post-doctoral fellowship is supported by Erin Manning’s (Studio Arts/Cinema) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant. Breault completed a PhD in Musicology at Université de Montreal and is the recipient of a Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture post-doctoral research creation fellowship. She will be supervised by Sandeep Bhagwati (Music/Theatre).
The newly completed TimeTraveller™ machinima series (Episodes 1 to 9), created by Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace’s Jason Lewis (Design and Computation Arts) and Skawennati Fragnito, premiered as part of the imagineNATIVE Festival in Toronto in October. Also at the festival, Skahiòn:hati: | Rise of the Kanien’kehá:ka Legends, a video game made in AbTeC’s Skins 3.0 Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Design workshop, was awarded the Best New Media prize.
Mitch Mitchell (Studio Arts) presented Distance Arc, an exhibition of work at Toronto’s dc3 Art, from October 24 to 28.
Dirk Gindt (Theatre) published a new essay in Canada's leading scholarly theatre journal Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada entitled ‘Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, and the Man in the Vancouver Hotel Room: Queer Gossip, Community Narrative, and Theatre History’. He was also recently appointed book-review-editor of alt.theatre: cultural diversity and the stage, a Montreal-based journal whose mandate is to analyze the intersections between theatre, performance, activism, politics and diversity.
Anne Whitelaw (Art History) has been named President of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) for a three-year term. The UAAC is the only national academic association for the visual arts in Canada and its membership includes full-time and sessional faculty as well as graduate students in studio arts, art history and design fields.
Several members of the Fine Arts community presented papers at October’s UAAC conference in Banff. Kudos to:
• Carmela Cucuzzella (Design and Computation Arts)
• Cheryl Gladu (PhD Student, Special Individualized Program - Art/Design and Organizational Sustainability)
• Karla McManus (Art History)
• Martha Langford (Art History)
• Erin Silver (Art History)
• Mark Clintberg (Art History)
• Ryan Conrad (Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture)
• Nicola Pezolet (Art History)
• Andrew Forster (Design and Computation Arts)
• Margaret Hodges (Art History)
• Martin Racine (Design and Computation Arts)
• Cynthia Hammond (Art History)
• Thomas Strickland (Art History)
• Julia Skelly (Art History)
• Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande (Art History)
Sha Xin Wei (Design and Computation Arts) published a new book entitled Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter (MIT Press). In the book, he argues for an approach to materiality inspired by continuous mathematics and process philosophy. Investigating the implications of such an approach to media and matter in the concrete setting of installation- or event-based art and technology, Sha maps a genealogy of topological media—that is, of an articulation of continuous matter that relinquishes a priori objects, subjects, and egos and yet constitutes value and novelty. Sha will also participate in the Play as Inquiry symposium at the University of Chicago from November 1 to 3.
From November 5 to 10, Martin Lefebvre (Cinema) will host The Magic of Special Effects: Cinema. Technology. Reception, an international conference. The event, which is expected to draw close to 500 delegates, will be held at Cinémathèque québécoise. Lefebvre organized the conference with Université de Montreal’s André Gaudreault and UQAM’s Viva Pacci.
On November 6, John Potvin (Art History) will be giving a lecture called From Theatre Stage, to Fashion Cover to Bedroom Design: Fashioning a Dancing Queen in 1920s Paris as part of the Ogden Glass Lecture Series at Bishop’s University.
On November 7, Sandeep Bhagwati (Music/Theatre) will be a guest lecturer at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media in Germany where he will talk to students and faculty about his work as a composer. Then he will travel to Vienna, Austria to give a keynote at the ISCM World New Music Days on November 12 and 13.
FLESH WAVES, a collective body research-creation project by Isabelle Choinière, BFA (Contemporary Dance) 89, Audrey-Anne Bouchard, BFA (Theatre) 07, and Ricardo Dal Farra (Music) will premiere as the opening piece at CYNETART, an international digital arts festival taking place in Dresden, Germany on November 14. FLESH WAVES will also be performed at on November 15 at METABODY, an international research laboratory.
In collaboration with Tomiko Yoda and Alexander Zahlten of Harvard University, Marc Steinberg (Cinema) will lead a conference at on November 14 and 15 entitled Media Theory in Japan, 1920-2000 at Harvard’s Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, an academic unit that supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic activities and the exchange of ideas.
Another perfect day, an exhibition of work by Janet Werner (Studio Arts), is on display at the Galerie de l’UQAM until December 13.
Media coverage
The McGill Daily speaks with Erik Goulet (Cinema), director of the Stop Motion Film Festival, about this year’s film festival.
The McGill Reporter features a story about the 25th anniversary of McGill’s Family Survivors of Suicide group and quotes Yehudit Silverman (Creative Arts Therapies), who spent a year with the group in 2009. Silverman’s time with the group was documented in her film, The Hidden Face of Suicide.
La Métropole reports that the Centre d’art E.K. Voland exhibited portraits by various artists including David Elliott (Studio Arts).
Downbeat profiles Gary Schwartz (Music) and his LETTINGO project.
The work of several Design for the Theatre students was featured in a spread in Cult MTL.
Donato Totaro (Cinema) appeared on CJAD with Barry Morgan (interview begins at 28 minutes) on to discuss his list of top 10 horror films
Performing arts events
Throughout November and December, the performing arts departments present a myriad of concerts, plays and performances by students.
- November 15, 8 p.m.: Studio 7, a monthly performance series
- December 5 to 11: Second- and third-year students present end-of-term performances
- November 14, 8 p.m.: Vocal Symposium
- November 21, 8 p.m.: Jazz Scholarship Competition
- November 28, 8 p.m.: Jazz Choir
- December 6, 8 p.m.: Vocal Scholarship Competition
- December 3, 7:30 p.m.: Chamber Choir and University Chorus
- December 9, 8 p.m.: Chamber Ensembles
- December 12, 8 p.m.: Ensemble Eclectic
- December 13, 8 p.m.: Big Band
November 7 to 10: SIPA/Short Works Festival featuring plays written, directed and produced by students including a collaboration with the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.
November 27 to 30: The Islands of Love: The Dispute, The Colony and The Island of Slaves by Marivaux. Collage and direction by Cristina Iovita.
November 29: The Neighbourhood Theatre - where social innovation, animation and activism meet and explore social change within Montreal neighbourhoods
Other upcoming events
On view until November 7: Art History PhD student Oli Sorenson’s Art Google exhibition in the EV third floor vitrines.
November 1, 5 to 8 p.m.: La Ruche d’art allows visitors to add their own memories and wishes to the collective altar, commemorating Dia de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico to honour the dead.
November 1, 6:30 p.m.: Speaking of Photography with Carleton University’s Carol Payne in The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971.
November 5, 6 p.m.: Hexagram-Concordia presents Who is afraid of the remix? Art practice after copyright, a lecture by Felix Stalder.
November 6, 6 p.m.: Mind the Gap: Bridging the GMA Divide conversation, curated by Fine Arts Advisory member Annabel Soutar and coordinated by theatre student Mayah Braun.
November 7, 6 p.m.: Conversations in Contemporary Art presents artist and architectural historian Azra Akšamija. French painter Jules de Balincourt comes to Montreal courtesy of the series on November 28, exact time to be announced.
November 7, 6 p.m.: The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture presents Ian Bogost of the Georgia Institute of Technology in a talk entitled Smithfield Half Hams, One Direction Duct Tape, and Cheeseburger Pringles.
November 8 to 10: TAG presents GAMERella, the research centre’s third game jam of the year. GAMERella is geared towards women as well as anyone who feels they haven’t had a chance to make a game (video or board) in a city ruled by industry giants.
November 11, 4 p.m.: The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art presents a talk by Dr. Michael Asbury – Contesting Hybrid Notions within Brazilian Contemporary Art – as part of the Afternoons at the Institute series.
November 12, 7:30 p.m.: Benefit concert for the Centre for the Arts in Human Development at the Shaare Zion synagogue, featuring musicians, dancers and actors performing alongside Centre participants.
November 16, 4 p.m.: The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema presents a panel entitled Documentary and Archives as part of the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal festival.
November 13, 4 to 8 p.m.: The departments of Contemporary Dance and Studio Arts present the first event in the Physical Lectures series, a meal and roundtable discussion at O.Noir restaurant.
November 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: The Deskilling and Reskilling Of Artist Production colloquium will focus on the relationship between the artisanal production of “making” and the capitalist market system.
November 14, 4 p.m.: The Design as a Critical Inquiry speaker series and Hexagram-Concordia present Fiona Raby, professor of Industrial Design from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
November 21, 5 p.m.: A Glimpse into a Composer's World, Music Research Talks Series lecture by Department of Music assistant professor Georges Dimitrov.
ARTHEMIS presents Photography, Film and Their World Dependence with John Hunting and Trevor Mowchun on November 22 at 4 p.m., and Locating Yugoslav Film Criticism: Transnational Approaches to Film Culture with Masha Salazkina et Katarina Mihailovic on November 29 at 4 p.m.
November 29, 8 p.m.: Charles Ellison Quintet in concert at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall.