MAYDAY MAYDAY!

Man, May just keeps getting better and better. Such a juicy month, it’s like I ordered a visual-arts thick cut-steak and it’s in the process of getting cooked up for me. Oh yeah. That actually sounds absolutely perverse, but it’s Friday, so I think that’s an acceptable tone all things considered.

So the REASON why May is getting better and better is that I forgot that it is the Montreal Biennale again, from May 1st until the end of the month. Oh yeah. One of the things I love about the Biennale is how they focus not only on local amazingness in the form of talented artists, but on the creative links between curators and their selected peoples, and the collaborations that arise from the whole darn process.

In fact, the festival website talks about the open culture model that the Biennale is shaping this year’s vision with, a stance that allows for a deeper exploration of the relationship between the artistic process and creativity, of communal sharing and cooperation.

I’ll be doing a little guide for folks interested in exploring the nooks and crannies of what this Biennale has to offer, but as a little tantalizing tidbit (before the main STEAK COURSE) I’d like to mention that the fest has programmed Rick Leong (whose painting you see here) in collaboration with a musician, as well as ROADSWORTH, my favourite graffiti artist of all time.

I am very much looking forward to perusing the program in a more indepth way this weekend to offer you, dear reader, an intimate guide to all the other bits and snacks the Biennale has in store for you.

Now I am going to go eat lunch, because frank(furter)ly, these food metaphors are starting to irritate me.

 

 

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Of things just around the corner…

 

And in this case, I mean JUST around the corner, at Fairmount and Parc, aka where that fancy lady always waits for the 80, everyday, with the fur and the pearls and the dog(s) and the coke-induced glares.

On her way to her stop, she passes Articule, one of Montreal’s beloved local Artist Run Centres, currently hosting ARTARTAR it’s first ever Members’ Exhibition in its new space, a giant cacophony of art meets food meets fancy lady barfing up her dinner on her dog as she gets on the bus.

There are 2 events coming up for it over the next few weekends, a film screening to do with gastronomical-esque themes on the 24th of January at 7pm (which also includes a bowl of soup oh yeah, did someone say free hot dogs?) and InTerreArt, in collaboration with articule Special Projects, a performance event curated by Nicole Fournier (happening on the 1st of February at 3pm).

The members exhibition includes works from over 22 Montreal artists, and the events happening over the weekend(s) will present works by Nicole Fournier, Eric Letourneau and Tagny Duff, along with other performers including dogs, (did someone say free hot dogs?) plant food, micro-organisms and other interconnected matter. And yeah yeah, I’m in it too, so this is clearly a cheap plug, which is what 98% of my life consists of anyhow, so no surprise there.

And on a completely (un)related note, I know the image here is kindof small and maybe a bit thematically awkward but it was the first image I found googling, “fancy coke lady”, so it’s staying.

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