MAYDAY MAYDAY!

by kit on April 24th, 2009

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.