September 8 – October 8, 2006 Pavilion Projects (Montreal) The Enterprise

Opening: Friday, September 8 at 7pm

Forum on visual arts in Québec: Saturday, September 16 at 3pm

Press conference: Thursday, October 5 at 5pm at Bain St.Michel in collaboration with Viva! Art Action Montréal

The Enterprise is an exploded artist run project. We fly black flags and throw black confetti. We are here to remind you - Art Tells Gorgeous Lies That Come True.

articule's new storefront space opens with The Enterprise, a new cultural entity to be formed by the artist's collective Pavilion and articule. Under the guise of a marketing firm and through a variety of advertising vehicles The Enterprise will work towards materializing and conceptualizing the currents and sentiments that run through Montreal's cultural and artistic communities. To be launched in September 2006, and continuing on as part of VIVA! art action in Montreal, The Enterprise is an 'open-source' project that explores new territories in the imaginations of a city and in the context of Montreal's current cultural politics. articule's space will be converted into a full production site hosting open workshops, meetings as well as acting as the point of composition and dispatch for the company's advertisements and communiqués. The Enterprise is a long-term project that will expand and diversify over time, fuelled by a rotating cast of collaborators.

www.vivamontreal.org
www.enterprise.pavilionprojects.com

September 28 – October 8, 2006 Viva! Art Action SEXE! art action Curator: Kévin Surprenant (Montréal)

A co-presentation by articule, système minuit du québec and CKUT
As part of Viva! Art Action and International Sex Festivals (ISF)
At Bain St-Michel, 5300, St-Dominique, Montreal

SEXE! art action is a co-presentation by articule, diffusion système minuit du québec and CKUT, presenting the first edition of the International Sex Festivals (ISF), an annual event dedicated to the exploration of the various dimensions of sexuality through performance art, manoeuvres, and new artistic practices. This first edition of the ISF is part of the initiative Viva! Art Action, an event organized by five Montreal artist-run centres (Clark, DARE-DARE, La Centrale, SKOL and articule), aiming to promote live art and its diversity to a broader audience. We are pleased to join this initiative with a varied and challenging program, featuring a dozen artists from here and abroad. SEXE! art action includes an evening of performances and manoeuvres, presentations of audio, video and radio works and documentation, as well as workshops and a discussion on sexuality-related themes. These will range from identity to desire, including relationships to the body, to others, to norms, to power. Leave your inhibitions at the door!

Schedule SEXE! art action :

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28

7pm – 11pm
Audio / radio works and documents
At CKUT (90.3 FM)
Animation and realization : Fortner Anderson and André Éric Létourneau
With works by Robert Ashley (USA), Christine Brault (Montréal, Canada), Willem De Ridder (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Laeticia Sonami (USA), Joël Hubaut (Caen, France), Zhu Yu (Beijing, China), and much more.


SUNDAY OCTOBER 1

1pm
Workshop for teenagers
With Renée Nadeau from the ACCM (Aids Community Care Montréal)
in collaboration with the artist Christine Brault (Montréal)
Info: outreach@accmontreal.org

1pm
Open workshop – Special Projects
With Non Grata (Tallin, Estonia)

5pm
Discussion
With special guests
Moderator: André Šric Létourneau (FIS) (Montréal)
In collaboration with Engrenage Noir


THURSDAY OCTOBER 5

7pm
Performance and video evening
Performances:
Non Grata (Tallin, Estonia), Margaret Dragu (Richmond BC, Canada)
Video programme:
Sylvain Breton (Montréal), Les Panthères roses (Montréal), Laurence Nicola (Montreuil, France), Zhu Yu (Beijing, China)

For the complete schedule of Viva! Art Action, please visit: www.vivamontreal.org

October 20 – December 3, 2006 Helen Cho (Berlin, Germany / Ajax ON) Pangea Ultima

Opening: Friday October 20 at 7pm

Discussion with the artist: Saturday October 21 at 3pm

Pangea Ultima is a term for the mega continent that will be formed as the present continents slowly converge for the next 250 million years.

Helen Cho is interested in investigating the popularization of the theory of evolution, as well as ideas of hierarchy, competition, nationalism, and gender. The artist sees these notions as essentially, fundamentally, and anthropologically derived from the development of evolutionary stories. Her exhibition Pangea Ultima is composed of different works, such as labour intensive ink drawings suggesting reconstructions of origin stories by combining sources that vary from science fiction to National Geography, from paleoanthropology to studies of apes. Other elements of the installation include manipulated soccer balls that are inspired by questions about the dynamics between the role of gender and competitive activities associated with sexuality and aggression. The artist also presents a work with colour belts used in martial arts pointing to the misconception that these colours are based on a general and clear system of order and hierarchy. In Helen Cho's work, the logic of winning and losing, essential to the nature of competition is disrupted and undermined. The combination of symbols, objects and material suggests possibilities where hierarchy and the rules of competition can take on new meanings and purposes.

February 2 - March 11, 2007 Katja Høst (Oslo, Norway) The Lonely Crowd

Opening: Friday February 2 at 7pm

Artist's talk: Sunday February 4 at 5pm

Exhibition hours : Wednesday to Sunday from 5pm to 9pm

Katja Høst's video and photographic work is concerned with questions about visual culture and identity as a flexible and context-dependent entity. Her subjects are closely related to an urban environment, providing the individual with the freedom of creating it's own identity, even multiple identities, highlighting different aspects of it's personality in different situations. This freedom of playing out social roles, more limited in rural contexts where identity is more transparent, comes at a price. The artist states that in the urban context, we live our lives observed by thousands of people, which become a vital part of how we perceive ourselves. In her exhibition The Lonely Crowd, the artist focuses on notions of surface and appearance in the public sphere, on the subtleties of individual expression and on the ambivalent experience of being both subject and object; of seeing and being seen at the same time.

www.katjahost.com

The artist thanks the Office For Contemporary Art Norway and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa for their support.

March 23 - April 29, 2007 Yudi Sewraj (Montréal) Salon

Opening: Friday March 23 at 7pm
Artist's talk : Saturday April 28 at 3 pm

The installation Salon by Yudi Sewraj explores ideas of location and history, and includes different elements of a living room. A couch, arm chair, house plant and coffee table are contained within plywood crates and kept cool with the help of a collection of old fridges. An unnamed elderly man is presented on an old television. The compressors hum in the background while the man lights a cigarette and labours to breathe.

"When a film is shot on location I imagine a curious process unfolding. A fictional story is enacted in a real place. The house is a real house, one that has been rented for the duration of the shoot. A lot of items are bought at thrift stores or yard sales. Each of these objects has a history, or has existed in a previous context(s). One object comes in collision with another. All these disparate objects form a phantom presence within the film." YS

May 9 – June 17, 2007 Diana Shearwood (Montréal) Behind the Mall [Fête mobile]

Opening: Friday May 18 at 7pm

Artist's talk : Saturday June 2nd at 3pm

Diana Shearwood's series entitled Behind the Mall [Fête mobile] is an exploration of the visual propaganda of mobile food advertising. Its central theme is the industrialization of our food and the dulling of our perception to a point where we are removed from any direct knowledge of our food production.

"Inspired by photographers who celebrate the spectacle of the everyday and, in particular, by the humorous yet damning investigations of global culture by Martin Parr, I was drawn to documenting the ever-growing realm of vehicle wrapping. By focusing on these ubiquitous moving billboards I hope to bring attention to the paradoxical reality that the twenty fresh foods that fill your shopping basket have travelled over 100,000 miles before they reach your table despite the fact that many of these items could be sourced locally. Instead of the pleasures of eating, the sometimes amusing and often disgusting images of food become sad reminders of a highly commercialized world that has run amok, symbols of a world where even our sustenance is not spared from a culture of insatiable conspicuous consumption." DS