Drift Lines

Private Beach from January 16 to 18
Résonance by Martine Viale January 16 and 17 from 3pm to 5pm
Last Chance by Marilyn Arsem January 18 from 4pm to 9pm
Members' Beach from January 21 to 31

Vernissage Friday January 22 at 7pm
Performance: Sunday January 24 (Nicole Fournier)
Public Beach from February 3 to 6

Open Screen Saturday February 6 at 5pm

Drift Line is an articule Special Projects initiated exhibition, the first event of its kind in the 30 year history of the gallery. Composed of three consecutive segments - Private beach, Member's beach and Public beach, the three-week programming is linked by a spatial intervention by Special Projects in which the gallery floor is resurfaced with sand. This material, and all its references, therefore become the theme and context addressed by the variety of works presented by curated artists, gallery members and the larger public.

For the Private Beach, the Special Projects committee invited artists Martine Viale and Marilyn Arsem to create new works in response to the "beach". The outcome is a three-day programming of durational performances.

The Members' Beach is the second edition of articule's annual members' exhibition. Showcasing the works of over 20 active members, the exhibition reflects the diversity of our community and includes performances, video, painting, print, sculpture, installation and sound work. In addition, this year's edition includes a zine produced by articule's Writers' Club- a satellite venue for text-based works penned by our talented members.

The exhibition ends with the Public Beach, a three-day period in which the general public is invited to respond to the theme and context. From lounging in the sand with friends to using the space to present thematic artwork or performances, the beach is available for personal use. Public Beach concludes with an Open screen event, a unique opportunity for the public to screen complete or in-progress video works.

 

Private Beach programming:

 

Résonance
by Martine Viale (Montreal)
January 16 and 17 from 3pm to 5pm

 

As in a collage, in this action/intervention Martine Viale combines several short and sensitive actions into an overall image. As part of an ongoing reflection on the sense of time and presence as a site for engagement, she proposes a progressive unfolding in which the body and the space are gradually transformed.

 

Martine Viale is a Montreal based performance artist. Her work addresses the principles of time, metamorphoses and the þuidity of identity. She has performed in numerous performance art festivals, galleries and in situ context in Quebec and Canada, as well as internationally in New York, Boston, The Philippines, France, Belgium, Serbia, Glasgow, Scotland, Spain and Denmark.

 

 

Last Chance
by Marilyn Arsem (Boston)
January 18 from 4pm to 9pm

 

How much remains?
Will there be enough?
Will I make it?
Will we survive?

Determination in the face of futility.
Hope rather than despair.

 

Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances to large-scale works incorporating installation and performance. She has presented work at festivals, alternative spaces, galleries, museums, conferences and universities throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America. Arsem is the founder of Mobius, Inc., a Boston-based interdisciplinary collaborative of artists. She is a full-time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she teaches performance art, and is a graduate advisor.

 

 

Members' Beach programming:

 

Artists: Marie-Claire Chabauty, Elsa Charpentier, Jenna Dawn Maclellan, Dider Delfolie-Noulin, Nicole Fournier, Andrew Frosst, Graham Hall, Jérôme Havre, Edwin Janzen, Sarah Knight, Denis Lessard, Éric Létourneau, Mathieu Jacques, Riaz Mehmood, Rachel Ni Chuinn, Natalie Olanick (with the help of John Shaw), Jonathan Plante, Yasha Stewart, Zoe Stonyk, Steve Topping.

 

* Nicole Fournier will be performing with Joanna Peters and Max Sansalone, professional musicians/percussionist, their kids Amelia (4 yrs) and Giacomo (18 months) Sansalone; Marie-Suzanne Désilets, Artist and her child/rabbit Charbon Désilets, and Nicole Fournier, Artist and her teenage sons Wes and Smith Fournier-Bourgeois, and their children rabbits Snif and Lily Fournier.