springtemps

Karine Bouchard and Sachiko Sumi, Denis Lessard, Chloé Roubert, Robb Jamieson, Julie Laurin

 

Anti-curatorial exhibition and events organized by articule's members.

29 March to April 14, 2013

 

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Definitions change, boundaries move, the continents of the mind keep drifting. How can we fleetingly reconstitute, connect, and rearticulate this unstable but yet, tremendously vigorous world? Because uncertainty and doubt are all stimulants, the anti-curatorial project Springtemps invites you to bounce into new spaces.

 

In addition to the scheduled events, articule welcomes spontaneous initiatives for the duration of this project. Study, matter for metamorphosis, production lab, we are interested in sharing experiences, discussing and inventing collectively. Everyone is invited to celebrate Spring, always full of surprises.

Detailed Schedule:

March 29 ,7pm Vernissage and first encounter:

 

Souvenirs (Bouillon de poulet pour l’art — Surprises ! —) by Karine Bouchard and Sachiko Sumi will unite their strengths, talents and generosity to concoct a comforting and miraculous formula. This project fantastically illustrates the gradual transition from winter to spring and shares a unique universe created by the artists. “We feel that we have a direct influence over meteorological phenomena. In an effort to create a collective statement about changes in the seasons we share our joy with you.”

 

April 6, 11am: Departure of Robb Jamieson from articule.

 

The artist will run a 42,196km Marathon North. This course is meant as an extension of articule’s space as the territory is extended north by the artist’s action. The public can follow Jamieson’s progress via the amplified sound of a cell phone displayed in the gallery. Borrowing the form of a "cross of hope", Jamieson aims to inform the public about the hard struggle of the "unprofitable" artist.

For the duration of the marathon, articule will host a placard confection workshop accompanied by a brunch as well as many surprises amongst which the mid-time proposal: Hope (Bouillon de poulet pour l’art — Surprises ! —) by Karine Bouchard and Sachiko Sumi.

 

3pm: Returning ceremony with the arrival and completion of the marathon by Robb Jamieson.

 

April 7

Dirt is matter out of place by Chloé Roubert

 

Why has the pigeon, yesterday’s heros of war, become today’s objects of disgust? Why is the dove, even though it is physiogically identical to the latter, a symbol in Catholic faith, of hope, peace or the holy spirit? Inspired by the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, Chloe Roubert explores, with Dirt is a Matter Out of Place, these paradoxes through an installation, a guided walk with biologist Luc-Alain Giraldeau and a panel discussion.

 

1:30pm: Guided walk with the biologist Luc-Alain Giraldeau to observe pigeons in Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood. Departure from Parc du Portugal (Saint-Laurent and Marie-Anne)

3:30pm-4:30pm: Panel discussion with Luc-Alain Giraldeau (biologist), Laurent Lussier (urbanist), François Messier (breeder) and Chloé Roubert as the moderator.

 

April 13
Closing reception (schedule to be announced): Revealing of Gerbes, a project by Denis Lessard.

Denis Lessard proposes Gerbes, a series of furtive actions under the thematic of flowers that will take place in various locations in Montreal. These actions will be presented retrospectively by the artist.

Springtime: SURPRISES! (Bouillon de poulet pour l’art — Surprises ! —) by Karine Bouchard and Sachiko Sumi

Throughout the project, articule will be simultaneously a site of labour and exhibition. For this occasion, everyone and anyone is cordially invited to produce a form or mark that will celebrate the coming of spring.

 

April 27

The burrial by Julie Laurin

Clement Miron's car cemetery, 2999 de l'Église street, Chertsey, QC, 1pm

 

Made in Tijuana, Mexico in 2007, Samsung 42 inches (serial number AJQ73CSP600547E) passed away in Montreal, September 22th 2012 after a too short term beside us. Touched by an unknown illness, it was dumped away for dysfunction when we took it under our wing and made it repaired. Brave survivor, Samsung 42 inches (serial number AJQ73CSP600547E) showed us life differently from the old cathode tube. After only two weeks of HD fulfilment, it was victim of an horrible accident, breaking its screen definitely and making any reparation attempt too expensive. It leaves in great mourning its principal spectators Jonathan Roy (Jean-François Ducharme) and Julie Laurin (Myriam Joncas).

You are invited to the deceased's burial on Saturday, April 27th in Chertsey, in Clement Miron's car cemetery. A procession will precede the burial of the body. The rendez-vous is at 1 pm at 2999 de l'Église street.

 

The Artists:

 

Karine Bouchard and Sachiko Sumi aim to create incongruous circumstances and experiences that are potential vectors of transformation through exchanges questioning the roles and boundaries between the artists and the public. Seeking to create amazement, they make symbolic hand-made objects and infiltrate art spaces by the means of performances and gestures. "We see the miracle arriving through the hole of the Percé Rock.”

 

Robb Jamieson was born in Montreal in 1979. He obtained a MFA from Goldsmiths College (London, UK) in 2007 and a BFA in Sculpture from Concordia in 2004. Jamieson’s art practice is mainly concerned with stupidity, both good and bad. He uses performance, video, sculpture, painting and drawing to express his interest in politics and strives for a truly critical art practice. Most recent exhibitions include Art Pop 2012, Seoul Museum of Art Nanji Gallery (South Korea), S1 Artspace (Sheffield, UK), and Loop Video Festival (Barcelona). Jamieson is currently practicing art in Montreal and running 4 days a week.

 

Since 1982, Denis Lessard has been presenting performances and visual works in Canada, the United States, France and the Netherlands. He has also worked as an art critic, translator, guest curator and teacher in Art History. As consultant for the management of documents and archives, last fall he completed the analysis of the needs for the documents and archives of the artists-run centres gallery articule in Montreal and Séquence in Chicoutimi.

 

Chloé Roubert is an anthropologist interested in the everyday, the agency of things and the relationship between animals and humans. A University College London graduate in visual and material anthropology, she works in a digital think-tank, curates and has written for Canadian Art, C Magazine and On-Site. Her thesis on why people take pictures in museums was just published in the book Visiteurs Photographes edited by Les Musées du Monde.

 

 

The panelists:

 

Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Girarldeau holds a PhD in behavioural biology from McGill University (1985) he has taught at Concordia University (Montreal) from 1987 to 2000 when he became a professor in biology at l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Since January 2010 he holds the office of research vice-dean at UQAM's Sciences faculty. 

 

Giraldeau’s research interests revolve around social behaviour but especially ecological factors promoting the development of exploitative relations among members of a group. His works borrows from game theory and animal cognitive science and uses an experimental approach applied on groups of birds. He has published over a hundred articles in scientific journals as well as a monograph, a few teaching manuals in french and english as well as three great books including L’Écologie en Ville (Fides 2006), Nature All Around Us (Chicago U Press, 2012), Lions Fourmis et Ouistitis (Le Pommier 2005).

 
Laurent Lussier
Laurent Lussier in an independent urbanism scholar. His interests centre upon ideas that allow for the renewal of thinking about cities. He has collaborated to events regarding Montrealers’ troubled relationship to with the multiplication of condos in the city, the staging of public space in the Quartier des spectacles (Montreal’s entrerainment district) and the role of food in urban planning. He has also contributed to launching the Walk the Region event, a hiking trip through Greater Montreal. Laurent is a regular contributor to the Spacing Montreal online magazine.

 

François Messier

Messier comes from a family in which birds were very important. Since youth he has been exposed to birds of all kinds. Pheasants, duck, wild birds, and exotic birds have been part of his universe since his father has always bread and continues to breed birds. As a child he remembers looking at his neighbour’s homing pigeon fly around the neighbourhood and was fascinated by them. We wondered why did they not simply fly away like other birds did.

 

He now raises various animals such as horses, hens, rabbits, dogs, cats and pigeons. He raises four varieties of pigeons that he praises for their elegance and intelligence.