2009 - 2010 Program

Conjuring the not-now to confirm our fragile presence in time & space

CRUM (Montréal)
September 01, 2009 to June 30, 2010
Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal (CRUM) will offer its services as Documentalist in Residence at articule during the entire programming season 2009-2010. Our specialised expertise will facilitate the realisation of articule’s programming objectives in line with its 30th anniversary. As a non-... {read more}

 

Greyscale Rainbow

Matt Shane & Jim Holyoak (Montréal)
September 04, 2009 to October 04, 2009
Over the course of one month, Matt Shane and Jim Holyoak will be transforming articule into an immersive and interactive drawing installation that amalgamates notions of  ‘studio', 'home' and 'exhibition space'. The walls of the gallery will be covered with paper and drawn on... {read more}

 

VIVA! Art Action 2009

Paul Couillard & Ed Johnson (Toronto), Monika Günther & Ruedi Schill (Lucerne, Suisse) , Christian Messier (Québec)
September 17, 2009 to September 26, 2009
As part of the second edition of VIVA! Art action, articule presents an evening of performances at Bain St-Michel, highlighting the work by artists from different generations. The chosen artists have in common the use of simple and concise gestures in order to describe complex relationships of intimacy and... {read more}

 

Approaching Stillness

Vida Simon (Montréal), Tedi Tafel (Montréal)
October 08, 2009 to June 21, 2010
Approaching Stillness looks at the Summer Solstice as a kind of enveloping metaphor – the moment in time when the light is at its maximum, the day is at its longest and the apparent movement of the sun, north or south, comes to a standstill: sol (sun) sistere (to stand still).This collaborative... {read more}

 

Scaremins, theremins!

October 30, 2009
Following a mini-theremin making workshop organized by Pop Symposium, articule invites you to a one of a kind celebration of all things spooky! Get dressed up and join us for a horror-filled evening; a bubbling cauldron of scary sounds and images cooked up by articule's very own Outreach Committee and... {read more}

 

When you go back, Nothing is real

Panayiotis Delilabros (England)
November 13, 2009 to December 13, 2009
In his videos and installations, Panayiotis Delilabros inhabits current places with fragments of remembered spaces. More recently, his work has reflected the practice of his late father, Constantine Delilabros, a prolific outsider artist, in an attempt at creating a fictional collaboration. For his... {read more}

 

Phare

Nadine Faraj
December 20, 2009 to January 10, 2010
Beacon is a site-specific drawing on the articule gallery windows that becomes automatically lit from within at sundown. The resulting nocturnal effect is a drawing made of light. The lines are based on organic flows of energy, the blueprints of nature. This is meant as an antidote to our long and dark... {read more}

 

RAISE The Floor Marie-Claire Chabauty T-shirt

Marie-Claire Chabauty
January 01, 2010
 The latest T-shirt in the series was produced with a design by Marie-Claire Chabauty (2010).Wearing an "RTF" shirt is an exciting way for you to encourage artist run center culture and look great while doing it!For sale at: 20$© 2007 articule. All rights reserved.  

 

Drift line - Members' show

January 16, 2010 to February 02, 2010
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 spatial intervention by Special Projects... {read more}

 

Le Retour

jenna d. maclellan (Montreal), tagaza djibo (Niger)
February 17, 2010 to March 11, 2010
Running from February 17th until March 28th, Le Retour is a photo exhibition/installation that traces the development of a process-based series of public performances that took place in Montreal, Ghana and Niger. The photographs, taken by the two artists, follow jenna as she performs in a dress while... {read more}

 

Snowball

Christine Boudreau, Kim Kielhofner
February 17, 2010
Snowball is a program of video works by local and international artists. These videos are brought together under the theme of landscape, and the myriad of possibilities of the term. Uncovering the term "landscape" in art and cinema, mapping our social engagements, and challenging our notions of frontiers... {read more}

 

How Can I Tell the Difference?

Alain Lefebvre
February 17, 2010 to June 28, 2010
Sound performance : February 17, 8.30pm - 9pm How Can I Tell the Difference? is a thirty-minute experiment that delves into a synaesthetic world of analog noise, and also considers the in/compatibility of audio signals with those of video. Alain Lefebvre has chosen to subvert his own preoccupation with... {read more}

 

Supermarket 2010

February 18, 2010 to February 21, 2010
articule participated in Supermarket 2010, a Swedish international artist-run art fair whose mandate is to showcase artists’ initiatives, and to create opportunities for new networks on the international art scene. This year, the fair welcomed 56 organisations from 24 countries and was visited by 6550... {read more}

 

Moving, Writing, Drawing: Techniques for Mapping

Rennie Tang (United States), Sarah Wookey (United States)
February 20, 2010
  It appears that people, in their daily lives, merely skim the surface of a world that has been previously mapped out and constructed for them to occupy, rather than contributing through their movements to its ongoing formation. Tim Ingold   This workshop aims to amplify the role of the body... {read more}

 

Who's Who

March 10, 2010 to March 20, 2010
It is articule's birthday! On March 20, 2010, more than 80 original works donated by articule's past exhibiting artists and members will be made available to a select group of guests. (See the complete list of participating artists below) These works, created in all media, will be showcased on our website... {read more}

 

LookingInSpeakingOut

March 11, 2010
Please join us to view videos made by women whose voices are rarely heard speaking out on challenging topics.   LookingInSpeakingOut.com, Crossing Communities Art Project's website, presents collective videos made with women and youth which explore social change through new media and online dialogue... {read more}

 

Play Between; entre deux

Julia Colley (Montréal), Aidan Connolly (Montréal), Bernadette Lefebvre (Montréal), Brian Houtman (Montréal), Clarence Quirion Nolin (Montréal), Corrie Peters (Montréal), Dana Dal Bo (Montréal), Daniel Luna (Montréal), Irene Lepiesza (Montréal), Isabelle Scarfo (Montréal), Jeremy Costa (Montréal), Jessica Watchorn (Montréal), Marc-Antoine Pepin (Montréal), Marie-Pier Malo (Montréal), Philippe Cool (Montréal), Rebecca Patrick (Montréal), Teresa Maglietta (Montréal)
March 24, 2010 to March 30, 2010
seventeen horizons different forms, different backgrounds, different playgrounds attraction, gravity pulls us to ... images-in movement... human activity-the everyday... walking... ... the construction-of form... the creation of sound... letters-text... for one week we are gathering   Seventeen... {read more}

 

Estuaire central

Rona Rangsch (Allemagne)
March 27, 2010
The project estuaire central is concerned with developing a new perspective on the section of the St-Lawrence estuary that is usually called estuaire moyen (middle estuary). The latter expression suggests that this space is nothing but a transitory region lying in between, connecting the fluvial with the... {read more}

 

You, Me and You

Annie Gauthier & Milutin Gubash (Montréal)
April 02, 2010 to April 11, 2010
YOU, ME & YOU is an installation centred on a long-form video broken into two- or three-hour long segments, each playing once through the exhibition — see a moment or miss it forever. Annie Gauthier and Milutin Gubash are a couple. Working in collaboration, they are interested in narrative,... {read more}

 

Hospitality 2: Gradually This Overview

PME-ART (Montréal)
April 23, 2010 to May 16, 2010
For HOSPITALITY 2: Gradually This Overview, the interdisciplinary art group PME-ART — Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello and Jacob Wren — along with invited participants and members of the public, will fully inhabit articule, attempting to create a genuinely surprising and human interaction... {read more}

 

WORKSHOP: SUBJECTIVE CARTOGRAPHY USING STAMPS emmanuelle jacques

Emmanuelle Jacques
April 30, 2010 to June 28, 2010
WORKSHOP: SUBJECTIVE CARTOGRAPHY USING STAMPS emmanuelle jacques   Saturday April 30, 1pm -4pm As part of Lire Montréal   In French, with English translation available   Through the language of cartography Emmanuelle Jacques uses aesthetic qualities as a starting point to question... {read more}

 

Objet d'ailleurs

Brigitte Schuster
May 05, 2010 to May 08, 2013
Participatory event and site-specific installation Thursday May 5: 5.30 to 9 pm (event opening) Friday May 6: 12-7.30 pm Saturday May 7: 12-5 pm Sunday May 8: 12-5 pm The project objet d'ailleurs (objetdailleurs.com)  is an ongoing collection of stories from immigrants to Montréal or other cities... {read more}

 

Projet populaire

Mathieu Jacques
May 14, 2010 to June 19, 2010
public consultation interviews from 12 to 17 p.m. Saturday, May 14, Sunday, May 22, Saturday June 11 Sunday June 19 Projet populaire looks at the social role of the artist, with the objective of finding an ideal project, allowing any visual creator to raise enthusiasm amongst its fellow citizens.... {read more}

 

Abandoned

kondition pluriel
May 26, 2010 to May 30, 2010
The installation proposes a technical apparatus in a state of transition: where analog transforms into digital. It displays an abandoned set-up, a control-post, for creating a digital performance. On closer inspection, the workspace reveals itself to be an orchestrated room, a performative space that "... {read more}

 

Transgressive Transmissions

Emilie Monnet and Norman Matchewan (Montréal), Emmanuel Madan (Montréal), Hélène Prévost (Montréal), Darsha Hewitt (Montréal), Manon Barbeau et Guy Gendron (Montréal)
June 04, 2010 to June 06, 2010
A curatorial project by articule Special Projects exploring different interrelated methods of occupying three types of "public" space: 1) the inside of the gallery 2) any possible occupation outside of the first space, and finally 3) the space of AM or FM radio. Over three days, the three spaces (interior... {read more}

 

In my neighbourhood Mile End Map by Kids

June 16, 2010 to June 19, 2010
Show : June 16 - June19 Opening: June 16th, 6.30pm Artists talk: June 16th, 7pm For a whole month, twenty kids and their teacher from primary school Saint-Enfant-Jésus in the Mile End (Montréal) have been taking photos of their paths in the neighbourhood. With these photos, they have created all together... {read more}

 

rotation, rotation

June 25, 2010
rotation, rotation June 25, 10am - 5pm Now that spring is here, it is once again time to clean out, make room, and do a little FUNdraising for articule at the same time!  As of June 1st, articule will be looking for donations in the form of forgotten treasures, gently used goods, and curious things... {read more}

 

Invert Me Out/Retourne-Moi

Emmanuel Galland, François Lalumière
July 02, 2010 to August 01, 2010
Emmanuel Galland and François Lalumière borrow from photography, sculpture, and collage to play with urban architectural space in their installation, Invert Me Out. Architecturally, the building that houses both articule and the paint store La Maison du peintre is symmetrical – the two halves almost a... {read more}