PAVED Arts

Electroacoustic Improvisation Performance Workshop

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Workshop 1:
Electro-Acoustic Improvisation; in practice, concepts and philosophy Presented by artists Jeffrey Allport (SK) & crys cole (MB)

February 26, 1-4 pm– PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. West.

EMAIL technical@PAVEDarts.ca to register

This three hour workshop will explore the many different facets of free Improvisation through instructor led exercises and discussion as well as live & recorded examples.

The workshop is open to participants from all backgrounds; trained musicians, people new to making music and people who have no musical experience. An openness and willingness to participate is all that we ask.

Please bring your instrument of choice (electronics, traditional instruments, objects, your own voice/body) and if you require amplification during the workshop please inform the coordinators of your needs when you register. For more information or to register, please contact holophon3@gmail.com.

About the Artists

crys cole is a sound artist that works and performs solo and in collaborative improvisation settings. She works predominantly with contact microphones, minimal signal processing and no-input mixing board.
cole has toured extensively throughout Canada, Japan and Europe and has performed in NYC and Seattle. She has collaborated with musicians; Jeffrey Allport, Oren Ambarchi, Keith Rowe, Massimo Pupillo, Tetuzi Akiyama, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagashiski, Julie la Rousse, Tim Olive, Seiji Morimoto, Christine Senaoui, Clare Cooper, Jamie Drouin & Lance Austin Olson, Joshua Stevenson, Haco and Rinus van Alebeek amongst others.
Since 2008 cole has been the Director of send + receive: a festival of sound, an International festival of audio art based in Winnipeg, Canada, now in it’s 14th year.

Saskatchewan-based musician/sound artist Jeffrey Allport explores sound through composition, installation, performance, and recording. His work focuses on the comprehensive characteristics of sound as a medium. He has presented at a wide variety of venues around the world both in solo and group contexts, collaborating with numerous kindred musicians. In recent years he has worked with Nate Wooley, Andrea Neumann, Jandek, Keith Rowe, Radu Malfatti, Ami Yoshida, and many others. Ongoing and long- term projects include the voice/percussion/electronics trio Glaciers, electronics duo Rough Noble, a Seattle-based trio with pianist Gust Burns and Tyler Wilcox, and a duo with Tim Olive that is now in its 15th year.

About Holophon

Holophon Audio Arts is a non-profit organization operating out of Regina, Saskatchewan. Since 2008 Holophon has organized concerts and workshops in Regina and Saskatoon in a variety of venues, showcasing approaches to sound-as-art from guest curators representing a diverse range of artistic communities. We are an enthusiastic and creative audio-arts organization that looks for ways to unite music, film, dance, visual, literary/poetry, and digital artistic disciplines under the umbrella of “sound”.

Our goal is to develop a culture of sound and listening in Saskatchewan, encouraging, educating and promoting sound-based artistic practices.

For more information on Holophon Audio Arts, please visit www.holophon.ca

These workshops are made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

New Media Public Art Call for Submissions

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PAVED Arts and aodbt architecture and interior design have formed an unique opportunity for local media artists to create a public art piece that responds to the aodbt building, located on 235 Ave D North in the Caswell Hill neighbourhood of Saskatoon. Experimental and independent media artists are invited to address the subject of “contemporary technology and design”– creating a public artwork that integrates with the aodbt building and/or attributes of the surrounding neighbourhood. We encourage submissions that consider: interactive new media, video and/or audio, a response to the immediate environs, and aspects of the building itself as well as the activity on site.

The selected new media public art project will be installed in the spring of 2012 with an official unveiling slated for June 15, 2012. Artist fees will be paid as per CARFAC fee schedule, as well as some costs related to installation and art materials.

Location: 235 Ave D North, Saskatoon, SK

Deadline for Submissions: Monday, April 2, 2012.

Submissions should include:

A written proposal (no longer than one page)
5-10 examples of past work, submitted on CD-R or DVD-R. (Video samples should not exceed 5 minutes in length.)
Material needs (technical feasibility pertaining to outdoor installation)
Budget

Please deliver all submissions to PAVED Arts, 424-20 Street West by April 2, 2012.
Electronic submissions can be delivered to: technical@pavedarts.ca

For more information please contact: David LaRiviere, artistic@pavedarts.ca

Cinema Politica Saskatoon presents RIP a remix manifesto

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Tuesday, February 21st,

Screening – 7 P.M.

Panel Discussion: Priscilla Settee (Traditional Indigenous Knowledge vs. biopiracy)
David Lariviere (copyright vs. copyleft in the visual arts)
Others TBA

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film.

http://www.cinemapolitica.org/saskatoon

Striking A Pose

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Emanuel Licha (Paris, France)

Curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc (Gatineau, Québec)

January 20 – February 25, 2012

Reception: Friday, January 20, 8:00 to 10:00 PM

There will be a public lecture delivered by independent Curator Marie-Hélène Leblanc just before the reception, beginning at 7:00 PM, Friday, January 20, 2012.

STRIKING A POSE features two provocative video installation works by the Paris-based artist Emanuel Licha. The ambitious exhibition curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc, is also being staged at Latitude 53 and Musée Régional De Rimouski in Rimouski Quebec, with whom PAVED Arts is collaborating on a large publication project (to be released later in 2012). STRIKING A POSE will feature two video installations not seen before in Western Canada: R FOR REAL and MIRAGES

MIRAGES focuses on a mock Iragi village in the middle of the Mojave desert in California. Conceived and used by the US Army for the training of the troops before being deployed in Iraq, this village was built and is operated by Hollywood professionals. The extras playing the roles of the inhabitants are hired among members of the Iraqi diaspora in the US. The 2-channel video MIRAGES shows images of the camp and interviews of those who work behind the scenes: the set designer, the make up artist, the pyrotechnic artist, as well as actors and extras, all evoking their perception of the reality their perception of the reality they’re helping to create. The role played by “war journalists” is also brought up in sequences showing the apparatus helping them to produce the right images.

R FOR REAL also blurs the lines between this fiction and reality. Police officers at the CNEFG play themselves (except for those who, during the performance, play the rioters) and the entire exercise is controlled, unlike a real riot that can get out of hand at any moment. R FOR REAL is a video triptych presented as three consecutive projections viewed by the beholder one after another. The first sequence shows the site, based on slow shots of details of the buildings. Nothing indicates that this is just a set. In the second sequence, we see the same location but this time there is a great agitation–an urban riot is underway, and a nervous camerawork shows the clashes between the police and rioters. Everything seems very real. Then the third sequence reveals the whole arrangement: starting with mock rioters waiting to go into action, the camera zooms out to reveal the surrounding countryside and the limits of the urban stage set

EMANUEL LICHA lives and works in Paris and Montreal. After earning a Master’s degree in urban geography, he pursued his education in visual arts at Concordia University in Montreal, followed by a post graduate diploma at the Ecole nationale des beauxarts de Lyon, France, in 2001. Recent solo shows include: Why Photogenic?, SBC Gallery, Montreal; War Tourist, LOOP 09, Barcelona; R for Real, galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux; Une autre fête au même instant brille dans Paris, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; Agnes & Bruce, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, México; Nothing Less, Nothing More, Just Transdormed, Carof, Milan; In & Out, Galerie B-312, Montreal nad YYZ, Toronto.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6 pm; Saturdays, Noon – 4 pm.

PAVED Arts acknowledges the support of our members, volunteers and partners, and of our principal funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, SaskLotteries, the City of Saskatoon and the National Film Board of Canada.

For more Information, contact: David LaRiviere, Artistic Director

tel: (306) 652-5502 ext 1. artistic@pavedarts.ca

PAVED arts: 424 20 Street West Saskatoon SK. S7M 0X4

Free Admission to the public with barrier free accessibility