December 5 to December 13, 2008

PAVED Arts is pleased to present a new sound & media art installation created by the Sackville, New Brunswick collective Sbot N Wo. The installation will be located in the 2^nd floor event space and will commence regular gallery hours beginning Friday December 5th. DisLocate-DisBody will culminate with an evening performance slated to begin at 7pm, Saturday December 13. Immediately following the performance the artists will be on hand for a public reception.

DisLocate-DisBody is an interactive audio, video installation that utilizes a web camera aimed from the ceiling upon an illuminated square of kitchen flooring within an otherwise dark space. A data projector projects the video image on a white square surface on the wall such that the beam crosses directly over the illuminated square on the floor. Eight photo cells are fixed to the projection surface on the wall and contact microphones are situated under the square of vinyl flooring. Entering the room, the viewer is drawn to enter the illuminated floor area, curious about the relationship between the two static white squares in the room. Upon entering the illuminated space the individual’s image appears on the wall from the perspective of the camera above. Simultaneously his or her shadow, cast across the projection surface, enters the frame from a different direction. The shadow and the video image, passing over the light sensors, triggers audio processing software, which is applied to samples both prerecorded and captured from the live situation. As the spectator struggles to coordinate the movements of these inverted images, and to initiate interesting sounds based upon the perceived cause and effect, a new kinetic world of connections is created. The free-standing, interactive installation will double as the site for a live performance. Sbot N Wo explores musical meaning by turning the voice inside out, upside down, and setting it on fire. From barely processed layers of unearthly vocal sound sources, to highly processed barrages of crunchy complexity, their work obliterates any notion of “mere singing.”

Sbot N Wo is a voice/electronics duo from Eastern Canada with roots in Saskatoon. Singer Helen Pridmore specializes in new music and extended vocal techniques. She has a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, and is professor of voice at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick Canada. WL Altman is a composer and laptop performer. His written works are performed and commissioned by musicians across North America.

More information about Sbot N Wo is available at the web site http://www.sbotnwo.com/

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Nadia Myre on view at Red Shift Gallery

Mimi Gellman, Sherry Farell Racette on view at AKA Gallery

Joi Arcand, Rosalie Favell, Tania Willard on view at PAVED Arts

November 4 to December 15, 2008

Curated by Felicia Gay

Othered Women is the curator-in-residence project of Felicia Gay. The three-part exhibition will take place in the AKA Gallery, PAVED Arts and the Red Shift Gallery. Each of the participating artists were asked to respond or articulate in their own way to the absence of voice, gender, dominant and subverted historical narratives, colonial tropes, countering the colonial memory (counter memory) and strategies of transformation and healing within the visual narrative.

In essence the history of the early Canadian West is the history of the fur trade. For nearly two hundred years, from the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670 until the transfer of Rupert’s Land to the newly created dominion of Canada in 1870, the fur trade was the dominant force in shaping the history of what are today Canada’s four western provinces. (Van Kirk p.184)

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[The User]

Exhibition Dates September 12 – October 23, 2008

PAVED Arts presents: Coincidence Engines –an exhibition of new sound installation artwork commissioned from Montreal-based collective [The User]. Recognized around the world for their ground-breaking combinations of media, art and technology, [The User] have created a major new project that will re-open PAVED Arts’ renovated facilities in Saskatoon.

In the Main Gallery and Media Gallery:

Coincidence Engines is a series of sound installations conceived in homage to the Poème Symphonique of 20th Century Hungarian composer György Ligeti. Ligeti used metronomes not simply to keep musical time, but as a means for creating new forms of sonic expression. Extending and developing this approach, Coincidence Engines employs time-keeping devices to explore themes of regimentation, multiplicity, (im)perfection and entropy.

Coincidence Engines reinterprets the clock as a machine which has the capacity to transcend its workaday function of keeping time. The exhibition treats the seemingly mundane event of a clock’s tick as a building block for the construction of rich and complex acoustic structures, which are presented in an art gallery setting. Massed clock ticks, both freely drifting and rigorously synchronized, fill a series of environments that focus, stimulate and challenge the visitor’s visual and auditory perception. Coincidence Engines opens a space where the passage of time can be considered as both an abstract concept and as a sensuous, aesthetic experience.

[The User] is a contemporary art collective comprised of composer and sound artist Emmanuel Madan, and architect and installation artist Thomas McIntosh. This Canadian duo has attained worldwide recognition for their innovative projects Silophone and Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, which re-imagine relationships between technological systems, culture and human experience in striking ways.

Coincidence Engines project web site:www.coincidence-engines.net

This web site contains detailed information about the project, and is updated with audio-visual documentation, press kits and other resources.

The creation of Coincidence Engines is supported by a significant investment from the Canada Council for the Arts’ Media Arts Commissioning Program, and by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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Exhibition Dates: August 1 – August 23, 2008

PAVED Arts presents: Map Of The City –an exhibition of two recent video/sound installations by Montreal-based artist Nelson Henricks. The 16-page, colour publication for this exhibition was co-produced with BlackFlash Magazine.

In the Main Gallery:

MAP OF THE CITY is a two-screen video installation that explores the notion of building-as-book. Initiated during a six-month residency in Rome, this work sees the city as a text environment that requires both readers and writers. Urban space is compared to a library. This work is inspired by chapels and cathedrals, which act as three-dimensional representations of the Bible, the physical manifestation of the spiritual. Quotes from the Gospel of Thomas and the Bible are interwoven with original text, still photos and electronic soundscapes. The city is seen as an accumulation of gestures and desires containing the potential to outstrip the life of the individual.

In the Media Gallery

UNTITLED (SCORE) is a collaboration with composer Jackie Gallant. “For this score, Nelson Henricks chose to appropriate English musical notation, which uses letters from A to G to identify the notes of the scale. In combining these letters to make words like CAGE, FACE, DEAD or BED, he simultaneously offers up a semantic and melodic suite. He enriches this double reading with images that clarify or divert the sense(s) of the word. (…) Jackie Gallant, responds to Nelson Henricks’ proposal by creating a split between the score and the music. She thus plays on the flexible space between with is ‘dictated’ and what is ‘heard’.” (Sébastien Cliche)

 
Nelson Henricks was born in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art (1986). He moved to Montréal in 1991, where he received a BFA from Concordia University (1994). Henricks lives and works in Montréal, where he has taught at Concordia University (1995 – Present), McGill University (2001- 2003) and Université du Québec à Montréal (1999, 2003). A musician, writer, curator and artist, Henricks is best known for his videotapes, which have been exhibited worldwide. A focus on his video work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the Video Viewpoints series (2000). This year Henricks was the featured artist at Toronto’s Images Festival. His writings have been published in Fuse, Public, Coil magazines, and in the anthologies “So, To Speak” (Editions Artexte, 1999), “Lux” (YYZ Press, 2000) and “Caught in the Act” (YYZ Press, 2004). Henricks was the recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art (2002) and the Board of Govenors’ Alumni Award of Excellence from the Alberta College of Art and Design (2005). For more information, go to www.nelsonhenricks.com.

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