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Essex Road II at Tintype, London

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Exterior, Tintype gallery, Essex Road (project), 2014 Courtesy Tintype. Photo: Cameron Leadbetter

Helen Benigson, Essex Road Hen Party, HD video still, 2015 ©Helen Benigson. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Uriel Orlow, Letters from Edna, 2015. HD video still ©Uriel Orlow. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Melanie Manchot, Lower Street, 2015. HD video still ©Melanie Manchot. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

John Smith, Fresh Fruit Venerable, 2015. HD video still ©John Smith. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Jem Cohen, Unseen Unsaid, 2015, selected still ©Jem Cohen. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Ruth Maclennan, Zigni, 2015, selected still ©Ruth Maclennan. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Sebastian Buerkner, Eaves Apart, 2015, selected still ©Sebastian Buerkner. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Jordan Baseman, E, 2015, selected still ©Jordan Baseman. Courtesy the artist, Matt’s Gallery London and Tintype

Exterior, Tintype gallery, Essex Road (project), 2014 Courtesy Tintype

ESSEX ROAD II

10 DECEMBER 2015 – 16 JANUARY 2016
TINTYPE, LONDON

Private View: Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 6.00–8.30pm

Artists: Jordan Baseman, Helen Benigson, Sebastian Buerkner, Jem Cohen, Ruth Maclennan, Melanie Manchot, Uriel Orlow, John Smith

Essex Road II, the second edition of Tintype’s Essex Road Project, is comprised of eight specially commissioned short films by critically acclaimed artist-filmmakers, each inspired by the mile-long street situated in the borough of Islington, North London, from which the project takes its name, and where the gallery is also located.
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Thomas Kneubühler “Dark Matter” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters & Galerie B-312, Montréal

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THOMAS KNEUBÜHLER
DARK MATTER

11 NOVEMBER – 19 DECEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 12 November 2015, 17.00 – 20.00)
PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY

12 – 22 NOVEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 13 November 2015, 17.00 – 19.00)
RIDM HEADQUARTERS

19 NOVEMBER – 19 DECEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 19 November 2015, 17.30)
GALERIE B-312

 

Dark Matter is a three part exhibition by Thomas Kneubühler, a Swiss artist based in Montréal, presented at different venues across Montréal – Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters and Galerie B-312. Dark Matter unites Days in Night and Land Claim, two of Kneubühler’s recent projects. Produced as the result of an artist residency at CFS Alert, a military and research station in the high Arctic located 800 km from the North Pole, Days in Night examines the phenomenon of 24 hour-long polar nights, an experience of living in the dark and the limits of how much one can see. (shown at Patrick Mikhail Glalery and RIDM Headquarters) Similarly, Land Claim (shown at Galerie B-312) investigates mining conditions in Northern Quebec, a highly controlled territory hidden from the public eye and its connection to global markets. Thomas Kneubühler is interviewed below about his upcoming exhibition series, by fellow artist Andreas Rutkauskas Continue reading “Thomas Kneubühler “Dark Matter” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters & Galerie B-312, Montréal”

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Hans Rosenström “Why is the remote always so far away” at Maria Stenfors, London


Hans Rosenström, Together, 2015. C-Print. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

HANS ROSENSTRÖM
WHY IS THE REMOTE ALWAYS SO FAR AWAY

11 September – 24 October 2015
Maria Stenfors, London

Text by Yasmina Reggad

With his first solo exhibition at Maria Stenfors, Finnish artist Hans Rosenström outlines themes that have punctuated his practice in the past years. The exhibition presents recent works that address the notions of liminal and transitional states and study the limits of our experience of the world from a singular perspective.

The title Why the remote is always so far away clearly points at something unattainable ahead of us and at the same time paradoxically replicates the precision of a measuring tool. Nevertheless, the very question Hans Rosenström is raising lies in the position of the body itself in relation to the remote. The body stands in the centre, in the in-betweeness surrounded by unreachable far-aways. In this exhibition, the artist investigates the multiple nature and social functions of liminal spaces. Rosenström also strives to draw and mould the contours of the inside and the outside of the body as well as reveals its faculty of resonance that gives shape to its surroundings.
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David K. Ross “Positions” at Dazibao, Montréal

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DAVID K. ROSS
POSITIONS

10 September – 7 November 2015
Dazibao, Montréal

Positions brings together a selection of three moving image works and a suite of drawings by artist David K. Ross. Through the use of customized lens-based devices, Ross explores how sight and sound can be manipulated to alter perception of physical space. In each of the works on display, the viewer is placed in a privileged position and is offered specific access to locations and activities that would otherwise remain concealed or out of reach. Continue reading “David K. Ross “Positions” at Dazibao, Montréal”

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Le Polygraphe at Les Territoires, Montréal

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Daisuke Yokota, Untitled, from the series site/cloud, 2013. ©Daisuke Yokota, Courtesy of G/P gallery

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Le Polygraphe

2 – 26 September 2015
Les Territoires, Montréal

Artists: Daisuke Yokota (Japan), Hajra Waheed (Canada), Paulien Barbas (Netherlands)

Curated by Safia Belmenouar (France) and Myrabelle Charlebois (Canada).

The exhibition Le Polygraphe explores the aesthetic perceptions generated when an isolated photograph or preexisting matrix of images are inserted into a new set of narrative. Deliberate technical errors, vernacular productions, recycled images are finding a place in, and redefining art, thanks to the artists who gather, consult, and manipulate them as available objects. Continue reading “Le Polygraphe at Les Territoires, Montréal”

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Prévisualisations at Galerie Trois Points, Montréal

“No More Heroes” by Oli Sorenson. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Trois Points.

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PRÉVISUALISATIONS

16 May – 27 June 2015
Galerie Trois Points, Montréal

Artists: Jason Arsenault, John Boyle-Singfield, Oli Sorenson, Alex McLeod

Galerie Trois Points features guest artists Jason Arsenault, John Boyle-Singfield and Oli Sorenson along Alex McLeod’s works in Prévisualisations. The selected works reveal certain truths about how virtualization – through the appropriation and distorted use of software, applications, movies, files and digital technologies – may impact our daily life and perception of reality.
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Polyphonies at Optica, Montréal

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© Anne-Marie Ouellet, Penser le futur (2013-2015) Performative installation / Installation performative. View of the exhibition / Vue de l'exposition, "Polyphonies" Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Emmanuelle Léonard, La taverne (2015) HD Video, color, sound/ Vidéo HD, couleur, son, 11 min 50 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Katarina Zdjelar, Don’t Do It Wrong (2007) Video, color, sound / Vidéo, couleur, son, 10 min 13 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Sophie Castonguay, La part du lion (2015) Performative installation: 5 artworks, recorded audio track, reciter / Installation performative : cinq tableaux, enregistrement audio et récitante. View of the exhibition / Vue de l'exposition, "Polyphonies" Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi, The Negotiation (2010) 2 chanels HD Video, color and black and white, sound / Vidéo HD 2 canaux, couleur et n/b, son, 38 min. 04 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Dave Ball & Oliver Walker, Dinner Party (2011-2015) Participatory live art project accompanied by a video installation / Projet participatif accompagné d’une installation vidéo. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

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POLYPHONIES

18 April – 13 June 2015
Optica, Montréal

Curated by Véronique Leblanc

Artists: Anne-Marie Ouellet, Emmanuelle Léonard, Katarina Zdjelar, Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi, Sophie Castonguay, Dave Ball & Oliver Walker

Polyphonies is an exhibition that stages a plurality of voices while bringing together the work of eight artists including two duos. Whether based on documentary approaches (interviews, surveys) resembling anthropological field studies or revolving around the invention of fictional situations in which archives of various kinds are played out, the orchestration of speech in the artists’ propositions creates a disjunctive gap with the documented reality. They appropriate ways of telling stories (in past, present, and future tenses) to bring out issues in the ideological and identity-related constructions that take shape through speech.
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Nelson Henricks “A Lecture on Art” at Dazibao, Montréal

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Nelson Henricks, A Lecture on Art (2015) Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Dazibao, Montreal. Photo: Veronica Mockler

NELSON HENRICKS
A LECTURE ON ART
25 April – 20 June 2015
Dazibao, Montréal

In a society in which the workings of communications technology are often invisible, the act of revealing its operation can be socially and politically enabling. Works of art created with technology can foster understanding of the interplay between technology, social context and subjectivity. – NH

An artist, writer, musician and sometimes curator, Nelson Henricks is a key figure of video art. For more than thirty years, he has developed a rich body of work addressing issues such as the visual representation of sound, the passage of time, the inherency of slippage in translation – from one language to another, from one medium to another, from one concept to another – and the semantic fields revealed by these slips. Henricks’ work ranges from single-channel videos to complex multi-channel installations, as well as projects that incorporate various other techniques and materials.
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Reynold Reynolds “Almost Six Pieces” at Dazibao, Montréal

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Reynold Reynolds “Almost Six Pieces” Exhibition View at Dazibao. Courtesy the artist and Dazibao, Montréal

REYNOLD REYNOLDS
ALMOST SIX PIECES

19 February – 18 April 2015
Dazibao, Montreal

Almost Six Pieces brings together, for the first time in Canada, five video installations by the American artist Reynold Reynolds. In a scrupulously controlled chaos, exacerbated by the abundance of references – historical, artistic, scientific, etc. – Reynolds somehow develops an aesthetic of “unease”. This unease is maintained by a persistent confusion between bluff and reality and is fed by unexpressed and unacknowledged torments. Without being apocalyptic or completely dystopian, the five works brought together here foretell a world bordering on disaster, making the very idea of progress the allegory of ruin.
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The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding at The Power Plant, Toronto

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John Akomfrah, still from The Unfinished Conversation, 2012. Collection of the Tate: Jointly purchased by Tate and the British Council, 2013. Courtesy the artist; Smoking Dogs Films; and Caroll/Fletcher, London.

THE UNFINISHED CONVERSATION:
ENCODING/DECODING

23 January – 18 May 2015
The Power Plant, Toronto

ARTISTS: Terry Adkins, John Akomfrah, Sven Augustijnen, Shelagh Keeley, Steve McQueen, and Zineb Sedira
CURATERS: Gaëtane Verna and Mark Sealy MBE

The Power Plant presents The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding in partnership with Autograph ABP. The winter exhibition takes cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s (1932 – 2014) essay “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” as its point of departure, exploring how meaning is constructed, how it is systematically distorted by audience reception and how it can be detached and drained of its original intent to produce specific or slanted narratives.
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