FUCK DANCE, LET'S ART THIS OCTOBER!
POP Montreal is proud to announce Art POP 2007's Program of visual art. For a breakdown of the vernissages and performance by day, please click on over to 'schedule.'

JOSEPH ARTHUR :: MOMAR IN MTL
Le Kop Shop (77 des Pins)
5 oct - 19 oct. Opening Oct. 5, 5pm - 7pm

Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur will be exhibiting his artwork which has brought him a Grammy nomination for his album packaging for the 1999 release of Vacancy and led to the opening of his own gallery earlier this year in Brooklyn, NY -- the MOMAR (Museum of Modern Arthur).

JAD FAIR
Portuguese Association of Canada (4170 St-Urbain)
3 oct. - 7 oct.

Rounding out, er adding another edge to the Jad Fair triple-threat (along with the Half Japanese concert and documentary screening), Art POP is proud to present the mind-melting art of Jad Fair. Unwilling to refer to himself as a renaissance man, nor one to toot his own horn, consider the fairest night of all at the Portuguese Association to be POP Montreal’s own way of tooting that horn loudly and proudly for him.

SONGS OF THE APOCALYPSE
Curated by David Liss
Art Mûr (5826 St-Hubert)
6 oct - 3 nov. Opening Oct. 6, 3pm - 5pm
Artists: Josh Bailey, Jesse Boles, Jubal Brown, Mat Brown, François Escalmel, Tammy Forsythe, Jason Gringler, Sherri Hay & Camilla Singh, Raphael Iglesisas, Flo Mournier, Wil Murray, New Remote, John Nobreiga, Ted O’Sullivan, Nick and Sheila Pye, Drew Simpson, Fiona Smyth, Richard Stipl, Michael Toke, Juno Youn

Group show inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (1794), works that when read together reflect on estrangement from nature, the symptom of the corrupting forces of materialism and a terminal fear of mortality. From Revelation to Dante’s Inferno, from the prognostications of Nostradamus to Blake’s poetic phrasings, from Bosch to Black Sabbath, to the very real threat of nuclear annihilation, there is nothing so dramatic and inspirational to ponder and express than the End of Everything.

WIL MURRAY :: MACHINE MOLLE
Curated by Marie-Douce St-Jacques
Notman House (51 Sherbrooke O.)
3 oct - 7 oct. Opening Oct. 6, 5pm (everyday from 11am-7pm)

"Sick, you say? The bloodstains in the whites of your eyes are painted there, and the sources for this paint are many: a feverish state, a chill or cold, light food poisoning, mood disorder, etc."
Wil Murray's canvases illustrate the metamorphosis of a tirelessly functional machine.

SUPERFANTASTIC ART SHOW
Curated by Candice Soave & Randy Albright
Eva B
3 oct - 7 oct. Opening Oct. 4, 5pm
Artists: Bahakti Baxter, Matthew Schreiber, Daniel Newman, Ela Boyd, Benn Sena da Silva, Frederico NS, Josh Wiles, Brent Wadden, Elizabeth Hoeckel, Yves Schaum + Martinka Edoga, Simone Donati, Kyle Field, Candice Soave, M. Fey, Randolph Albright, Timothy McLoughlin, Pedro Faro, Rebecca Schiffman, Hajra Waheed, Adrien Casey, Jocelyn Michel, Corey Lynn-Tetz, Laurel Sprengelmeyer, Conrad Freiburg, Guillaume Simoneau, Douglas Fogelson, Eduardo de Soigne, Hajra Waheed, Armand Vaillancourt, Louise Sturges

Superfantastic is a nomadic exhibition organism dedicated to providing emerging artists with the opportunity to show work outside the confines of gallery-artschool-museum systems by supporting alternative exhibition spaces from around the world. Over the last ten years, they have exhibited selected objects, photographs, videos, paintings, prints and drawings in 20 international cities and over 100 artists. Away from the alienating pretentiousness of the artworld, and free from the antiseptic salesfloor of the white cube, they fight to keep art real.

THE SEARCH FOR THE SIMORGH
Curated by Leila Peacock
Red Bird Studios (135 Van Horne)
1 oct - 7 oct. Opening Oct. 4

In Farid Ud-Din Attar's Persian Sufi epic 'The Conference of the Birds', written in 1177, the birds of the world gather together to seek a king. The climactic discovery of the bird's search for their king is based on a pun in Persian: 'si' (thirty) and 'morgh' (birds). Only thirty birds are left at the end of the journey and thus the si-morgh meet the Simorgh and the birds understand that their quest was one of self-realisation; the end of their journey leads them back to the beginning when they recognise that what they sought was already incarnated within them. The Search for the Simorgh is show of thirty artists and their non-representational responses to the idea of birds.

SHANGRI-LOST 3
Room and Board (372 Ste-Catherine O. Suite 427)
2 oct - 13 oct. Opening Oct. 4, 5pm - 8pm

Dreamt and drawn up as an oath, Shangri-Lost features Jimmy Limit, Shawn Kuruneru and Jesse Harris, three artists that have given their own distinct blood signature and are exhibiting their newest work together for the third time this year. "If art shows are toast, then Shangri-Lost is Pop Tarts."

PAVILION PROJECTS :: AMONG US

Transforming the festival’s walking circuit into an exhibition corridor with the works of Tom and Simon Bloor (UK), David Armstrong-Six and The Enterprise, Pavilion Projects is actively working to draw out the boundaries of the festival, further actualizing its temporary command of the city’s cultural currents.

mudboy :: OTHERN LIGHTS (presented by FILM POP / présenté par FILM POP)
Portuguese Association of Canada (4170 St-Urbain)
Oct. 4

This Doctor of Experimental Organomics combines homemade electronic instruments with field recordings to create surround sound spellcasting environments. Othern Lights is a 7 minute immersive video experience; an animation programmed at the most basic level using late 60's era mainframes. No video editing software was introduced at any time to produce the visual effects. Sound by mudboy, animation by David Fischer.

bree,ree :: SCREENPRINTS AND DRAWINGS
Le Divan Orange (4234 St-Laurent)

Spending much of his time beautifying the record store shelves and streets of Montreal, festival favourite bree,ree also found the time to display large format works all-festival long at Le Divan Orange.

MISS DONNITHORNE'S MAGGOTS
Cafe L'Utopik
5 oct - 7 oct
Performed by: Pazzia Contemporary Performing Collective

Taunted and dishevelled by her rejection at the altar, the 35-minute chamber opera Miss Donnithorne's Maggot is a deranged bridal rant: a wedding day dream disintegrated into a rotting, maggot-ridden tsunami of musty flounces and mildewed frills. Pickled inside her Sydney mansion, shrieking obscenities through a chained door, here is an eccentric recluse whose sumptuous ruffled plumage has become antiquated and obsolete after 30 years still wearing her bridal gown; the mouldy and decaying wedding feast remains untouched at the table until her death. An unhinged pearl of contemporary alternative theatre and vocal technique, realized by an international emerging initiative and a strong team of Montreal musicians and performance artists.

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE :: THE POSTERS
Notman House (51 sherbrooke o.)

Just as the Polaris Music Prize honours and celebrates top Canadian music-makers, the Polaris poster project does the same for poster artists. Art POP offers a rare chance to see the resulting ten screenprints.