Like the baseball cap you haven’t worn since you were twelve, Art Pop is going to be a pretty tight fit this year. Think of those socks that print marks into your ankles by the end of the day. Or turtlenecks that leave your neck feeling restricted, gasping for air. Art Pop 2008 will be just as exhilarating, minus the risks of bodily harm.
With live-drawing show-downs, electronic carnivals, multi-touch tables (I’m not explaining that one), superheroes, digital vandalism and teenage passions (I don’t need to explain that one), the Art Pop line-up for this year’s festival will remain on your clothes like the smell of campfire and settle on your shoes like dirty snow long after its over.
SURPRISE EVENT ON THE 5TH
Cartune Xprez, a traveling animation party
Live multimedia performance by Hooliganship followed by an animation screening
October 5th, 9:30 pm
Sport Benfica, 100 Bernard West
The multimedia dance duo Hooliganship will present the freshest incarnation of "Cartune Xprez", an 80-minute program of short animated videos and performances that celebrates the wilderness of imagination through motion pictures. Featured artists include Bruce Bickford, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad and more. Alongside this cartoon theater they will be performing their most recent piece entitled "Realer" in which audiences strap on a pair of 3D glasses to bear witness to a televised parade gone awry.
This is a one-night event that has been in the works for 2 years. It is very special program with a collective resume including collaborations with Frank Zappa and major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many other institutions throughout the world.
http://www.cartunexprez.com
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Le DivanOrange - 4234 St.Laurent, every evening
Wednesday 1st - Kit Malo & Julien Ceccaldi Take two artists, give them each a laptop with the LopArt Duo software (created in Montreal!), and hook up a projector. Locate them anywhere within Le Divan Orange. Let crowd leak in and band set-up. Wait 20 minutes. While bands plays, watch artists improvise together on the same screen, drawings that respond to both you and the music. Tested at The Greasy Goose Salon to the delight of everyone. Serves as many as show up. And while you’re there, take a gander at the art of Scott August and Aimée Van Drimmelen gracing the walls. |
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| An Exhibition of Prints and Drawings by Jack Dylan
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard West - Mon 1st to Mon 21st, Vernissage on Saturday the 4th at 7pm For opening hours, visit www.drawnandquarterly.com/211bernard/ Superheroes aren't what they used to be, as the latest series of Pop posters by Jack Dylan reveal. Hosted at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, the perfect setting for illustrative work with a contemporary twist; this show offers a look at the original drawings and sketches behind the poster series, as well as a preview of Jack's upcoming comic book, "Cosmic Failure." |
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The Work of Tomoko Takahashi Screening and Discussion at Cabot Square on Thursday the 2nd at 7pm We have this weird feeling that when Japan's Anti-Cool lands in Montréal, we're all going to be able to sense the plane's wheels coming down, she's that enigmatic. This time out, she's taking that charisma and applying it directly to a Pop Montreal band. Through direct collaboration with our very own Duchess Says, Anti-Cool will slowly turn the group ensemble into her very own Lone Orchestra at Dare-Dare's brand new location. Haven't you ever seen a 5 piece band as interpreted by one very intriguing performance artist? |
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| With Paul Warne, Shereen Soliman , Meryem Yildiz, Aimee Davison as Miss Mae, Vorpal, Barbara Zemelka, Nader Hasan & more….
The Lumenarium, 927A Mont-Royal East - Wed 1st to Fri 10th, Vernissage on Sunday the 5th, 8-11pm For opening hours, visit http://www.lumenarium.com/ |
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Seekers of merriment, mirth & mystification look no further than P.D. Warne's Lumenarium, now presenting its second exhibition co-curated by Shereen Soliman and in collaboration with Pop Montreal. You will wander through an array of curiosities, kinetic installations and immersive pieces that will leave your heart humming. Come out for the beauty of Warne’s installation and the oddities it is surrounded with, and stay for the interactive Multi-Touch Table graciously provided by LopLop. |
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Corner of St.Laurent and St.Viateur, every evening, 8:30pm to 9:30 With Ned Maloney, Labrona, James Braithwaite, Henry Buszard, Jeremy Der, Wayne Murray, Cindy Ngan, Sarah Chamaillard, Benoit Mataigne Art Pop sometimes means galleries full of the sounds of muted conversations and some free red wine...or beer. You know, the indoors. But it also means the great, autumnal outdoors. Every night of the fest, Ubisoft and Art Pop will offer up a live Laser Tagging event, with artists (list coming soon) projecting virtual graffiti on the sides of the Ubisoft building walls. Watch with breeze-on-the-face as you move from venue to venue. |
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| at the Notman House - 51 Sherbrooke West, Wed 1st to Sun 5th, between 11am and 7pm | |
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When you think of Dracula’s mansion, you could think of thousands of rooms filled with potentially terrifying things. Yet the thrill of what-may-come just might egg you on. In similar fashion, when you drop by Registration, take your chances and meander through the hallways and rooms full of surprises brought to you by a roster including Quebec Triennale artist Adrian Norvid, Beans & Bueller and Pirates of the Lachine Canal’s Walter Scott & Lisa Czech. |
| By the way, did you see that little book? You know, the free one that’s at Registration, with all of those gorgeous drawings of Pop Montreal bands and their fans? In the heat of the summer sun, under the shade of the Fringe Tent, 12 illustrators whipped up some live courtroom-style drawings of Fringe Pop for y’all, so grab one if you see it, soak up some of the rays they transplanted just for you and don’t forget to thank the artists: Adrian Norvid, Lauren Simkin Berke, Anna Jane McIntyre, Kim Kielhofner, Christine Boudreau, Graham Hall, Janice Tiefenbach, Andrea Tiefenbach, Malcolm Sutherland, Clement Yeh, Kit Malo and Julien Ceccaldi. | |
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| With Jacques Tardi, Dominique Grange & the Picture This! Collective (David Widgington, Jean-Pierre Boyer & Jean Desjardins& )
Art Mûr - 5826 rue St-Hubert Thur 2nd to Sat 18th, Vernissage on Thursday the 2nd, 6-9pm Roundtable Discussion with all the Artists at 7pm For opening hours, visit http://www.artmur.com/ |
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| Legendary French comic strip artist Jacques Tardi recently completed yet another astounding series of illustrations, this time thematically linked to his partner’s (famed French singer Dominique Grange) 40th Anniversary album of May ’68. Art Pop is honoured to present, for the first time in North America, his original drawings for this collaborative work. On hand representing Quebecois Poster Art concerning similar movements here will be the Picture This! Collective. Don’t miss the roundtable discussion by the entire crew on opening night at 7pm and Tardi’s book signing event on Saturday the 4th from 12-4pm at Librairie Monet (2752, rue de Salaberry). | |
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| Putting the Spectacle back in Spectacular
PARTY at Les Saints, 30 Ste. Catherine West Saturday the 4th, Doors open at 8:30pm Visit http://artmatters.concordia.ca/ for a full list of participants This weirdly excellent collaboration with Art Matters sees a massive puppet forcing the band Sweet Mother Logic to do its bidding (3D glasses required), rotoscopers Sinbad Richardson and Valérie Boxer doubling or even tripling Chocolat, The Winks ascension to their cloud castle and Jackson MacIntosh's reflection on the good life in his new Rock Opera – all before Jason Harvey tragically (and pyrotechnically) re-stages the ill-fated events of Woodstock '99. |
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With Scott Lewis, Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane The Emporium Gallery - 3035 St. Antoine Ouest, #74 Fri 3rd to Wed 8th, Vernissage on Friday the 3rd, 7-11pm For opening hours, visit http://www.theemporiumgallery.com/ When I Get Back Home is a collection of oversized mix media artworks from three Montreal-based visual artists that detail surreal, dream-like scenes. Produced through a unique, selfless collaborative process, it is as much about final artworks as it is about the interesting processes that produce them. |
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Comix Anthology Launch by Danny Hellman Monastiraki Gallery - 5478 St. Laurent, Wed 1st to Fri 3rd, Vernissage and Signing on Friday the 3rd For opening hours and Vernissage time, visit http://monastiraki.blogspot.com/ Famed New York cartoonist and illustrator Danny Hellman will launch his Typhon comix anthology at Monastiraki Gallery. |
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