SATELLITE OF LOVE
Masai (5637 Ave. du Parc)
October 2nd-5th, vernissage October 2nd - 18h w/ live music

Six artists – David Lafrance, Jessie Kotler, Blake Hargreaves, Shawn Kuruneru, Margaret Haines, and Patrick Dyer – examine pop music culture through its somatic grounding in the objects of its packaging. Through diverse aesthetic and conceptual vocabularies, each derives inspiration in some way from the rock show, celebrity cult, album covers, as well as the substance of music itself as one of our most elusive art forms. The relationship between packaging aesthetic and musical product provokes a variety of responses from the formation of subcultural identities, to glamourized posturing, to fetishistic worship. Working across a variety of media, the artists will mediate the ephemeral side of a community and its individuals; a body-network visible through a subcultural flesh, expanding almost infinitely through the distribution of its recordings and merchandising.