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PERDU EN FORÊT/
LOST IN THE FOREST


PALAIS DES CONGRÈS
NATURE LÉGÈRE GARDEN
MONTRÉAL - QUÉBEC - CANADA
SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2007

source : C. Martin / J.F. Vézina
     
AN ARCHITECTURE, VIDEO AND ELECTRONIC ART EVENT
SEPTEMBER 27, 28, 29, 2007 – 12:00-23:00 – Free


PRESENTED BY CHAMP LIBRE

Palais des congrès de Montréal
Nature Légère Garden
Entrance : 1001 Place Jean-Paul Riopelle
PLACE-D'ARMES
     


CHAMP LIBRE
is very happy to announce the event: LOST IN THE FOREST September 27, 28 and 29 2007. A public laboratory and a pre-event to the 8th INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTATION of Champ Libre, biennial event that will take place from September 20th till the 1st of October 2008 under the theme: FOREST.

During LOST IN THE FOREST (September 2007), the site of the garden Nature Légère – a forest of pink trees - conceived by the Montreal landscape architect Claude Cormier will be the in situ theatre of a presentation of artistic works coming from the electronic new media field.

Among the works let us mention the animations of the ontarian artist KAJ PINDAL THE CITY (OSAKA) AND MINISTRY MESSIAH of the artist GINTS APSITS native of latvia ; the video LOTS: WOMEN WITH KITCHEN APPLIANCES of the quebec artist of yugoslavian origin MILUTIN GUBASH, ZENO’S PARADOX of the american artist ROBERT ARNOLD and SPAN of nova scotian SANDRA GREGSON.

These works constitute a diversity of different approaches around the thematic of the forest, from the caricature of Canadians as a population of woodsmen presented at the universal exhibition of Osaka in 1971, to the exploration of perceptual and symbolic limits of the forest, as a dreamlike and paradoxical world.


SYNOPSIS OF THE PRESENTED WORKS



1.
GINTS APSITS
MINISTRY MESSIAH
3MN07
2005
LATVIA

One day I woke up from my deepest dream ...
.... my dream was reality.

So, I'm in a strange house.
Rooms have no windows, no doors - like in prison.
Not even walls, no ceilings, no floors - like in a field.
There is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide ....
all around premenstrual silence
... just sky is getting closer ...


Gints Apsits was born in 1977 in a mental hospital town in Latvia. “My father teached me excellent graphic design because he is a truck driver. Since early beginning everybody wanted to imprison me in art schools, but I felt natural born antipathy to standard education. Advertising industry teached me to think fast the things that I don’t wanted to think at all. I realized that best ideas come without using the head.” When he was nineteen he started to work as art director in several Latvian advertising agencies. Gints approached several disciplines such as graphic design, video, animation and illustration collaborating with the Institute of Living Voice in Antwerp. His works have also been exhibited at the 2002 Fabrica London Festival and published on the Fabrica web site. Today he is successfully freelancing motion graphics, illustration, art direction from Riga, Latvia.

 

2.
KAJ PINDAL
THE CITY (OSAKA)
1970
7MN48
ONTARIO

An animated fantasy that shows Canadians as urbanized people developing a vast wilderness with the aid of the latest technologies. Shown as part of the Urban Environment exhibit in the Canadian pavilion at the international exposition, Osaka '70.

Kaj Pindal has been presented with the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for "Peep and the Big Wide World", a half-hour animated children's show, which introduces pre-schoolers to a range of science topics. Peep actually dates back to 1962 when Kaj Pindal, developed the character while working at NFB, and was narrated by Peter Ustinov in 1988. The show currently airs around the world. Kaj Pindal’s many film credits over the course of a fifty-eight year career include "What on Earth" (1968 – nominated for an Academy Award); "Twice Upon a Time" (1982), produced by George Lucas; and "Goldtooth", winner of the 1996 UNICEF Award.

 

3.
MILUTIN GUBASH
LOTS: I SEE WOMEN WITH KITCHEN APPLIANCES
4MN 37
2006
QUEBEC

The suited-and-tied artist is central to this piece. While escaping through an underwood, he stumbles upon and observes from behind a bush the half-animals half-muses Women with Kitchen Appliances. The scene is a directed improvisation. Somewhere between presentation and representation, different levels of consciousness and ambiguity are juxtaposed. Gubash operates in an interspace, a realm that is half-real, half-pretended.

Visual artist. Born in 1969, Novi Sad Yugoslavia, now lives in Montréal Canada. He works in photography, video and performance. He has exhibited across Canada, including solo exhibitions in Montréal (Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and VOX), Québec City (VU and Manif D’Art), Toronto (YYZ, Gallery 44 and TPW), Saskatoon (Paved Art + New Media), Calgary (Stride), Vancouver (Access), Victoria (Open Space), and internationally in Helsinki, Finland (Galerie Hippolyte). He has upcoming exhibitions in 2007 at the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon) and Galerie 3015 (Paris France). A monograph will be published in autumn 2007 by J’Ai VU (Canada).

 

4.
SANDRA GREGSON'S
SPAN
2003
2:48
CANADA


In span, water and shoreline of a reflected forest consider our yearnings for connection to place and to order.

Sandra Gregson works with drawing, sculpture and video, often combining these into installations or animated videos. She studied at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA) and at York University (MFA). Recent exhibitions include +15/The New Gallery in Calgary and WARC in Toronto. Her work can be viewed at www.ccca.ca and her videos are distributed through www.vtape.org.

 

5.
ROBERT ARNOLD
ZENO'S PARADOX
2003
5:15
USA


An experimental digital video exploring the illusions of cinematic movement and depth as corollaries of Zeno's paradox: There is no motion because that which is moved must arrive at the middle of its course before it arrives at the end. There is a picture of a tree, seen from a certain distance. The picture on the tree depicts the scene described in the previous sentence. Without moving the camera during filming, first by dissolving between a series of zooms and then by morphing between stills, we appear to approach the tree until the picture fills the frame and we are back where we started.

Studied sculpture, drawing and photography before starting to make films in 1980. Earned a Ph. D. in Film Theory, University of Iowa, 1994 and has published several articles in academic film journals. Teaching film and video since 1985. Currently Associate Professor of Film & Video Studies at Florida Atlantic University and recently Visiting Professor of video and installation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. Now residing in Deerfield Beach, Florida with spouse Katie Travis and dogs, Mr. Dog and Stinky.


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