February 13 - March 11, 2012

Vernissage - Thursday February 16, 5-7PM

Finissage + Performance - Friday March 9, 5-7PM

Upcoming Events

Friday February 17, 2012, 1-4PM, EV 1.615 + FOFA Atrium

Tirtza Even - Talk + Reception

Talk in the York Amphitheatre EV 1-615 at 1-3PM (across from FOFA's York Corridor Vitrines)

Reception follows in the FOFA Atrium from 3-4PM

About

Tirtza Even, one of the most inventive and subtle video and documentary artists of her generation, will visit Concordia University Feb 15-17, 2012, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Canada Research Chair in New Media, SAVAP, Open Media, and CEREV and FOFA Gallery are collaborating to bring this inspiring artist to Faculty of Fine Arts, and Concordia.

With poetic economy and formal innovation with multiple registers of time, Tirtza Even's work treats the most charged social and political subjects including the Palestine, the homeless, the prisoner. Over the past 15 years, Tirtza Even has deepened genres of documentary, interactive time-based media, video installation/performance, and now 3D + physical installation. She has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, and many other festivals, galleries and museums in the United States, Israel and Europe. Her work has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art NY and other institutions.

Bio

A practicing video artist and documentary maker for the past fifteen years, Even has produced both linear and interactive video work representing the less overt manifestations of complex and sometimes extreme social/political dynamics in specific locations (e.g. Palestine, Turkey, Spain, the U.S. and Germany, among others). Her work has appeared at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many other festivals, galleries and museums in the United States, Israel and Europe, and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others. She has been an invited guest and featured speaker at numerous conferences and university programs, including the Whitney Museum Seminar series, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, Art Pace annual panel, ACM Multimedia, The Performance Studies International conference (PSI), The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference (SLSA) and others.

Currently an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Even has been teaching Video and Multimedia Production and Post-Production, Experimental and Documentary Film Theory, Video Art and Media Theory and Production at the School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan, at New York University, at Columbia University, NY and at a number of other colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, and has published articles about video art history and theory in Israel and the United States.

Monday February 27, 2012, 5:30PM, EV 1.615 + FOFA Atrium

Emiel Heijnen - Talk + Reception

Remix Culture:  Education at the intersection of popular culture, art and media-activism

Talk in the York Amphitheatre EV 1-615 at 5:30PM (across from FOFA's York Corridor Vitrines)

Reception follows in the FOFA Atrium

About

Art Education and FOFA Gallery invites you to join Emiel Heijnen as he speaks to methods and sources for 21st century art/media educators, using examples of contemporary subcultures and cutting edge works by international artists and media collectives.

Bio

Emiel Heijnen is an art/media educator and Senior lecturer at the Amsterdam School of the Arts.  Heijnen acts as Researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen and as Initiator of (inter)national education projects like Media Connection, MediaCulture and Remix Culture.

Presented in partnership with The Faculty of Fine Arts, Galerie FOFA Gallery, ArtEGS and Art Education Undergraduate Association

Saturday March 10, 2012, 10AM

Paul-Gérin-Lajoie-D'Outremont, 475 avenue Bloomfield, Outremont, Québec, H2V 1Y8

Great Small Works: Toy Theatre Workshop for Adults

As part of the festival Les Trois Jours de Casteliers and the exhibtion The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual:  Episodes 1-12 at FOFA Gallery.

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Saturday March 10, 2012, 8PM + 10PM

Théâtre Outremont, 1248, avenue Bernard Ouest, Outremont, Québec, H2V 2V6, Phone: 514 495-9944

Great Small Works: Terror As Usual: Episode 13

As part of the festival Les Trois Jours de Casteliers and The Toy Theater of Terror As Usual:  Episodes 1-12 exhibition at FOFA Gallery. 
This performance follows and preceeds the show Ni Fini Ni Infini.

For information on the Great Small Works exhibition, please click here.

For information and tickets for the workshops and shows, please visit the festival's website here.

News

January 23, 2012

SASA Blog Launched!

http://sasa.concordia.ca/

FOFA Gallery is pleased to annouce that the art review blog of the Student Art Studies Association (SASA) is officially online. SASA.concordia.com is a web publication reviewing art exhibitions from the FOFA Gallery at Concordia University in Montréal. 

The web space invites undergraduate artists and writers to share their response to the different works being exhibited in the Gallery. Thus, the site acts as a starting point for important exchange and reflection on the varying artistic practices and research creation projects featured in the Gallery throughout the academic year.

New participants are encouraged to submit their writing or to comment on published pieces. The aim is to facilitate a local dialogue that engages with the visual culture we experience as we feed off of the institution.

Contributions are asked to be between 200 and 500 words.

For further information and to get involved, please email: sasa.art.studies@gmail.com

Visit the blog here:  sasa.concordia.ca