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fofa_132011 JULY 11 - AUGUST 5 RECTO/VERSO A summer spatial intensive WEEK 4
THIS WEEK: August 2, 3:30 PM -"Waiting" by Sally Lee, Performance, Tour and Open Discussion August 4, 3-5 PM - Karaoke, Ste-Catherine Street Vitrine August 4, 8 PM - Outdoor Screening + Finissage, Ste-Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtyard Ongoing - "Tea Time Interviews" with Sally Lee Ongoing - "Immigration Interviews" with Corina Ilea Ongoing - Declarations, Invitations, Rearrangements, Documentation, Ste-Catherine Street Vitrine
EVENT:
OUTDOOR SCREENING + RECEPTION | AUGUST 4, 8PM Galerie FOFA Gallery concludes the Recto/Verso exhibition with an outdoor screening of NFB artist profiles programmed by Graeme Langdon. The screening will be followed by a reception hosted by Recto/Verso participants Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo, Corina Ilea, SallyLee, and Bronwen Moen. This is the third of four weekly screenings to be held in the Ste-Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtyard alongside the ongoing actions and activities of Recto/Verso participants and guests.
Production still, Flamenco à 15 h 15, Cynthia Scott. Courtesy of the NFB.
Location: Ste-Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtard* *In case of rain projections will take place in the gallery.
FOFA Gallery, Concordia University 1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1-715, Metro Guy-Concordia
This screening aims to give some sense of the NFB’s sustained fascination with artistic practice and performance. With their shared interest in both production and the resultant work, these artist profiles are particularly suited to an exhibition such as Recto/Verso, which seeks to explore the many sides and purposes of a gallery. But what to make of films such as these, which document art and art-making in such diversely artful manners? With this screening, we hope to highlight the ways in which NFB filmmakers have sought to document and engage with artists working in other media.
Varley | Allan Wargon, 1953, EN A portrait of Frederick Varley, Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven. Varley returns to his studio in Toronto after a sketching trip. The camera moves about the studio selecting examples of his canvases and watches him as he begins a new painting. (NFB)
Artist in Montreal | Jean Palardy, 1954, EN This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas, is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their cooperative studio. The film also captures painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at L'Échouerie, the artists' rendezvous spot. Dr. Robert Hubbard, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, comments on non-objective art in general and automatism in particular. (NFB)
Street Musique | Ryan Larkin, 1972 Visual improvisation on music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. The illustration is by a young film artist and animator who sees life with an amused and imaginative eye. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than the musicians. He ranges from the most convoluted of abstractions to caricature of familiar rituals, including the bath. A film without words. (NFB)
Flamenco at 5:15 | Cynthia Scott, 1983, FR This Oscar-winning film is a visual and emotional thriller. It is an impressionistic record of a flamenco dance class given to senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada by two great teachers from Spain, Susana and Antonio Robledo. The film shows the beautiful young North American dancers--inspired by the flamenco rhythms and mesmerized by Susana's extraordinary energy--joyously merging with an ancient gypsy culture. (NFB)
+++FOFA Gallery would like to express our gratitude to the National Film Board of Canada for their generosity, materials and support for our screening series.+++
EVENT: Beginning in the York Corridor Vitrines PERFORMANCE, TOUR AND OPEN DISCUSSION | AUGUST 2, 3:30 PM Performance: 'Waiting' 'Waiting' is a string of performative movements that are related to various moments of waiting and the places where waiting occurs. 'Waiting' is inspired by a poem, a play and a virtue performance, all of which have used waiting as the means of exploration. Tour of the FOFA Gallery and the Recto/Verso exhibition
Art Stories: Creation Space and Memories This discussion will begin with a short talk focused on the value of exploring pivotal memories relating to art and the spaces in which these events occurred. A selection of artists working with these subjects will be introduced. The value of narrative-based research in art education will be examined. Finally, Loris Malaguzzi's assertion that the learning environment is the 'Third Teacher' will also be looked at. The open discussion following this brief talk will explore participants' pivotal memories relating to art, and the connections between these experiences and the spaces in which they occurred.
WEEK 5 EVENT:
THE RECTO/VERSO OF THE CINEMATIC SPECTACLE THURSDAY AUGUST 11, 7PM
Potluck Picnic with Recto/Verso Artists: 7 to 8 PM Outdoor Screening of Harvey Spak's "Movie Showman" and performance by Big Chocolate Flavour: 8:30 PM Ste-Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtard | Jardin de sculpture de la rue Ste-Catherine
Production Still. Movie Showman, Harvey Spak. Courtesy of the NFB.
POTLUCK PICNIC Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo and Sally Lee invite you to a potluck picnic in the Ste-Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtyard to discuss the process and outcome of the Recto/Verso summer spatial intensive.
SCREENING AND PERFORMANCE This presentation concludes the Recto/Verso outdoor screening series with a bifold intervention programmed by Graeme Langdon. First, Harvey Spak’s Movie Showman (1989) will shed light on the lives and work of the NFB’s itinerant film projectionists in the 1940s and ‘50s. With this documentary’s moving dramatizations of community film screenings and discussions, we hope to acknowledge an important precedent in social screening practices, which this FOFA series has sought to reanimate. Second, we will enjoy a rare performance by Montreal musician and multimedia showman, Big Chocolate Flavour. For this event, the artist will perform his signature blend of Eastern European, Baroque, and surf punk influences to a mixed reel of 16mm found footage from his own collection. With this screening, we hope to acknowledge the ways in which cinema unfolds as an event in social space.
Location: Ste-Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtard* *In case of rain projections will take place in the gallery.
FOFA Gallery, Concordia University 1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1-715, Metro Guy-Concordia
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