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MOVING THE GALLERY
Moving The Gallery , is a proposition for an engagement between processes. Foregrounding two distinct practices, which engage with formal and conceptual movement, an evolution within the gallery space is proposed. This conversation begins as a two-person exhibition on the night of the opening and engages with a form of contact improvisation over the course of the process. What happens when two different practices move towards each other? What occurs on and around the points of contact?
Emma Waltraud Howes is an interdisciplinary artist working with the body in relation to confinement and control. A background in Ballet, Contemporary Modern Dance, Visual Arts and Cultural-Criticism informs her current praxis. This process aims to cultivate the interstitial in which these diverse practices culminate. By means of rigorous movement-research inspiration is gleaned for the construction of accumulative prosthesis. These structures directly reference the flesh-body relative to architecture, and the proscenium arch of the theatre, two milieus that frame the body in relation to space, influence movement amidst social bodies, and affect social engagement. It is at once a critique of these structures and an active engagement within.
Emma Waltraud Howes has exhibited locally and internationally within performance art festivals: Performance Mix NYC, Mois de la Performance, Montreal, through Site Specific Performance Residencies: Visualeyez 2007, 3E Imperial, Granby, and within gallery contexts: Fofa, MAI, Montreal. Her video work is widely distributed by Video Out, Vancouver, and Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal. This year she was awarded a CIAM project grant for her ongoing research-creation project “Plastic Optimism: A Practice in Enabling Constraints”.
Caroline Boileau lives and works in Montreal where she is presently an MFA candidate in Open Media at Concordia University. Since 1998, she has worked on a series of site-specific interventions in a hospital pharmacy in Montreal and has participated in residencies in Canada ( Surface , Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1999; Mémoire vive , DARE-DARE and the Centre d'histoire de Montréal, 2002; Party de famille , Le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Québec, 2003; Mémoires sauvées du vent , 3e imperial, Granby, Québec, 2005-2006 ) and in Europe ( MAP - Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Centro Cultural Antiguo Instituto, Gijon, 2002-2003; Forum européen de la jeune création , Graz, Austria, 2003) . In 2000, with Stéphane Gilot, DARE-DARE (Montréal) and Les Brasseurs (Liège, Belgium) she has organized and participated in L'algèbre d'Ariane , an exchange and collaborative project with 12 artists from Montréal and Liège. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Canada, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Finland and Brazil.
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Emma Howes and Caroline Boileau will stage a performance / presence during the course of their installation in the FOFA vitrines. The artists will be present February 25 to March 7, at the following times:
Mondays: 10h-12h
Tuesdays: 18h-20h
Wednesdays: 10h-12h
Thursdays: 14h-16h
Fridays: 13h-15h
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