LEONARD & BINA ELLEN ART GALLERY PROGRAMMING AND ACTIVITIES 2016-2017 galerie leonard &bina EXHIBITIONS PUBLICATIONS ‘SCREENINGS PERFORMANCES LECTURES. PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS. EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PROGRAMMING, PUBLICATIONS MAY 5 ~ JUNE 4, 2016 IGNITION (12* edition) Ignition 12 Meet the Artist, Photo: Jear-Louts René Artists: Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, Ivetta Sunyoung Kang / Kevin Junghoo Park / Matthew Wolkow, Yoshimi Lee, Jéréme Nadeau, Vincent Routhier, Javier Moreno Tamariz and Tom Watson Projects selected by: Katrie Chagnon, Curator of Research, Director and Michéle Theriault, Director The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presented Ignition, an annual exhibition with artworks by graduate students respectively from Concordia University's Studio ‘Arts and Doctorate in the Humanities programs. For the 12" edition, Katrie Chagnon and Michéle Thériault chose artists exploring an array of topics through a range of media = from sculpture to painting, photography, and installation ACTIVITIES FOR THE PUBLIC / PUBLIC PROGRAMS: MEET THE ARTISTS. May 4, 2016 at 5pm Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, Ivetta Sunyoung Kang / Kevin Junghoo Park / Matthew Wolkow, Yoshimi Lee, Jérme Nadeau, Vincent Routhier, Javier Moreno Tamariz and Tom Watson JUNE 16 - AUGUST 12, 2016 IN THE VESTIBULE WITH JEF CORNELIS From left to right: installation view. Photo: Jean-Louis Rene. Marcel Broodthaers 7924, 1972, Copyright VAT, Courtesy ARGOS (Brussels), Artist: Jef Cornelis Curator: Michele Thériault Television programs directed for the Belgische Radio en Televisie (BRT) network from the 1960s to the 1990s In collaboration with ARGOS - Centre for Art and Media (Brussels). Five programmes featuring 26 films playing continuously on two ‘monitors presented in the Gallery vestibule during the summer. Jef Cornelis is a Belgian director of a vast number of films and programs for the Flemish Belgian Radio Television network (BRT—now the VRT). From 1964 to, 1996, he directed more than 100 films on a broad array of topics related to the areas of contemporary culture and art, Flemish landscape and architecture, literature and music. These films and programs are compelling to us today for their experimentation with the televisual format, technique and style, their choice of subject matter and in the way debate and conflict played out. Indeed, many are ‘outrightly prescient. This is all the more surprising for a contemporary viewer, in that they were all produced by a public television network and not independently, something that would be unthinkable today. AUGUST 30 - OCTOBER 29, 2016 PUTTING REHEARSAL TO THE TESTS. From lft oright:installaon view, photo: Pau Litherland/Stuto Lux; curators’ tour with Sabeth Buchmann, le Laer and Constanze Rut, phot: Jean-Lovis René A three-part exhibition organized by The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art and VOX, centre de image contemporaine Artists: Martin Beck, Rainer Bellenbaum, Merlin Carpenter, Harun Farocki, Marie Claire Forté and Alanna Kraaljeveld in dialogue with Sophie Bélair Clément, Hanako Geierhos, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, On Kawara, Krager & Pardeller, Achim Lengerer, minimal club, Regina (Maria) Méller, Yoko Ono, Falke Pisano, Constanze Ruhm, Klaus Scherubel, Wendelien van Oldenborgh et Katarina Zajelar Curators: Sabeth Buchmann, lise Lafer and Constanze Ruhm While the subject of ‘rehearsal’ is popular in film and theatre, as well as in the fine arts, it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporaty art discourses. It is with this in mind that the exhibition Putting Rehearsals to the Test investigates the role and function of the notion of “rehearsal,” understood as a methodology, a ‘modus operandi, a medium, a site of representation and reflection for artistic production processes. Putting Rehearsals to the Test, was a major event in three venues and accompanied by a film program presented at VOX. The three curators of the exhibition, Sabeth Buchmann, lise Lafer, and Constanze Ruhm, brought together aver fifty international artists who addressed a set of positions and strategies in ‘contemporary art that consider rehearsal as both subject and practice. ACTIVITIES FOR THE PUBLIC / PUBLIC PROGRAMS: WORKSHOP WITH ACHIM LENGERER July 25 ~ August 5, 2016 Tongerer.Phote: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concorda University In advance of the opening of Putting Rehearsals to the Test, artist Achim Lengerer animated a ten-day workshop from at the Gallery as part of his ongoing Scriptings A travelling showroom and publishing house, Scriptings provides a forum for artists, writers, graphic designers, performers and students to investigate the ‘operations and collective stakes of text and language by way of a shifting array of research topics and contexts. Interested in the possibilities of open modes of production and the social life of the book, Lengerer and the workshop participants worked together to edit and publish ‘an “exhibition script” in three separate editions became each exhibition's guidebook. ‘CURATOR’S TOUR Tuesday, August 30, 5:30 pm Curators’ tour with Sabeth Buchmann, lise Lafer and Constanze Ruhm; FILM PROGRAM ‘September 2,9 pm La Cinémathéque québécoise Single screening of Passion (1982), Dir: Jean-Luc Godard LOCAL RECORDS": WORKSHOP LED BY ERIC FILLION ‘September 13, 2:30 - 4:30 pm Workshop on the history of le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec and the Atelier de ‘musique expérimentale and the question of the place af improvisation in the archive. Local Recordi program at pas exheitons woh raven acovalholdags in Monreal. animated bya guest researcher each season coornates enconirs and decussonsattund a selection of primary document, ‘ing alta ens tweugh whch 0 conden exhbton anda oi pare or ow esearch 5 RESPONSE” BY ARA OSTERWEIL ‘September 28, 6 pm Response by Ara Osterweil (Assistant Professor of Film and Cultural Studies, Department of English, McGill University) on Constanze Ruhm's X Love Scenes (2007). Film scholar Ara Osterweil offers an analysis of Ruhm's film as read through her research and criticism on experimental film and postwar art RESPONSE BY ALTHEA THAUBERGER October 12, 6 pm. Public program with Althea Thauberger presenting a scripted cial conversation Photo: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Galery, Concordia University Response by Vancouver artist in residence Althea Thauberger presented a scripted conversation about issues raised in the exhibition involving students in her class and the audience, RESPONSE BY PUBLIC RECORDINGS October 26, 6:30 pm Public recordings, New Dramatics: an editorial meeting, Photo: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University Response by Public recordings, New Dramatics: an editorial meeting practoe and esearch, Focusing ona ste of works, a sng ast the ovr carter! propel ote exibston ‘oulgn and taing ona vary foe accacdng to ne guest and approach ese cea eating st Sot 6 New Dramatics’ format places two unpublished texts together with a ‘commissioned essay that crosses the distance between them. Zine-making, unsurprisingly, shares a procedural resemblance to rehearsing, PROGRAM OF MULTILINGUAL AND THEMED TOURS Tour in Mandarin with Tianmo Zhang September 27, 5:30 pm Tour in French with Sophie Devirieux Dramaturge Sophie Devirieux (PhD candidate, Comparative Literature, Universit de Montréal) examines the exhibition by way of the history, transmission and reception of postdramatic theatre, October 4, 5:30 pm. Tour in Farsi with Nima Esmailpour October 11,5:30 pm NOVEMBER 12- DECEMBER 16, 2016 I'D RATHER SOMETHING AMBIGUOUS. MAIS PRECIS ALA FOIS From let to right, Jason Simon, Vera, 2003 and labelle Pauwels,,000, 2016. Photo: Paul Ltherlnd/ Studio Lx ‘An exhibition project by Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté with Chantal Akerman, Simon Guibord, Philippe Hamelin, KB Hardy, Raphaél Huppé- Alvarez, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Catherine Lalonde, Isabelle Pauwels, Jason Simon, Robin Simpson, Elisabeth Subrin, Michéle Thériault, and an anonymous contribution Organizing curator: Michéle Theriault Realised as part of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Program in Support of Artistic Production Prompted by an invitation from Michéle Thériault, Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté question the impulse to move within the local context of the exhibition and beyond. Together, they work on the idea of being called upon, as 7 well as the shifts and rifts in subjectivity produced by performance imperatives. ‘They consider visibility and its limitations within an exhibition project that engages a constellation of voices, works and events through the contribution of guests. This project offered responses that would manifest differently were they to be presented elsewhere, were they to have a different address or context. Embracing 4 process of dialogue between a reduced community of peers and friends, the works are articulated through lived experience. The task of giving an account of ‘oneself calls for unending reframing and updating, The exhibition included a series of performances by Marie Claire Forté and Alanna Kraaijeveld, screenings of Chantal Akerman and K8 Hardy's films as well as a reading from writer and poet Catherine Lalonde. ACTIVITIES FOR THE PUBLIC / PUBLIC PROGRAMS: DANCE PERFORMANCES ‘Tuesday, November 15, 5 pm - Saturday, November 19, 4 pm - Saturday, November 26, 4 pm - Tuesday, November 29, 5 pm - Saturday, December 3, 5 pm- Saturday, December 10, 4 pm - Tuesday, December 13, 5 pm - Thursday, December 15,5 pm. Marie Claire Forté in collaboration with Alanna Kraaljeveld, and with the assistance of Sophie Bélair Clément, Hugues Dugas, Claudia Fancello, Yves Forté, Nadége Grebmeier Forget, kg. Guttman, Kelly Keenan and Michele Thériault. Performance Collection de danses de. by Marie Claire Forté et Alanna Kraaiejeveld. Photo: Paul Litherland, Studio Lux Collections de danses de Christian Rizzo, Gene Kelly et Stanley Donen, Edouard Lock, William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, Saburo Teshigawara, Trisha Brown: Jeffrey Daniel, Michael Jackson et Vincent Patterson, Mats Ek, Dana Michel: Dana Foglia, Chris Grant et JaQuel Knight, Crystal Pite, Pina Bausch, Lloyd Newson, Tedd Robinson, Hofesh Shechter, Bob Fosse, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Daniel Linehan, Amanda Acorn, Jif Kilyén, Akram Khan, Stijn Celis, Deborah Hay, Liz Santoro et Pierre Godard, Meg Stuart et Philipp Gehmacher, Marie Claire Forté, Trajal Harrell, kg. Guttman, Benoit Lachambre, Jerome Robbins, Louise Lecavalier, Solange et d'autres This dances collection reveals the labour of dancing and remembering, the random specificity of movement vocabulary, repetition, process and friendship, Marie Claire Forté and with Alanna Kraaljeveld performed the work eight times over the course of the exhibition and grew their repertoire as they learned and added new ‘excerpts for each performance, ‘SCREENINGS: CHANTAL AKERMAN & KB HARDY Saturday, November 19, 5:30 pm and Tuesday, December 13, 6 pm Monday, November 28, 9 pm A From leftto right, Chantal Akerman, No Home Movie, 2015 Video stil Courtesy of Doc & Film international © Chantal Akerman; KB Hardy, Outftumentary, 2016 Video stil Copyright KB Hardy courtesy of the artist, Hardy Studio and Picture Palace Petures K@ Hardy, Outfitumentary, 2016 Video, colour, sound 82 min, English Direction, photography and editing: K8 Hardy Co-Production: Madeleine Molyneaux Sound Design: Lynne Trepanier Online Edition/Colourist: Drew Bolton Produced by Hardy Studio, USA Screening at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery Chantal Akerman, No Home Movie, 2015 Video, colour, sound Format 16:9, 12 min. French with English subtitles Direction, script, image, sound: Chantal Akerman Editing: Claire Atherton Assistance to editing: Clémence Carré ‘Sound mixing: Eric Lesachet Calibration: Peter Bernaers Postproduction: Julien Melebeck Produced by Patrick Quinet, Serge Zeitoun & Chantal Akerman. Screening with introduction by Krista Genevieve Lyne at the Cinémathéque québécoise PUBLIC READING: CATHERINE LALONDE, RELIRE, RELIER: UNE LECTURE SECHE ‘Tuesday, December 6, 6-10 pm Lecture by Catherine Lalonde lire, Rei: une lecture siche. Phot: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery The poet and performer Catherine Lalonde undertook a marathon dry read of all her published texts. With no bodily effects or dramaturgy, she tead in quick succession Jeux de brume (1991), Cassandre (2005), Corps étranger (2008), and her manuscript in progress, La Dévoration des fées (working tile), in chronological order of publication date, JANUARY 21 - APRIL 1*, 2017 SOVEREIGN ACTS II eC From left to right, James Luna Ishi Speaks, 2011, ayna Danger, Adrienne Lindsay & Sasha, 2017 ‘And Lon Blondeau Asin Ishwew, 2016. Photo Pau itheland/Studio Lux ‘Artists: Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Dayna Danger, Robert Houle, James Luna, Shelley Niro, Adrian Stimson, Jeff Thomas Curator: Wanda Nanibush ‘The history of Indigenous Peoples performing for international and colonial audiences is an important part of Indigenous art generally, and performance art 10