Events Calendar - September 1, 2006 |
| Pop Stroke [ Static Link : iCal ] |
| City: | Canada, Ontario, Ottawa |
| Time: | Fri Sep 1, 2006 @ 7:00pm |
| Info: | [b]Pop Stroke[/b] Presented by Remix, Judges\Juries\Executioners and The Available Light Screening Collective in conjunction with Artengine, SAW Video and Galerie SAW Gallery [b]Opening Reception / Remix Karaoke Party[/b] September 1, 7:30pm – 11pm Club SAW / Galerie SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa K1N 7B9 Pay what you can / Cash Bar Featuring all-new karaoke videos for classic hit songs, remixed by locally and nationally acclaimed media artists. Come out and get a chance to sing your favourite pop songs live, in a way you’ve never seen them before. Featuring all-new videos by: [b]Stéphanie Brodeur (Ottawa), Luc Desjardins, Pàvel Psht & Co. (Gatineau/Mexico City), Darsha Hewitt (Ottawa), Claude Latour (Ottawa), Andrew O’Malley (Ottawa), and Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby (Halifax/New York)[/b] Also featuring music by [b]DJs BEAR Witness (Ottawa) and Chris Ikonomopoulos (Ottawa)[/b] [b]Signal 30[/b] September 1 – 9, 2006 Galerie SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa K1N 7B9 “There’s trouble ahead…what will we find? A minor mishap, or will we look upon the stark face of death?” Running all week in the gallery is a new installation work by Ottawa artists Christopher Rohde & Scott Birdwise. A cinematic experience doused in film noir atmospherics, ‘Signal 30’ is a simulation of a fatal impact, seen from the driver’s seat of a luxury automobile on its way to a date with death. Sit back and relax in the anaesthetic comfort of a ’66 Chevy, as the road ahead brings you closer and closer to the end of the line. [b]Commentary[/b] Pop Stroke consists of a series of artists’ responses to the idea of “pop,” from karaoke pop music videos to interactive pop cinema, although it wouldn’t be entirely appropriate to call them “pop art.” Unlike Warhol’s monolithic soup cans, the works in this program serve to highlight the pluralism and diversity within what is called “pop.” The notion that “pop” could form its own genre and way of speaking informs the highly personal take on consumer culture evidenced by these works, as the artists speak from within “pop” to describe themselves and their surroundings. Dealing with cultural belonging and the construction of self-identity through experience with cultural products and “the mainstream,” the event also acts as a catalyst to involve and implicate the audience as individual, active agents of change within shared pop culture. Such elements as an interactive installation and a karaoke party focused on audience participation makes Pop Stroke a collaborative exercise in reading and writing in pop. Funded & sponsored by SAW Video, Galerie SAW Gallery, Artengine, City of Ottawa, Ontario Arts Council and The Available Light Screening Collective. Media contacts Christopher Rohde – christopher@jjex.com, Tel. (613) 295-8878 Ryan Stec – ryanstec@gmail.com, Tel. (613) 614-9782 |
| Added: | Fri Sep 1, 2006 @ 7:00pm by » Belldandy |
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