Véronique Malo

Canada (Québec) 2009 Video installation
The work will be shown from September 25 to October 3 2009 as of 9 pm (all night)
700 Main Street (3rd floor window)

With Love, Jennifer Bélanger & Mathieu Léger

Canada (Acadie) 2009 Installation
The work will be shown from September 25 to October 3
Salle Sans Sous, Aberdeen cultural Centre, 12 pm to 5 pm (Monday to Friday)
Café Clémentine, 241 St-George, 8 am to 5 pm (Monday to Friday) and 9 am to 5 pm (Saturday)

Faux fini, Francis Montillaud

Canada (Québec) 2009 Video Installation
The work will be shown from September 25 to October 16
Galerie Sans Nom, Aberdeen Cultural Centre, 12 pm to 5 pm (Monday to Friday)

Camille, Andrew, Katrina et Cie, Daniel Dugas

Canada (Acadie) 2009 Video Installation
The work will be shown from September 25 to October 7
Galerie 12, Aberdeen Cultural Centre 12 pm to 5 pm (Monday to Friday)

jè-st’ : performance and intervention art festival

presented in collaboration with Imago Print Studio

Conversations sur la ville
Collectif SYN- Urban Exploration Workshop

(Quebec)

 

During the jè-st’ festival, SYN- will pursue a 2008 project started in Montreal, using second-hand modified couches to challenge social conventions, public spaces and downtown Moncton’s micro-urbanities.
At the intersection of many often-contradictory schools of thought, the urban environment is evolving along lines that are increasingly difficult to grasp. From neglected leftover space to tightly controlled “junkspace”, the status of spatiality raises many questions. Within such zones of ambiguity, SYN (Jean-Maxime Dufresne, Luc Lévesque and Jean-François Prost) explores issues such as the rapport citizens have with their environments and approaches urban exploration as an opportunity for intervention and research. SYN- www.amarrages.com

The Marshland Radio Plumbing Project
Amanda Dawn Christie

(New Brunswick)

 

Amanda Dawn Christie will attempt to play radio broadcasts on a common kitchen sink. The Marshland Radio Plumbing Project is inspired by a phenomenon where local residents report stories of strange household devices, such as telephones, toasters and sinks, picking up and playing radio signals from the international radio towers.
Amanda Dawn Christie is a practicing interdisciplinary artist working in film, contemporary dance, photography, and electroacoustic sound design. Her installation practice also incorporates elements of audio work, and performance.
The Marshland Radio Plumbing Project will also be presented throughout the festival as an installation in the main hall of the Visual Arts Department at Université de Moncton.

West of Greenwich
Francis O’Shaughnessy, Stéphane Boulianne, Étienne Boulanger et Sara Létourneau

(Québec)

Présenté par / presented by: Espace Virtuel

 

Francis O’Shaughnessy puts forth a deconstruction of movement and flow, integrating them into narrative behavioural networks. Stéphane Boulianne will generate an audio performance that is somewhere between oral and musical language. Through Étienne Boulanger’s choreography, he envisions the body as a dynamic limit between human and machine. Sara Létourneau presents a new understanding of femininity, fragility and strangeness.

 

Geneviève et Matthieu

(Québec)

 

As artists, performers and musicians, this love-duo’s work is a clever, but casual mix of visual arts, poetry, music and humour. On stage, their originality translates into an improvised and exciting visual experience. Since the late ‘90s, Geneviève (Bachelor’s in Fine Arts), and Matthieu (Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Pratices) present installations and interdisciplinary performances. They are actively invested in their community both as coordinators of L’Écart, an artist-run centre, and as directors of the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda.

 

Black Bubble Bridge
Marie-Suzanne Désilets, Denis Lahaie et Geneviève Rousseau

(Québec)

 

A trail cuts through fields of grass. A footbridge links the muddy shores of a river that rises with the pull of the moon. Suddenly out of nowhere, this geometrical bridge structure is invaded by a foreign body. A swollen alien presence obstructs the passage, transforming the space. Marie-Suzanne Désilets is interested in notions of fantasy and fiction and creates projects that alter the everyday. For over fifteen years, Denis Lahaie’s interest lies in notions of the inhabited and mechanisms of their insertion in the environment. Geneviève Rousseau principally explores the ritual of the everyday within constructed environments.

 

Moon Schmoon
Jean-Denis Boudreau

(New Brunswick)

 

A monumental installation floating above the city. Jean-Denis Boudreau, started January 1 2008. Profession: Jean-Denis Boudreau.

Jalkeilla Taas (Up And About Again), Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

The main character in Jalkeilla Taas (Up and About Again) is a snow covered Datsun 100A driving through a summer landscape. As in the experience of otherness and alienation, the film conveys the feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A sense of tension builds out of poetic images depicting the car’s journey. Something inexplicable has turned an otherwise ordinary day upside down.

Film is the central art form for film director and media artist Maarit Suomi-Väänänen (MA) of Helsinki. Her work also encompasses photography and installations, and includes the immaterial such as smoke and light.

Scenes From A Secret World, Amalie Atkins

audio/video space

Scenes From A Secret World delves into the life/death/life cycle of fairy tales while proposing re-imagined archetypal characters: a wolf that is not evil and a damsel not in distress. Set in a fictional world that combines the distinctive atmosphere of chosen locations with a lyrical soundscape, the film investigates the interconnectedness of humans and nature.

Amalie Atkins’ DIY film work is inspired by the repetitive tasks related to her textile work, such as cutting and stitching, during which subconscious ideas emerge into scenarios and eventually story lines. Having studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Atkins currently lives and works in Saskatoon.

Aaron MacLean (Halifax)

salle sans sous

Resource Management, Gerald Beaulieu

Resource Management speaks of our need for controlling nature and our ability to manipulate it. In his work, Gerald Beaulieu, examines contemporary agrarian issues as a means of reflecting on their social impacts. Presented as a sculptural installation, the exhibition references the changing landscapes and processes of crop farming and its related carbon wars.

Gerald Beaulieu studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, completing his fourth year at the New York City campus. He now lives and works in Prince Edward Island, also known as “the million-acre farm”.

Jason St-Laurent, Curator

audio/video space

Easy Evolution, Jon Claytor

Described as an exhibit of taxidermy in an old museum that has been overrun with vandals, Easy Evolution depicts animals as representation of our daily struggles and joys. Compositions incorporating graffiti, erosion, vandalism, wildlife and dancing bears are laid out over free-standing sculptural paintings occupying the gallery space. Influenced by a political perspective, the work conveys how action and desire can intersect and diverge when least expected.

Jon Claytor’s artistic output in various media revolves around what it means to be human. He studied at Mount Allison University (BFA) and is based in Sackville, NB.

Steven Loft, Curator

audio/video space

La part du doute, Jean-Philippe Roy

Jean-Philippe Roy is interested in the contradictory tension between what is represented in sculpture and the presentation of its material aspect. This oscillation is underlined by such strategies as effects of scale, the applications of space perspective, the schematic representation of objects, and the integration of multiple contradictory points of view. In the exhibition La part du doute (a share of doubt), the artist strives to recreate the experience of sacred spaces, all the while revealing the factual aspect of sculpture by incorporating an imprecise action wherein the artistic will is melded with the accidental.

A native of Quebec City, Jean-Philippe Roy lives and works in St-Marcellin, in the Bas-St-Laurent region.

Heather Keung, Curator

audio/video space

DisLocate, DisBody, W.L. Altman

RE:FLUX 6, Festival of Music and Sound Art

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Curators

audio/video space

RE:FLUX 2010

May 14 to 30
Galerie Sans Nom, Centre culturel Aberdeen,140 Botsford

Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, Curators

WE WANT SOMETHING FROM YOU

Group exhibition and practical experiment :

Jesse Birch, Caroline Gagne, Patricia Reed,Marina Roy & Juliane Zelwies (Canada)

Opening : 14 May, 8 pm

May 14 to 30

Galerie Sans Nom, Centre culturel Aberdeen,140 Botsford

LW Altman

(Sackville)

Interactive Installation Interactive:

DisLocate-DisBody

Opening : 14 May, 8 pm

May 15, 8 pm

Café Aberdeen, 140 Botsford

Lina Allemano Four

(Toronto, ON)

May 17, 8 pm

Galerie Sans Nom, Centre culturel Aberdeen,140 Botsford

Motion Ensemble

(Sackville)

Work : Ariadne Machine

May 18-21

Université de Moncton Salle 001

Residency

Lukas Pearse

(Halifax)

May 21, 8 pm

Empress, Robinson square (Corner of Main)

Lukas Pearse

(Halifax) - Solo Bass

Erik Friedlander

(NY) - Solo Cello

Volac: Book of Angels Volume 8

(by John Zorn)

May 25, 9 pm

Café Aberdeen, 140 Botsford

Film projection :

Noisy People : Improvising a Musical Life

Dir.: Tim Perkis

May 27, 8 pm

Empress, Robinson square (Corner of Main)

Trio Philippe Lauzier

Lauzier : saxophone & clarinet

Myhr : guitar

Denley : alto sax & flute

(Montréal, Norvège et Australie)

May 28, 5:30 pm

Empress, Robinson square (Corner of Main)

Electronica Meccano night

Pierre Bastien

(France)

Heosphoros

(Moncton)

D/AA/D

(Halifax)

May 29, 9pm

Empress, Robinson square (Corner of Main)

Pierre Labbé 4Tet

(Montréal)

Pierre Labbé : sax, flute

Bernard Falaise : guitar

Clyton Ryder: bass

Isaiah Ceccarelli : percussion / drums

May 30, 8pm

RE:FLUX closing event

presented with Music New Brunswick

HGH

(Moncton)

Performance collective Performance MNB

Work : Richard Gibson

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Critique de notre désir de contrôler et de manipuler l’environnement, Kentuky Perfect propose une méthode technologique démesurée pour créer et maintenir un gazon parfait. Les moyens absurdes qui permettent de le faire contrastent avec la réalité, mais uniquement par leur marge d’effort supplémentaire. L’œuvre explore les fluctuations constantes de notre relation à la technologie et à l’environnement.

Robert Hengeveld est un artiste dont le travail en installation et en arts médiatiques se situe à la frontière entre la fiction et la réalité. Basé à Toronto, il a étudié au Ontario College of Art and Design et détient une maîtrise en beaux-arts de l’Université de Victoria.

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Critique de notre désir de contrôler et de manipuler l’environnement, Kentuky Perfect propose une méthode technologique démesurée pour créer et maintenir un gazon parfait. Les moyens absurdes qui permettent de le faire contrastent avec la réalité, mais uniquement par leur marge d’effort supplémentaire. L’œuvre explore les fluctuations constantes de notre relation à la technologie et à l’environnement.

Robert Hengeveld est un artiste dont le travail en installation et en arts médiatiques se situe à la frontière entre la fiction et la réalité. Basé à Toronto, il a étudié au Ontario College of Art and Design et détient une maîtrise en beaux-arts de l’Université de Victoria.

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Critique de notre désir de contrôler et de manipuler l’environnement, Kentuky Perfect propose une méthode technologique démesurée pour créer et maintenir un gazon parfait. Les moyens absurdes qui permettent de le faire contrastent avec la réalité, mais uniquement par leur marge d’effort supplémentaire. L’œuvre explore les fluctuations constantes de notre relation à la technologie et à l’environnement.

Robert Hengeveld est un artiste dont le travail en installation et en arts médiatiques se situe à la frontière entre la fiction et la réalité. Basé à Toronto, il a étudié au Ontario College of Art and Design et détient une maîtrise en beaux-arts de l’Université de Victoria.

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Critique de notre désir de contrôler et de manipuler l’environnement, Kentuky Perfect propose une méthode technologique démesurée pour créer et maintenir un gazon parfait. Les moyens absurdes qui permettent de le faire contrastent avec la réalité, mais uniquement par leur marge d’effort supplémentaire. L’œuvre explore les fluctuations constantes de notre relation à la technologie et à l’environnement.

Robert Hengeveld est un artiste dont le travail en installation et en arts médiatiques se situe à la frontière entre la fiction et la réalité. Basé à Toronto, il a étudié au Ontario College of Art and Design et détient une maîtrise en beaux-arts de l’Université de Victoria.

Galerie Sans Nom’s activities are governed by its mandate to provide the services of a parallel or alternative gallery, and to exhibit multidisciplinary and experimental contemporary art.

In its programming, GSN abides by the general orientation outlined below.

• • Presenting locally relevant exhibitions or events that reflect contemporary artistic trends on the national scene;
• • Broadening the audience for contemporary artistic practices and increasing public’s knowledge and appreciation;
• • Supporting the development of new trends in visual arts by encouraging and contributing to a critical discourse;
• • Supporting the artistic process of its members, both professional and emerging artists, and facilitating the presentation of their work;
• • Encouraging and supporting the development of a local cultural scene, especially through collaborative projects in various disciplines;
• • Facilitating exchanges and collaborations at the local and national levels;
• • Actively listening to members and the community and meeting their various needs;
• • Promoting a creative and dynamic work environment and providing proper administrative and financial management of the organization to ensure its sustainability.

Galerie Sans Nom (GSN) was created in 1977, amidst controversy. Graduating students at Université de Moncton’s Department of Visual Arts had been denied an exhibition by the administration, who felt the proposed content was inappropriate. GSN was thus created to reflect trends that did not fit elsewhere. On November 13, 1979, GSN was officially established as a cooperative. It filled a pressing void and became a laboratory for the exploration of all disciplines of contemporary visual arts. Salle Sans Sous (penniless room) was created in 1982, allowing GSN to also support and exhibit the work of emerging artists.

As the single Acadian infrastructure dedicated to presenting Canadian contemporary art, GSN is now responsible for three exhibition spaces and its programming includes new practices in various disciplines including visual arts and media arts.

Over the past thirty years, GSN has gained wide recognition by hosting artists from all regions of Canada and from the United States, Latin America, Europe and Japan, as well as presenting Acadian art across the country and abroad through numerous travelling exhibitions, including Expo Quinze, Itinéraire 12 and Géographie du regard, and public art events such as Leurre juste. In its work as a resource centre for contemporary Acadian art production, GSN takes part in large-scale projects and events that contribute to the development of the Acadian community and the advancement of the arts in Canada.

Since the end of the 1980s, GSN has its headquarters at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre, joining some thirty other cultural organizations and artist studios as one of Canada’s most remarkable cooperatives. GSN also cultivates a broader and more diversified audience by organizing exhibitions in non-dedicated settings and in cooperation with other groups. GSN is an avid supporter of artists’ initiatives and is active in a variety of disciplines as it strives to meet the changing needs of a diverse community in a fast-growing urban environment.

Located in Moncton, New Brunswick, GSN has a diverse membership that includes francophone and anglophone artists as well as artist of other cultures, mostly from New Brunswick but also from Quebec, Newfoundland-and-Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The centre is particularly concerned with providing support to emerging and next generation artists and ensuring their integration and participation. While its communications are in both official languages, Galerie Sans Nom enhances contemporary francophone and Acadian culture and participates in its presentation at the national level.

GSN is affiliated with associations of artist centres and arts organizations, including AARCA: The Association of Artist-Run Centres from the Atlantic, and the national Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones (AGAVF), to better represent its community on the public scene and at various levels of government.

Galerie Sans Nom, a non-profit artist-run centre, became a cooperative on November 13, 1979.

Staffing includes a director, a position occupied by Nisk Imbeault since September 2001, and a program coordinator, with Angèle Cormier in this position since November 2004.

The Board of Directors has seven members who are elected at the Annual General Meeting to oversee operations and provide a vision for the centre. Currently, they are:

Samuel LeBlanc, President
André Boudreau, Vice-President
Marie-Thérèse François, Treasurer
Maryse Arseneault, Secretary
Philip André Collette, Advisor
Dominik Robichaud, Advisor
Gisèle Ouellette, Advisor

GSN has approximately sixty members in good standing in three categories: artists (forming a majority of members), students and supporting members.

Being a member of GSN means:

Contributing to the centre’s dynamism and the development of contemporary art programming;
Belonging to a community of artists and having access to the Canadian visual arts network;
Benefitting from artistic support and professional development resources.

Annual fee:

• Supporting member (20$ +)
• Artist member (20$)
• Student member (10$)

Payable by cheque or cash :

Galerie Sans Nom
140, Botsford st, #12B & #16
Moncton, NB E1C 4X5
(506) 854-5381
info@galeriesansnom.org
www.galeriesansnom.org

Galerie Sans Nom is a registered charitable organisation. A receipt is available for donations of $20 or more.

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