Visit the 24 Hour Comics Day Kingston website for details.

Free refreshments will be served!  Bring home a tree.

Willing the Possible
Title-Planting Overdue Books
An Interactive Bookart Project by Paul Merredew and Rebecca Soudant

The Artel is excited to host a new interactive project by Artists Rebecca Soudant and Paul Merredew. Consisting of a series of hard cover books, each with its own fictional title, the exhibit challenges its audiences’ perceptions while asking them to reflect upon modern recurring issues. In order to do this, each book is embossed with such fictional titles as, Electric Cars Made Mandatory or One World Countries, Not 1st, 2nd or 3rd. The exhibit consists of approximately thirty books whose titles remind readers of what could be possible.

The interactive component of the exhibit allows the audience to write comments, based on the title of book selected, inside one or more of the blank pages which make up the interior of each book. In this way, the exhibit will transform with every new written addition. In order to facilitate this participation, which is integral to the overall understanding of the project, the space will contain a table with writing tools where people can sit and add their comments to the Bookart displayed.

“By creating titles that reflect an optimistic future, we have the hopes of supporting these prospects. Through this exhibit we are willing the possible, and encouraging viewers to reflect on these ideas- imagining what it may be like if they were true” state Soudant and Merredew. If politics is the art of the possible, then art can help remind us of the things that are possible, and inspire us to work towards them.

Reception on Saturday June 2nd, 7pm-9pm

Skeleton Park Music Festival 2007 (official site)

Thursday Night at The Artel - 205 Sydenham

FREE ADMISSION!!! 

8pm: Emily Fennell (www.emilyfennell.com)

9pm: Sheesham and Lotus (www.sheeshamandlotus.com)

10pm: Krista Muir (http://www.myspace.com/kristallmuir)

Emily Fennell

Sheesham and Lotus

Krista Muir

MAY 6TH, 7PM Etherington Auditorium
LAST FILM OF THE SEASON!

INCREDIBLE CLASSIC - ONE NIGHT ONLY!

The Conformist
(1970-France/Italy/West Germany, Bertolucci)

The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can “belong.” Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. The film is a character study of the kind of person who willingly “conforms” to the ideological fashions of his day. In this case, director Bernardo Bertolucci suggests that Marcello’s desire to conform is rooted in his latent homosexuality. In addition to its strong storyline, the film is critically revered for the astonishing production design by Nedo Azzini, which, together with Vittorio Storaro’s camerawork, recreates the atmosphere of Fascist Italy with some of the most complex visual compositions ever seen on film, filled with highly stylized uses of angles, shapes, and shadows. The Conformist was cut by five crucial minutes when first released in the US; those missing moments were restored in the 1994 reissue. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 

The 9th Regional Juried Exhibition at Modern Fuel features a number of artists involved with The Artel: Jeremy Mulder, Rebecca Soudant and Irina Skvortsova!  Here’s an invitation to the Exhibition and Reception from Modern Fuel:

We would like to invite you to the 9th Regional Juried Exhibition “Ulysses’ Hands Pick” at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre curated by Toronto-based Artist Ulysses Castellanos. A mix of video, sculpture, painting, and photography, Castellanos’ picks have created an exciting dialogue among the pieces in the show, one that is guaranteed to prompt both discussion and delight.

Featured Artists include:
Lisa Figge, James Greatrex, Michele LaRose, Jeremy Mulder, Miriam Netten, Elisa Paloschi, Daniel Pereira, Francis Pratt, Rebecca Soudant, and Irina Skvortsova

As an added bonus, gallery goers will be treated to a program of recent videos by Breean Hougesen, Ashleigh Larratt, Talie Shalmon, and Maayke Shurer in our State of Flux Members’ Gallery.

April 18th-May 19th 2007
Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Saturday 12-5pm

Reception to be held Saturday May 5th 7pm at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre with a live funk DJ.

Lisa Visser has recently launched a website, with information about her artistic practice:

www.LisaVisser.ORG

a very imperfect rendering — an installation by Lisa Visser.

Free refreshments and performance art will be served. 

Some new Artel photos are online for your viewing pleasure:

Hank & Lily w/ Luther Wright

What Con is in your Neo-Con? An installation by Michael Davidge

(w)Ringing the Sponge video by emerging artists
10 out of 10 when two of Kingston’s musical geniuses collide
Tomboyfriend music as a bloody masquerade ball on wheels
DJ Haircut bringing groove and great hair

April 13, 2007
Modern Fuel Gallery
21A Queen Street
$5

ITINERARY
(w)Ringing the Sponge
7 - 9pm
Video works by Kingston artists
Lisa Visser, Talie Shalmon, James Greatrex, Ayaz Kamani
(w)Ringing the Sponge will release its creative cascade in Modern Fuel Gallery. The thirsty will be encouraged to drink from this temporary oasis of free flowing video art-form.

Tomboyfriend
9 - 11pm
Toronto-based Tomboyfriend is one poet (ryan kamstra (scratch)), one illustrator and map-making social activist ( Marlena Zuber), one guitarist and jackass inspired performance artist (Karilynn Ming Ho ), one robot and visual artist of the freak show (former Kingstonite Lindsay Fisher) and one bassist and scientist for the peoples ( Susan Bustos). They play songs about androgyny, promiscuity, the economic opinion of Jeffrey Sachs, bisexuality, ultra-violence, high fashion, the plight of heterosexuality, cheerleaders, the wealth divide and what to do about romantic love. There is sprayed blood, costume changes and camp. There are participatory dance moves. You may wish to move back. The blood washes off.

10 will be opening for Tomboyfriend

DJ Haircut with special guest D-ROCK
11pm - late
Kingston’s own Paul Sauliner and a troupe of your favorite wiggle tunes. Dancing and great hair bakes this musical pie.