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Papergirl Calgary Call for Volunteers
The Papergirl Calgary Project currently requires additional team leaders to implement the very first edition of the project right here in Calgary for August 2012.
* Are you passionate about art?
* Do you believe art should be an inclusive not exclusive venture?
* Are you a fan of gettin’ on yer bike and cycling the city?
* Would you like to take art out of the galleries and institutions and into the streets?
Then join the Papergirl Calgary Team and discover the “Art of Giving Art”!
Papergirl is an art project from Berlin. It has now grown into an international worldwide art distribution phenomenon.
Art should be accessible to everyone. That is the spirit behind Papergirl: a pedal-powered, volunteer based, community oriented art project. Papergirl redefines “street-art” and questions where the value and meaning lies in art: within the object itself, within its symbolic narrative, its economic prowess, its historical context and so on, and so forth.
What happens in a Papergirl project?
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A call for 2D artworks is made to the local Calgary community where the project is based.
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The artworks are collected and subsequently, every single submitted work is exhibited.
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The works are then rolled up, and delivered by Papergirls to the unsuspecting public a.k.a. the local community.
The Results of Papergirl?
Artists gain the opportunity to exhibit their work in a local gallery, AND have their work also given to a new collector. Papergirls get some great exercise and smiles due to their hard delivery work. Volunteers get the chance to work with fellow artists, and get involved in their local community. Hundreds of Calgarians receive a work of art, and become art collectors.
Papergirl Team Leader Roles Up for Grabs
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OMNISCIENT OWL – Papergirls’ well respected researcherHelp Papergirl locate the right connections and organisations to contact to promote the project.
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TREASURE TROVE TECHIE – Document the Papergirl Submissions ArchiveYou will be responsible for photographing, blogging and noting all Papergirl Submissions
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SOCIAL BUTTERFLY & QUEEN BEE – Community Outreach & Volunteer CoordinatorYou and your Papergirl Minions will go forth and spread the good word to local associations. You will create the buzz in the city on the project.
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DOCUMENTLIST EXTRAORDINAIRE – Document the Project Events & DistributionMake sure that everyone knows how amazing this project is by photographing and taking video of all the Papergirl Workshops and Events. Your handy work will be displayed on Papergirls Facebook, Blog and Youtube channels… but that is just the beginning!
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BIKE BLING LABORATORY SPECIALIST – Workshop assistantYour keen crafting knowledge will be put to the test when you help Papergirl Afficionados create amazing bling and ephemera for their bikes before the Papergirl Distribution Day.
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GRUBSTAKE MAVERICK – Fundraising supportYou will work closely with Sunny-Sunshine to procure “the goods” required for this project.
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GREGARIOUS ENOBLEUR – Public Relations and Marketing specialist
With an affinity to make everything you describe sound like magic, you will convince the public of Calgary, AND THE WORLD, of the many virtues of the Papergirl Mantra (The Art of Giving Art). They will become converted believers in the project, and join in the movement.
Contact us & join the movement!
EMAIL: Project Manager: Sunshine Frère papergirlcalgary@gmail.com
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Liz Collins | Knitting Nation
KNITTING NATION PHASE 7: DARKNESS DESCENDS, 2011 from Liz Collins on Vimeo.
Knitting Nation is a performance and site-specific installation project. It reconfigures textile fabrication and apparel manufacturing in relation to the human labor behind it, with performance and collectivity as mediating forces. The project functions as a commentary on how humans interact with machines, global manufacturing, trade and labor, brand iconography, and fashion.
See more on Liz Collins’ website.
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Shane Waltner at Siobhan Davies Studios
Drawn to motion, written in space, stitched over time by Shane Waltener
12 January – 11 March 2012, Free entry, drop-in at Siobhan Davies Studios
Shane Waltener, an artist renowned for his large-scale interactive textile installations, presents an exhibition of new works designed specifically for Siobhan Davies Studios. By using the Studios’ Creative Dance class participants and members of the public as human bobbins to weave thread throughout the building, Waltener explores the performative dimensions of his craft.
Choreographic sequences offer a reflection on weaving and stitching processes, and the relationship between object and action. I’m interested in revealing and discovering something about this through the silent negotiation between dancers, space and materials, which you can capture with dance. -Shane Waltener
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Rachel Miller’s environmental patterns
Rachel Miller | Consistence/ Transience | sculpted/carved soap
My work is a life cycle: spiritual and physical. In turn, I choose materials that specifically have a life cycle. I use materials that can biodegrade, because it is about life cycle. Its journey of transformation reflects what I find within nature itself – a consistent pattern of memory, experience, and closure.
Rachel Miller | Passing II | cast concrete, Collection of Calvin Tsao, Tsao-McKown Architects
Rachel Miller’s work focuses on environmental patterns and how they interconnect with our own patterns of growth, departure, and rejuvenation. Using both the body and landscape as cynosure and subject, she coalesces topics from ritual, archeology, architecture, travel, textiles, and nature. Her works, which include sculpture, installation, performance and costume, examine the constant resurfacing of the past, and its integration with the present.
Concurrent with her studio practice, Miller designs sets, costumes, and textiles both independently and for films, theatre, and dance. She teaches and lectures at various institutions, including coursework in Sustainable Design in the Fashion Department at Pratt Institute, NY; Sustainable Design Entrepreneurs program at FIT in New York, and the Fiber Department at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has also worked in India, where she has done extensive research, in addition to teaching textile design / fibers to university students. She exhibits her work locally and internationally, and received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI and her BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. She currently resides and maintains her studio practice in Brooklyn, NY.
See more of Miller’s work on her website www.rachel-miller.com
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Rachel Gomme | Hour (for Penelope)
Hour (for Penelope) is a 24-hour durational performance by artist Rachel Gomme in the Libeskind Building at London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, London N7. The performance will take place on the 21/22 of October from 6:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
The building is open from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. Outside opening hours the performance can be viewed from Holloway Road.
Time passing, time returning, suspended time. Through a continual process of knitting and unravelling, this 24-hour durational performance examines time as line and cycle, moment and infinity, chronology and memory.
The event is FREE and is part of the One More Time symposium and exhibition.
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Invisible Drawings: Put a stop to (Experiments in the studio)
Invisible Drawings: Put a stop to (Experiments in the studio) from Invisible Drawings – GREY AREA on Vimeo.
Further experiments for the collaboration project between painter Christine Cheung and SeedSew. These explorations were carried out in Cheung’s studio in Berlin, featuring Natalie Adams of SeedSew.
In responding to one another a dialogue between painter and dancer is established whereby watching, listening and replying keep the process of mark making and improvising an ever-changing piece of live performance and art.
Invisible Drawings was inspired from an activity that Cheung first saw during a residency in China. Using homemade giant brushes and water as a medium, calligraphers practice their writing in the parks of Beijing. Part performance, part graffiti, part social experiment, this investigation has led to workshops and collaborations.
More images can be found HERE.
Music composed by Hillman Mondegreen AKA The Soundcheck Quartet specifically for Invisible Drawings.
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Lisa Vinebaum | where are all the radical jews?
This photo was taken outside Wilensky's, a historic Montreal lunch counter. The original Wilesnky's was located a few blocks away. My performance here is motivated more by nostalgia than fact, as I imagine Wilesnsky's not only as a social site, but the site of informal political discussion and organizing.
Wearing a Yiddish-language sign that read, “Where are all the radical Jews?” (“vu zaynen alle radicale yidn”) I stood vigil outside sites of historical importance to the Montreal Jewish community at what I consider to be the height of its progressive politics, during the 1930s – 1950s. This work is a personal commentary on a marked shift toward more conservative politics by a growing number of Montreal Jews.
This photo was taken outside the former offices of the Keneder Adler, a progressive Yiddish-language newspaper published between 1907 and 1988.
Lisa Vinebaum is an artist, theorist, writer, curator and educator whose “…interdisciplinary practice incorporates performance, public and site specific interventions, installation, textiles, video, photography and protest tactics to explore the construction and performance of identity and subjectivity — often enacted in response to attempts at erasure and elision — with a focus on contemporary Jewish identity formations.”
Vineabaum was one of the organizers of Cut on the Bias, a research workshop in Montreal earlier this month. The website is being continually updated with links to various participant websites and projects.
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Fibre art, relational/radicant aesthetics + globalization
Carissa Carman, A.T.T. Taxi (2008) A.T.T. Taxi (Alternative Transportation Trade Taxi) is a waste vegetable oil taxi service offered for trade only.
Fibre art, relational / radicant aesthetics & globalization
Public presentation and discussion with artists: Carissa Carman, jenna dawn, Suzen Green, Javiera Ovalle Sazie
Moderated by Lisa Vinebaum
Saturday, April 16th, 5pm – 7pm, Concordia University, VA Building Room 433, 1395 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, Montréal, QC
Four artists working across fibres, collaboration, performance, installation, site-specific and public art explore intersections between current fibre art practice and social practice in the larger context of globalization. This presentation explores current models of artistic production, sustainability, and the creation of alternative exchange economies in contemporary fibre art practices, as an antidote to Bourriaud’s notion of the nomad as a model for contemporary artistic practice in the age of globalization. Whereas Bourriaud’s proposition depoliticizes the conditions of globalization that produce migrants – poverty, war, dispossession, economic deregulation — the participating artists use a range of playful, interventionist and social strategies to propose more egalitarian modes of production and consumption, and engaging with issues of labor, mobility, collectivity, and sustainability in their work. As well, this presentation will explore the notion of fibres as “already relational” owing to their social and collective histories of making, and in contrast to Bourriaud’s theory of relational aesthetics which elides politicized, performance and fibre art practices in particular.
Presented as part of En avril – fibre textile art au Québec
In collaboration with galerie Diagonale and the MFA Studio Art program at Concordia University
Carissa Carman’s interdisciplinary artwork includes playful site specific interventions; pseudo–purposeful yet soulful and generous. Her performances, sculptures and printed materials reference already established systems, occupations, and skills while maintaining the aesthetic of the handmade. Her collaborative practice partners with artists and professionals to negotiate the exchange of trade skills as a pioneer of do-it-yourself interpretations. Carman is a Master of Fine Arts Candidate in Fibres at Concordia University, Montreal, QC and received her BA from California State University, Chico. She has exhibited extensively and internationally in Cuba, Italy, Montreal, Miami and NYC. www.carissacarman.com
jenna dawn has led a nomadic lifestyle that has directed her interdisciplinary practice to create a diverse sense of community. Her work has ranged from an individual art practice to collaborations with children, immigrant women, military personnel, seniors, artists, designers and writers. Jenna’s art had been shown in museums, galleries, and public spaces in North America, France and West Africa. www.woventhreads.org
Suzen Green is a Newfoundland-born visual artist and educator based in Montreal, Quebec. She received her BFA (Fibres) from Alberta College of Art + Design in 2007, and her MFA (Studio Art, Fibre) from Concordia University. Her studio work includes traditional textile construction, sculpture and performance. http://suzengreen.com and www.notalazysuzen.com/
Javiera Ovalle Sazie works with different approaches to the notion of displacement of writing, performing an active way of writing in the city. Her work involves installation, photography, video, fibres and recycling. Traveling and wandering provide the surfaces on which her curiosity finds the essence of making. Ovalle completed an artist’s residency at the Darling Foundry that brought her to Montreal in 2006. She has since exhibited in the VI Biennial of the National Fine Arts Museum of Santiago, Chile, and presented her work in Boston, Barcelona, Berlin, New York, Paris, Valparaiso, Santiago de Chile, Montréal, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba. Born in Chile she completed an Associate of Arts degree in Universidad Católica de Valparaiso and then a BFA in Universidad de Playa Ancha. She lives and works in Montreal where she is completing a MFA program in Studio Arts at Concordia University. www.javieraovalle.net/
Dr. Lisa Vinebaum is an interdisciplinary artist, critical writer, curator and educator. Her art practice uses performance, video, photography, installation, and public interventions to explore identity and subjectivity — enacted in response to attempted acts of erasure — in the context of contemporary Jewish identity formations, Israeli state aggression toward Palestinians, and the war on terror. She holds a PhD in Art from Goldsmiths (University of London, UK); an MA in Textiles from Goldsmiths; and a BFA in Fibres from Concordia University in Montreal. Her creative and scholarly work have been exhibited, published and disseminated internationally across Europe, Asia and North America. She was Visiting Lecturer in Art at Goldsmiths from 2003‐2006, and is a part‐time Lecturer in the Faculty of Fine Art at Concordia University in Montreal.