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M:ST 2 Artists
THE ONLY GOOD WAY TO HUG ANOTHER MALE IN PUBLIC
/ Stefan St. Laurent (Ottawa, ON)
LOCATION: Various locations in business and bar districts (downtown and 17th Avenue)
April 10+11 / 2003
12:00 – 8:00 PM (April 10th)
/ 4:30 – 7:00 PM (April 11th)
For this project in Calgary, St. Laurent questions how socially acceptable it is for a man to be seen in the arms of another man in public. Given the political climate in Alberta today, St. Laurent intends to make an ambiguous gesture for Mountain Standard Time, that of being seemingly rescued from a dangerous situation – this functioning mainly as a metaphor for queers who are 'out' in public. Furthering an idea St. Laurent had developed previously through a tape called I Want You to Need Me, he wishes to address the state of things in regards to gaybashing outside of Canada's large urban centres. As a counterpoint to being gaybashed in Moncton, he is interested now in finding images that are different from the ones he remembers – instead of being beat up by man, he is being rescued by one.
Born in Moncton in 1974, Stefan St-Laurent now lives and works in Ottawa. His performance, photography and video work have been shown in such institutions as the Centre national de la photographie in Paris, Edsvik Kunst + Kultur in Sollentuna, Sweden, YYZ Artists' Outlet in Toronto, Western Front in Vancouver and ICA Moscow. His curatorial projects have been exhibited internationally, including at the Lux Centre in London, Les rencontres internationales Vidéo Art Plastique in Hérouville, France, V Tape in Toronto and the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montréal. He is currently co-artistic director of Galerie SAW Gallery.
JB < = > JB
/ Joanne Bristol (Banff, AB)
LOCATION:Truck Gallery
April 3–6 / 2003
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Final Event: April 6 / 2003: 8:00 PM
JB < = > JB is a new performance investigating notions of identity, creativity, pedagogy and community. The central premise is a re-writing of art history in an attempt to visualize vectors of influence amongst communities of artists and audiences. There are two parts to the performance. The first consists of one-on- one interactions between the artist and the public, in the gallery, over a period of 3 afternoons (April 4 - 6). The second part is a 'wrap up' performative slide talk in which the artist (J.B.) will trace incidents, trajectories and connections in the lives of a number of other 20th century artists possessing the initials J.B. This talk will take place the evening of the third day (April 6). JB < = > JB describes the often messy, circuitous paths which circumscribe processes of imagination and creativity. Through techniques such as mathematical chalkboard flow-charts, craft production and cooking, the performance questions notions of authorship and ownership. JB < = > JB sees the ephemeral boundaries between art and life as potential spaces from which to generate ideas for creative community living.
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
P.O. Box 22056 Bankers Hall R.P.O, Calgary, AB CA T2P 5G7
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