Artists

Cinthia Marcelle Title: UNUS MUNDUS: The Concert Artist: Cinthia Marcelle Dates: 2pm, October 9, offsite Calgary. The recorded audio will be available for listening at Stride Gallery’s project room for the duration of the festival, October 10 to 31. Presented by: Stride Gallery Nature of Event: Concert performances Cinthia Marcelle UNUS MUNDUS: the concert (above) Confront (below) images courtesty of the artist

UNUS MUNDUS: The Concert is part of a series of recent works by Cinthia Marcelle that intends to provoke simultaneous happenings that create an artificial connection among coincidences. The happenings are always formed by an agglomeration of simultaneous situations. UNUS MUNDUS depends on the involvement and cooperation of people in Calgary, and offers the local community the opportunity to participate in the creation of the artwork as part of the M:ST 3 Audio Series. Several participants ranging from professional musicians to those with a basic interest in music are invited to be part of an orchestra. Each person will choose a particular song and instrument to play during the event. In a performance that involves the musical give-and-take between performers, the songs will be played one by one until they create a dissonant atmosphere produced by this simultaneous set of distinct sounds. This fusion of sounds will gradually disappear according to the duration of each song until the last note is played. The performance will be recorded and the resulting recording will be made available to the public for the duration of the festival in Stride Gallery’s project room. Cinthia Marcelle lives and works in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil where she has been exhibiting work individually and as part of the Group VEM!!! Since she received her fine arts degree in 1999 from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Marcelle has presented performances in the MIP-International Manifestation of Performance (Belo Horizonte, 2003). Marcelle has also completed residency programs in Cape Town, SA in collaboration with Very Real Time. top

Rita McKeough Title: SLIPPING BY Artist: Rita McKeough (Halifax, NS) Dates: 8 pm, October 14, Stride Gallery. Closing reception for Slipping By: October 14, following the performance. Presented by: Stride Gallery Nature of Event: performance Through Rita McKeough's installation and performance work over the past 25 years, she has consistently interacted with architectural spaces and implicated architectural systems. slipping by continues McKeough's ongoing exploration of the potential of a relationship to the performing object. McKeough will construct an installation with audio, electronic and performance components specifically for Stride Gallery, entitled slipping by, and based on her observations of and reactions to Stride's immediate locale: “Stride is on a very busy street in downtown Calgary and it has several lanes of commuter traffic just a few feet outside the door. It is a long narrow storefront where the sound of the traffic permeates and the windows are endlessly covered with dust from the street. I am interested in creating an installation that mimics noise and tension of the traffic and uses audio and performance to create a suggestion of psychological consequences of the urban environment.” top

In conjunction with the Rita McKeough's exhibition, slipping by, and M:ST 3, Stride is proud to offer Caught in the Act – an anthology of performance art by Canadian women published by YYZ, which includes a chapter on Rita McKeough's practice: An Ethics of Compassion by Jayne Wark. The book is available at the gallery for $42.75 Rita McKeough is an installation artist, musician, and former disc jockey who has worked in radio, written an opera and incorporated audio into her work in integral ways. McKeough has exhibited works nationally and a retrospective of her influential feminist work was exhibited at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary in 1993. McKeough also teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, and has created audio installations and sculptural performances since the 1970s.

Devora Neumark and Léa Neumark-Gaudet Title: PLACE, SENSE, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MEMORY Artist: Devora Neumark and Léa Neumark-Gaudet (Montreal, PQ) Dates: October 8 to 15. Artist’s talk: 12 Noon, October 12, University of Lethbridge Recital Hall: W570. Presented by: Southern Alberta Art Gallery Nature of Event: performance Artist's site - www.devoraneumark.com Devora Neumark and Léa Neumark-Gaudet The Four Cardinals image courtesty of the artist

Not long after a fire devastated their Montreal home (ten years ago this coming November), Neumark and her daughter Léa were encouraged to travel to southern Alberta, and subsequently Lethbridge. Taking time to explore the land and visiting some traditional tourist spots along the way, the connection to the unique landscape was reinforced for Neumark (who had already visited southern Alberta on two previous occasions) and was introduced to her then nearly 5 year old daughter. "In what can only be considered as being in love with the universe," recalls Neumark, "my daughter's syncretistic experience has truly shaped her sense of place in ways that will likely resonate for the rest of her life." The approach to this performance in Lethbridge will be a retracing of Léa's first journey into this singular landscape. Neumark and her daughter will explore the ways that childhood experiences influence our world-view, and how a sense of place is recalled in and through memory. In an artist statement, Neumark explains," I have been concerned with questions of repetition and the consideration of reliving memory not as or from a place of loss, lack, even melancholy, but as an intuitive and conceptual creation of fresh configurations of being." Neumark suggests that “performative interventions such as these, framed as they are as art can teach us, with the use of symbolic language, to bring flexibility to our memories. And with the authority of memory being such an integral element in revealing (to ourselves and to others) who we are and what we value, this transformative element is powerfully healing.” Léa Neumark-Gaudet is about to enter high school, likes sports (particularly gymnastics), and has developed a serious interest in glass beadwork. For the past year she has been volunteering at the Santropol "Meals on Wheels" program, helping to cook every Saturday for elderly shut-ins. Devora Neumark and Léa Neumark-Gaudet 's interdisciplinary practice includes live-art, durational performative interventions, sound and photography installations, public commissions, storytellings and community art. On several occasions she and Léa have collaborated as creative partners. Neumark currently teaches in the Masters of Interdisciplinary Art Program at Goddard College (Vermont) and co-directs the LEVIER programs of Engrenage Noir, which supports artists and community groups by working together in creative ways to address issues of mutual concern. top

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