Diana Kaur and Turner Prize nominee Tris Vonna-Michell of the Stockholm-based curatorial/multi-platform initiative Mount Analogue are currently located in Montreal as Vonna-Michell completes a residency at the Darling Foundry. Acting upon the most ideal vision of what an international residency can holistically provide – not only a personal and creative experience for the artist, but also the possibility of fostering a cultural cross-exchange between far flung artistic communities – they have organised to show work by their Swedish peers while in Montreal. This weekend I had the pleasure of attending their first pop up event at La Mirage, located in a tiny space in the renovated de Gaspé studio complex. It featured Lina Selander's 2013 video Model of Continuation.
Lina Selander, Model of Continuation, 2013
The video is a gently crafted collage of Selander's own footage and material borrowed from Japanese films. Turning around the idea of vision, the image, and its relation to reproduction and technology, Model of Continuation centres itself on tightly framed footage of the artist taking apart a digital camera and scenes of an eclectic video montage being projected onto the wall of the artist's gracious, leafy, half-lit studio. The projected composite imagery consists of everything from the artist's own footage of fern leaves basking in sunlight to Japanese footage of the remnants of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb. Filmed, projected and re-filmed, the slowly woven together images play not only with changing perceptions of time and vision, but also the precarious role of the witness and of photographic documentation.
Mount Analogue will also be presenting Marc Matter discussing the work of concrete/sound poet Henri Chopin (who features in Vonna-Michel's own research and practice) on Saturday May 31, from 2 to 4pm at Artexte. Torontonians can catch the presentation on June 4th at Art Metropole.
La Mirage (founded by artist Sophie Bélair Clement, Philippe Hamelin, and Vincent Bonin) will host its second event this Thursday, May 29th, presenting Lorna Bauer and Jon Knowles' The Cinematographer. (The work will also be on view June 7, 14, 21, and 28th from noon to 5pm). La Mirage is located at 5445 de Gaspé, 6th floor, E6-03.
Susannah Wesley is an artist and curator living in Montreal. She has been a member of the collaborative duo Leisure since 2004 and from 1997-2000 was part of the notorious British art collective the Leeds13. Formerly Director at Battat Contemporary in Montreal, she holds an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Art History from Concordia University. She is Akimblog's new Montreal correspondent and can be followed @susannahwesley1 on Twitter.
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Lina Selander at La Mirage
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