Episodes
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Episode 15: Dana Michel
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Dana Michel is a choreographer and performer based in Montreal. Before obtaining a BFA in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in her late twenties, she was a marketing executive, competitive runner and football player. She is a 2011 danceWEB scholar (Vienna, Austria) and is currently an artist-in-residence at DanceMakers (Toronto) and at Usine C (Montreal).
Michel’s newest solo, Yellow Towel, was featured on the “Top Five” and the “Top Ten” 2013 dance moments in the Voir newspaper (Montreal) and Dance Current Magazine (Canada) respectively. In 2014, she was awarded the newly created Impulstanz Award in recognition for outstanding artistic accomplishments and was highlighted amongst notable female choreographers of the year by the New York Times. The year concluded with Yellow Towel appearing on the Time Out Magazine (New York City) “Top Ten Performances” list.
In this episode, Dana talks about dance as a space of exploration; hair; motherhood; her love of objects; defensive reactions to her work; and the influence of the local dance community.
This episode was hosted and produced by Yaniya Lee
Podcast logo by Naomi Cook
"The Sun Roars Into View" by Sarah Neufeld and Colin Stetson from their 2015 album Never Were the Way She Was, released on Constellation Records.
"5FT7" by Tonstartssbandht from their 2009 album An When.
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Friday May 22, 2015
Episode 14: Hajra Waheed
Friday May 22, 2015
Friday May 22, 2015
Hajra Waheed seeks to address personal, national and cultural identity formation in relation to political history, popular imagination and the broad impact of colonial power globally. Her mixed-media practice consists of ongoing bodies of work that constitute a growing personal archive – one developed in response to all those seemingly lost amongst rapid regional development and/or political strife. Although works on paper remain the foundation of her practice, they often act as starting points for larger mixed media installations. Over the last decade, Waheed has participated in exhibitions worldwide, most recently including Collages: Gesture & Fragments, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC (2014), Sea Change, Experimenter, Kolkata (2013), (In) the First Circle, Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona and Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY (2012). She lives and works in Montréal.
In this episode Hajra talks about growing up on a transnational oil corporation in Saudi Arabia; fallen satellites; her preoccupation with undisclosed documents; telling stories as a means of ordering chaos; intimacy and distance in her representations of surveillance; and collage's potential for transformation.
Hajra Waheed's solo exhibition Asylum in the sea will be presented at Darling Foundry in Montreal from June 18th to August 27th 2015.
fonderiedarling.org/en/Asylum-in-the-sea.html
This episode was hosted and produced by Yaniya Lee.
Tumblr design and podcast logo by Naomi Cook.
Hajra's website: hajrawaheed.com
"The Homeless Wanderer" by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou collected on Éthiopiques 21: Ethiopia Song
Joe Grass performed this lap steel cover of the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" live for La Blogothèque
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Tuesday Feb 24, 2015
Episode 13: Sheena Hoszko
Tuesday Feb 24, 2015
Tuesday Feb 24, 2015
Sheena Hoszko earned a BFA and an MFA in sculpture from Concordia University, and studied Visual Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Centre Clark, DAREDARE and La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, and in group exhibitions at CIRCA, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, and VAV Gallery. By day Sheena makes music, does organizing work and is a bookkeeper at various non-profit organizations.
First shown at Centre Clark and currently at A Space Gallery Toronto alongside the work of Tings Chak, Sheena's most recent sculptural installations are constructed from temporary fences of equal length to her walking measurement of nearby detention centres.
In this episode Sheena talks about art practices within capitalism, the inaccessibility of information about detention centres, making sculptural work with a political motive, negotiating artistic practice as a privileged occupation, the ways in which art can move beyond the gallery, Smack Mellon's RESPOND show, Jackie Sumell's The House That Herman Built, the influenced of people in other disciplines, Nasrin Himada, Jaggi Singh, and her current food justice research at the Santa Fe Art Institute.
This episode was hosted and produced by Yaniya Lee.
Tumblr design and podcast logo by Naomi Cook.
"The Crossing" from Grace Jones' 1985 album Slave to the Rhythm
"Mississipi Goddamn" performed live by Nina Simone
Find out more about Sheena on her website
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Tuesday Dec 23, 2014
Episode 12: Matt Shane and Jim Holyoak
Tuesday Dec 23, 2014
Tuesday Dec 23, 2014
Tuesday Oct 07, 2014
Episode 10: Celia Perrin Sidarous
Tuesday Oct 07, 2014
Tuesday Oct 07, 2014
Celia Perrin Sidarous photographs objects and spaces. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Walter Phillips Gallery (Les Choses, 2013), WWTWO (Paha-Koli is Evil Mountain, 2012), VU (Le livre des choses, 2011) and Les Territoires (Trouées, 2009). Celia has attended residences at The Banff Centre, Vermont Studio Center, Artscape Lodge Artist Retreat at Gibraltar Point, The Art and Culture Center Kolin Ryynänen (Finland) and Centre Sagamie. She earned a BFA in 2008 and is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
In this episode Celia discusses practices of looking; the secret life of inanimate objects; self-referentiality and the experience of time; travelling with art; the frame of the camera as a space of exploration; the politics of being an artist; and the importance of defamiliarization.
This episode was hosted and produced by Yaniya Lee.
Podcast logo by Naomi Cook.
“With a Snake With a Worm in its Mouth” by Subversive Intentions (2014)
Improvised performance by Tanya Tagaq
Find more of Celia Perrin Sidarous' work at
http://celia-perrin-sidarous.com
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Friday Apr 25, 2014
Episode 5: Seripop
Friday Apr 25, 2014
Friday Apr 25, 2014
Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau are the prolific paper artists behind Seripop. Their creative collaboration started in Montreal over a decade ago. They toured North America and Europe as part of the avant-grade noise-rock formation AIDS Wolf for a while, and at the same time become pretty renown poster designers and printers. Gradually, Seripop has settled itself into the visual arts world with various kinds of outlandish paper installations, showing work across Canada and overseas, even making the cut for the 2011 Québec Triennial.
Some of the stuff Chloe and Yannick talk about during this episode: their efforts to explore the plasticity of paper and make work that hits you in the gut (or your "lizard brain" as Chloe calls it); how they set up Rube Goldberg-like devices during their installs to give their paper sculptures maximum agency; their relationship to their gallerist; why they left freelance printmaking to go back to art school; and the Looming exhibition they showed last summer at Toronto's YYZ.
Art Talks Mtl is produced, hosted and edited by Yaniya Lee.
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Falling suite from Delia Derbyshire's 'The Dreams' (1964).
Ch-Ch-Chatter track from AIDS Wolf's album 'Cities of Glass' (2008).
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Learn more about Seripop's work on their website, seripop.com.
Thursday Apr 24, 2014
Episode 4: The Artifact Institute
Thursday Apr 24, 2014
Thursday Apr 24, 2014
At the curious intersection between art, research, electronics, archiving, sociology and sustainability, the Artifact Institute investigates different issues and perspectives relating to electronics and group formations. It does so by fostering spaces in which people can reflect on their relationship to their artifacts, and gain a better understanding our societies’ rapidly changing processes of valuation.
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Episode 3: Robert Poulin
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Thursday Oct 04, 2012
Episode 2: Joanna Lai, Danielle St-Amour and Willie Brisco
Thursday Oct 04, 2012
Thursday Oct 04, 2012
In this episode of Art Talks Mtl, we visit two independent galleries. First we talk to Joanna Lai, director of Coatcheck Gallery, and after that to Danielle St-Amour and Willie Brisco, directors of WWTWO gallery.