ARCHIVE 2004
Modern
Fuel is currently reorganizing its website: this is a partial
record of activities in 2004, which will be updated in the
near future, along with information about activity in other
years.
1.
SPLIT SCREENING DEC 9 2004
2. CHRISTMAS PARTY DEC 16
2004
3.
JULIE WITHROW: DAILY PAPERS - VISUAL DIARY OF A RADIO
JUNKIE OCT 27 - NOV 27
4. U/CTRL MICRO-TOUR: Live
laptop electronica by Andrew Duke + Naw + Akumu,
November 24 2004
5.
SHORING SUPPORT: MIDEO M. CRUZ PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
WORKSHOPS 4-9 NOV 2004
6.
SHORING SUPPORT: CHERYL
L'HIRONDELLE WAYNOHTEW PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
WORKSHOPS 14-19 OCTOBER
7.
PINK POETRY AMBULANCE READING 20 OCT 2004
8.
ART AUCTION 23 OCT 2004
9.
IN THE GALLERY: FARIBA SAMSAMI 25 AUGUST-2 OCTOBER
10. JAM-A-THON FUNDRAISER SEPTEMBER 14th
2004
11. TONE DEAF 3: EXPERIMENTAL SOUND
FEST OCT 7-10 2004
12.
PARKING ART IN PARKING LOTS: ADRIAN BLACKWELL
13. RE-INVENTING RADIO: THE LONG NIGHT
OF RADIO ART 2004
SPLIT
SCREENING
THURSDAY
DECEMBER 9 2004, 8PM
FREE ADMISSION!
A public video screening of
new student works including short documentaries and experimental works by Lena
Ha, Bitsy Knox, John Murnaghan, Ayaz Kamani, Emilie Allen, Darryl Bank and Courtney
Ross. This event is co-sponsored by Modern Fuel and the Queen's University Department
of Art.
MODERN
FUEL'S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY
THURSDAY DECEMBER 16 2004 9PM $15
Join us for festive
celebrations with DJ Seez spinning, and our first-ever silent
auction of 'gift' artworks offered and packaged by local artists! 25 gifts, with
bidding starting at $25...
IN MODERN FUEL GALLERY
JULIE WITHROW: DAILY PAPERS - VISUAL DIARY OF A RADIO JUNKIE
WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER - SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2004
RECEPTION NOVEMBER 6, 7PM
Daily Papers is an exhibition presenting mixed media drawings by artist
Julie Withrow, done daily in response to news and ideas aired on CBC Radio One.
Presented as a series, these drawings are a record of events that occurred over
the course of a year, from September 2003 until September 2004. With these drawings
the artist considers how time affects the broadcasting of news and events. In
Modern Fuel Gallery, the “daily papers” will be exhibited in 12 monthly
groupings. Displayed as an archive of passing ideas, events and fads, these records
reflect Withrow’s personal and intuitive response.
Commenting on the theme of presents/histories, Withrow
explains: “Present
becomes history within the life-span of the project and provides an opportunity
to reflect on past events and the effects of time on our concerns.” With
this progressive diary, Withrow dilutes the authority of the News to be the (unmediated)
bearer of truth.
Born in Victoria, B.C. Julie Withrow has lived
in Winnipeg and Toronto and now resides in rural Centreville,
an area just outside of Kingston. Incorporating a variety
of media Withrow’s art practice uses construction,
painting, drawing, and college techniques in assorted
combinations to evolve artworks with an ironic edge.
Her methods rely on the collection of reference material
from various media sources to define elements of her
subject matter and approach. She has been exhibiting
across Ontario since the late 1980’s.
U/CTRL MICRO-TOUR
Live laptop electronica by Andrew Duke + Naw + Akumu
November 24 2004, 8PM
Tickets $5 (students, artists, underemployed) and $8
Modern
Fuel is pleased to host the Kingston stop of the U/CTRL
2004 micro-tour, taking electronic music out of the clubs
and studios and into bars, cafés and gallery spaces
across Ontario and Quebec, bringing new sounds to new
listeners.
Andrew
Duke, Naw and Akumu are accomplished independent
electronic artists with multiple releases and remixes
on labels around the world. Live, they produce customized
sound environments for deep listening that incorporate
a variety of techniques and improvisations. On the
U/CTRL tour, they will perform live solo sets highlighting
fresh material from new and upcoming releases.
ANDREW
DUKE (Halifax) Producer, DJ and remixer
(Chicks on Speed, Pink Floyd) whose international
releases have been praised in The Wire and Exclaim.
His upcoming release is on Montreal’s PetiteSono
Records.
NAW
(Montreal) a.k.a. Neil Wiernik, founder
of Montreal’s Phoniq collective and purveyor
of Dub-tech rhythms, sounddesign and manipulation.
He has been a force in the Canadian electronic, techno,
experimental and ambient music scene for 10 years.
He has just returned from Europe in support of his
latest release, Green Nights Orange Days (Noise Factory
Records).
AKUMU
(Toronto) Ambient sounds and shadowy beats
with digital video manipulations from Toronto’s
Deane Hughes (Thrive/Alchemy). The latest Akumu CD,
Fluxes (Spider Records) was composed in Central America
and has been compared to Tim Hecker by Montreal’s
Ici magazine and called “soundtrack to an imaginary
David Cronenberg Movie” by Toronto’s
eye weekly.
More
information:
www.spiderrecords.com
SHORING
SUPPORT: MIDEO
M. CRUZ PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION WORKSHOPS NOVEMBER 4-9
2004
Developed in partnership with 7a*11d,
Modern Fuel presents Shoring Support, a two part performance
and installation workshop. The second installment of this event, to be developed
by artist Mideo M.Cruz (Manila, Philippines) and two Queen’s
University students, Jennifer Knietas and Julie Mensink, will take place over
six days, with opportunity for public participation on November 6th, 7th and
9th.
Continuing
with Modern Fuel’s tradition of supporting artistic
mentorship and professional development, Cruz and the
students have been invited to develop a performance/intervention
and/or site-specific installation with a theme pertaining
to Kingston’s waterfront. Possible avenues for
creative exploration include political, activist and/or
relational-based aspects of waterfront development, with
performance/intervention to take place on-site (at the
Centre, 21A Queen Street) or at an off-site location
(TBA). This is a fantastic opportunity to critically
engage with the creative process and hear what the artists
have to say about the ideas as developed/developing in
a concentrated timeframe.
Events
schedule as follows:
Project
preparation and development November 4-5
Performance and/or installation actualization* November 6-7
Saturday November 6
Sunday November 7
The
public discussion forum
Modern Fuel Gallery – 21A Queen Street
7 PM Tuesday 9 November 2004
admission free – all are welcome
Opinions encouraged
For
more information please call the gallery at 548-4883.
Mideo
M. Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist who
has been central to the revival of performance art
in Manila, Philippines. Initiating the Philippine
based art collective UGAT Lahi in 1992, a multi media
group known for its remarkable street art, Cruz has
gone on to involvement in projects with the “new
world disorder” group who mimic world commerce
under globalization. He is the recipient of
the 2003 Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen
Artist Award. For more information on his projects
visit: geocities.com/mideomcruz.
SHORING
SUPPORT: CHERYL
L'HIRONDELLE WAYNOHTEW PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
WORKSHOPS 14-19 OCTOBER
Modern
Fuel is pleased to host artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle
Waynohtew from Oct 14-19 as she engages with
art students in the development and execution of a performance
and/or installation with a theme pertaining to Kingston's
waterfront. Developed in partnership with 7a*11d international
performance art festival (Oct 20 - 31) this two part
workshop / event will take place over six days, with
opportunity for public participation on October 16, 17,
and 19 2004.
Continuing with Modern Fuel's tradition of supporting mentorship and professional
development, this workshop will focus on explorations into political, activist
and/or relational-based aspects of waterfront development. This is a fantastic
opportunity to critically engage with the creative process and the issues surfacing/subverting.
Attend the discussion forum to hear what Cheryl and the students have to say
about the ideas they develop in a concentrated timeframe. All are welcome, admission
is free, opinions encouraged.
Events
schedule:
Saturday October 16
LOCATION: Block D (Ontario St. & Gore St.)
TIME: 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Sunday October 17
LOCATION: Block D (Ontario St. & Gore St.)
TIME: 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Tuesday October 19
LOCATION: Modern Fuel - State of Flux space
TIME: 12:00pm to 4:30pm
For more information please call the gallery at 548-4883
The public discussion forum will take place at Modern Fuel Gallery,
7 PM Tuesday 19 October 2004. Admission free - all are welcome. Opinions
encouraged!
Cheryl L’Hirondelle Waynohtew is an Alberta-born,
Saskatchewan-based, Métis/Cree interdisciplinary
artist. She is currently developing performative physical
endurance interventions, producing net art projects
(ndnnrkey.net)
and is one half of the singing duo Nikamok.
WRITE
THE NATION TOUR:
MINGUS TOURETTE'S PINK POETRY AMBULANCE
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 20, 8PM AT MODERN FUEL
Modern
Fuel is pleased to host the Kingston stop of Mingus Tourette's
pink poetry ambulance on its WRITE THE NATION cross-country
tour. A reading will be held on October 20, featuring
Tourette and ambulance co-drivers Kate MacNeill, Tanis
Rideout and Jordan Fry.
Modern Fuel invites Kingston region writers to contribute to the event: if
you would like to read your work, please contact: pinkpoetry@modernfuel.org
ADMISSION BY DONATION: proceeds to the artists.
Adapted
from the Write the Nation press release:
On
October 1st, Mingus Tourette and a volatile band
of poets and writers embark on a three-week, cross-country
book tour in a fully functional 1986 Chevy C-30 One
Ton Pink Ambulance. “Poetry is in a state of
emergency in this country,” says Tourette.
...
In addition to a number of small town saloons and various centres of academic
learning, the tour will be stopping in: Edmonton, Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon,
Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa and Montreal. The
tour plans to hook up with local readers and other writers.
www.writethenation.com
MODERN
FUEL ART AUCTION
SATURDAY OCT 23 2004, 7-10PM
PREVIEW THE WORK BETWEEN 13-23 OCTOBER, NOON-4:30PM
This year Modern Fuel hosts its 22nd annual art
auction, a chance to take home fabulous original artwork
by artists from the Kingston region. This is one of Modern
Fuel's most important fundraising events of the year and
is an opportunity to acquire great work at great prices.
More than 50 works are offered for auction this year, in
a huge variety of media.
Featured artists include: J.T. Winik, Shayne Dark, Simon Andrew, Don Maynard,
Ian Hodkinson, Scott Wallis, Tim DeRose, Evelyn Rapin, and Rebecca Anweiler.
Jill Battson, spoken word and performance artist, will act as Auctioneer and
Kingston-based artist Kyle Bishop will serve as Master of Ceremonies. The event
promises to be an entertaining evening with fine art, delicious food and good
company.
Tickets for the auction are priced at $10, and are now available from Modern
Fuel.
FARIBA SAMSAMI
Wednesday
25 August to Saturday 2 October 2004
Reception Saturday 11 September 2004, 7 pm
Fariba
Samsami exhibits a body of work that responds to political
events and gendered social realities in Iran. Her work addresses
the rapid rise and expansion of Islamic culture in the information
age, in multicultural North American and Europe. In Samsami’s
installations, human hair and chadors become signifiers
of the female body as abject in Iranian culture.
Samsami’s
uses veiling and the colour black as motifs to discuss the
power structure that tyrannises women in Iran. In talking
about her intent Samsami writes: “My work is critical
of the social prohibition and restriction that results from
convention or tradition which encourages women to be passive,
voiceless and submissive.” Samsami’s work confronts
the Historical paradigms of oppression that have slipped
into the present and continue to impact women’s lives
in Iran. The works in this exhibition both name and resist
this oppression.
Fariba
Samsami was born in Tehran, Iran. She is a Montréal-based
artist whose work addresses and raises questions about women’s
issues, responding to their lives in Iran. She received
a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the College of Decorative
Arts (Tehran) in 1980, and a second BFA from Concordia University
in 1993. She has participated in numerous solo and group
exhibitions in Canada and Iran. The artist would like to
thank the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
for a 2003-2004 grant to support her production.
JAM-A-THON
Tuesday
September 14 2004
Grad Club, 162 Barrie St, Kingston
This
is our second Jam-A-Thon - an all-night music feast featuring
an array of talent from the Kingston region. All the performing
artists are donating their time and energy, with proceeds
going towards Modern Fuel, particularly Tone Deaf 3 in October
2004.
Tickets
are $7 in advance (available from Modern Fuel Gallery or
ZAP Records at 340 Princess St) or $10 at the door.
TONE DEAF 3
October 7-10 2004
Modern Fuel Gallery and Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Modern
Fuel's annual festival of experimental sound is running
for four nights this year, curated by Matt Rogalsky. The
first three nights, presented at Modern Fuel Gallery, include
Sandra Marshall, Darren Copeland, Irfaan Manji, Anna Friz,
Those patiently awaiting the shimmery curtains, and Susanna
Hood/Nilan Perera. The final night, at the Agnes Etherington
Art Centre, will feature Kingston's own Live Electroacoustic
Research Kitchen, and sound and film presented by legendary
New York-based composer Phill Niblock.
Full
details of the festival, including performance schedule
and performer bios, can be found on the Tone
Deaf website.
PARKING
ART IN PARKING LOTS
ADRIAN BLACKWELL: CAR COLLECTIVE
3-5
September 2004
RioCan Centre Parking Lot and other parking lot venues TBA
Modern
Fuel is partnering with the Union Gallery to present temporary
artworks in/around/about parking lots in Kingston, Ontario.
Three artists have been invited to develop artworks at local
shopping-mall parking lots. In reaction, three local emerging
artists will develop works to be presented following their
artist-counterparts. This project was developed by Julie
Fiala, Modern Fuel’s Program Director, and made possible
with the help of Jocelyn Purdie, the Union Gallery’s
Managing Director and Project Coordinator Jill Battson,
through the support of the City of Kingston’s Healthy
Community Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario
Arts Council, and Kingston businesses.
Over
Labour Day weekend, Parking Art will present Car Collective
- a sculpture by Adrian Blackwell, designed with Jane Hutton
and Phil Goodfellow, that asks and challenges car owners
to temporarily sacrifice the private space of their car
for use as a public space. Four cars are used as the foundation
columns for a connecting canopy, making it impossible to
drive the cars away. The cars operate as either inhabitable
structure at the edges of the tent, if the tent is open,
or vestibules to the interior, if the tent is closed. The
structure will be erected in different mall parking lots
in Kingston over a three day span.
By
immobilizing and opening the car, the effects of separation
and hierarchy that cars produce in everyday use are reversed:
the secure and private enclosures cars create is violated,
allowing strangers to hang out inside while the strict social
meaning invested in terms like driver’s seat, and
front seat are undermined as the front and back seats become
places of passage.
Car
Collective will be used as a public meeting space in
mall parking lots for discussions about how to transform
the city in progressive ways. At times the space will be
inhabited only by the artists with advertisements for events
scheduled during the weekend; at other times different activist
groups will use the space for various functions.
Car
Collective will appear at various times (TBA) at RioCan
on Friday night 3 September, at Kingston Centre on Saturday
4 September, and at a downtown public lot on Sunday 5 September
2004.
RE-INVENTING RADIO: THE LONG NIGHT
OF RADIO ART 2004
3
September 2004
Web streaming from 1:30pm to midnight
Live in Modern Fuel Gallery from 10pm-midnight
Modern
Fuel ARC will be participating in "The Long Night of
Radio Art", presented by Kunstradio Austria as part
of Ars Electronica 2004. Taking various audio and video
streams from around the world, this event will combine and
redistribute them, streaming from 1:30pm to midnight (Eastern
time Namerica) on Friday, 3 September. Modern Fuel will
be participating from 10:00pm until midnight. Local artist
and board member Matt Rogalsky will be performing for the
event, streaming his contribution to the mix. You are invited
to join us at the gallery to listen and take advantage of
our new high speed internet connection, or to tune in at
your own home.
Links
to the webcast and more information on this event can
be found here.
Abbreviated from the Kunstradio website:
The Long Night of Radio Art 2004 stands in a long tradition
of "Nights of Live Radio Art". which started
15 years ago as a coproduction of Kunstradio and the Ars
Electronica Festival 1989.
In 2004, the Long Night of Radio Art will be the very
first occasion on which Österreich 1, the cultural
channel of the ORF, and members of the EBU (European Broadcasting
Union) will broadcast LIVE for over 10 hours in the new
5.1 format. Re-Inventing Radio - the Long Night of Radio
Art will definitely also be the very first 5.1 Live Project
produced collaboratively by artists working in a network
of geographically remote nodes.
Modern
Fuel Artist-Run Centre
Gjennifer Snider, Program Director
21 A Queen St.
Kingston Ontario Canada K7K 1A1
(613) 548-4883
FAX (613) 548-0696
admin@modernfuel.org
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