NUIT BLANCHE Requiem 2013
LA PETITE MORT GALLERY presents REQUIEM
@ SUPERNOVA: NUIT BLANCHE OTTAWA 2013
Sunset to Sunrise, somewhat.
LIVE TUNES BY
Dialoog
Michael Powell & Yuri Bakker
One Dutch magazine describes Dialoog’s dance-floor as intergalactisch.
A smeltkroes of hiphop, electro, funk, jazz, and classic. Not to mention the onbereikbare niveaus van grooveheid.
No translation required. Astronauts make love to Dialoog.
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REQUIEM
Statement:
The choice is ours to make between life and death. Do we read a supernova through the preliminary explosion of energy into expansive space, or through the residual effects of collapse and recession into darkness after the event occurs? REQUIEM will stage a space that attempts to reconcile discontinuities of the lived and unlived: of action and rest, of production and reflection, and of virile agency and tranquil repose.
Gallery 1 will feature POST MORTEM, a travelling international curatorial project between curators Felipe Bracelis (Santiago, Chile) & Guy Berube (Ottawa, Canada. This exhibit explores how our different cultures interpret death.
Gallery 2 will feature REQUIEM, a One-Night-Only project in which chosen artists will present work onto select pages of vintage pop culture publications showcasing since-dead star figures. The gallery space as a whole will act as a transient yet intimate stage for the collective energies of the evening to rectify in a state of both remembrance and of memory-making.
REQUIEM will explore the (dis)location and (dis)connection of both lived and represented subjectivities as to question the limits of presence through and against plasticity. The ways in which we mediate, relate and fetishize art and objects allows for a meditation on what it is to be an active body in the contemporary moment.
To treat life against death is to catalyze the fragility of now. We are systematically trained to forget ourselves as vehicles of pleasure. To resist the mold, we must attempt to honour the thrill of each parting breath. REQUIEM will act on remembrances of the absent as to form a celebration of a lived corporeal presence.
– Written by Adam Barbu, La Petite Mort Gallery, 2013
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LIVE MUSIC:
DIALOOG
Michael Powell & Yuri Bakker
Rotterdam, NL
Dialoog (Dutch: ‘dialogue’).
The universe was kind to place Yuri & Michael on either side of a townhouse wall, growing up in Rotterdam, NL. Trained at Juilliard and Berklee, respectively, it’s remarkable—while highly unlikely—for two virtuosic artists to be paired so.
In the same clubs countless DJs press play and continue to pose through pre-recorded sets, Dialoog succeed in realizing unparalleled live electro concerts.
Hear them here: http://www.popdrone.ca/#!dialoog/c1pm4
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS
LA PETITE MORT GALLERY// NUIT BLANCHE OTTAWA 2013:
OPEN CALL for artists interested in a collaborative group installation titled Requim at LPM Gallery for Nuit Blanche Ottawa 2013. We will be supplying vintage publications of Interview magazines from which to work. Artists will choose a single page (sized at 14 ½ x 11 inches, no multiples) from these magazines, and using any desired medium or process will represent a deceased celebrity/star of choice.
Drop by the gallery from business hours beginning Friday July 19, and return the completed work by Friday September 13, one week prior to the evening (it is advised that it be returned prior to deadline). Note that works will be added to the gallery’s metallic wall, and as such will be secured with small magnets. There is to be no mounting, no framing or no special formatting – i.e: the page must stay as is. Also note that the artist’s name and contact information must be included with the submission and that all work must be signed on the front or the back of the page.
*Pick up your page during LPM Gallery’s business hours
*All selected works will be shown at a fixed price of $65 with 50% standard commission to the gallery
*All unsold artworks are to be picked up during the week following Nuit Blanche
For further information, please email:
guy@guyberube.com
For detail on LPM Gallery’s Nuit Blanche installation visit:
http://www.guyberube.com/sept-21/
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ALSO FEATURED: ART PERFORMANCE BY NATALIE BRUVELS (in the lower level of the gallery, along with guest bartender & Rockstar Michael Plante):
‘If one is in search of the hypnotic nebulous experience of gazing, with nothing short of awe, at a supernova-like formation, one need not necessarily look to the skies – simply straight ahead into the seemingly cosmic depth and mystery of another’s eyes. Curiously they appear quite similar’. – Natalie Bruvels, 2013
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Natalie Bruvels’ aim for NBO13 is to interact with willing participants – young and old –by drawing their portraits. During the drawing of the portraits both Natalie and the participant are to maintain eye contact. The portrait is a free souvenir of this brief intimate moment.