projects
March 24, 2012
revus, 2012, galerie b-312, montréal, québec.
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inked dreams, work on paper, 2012.
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le mur saint martin, 2011, paris, france.
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viva! art action, 2011, montréal, québec.
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sittin’ with moncton, 2011, jè-st’, moncton, new brunswick.
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harper’s canada, 2011, the john snow house, calgary, alberta.
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porteur de rêves/dream listener the book, 2011.
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grandeur nature/life-size, 2011, articule, montréal, québec.
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has not yet arrived, 2011, praxis, sainte thérèse, québec.
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sittin’, 2010, 7a*11d, toronto, ontario.
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une étendue apparement infinie et tentaculaire,
2010, skol, montréal, québec. 2010, paved, saskatoon, saskatchewan.
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teasing the furtive, 2010 – 2011, curatorial project with skol.
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sittin’
May 8, 2012
police car rolled into the park, stopped in front of a bench, beeped its siren – the man did not move.
title: sittin’ with
location: montréal québec
duration: ongoing (one year)
supported by: the canada council
a new project still in the unfolding stages: blog:http://sittinwith.wordpress.com
where: 4574 rue sherbrooke ouest, westmount, québec
what: poetry and pastry
who: nathaniel spencer-cross, jack locke, karen elaine spencer
revus – galerie b-312, montréal, québec
March 24, 2012
title: revus (with mathieu beauséjour, clément de gaulejac, aude moreau and david k. ross)
year: 2012
location: galerie b-312, and streets of montréal, québec
duration: one month
supported by: galerie b-312
press: le devoir, les samedi 7 et dimanche 8 avril, 2012, livres d’or, paroles d’argent, p. e 7, delgado, jérôme. ledevoir3
ink on cardboard – 21 x 28 cm. each
photos: the artist
black enamel and acrylic on cardboard -
photos: jack locke
selected comments penned in the gallery’s guest books are transposed to cardboard and redirected to address a provincial politician. two versions of the transposed comments are exhibited; the ink on cardboard at the gallery and the enamel on cardboard which is taken to the street, held and eventually posted on an existing support. the comments are directed to jean (charest) the current premier of québec (liberal party), pauline (marois) the leader of the parti québécois, françois (legault) the leader of coalition avenir québec, and amir (khadir) a co-leader of québec solidaire.
les flâneuses
March 16, 2012
les flâneuses : camila vasquez, karen elaine spencer, sandra lachance, schütze, bernard; saint-thérèse, québec : praxis art actuel, (2011) 46p. couverture souple. isbn 978 2980546 969.
things that can not be archived
March 7, 2012
2012
things that can not be archived
voice: karen elaine spencer recorded by tim d’eon – as part of bia/oar residency at galerie skol, montréal, québec, 2009.
actor: nathaniel spencer cross filmed by karen elaine spencer, montréal, québec.
le mur saint martin, paris, france
February 16, 2012
title: transient traces
year: 2011
location: le mur saint martin, paris france, the twitter site unhoused, and the blog transient traces
duration: one month
presented by: le mur saint martin
(messages sur cartes postales adressées aux élus parisiens)
here you can follow the evolution of the wall over the duration of the intervention – from a block of postcards at the start, to one postcard with a figure and painted text at the end.
examples of sent postcards:
viva! art action 2011
February 15, 2012
title: speech acts, orange, walk with me
year: 2011
location: bain st-michel, montréal, québec
duration: 6 days (4-9 octobre)
supported by: praxis art actuel, viva! art action
photos: guy l’heureux
speech acts, orange, and walk with me, were conceived to be three separate performances that intertwined and spoke to each other.
speech acts took as its locale those spaces in-between the “official” and legitimized performances. the first night performance was between acts, taking the microphone, thanking the audience for their stillness, for stopping. the following nights speech acts moved into the location between the performance space and the washrooms, where people lined up politely, making small talk while waiting their turn. here oranges and a chair were barriers to an easy passage. the aroma of oranges scented the air while an ever growing accumulation of peels and flesh invited flies and decay.
orange was an off-site intervention into the space surrounding le bain, taking the orange as a marker, as a trace. over the course of the festival oranges were placed in sites that evoked vulnerability, a certain tenderness.
walk with me began a response to michelle lacombe‘s body of work. the one with one performance, first performed with michelle, later spread to other bodies, other walks.
photo: jack locke
to read what TouVA wrote about walk with me click here.
and to read about what i did as a participant in jessica maccormack‘s intervention click here.
linocut varied edition print
February 5, 2012
hendrickje – image size: 15 x 41 cm.
new work – ink on paper
February 5, 2012
