Category: Performances

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Artist in residence at Portobeseno Festival

June 16 -22nd 2014

France was invited to take part in the artist in residence program of Portobeseno festival in the Trentino region.

The result culminated in a concert at Castel Beseno June 22nd 2014 with live visuals by live visual HYPER!ION
and SARA FILIPPI.

Castello di Beseno
ingresso libero

VOWELS
NICOLA DI CROCE
FRANCE JOBIN
LUIGI MASTANDREA / ANDREA PELATI

live visual
HYPER!ION
SARA FILIPPI

installazione audio video 
PORTOBESENO

installazione sonora 
CONCRETE BOLOGNA ELETTROACUSTICA 

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Live May.29.2014 – EM15 Play 1 @ Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal salle BWR

EM15 – PLAY 1

The depths of Montréal’s sound-art spectrum submerge all who enter the exemplary PLAY 1, where radical experimenters astound with enchanted circuitry, found sounds and feedback, rendering music sensually physical in the bold strokes of live painting, contemporary dance and large-screen abstractions.

France Jobin will present the world premiere of  ”sans repères“. Created entirely with actual field recordings gathered while on tour in Japan, “sans repères” explores the possibilities brought forth in the absence of absolute points of reference.

Photo – Eri Makita  

May 29, 2014
22:00 – 02:00

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal – Salle BWR
185 Ste-Catherine St. Ouest
Montréal, Canada

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Live May 28.2014 – Manif d’ART7 – Guérilla – Unis par le bruit – United by sound

 

 

GUÉRILLA : UNIS PAR LE BRUIT
Commissaire: Érick d’Orion

La série Guérilla : unis par le bruit consiste en une lecture sonore et cinématographique de la thématique de la septième édition de Manif d’art.

/// La série est présentée dans le cadre de la MANIF D’ART 7, du 28 au 31 mai au Le Cercle ///

/// 28 mai ///

19h: Projection / performances
Dominic Gagnon (Montréal)

19h30: Performances sonores
Martin Tétreault (Montréal) France Jobin (Montréal) Etienne Baillargeon (Lévis)

/// 29 mai ///

19h: Projection / performances
Dominic Gagnon

19h30: Performances sonores
Alexis Bellavance (Montréal) Nataliya Petkova (Québec) Nicolas Jobin (Québec)

/// 30 mai ///

19h: Projection / performances
Dominic Gagnon

19h30: Performances sonores
Erin Sexton (Montréal) Christof Migone (Toronto) K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O. (Alexandre Saint-Onge, Jonathan Parant, Alexander Wilson) (Montréal)

/// 31 mai* ///

19h30: Performances sonores
Steve Bates (Montréal) et Seijiro Murayama (Japon) / untitled (a resistance against capitalist improvised music)

* Avec la participation spéciale de la direction artistique du Cercle.

DATES : Les 28, 29, 30 et 31 mai
HEURE : 19h00 PILE!
LIEU : Sous-sol ( LE SOUS-SOL DU CERCLE )
Prix:
Avec macaron : 10$ pour un soir ou 30$ pour les 4 soirs

Sans macaron : 12$ pour un soir ou 40$ pour les 4 soirs

Sortant de leur confort esthétique, les artistes invités explorent de nouvelles sphères de création. Ils livrent une interprétation toute personnelle des concepts de résistance et de collectivité au cours de performances audio complexes, inédites, sans compromis, où la recherche sonore, autant bruitiste que minimaliste, devient un vecteur de pensée.

Initié par le commissaire Érick d’Orion, le projet est le fruit d’une réflexion sur les différents types de résistance : historique, physique, politique, etc. Chaque performance nourrit un questionnement sur ces concepts et offre au public l’occasion de les approfondir en échangeant avec les créateurs. La série Guérilla : unis par le bruit est donc une invitation à la réflexion dans un contexte qui dépasse le cadre du simple spectacle.

LIENS:
http://kantnagano.bandcamp.com/
http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/bio/tetreault_ma/
http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/fr/programmation/projections/cycle/dominic-gagnon-data-et-la-trilogie-du-web
https://www.francejobin.com/
http://abellavance.blogspot.ca/
http://www.christofmigone.com/index_cm.html
http://erinsexton.com/
http://www.nataliyapetkova.com/
http://etiennebarge.blogspot.ca/
http://www.stevebates.info/
http://www.erickdorion.co/

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Live improv set on Symbiose CIBL

Photography © Christopher Steven Wormald

France was invited to perform a live set during Symbiose,
a radio program dedicated to experimental and avant-garde music.

Hosted by Eric Boivin and Albérick who like to share their  latest musical “coup de coeur” as well as discuss the Montreal music scene.

France performed a new short piece entitled “dégel”. A podcast of the show is available here.

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Live performance by András Blazsek and France Jobin at LACE

This event is set in the context of Steve Roden’s : Shells, Bells, Steps and Silences.
more info below

Variance

instinct, perception, intimacy and proximity are key elements
to my performance at LACE in the context of Steve Roden’s installation.

not experiencing the installation first hand yet, having access to its  sounds files,
a very intimate connection to the work whilesimultaneously, being removed from it.

an allocentric approach to composition,
a delicate balance between presence and absence of knowledge.

Thanks to LACE, Robert Crouch and Steve Roden.

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
András Blazsek is a Hungarian-Slovak media artist, working mainly in the field of sound and installation art. He earned his master’s degree at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2009 and will start his postgraduate studies at the Academy Of Media Arts Cologne this year. Blazsek is a member of the artist group Besorolás Alatt (Unrated). He curated the +3dB contemporary Sound Art Festival in Budapest in 2009 and 2010. He lives and works in Budapest Hungary and Slovakia.  More at amigzaj.blogspot.com.

France Jobin (b. 1958) is a sound / installation / artist, composer and curator residing in Montreal, Canada. Her audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”. It reveals complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installations can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual inspired by architectural elements.

Jobin has created solo recordings for bake/staalplaat (Netherlands), ROOM40 (Australia), nvo (Austria), DER (USA), ATAK (JP), murmur records (JP) and  on the prestigious label LINE (USA). Her work appears on countless compilations. Recently, her sound installation Entre-Deux presented within the new media installation exhibit DATA/FIELDS, was met with critical acclaim in Washington DC. DATA/FIELDS is curated by Richard Chartier and includes Ryoji Ikeda, Mark Fell among others.

Her latest endeavor, immersound, is a concert event/philosophy which she initiated and is curating. She produced the first immersound in Feb 2011 at the Gallery Oboro in Montreal and continues to produce and curate the event with Oboro.

Steve Roden : Shells, Bells, Steps and Silences.

LACE is proud to present Shells, Bells, Steps And Silences, a new video installation and film survey by Los Angeles artist Steve Roden, curated by LACE Associate Director/Curator Robert Crouch. While Roden has been making films for over 20 years, this is the first body of work he has made with video exclusively, although the visual language and the approach to performance is certainly an extension of his 2011 film, Striations. Shells, Bells, Steps And Silences incorporates 3 research projects conducted by the artist over the past year: a collection of sea shells acquired by Roden from the estate of modern dancer Martha Graham, notes from a recent residency at the Walter Benjamin archive in Berlin, and John Cage’s seminal 4’33”, a work that Roden performed daily over the course of an entire year.

ABOUT LACE

MISSION

LACE both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk.  We move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art.  In doing so, we further dialogue and participation between and among artists and those audiences.

HISTORY

Founded in 1978 by a small group of artists, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) has become an internationally recognized pioneer among art institutions. Uniquely positioned among commercial galleries and major art establishments, our nonprofit organization provides a local venue that advocates and exhibits innovations in art-making.  By encouraging experimentation, LACE has nurtured not only several generations of young artists, but also newly emerging art forms such as performance art, video art, digital art, and installation-based work. LACE has presented the work of over 5,000 artists in over 3,000 programs and events, which have provided the impetus for dialogue about contemporary arts and culture for over 30 years.

Many of the artists that LACE has supported over the years, being once unknown, have gone on to become influential and admired individuals in their field, including Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Karen Finley, Dan Graham, Gronk, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Barbara Kruger, Linda Nishio, Tony Oursler, Jorge Pardo, Rudy Perez, Paper Tiger TV, Adrian Piper, Nancy Rubins, Ed Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Diana Thater, Bill Viola, Johanna Went, and Bruce and Normon Yonemoto.

Since moving to Hollywood Boulevard in the mid-1990s, LACE has become a key intermediary between the local community and the contemporary art world. Our prominent spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame allows for a broad and diverse audience.  Since contemporary artists’ interests have moved beyond the gallery itself and into public arenas, LACE’s programs encourage the public to encounter art in their daily existence so that they are engaged by it and also participate in it.  LACE has been deeply involved in the creative vibrancy of the Hollywood community and looks forward to expanding its reach through programming efforts.

LACE’s programming is either free or low-cost, making it accessible to all audiences.  Just in 2008, LACE produced an exciting range of creative and educational activities, including 11 exhibitions, more than 40 public programs, and a mobile public art project. These presentations served nearly 16,000 audience members, and showcased the work of 195 artists and 18 curators. LACE has more than doubled its education and outreach offerings since 2005 and plans to continue this expansion.

LACE has developed ongoing education and outreach programs in order to build audiences and provoke discussions of exhibitions.  These programs include the Salon Series, which are experiential events for adults; ArtWorks, providing hands-on art making workshops for at-risk youth; and the Gallery Guides Program, which provides gallery visitors with a point of entry for the artwork and its concepts.

At a time when public funding for arts education has diminished, and access to the arts becomes more rare for all populations, LACE strives to increase meaningful dialogue between our institution and our diverse community. LACE fosters artistic collaboration and provides Los Angeles audiences with access to stimulating ideas and artworks. These original guiding principles remain at the very heart of the organization today. While the contemporary art community in Los Angeles has grown and expanded over the years, the need for a venue like LACE—free from commercial constraint and unbound by the restrictions imposed by larger institutions—is more essential to the vitality and diversity of that community than ever before.

Recently celebrating its 30th anniversary, LACE has become a part of LA’s history and continues to innovate into the city’s future.

Variance is supported in part by the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres Québec
and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Janvier

 

Studio 303 
presents
JANVIER

Created by Tedi Tafel (conception/direction) 

In collaboration with
 Leslie Baker, Bill Coleman, Dean Makarenko, Lin Snelling,
 Monique Jean, France Jobin (I8U) et Yan Lee Chan
January 13-14-15 & 20-21-22, 6 p. m. to 9 p. m.
661, Rose-de-Lima,
Montreal (metro Lionel-Groulx)

Janvier by Tedi Tafel

Janvier is what happens when talented artists from various disciplines collaborate and use their fertile imaginations to explore in depth the sensuality and mystery that is January. Winter dictates the pace of this piece, in which images unfold slowly. In this atmosphere of ambiguity and shifting shadows, where even the architecture is in perpetual flux, bodies rise slowly from the cold, like winter light emerging ever so gradually from darkness. check video

For artist Tedi Tafel, Janvier represents the culmination of more than twenty years of researching the evocative potential of bodies in non-traditional venues. First presented as part of Calendar, a series of multidisciplinary performances offered throughout the city, each month at a different site, Janvier is back in all its magically suggestive splendour, further enriched by the cumulative experience of a year of Calendar performances.

NB: Janvier flows continuously over a period of three hours. The public is invited to move throughout the site freely, and to come and go as it pleases. However, space is limited. Reservations recommended.

Biography

Tedi Tafel is a Montreal-based choreographer and teacher whose current research interests include site-specific performance and video installation. Her work investigates the expressive potential of the human body in direct relationship to place. Inspired by being in nature, she creates from a need to translate something of this experience back into the city. She transforms public sites into spaces of heightened attention, imagination, and metaphor, thereby diverting us from our habitual, merely functional mode of moving through the city, and awakening in us a more sensual and enchanted engagement with our surroundings. With her latest works, Life-World (2007) and Calendar (2010), Tedi departs from conventional notions of ‘spectacle.’ She invents new forms of presentation that blur the separations between performer and audience, between art and life. Her work has been shown across Canada and in New York, Iceland, Mexico, Germany and Wales.

Janvier is copresented by Studio 303 and l’Agora de la danse.

 

 

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Akousma

AKOUSMA_8

Du 12 au 15 octobre 2011
1345, avenue Lalonde
Montréal (QC) H2L 5A9
Billetterie 514. 521.4493
www.usine-c.com

Le 12 octobre : Pierre-Yves Macé (FR), Roger Tellier Craig (QC)
Le 13 octobre : Hélène Prévost (QC), Stephan Mathieu (DE)
Le 14 octobre : France Jobin (QC), Robert Hampson (GB)
Le 15 octobre : Marc Behrens (DE), Horacio Vaggione (FR)
Programmation détaillée
Mercredi 12 octobre • 20 h • Usine C
TRANS_FORMATION: Roger Tellier-Craig (QC) • Pierre-Yves Macé (FR)
Roger Tellier-Craig est un musicien de Montréal. Ces dix dernières années, il s’est investi dans de nombreux projets, s’inspirant d’un spectre de références contradictoires pour explorer de nouveaux contextes musicaux. Il a été parmi les cofondateurs de Fly Pan Am, de Et Sans (aux côtés d’Alexandre St-Onge), de Set Fire to Flames et de Pas Chic Chic, ainsi que guitariste au sein de la formation Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Sous la signature Le Révélateur, il développe actuellement une esthétique élaborée in extenso à partir de synthétiseurs analogiques, une manière qui n’est pas sans rappeler les beaux jours de la « computer music ».
(titre à venir) création mondialePierre-Yves Macé est un compositeur dont le travail se situe au croisement de la musique électroacoustique, de la musique contemporaine et de l’art sonore. Il est l’auteur de quatre disques solo : Faux-jumeaux (Tzadik, 2002), Circulations (Sub rosa, 2005), crash_test ii (tensional integrity) (Orkhêstra, 2006) et passagenweg (Brocoli, 2009) et il collabore avec de nombreux artistes, dont l’écrivain Mathieu Larnaudie, avec qui il mène depuis 2003 un travail de coécriture qui se décline en plusieurs projets parallèles : chanson pop, lecture/performance et composition électroacoustique ou radiophonique.
MINIATURES/Song Recycle (2010) – 40 minutes

***** Soirée en co-diffusion avec Le Vivier (www.levivier.ca) • Pierre-Yves Macé est l’invité d’Ekumen

Jeudi 13 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

RADIO_DIFFUSION: Hélène Prévost (QC) • Stephan Mathieu (DE)
Hélène Prévost a longtemps été réalisatrice et animatrice d’émissions consacrées aux musiques nouvelles à Radio-Canada (1978-2007). La radio et la diffusion occupent toujours une place de choix au cœur de ses préoccupations et, pour sa performance, plusieurs appareils radio sont utilisés comme source continue de matériau, flux indéterminé qui réagit à l’environnement. L’artiste poursuit son travail d’exploration et développe pour ce faire un instrument singulier, qui est un croisement entre le studio radiophonique et le laboratoire électroacoustique.
U/ONZE – 35 minutes création mondialeDesigner acoustique de premier ordre, Stephan Mathieu est considéré comme l’un des plus importants « musiciens de laptop » du moment. Il fait partie de ces artistes du son qui ont également une formation en arts visuels et dont l’inspiration peut aussi s’incarner sous forme d’installations sonores. Cela dit, au-delà des a priori conceptuels, la musique de Stephan Mathieu comporte indubitablement une grande sensualité.
Music for Columbia Phonoharp (2011) – 50 minutes création nord-américaine

Vendredi 14 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

SENS_ACTION: France Jobin (QC) • Robert Hampson (GB)
France Jobin (aussi connue sous l’alias i8u) explore les franges atmosphériques d’un vaste territoire acoustique dans lequel défilent des images qui témoignent de sa sensibilité aux arts visuels ; certains observateurs décrivent ses œuvres comme de véritables sculptures sonores. Avec Event Horizon, elle propose, dans le cadre d’AKOUSMA, un beau voyage dont le titre évoque la frontière entre la matière et le vide.
Event Horizon (2009) – 35 minutes création mondiale
La diffusion d’Event Horizon est rendu possible avec l’appui aux activités de diffusionle d’Oboro.

Robert Hampson provient du monde de la pop psychédélique et du shoegazing. Toujours actif avec son projet collaboratif Main, il se consacre également depuis les années 2000 à un travail davantage axé vers l’exploration sonore et la diffusion acousmatique. Sa musique démontre une qualité d’écoute qui se traduit par une grande finesse d’écriture dans laquelle prend forme une trame narrative mystérieuse et inouïe.
Ahead – Only The Stars (2007)
Commande du VIBRO (13 mins) – Published by Touch Music création nord-américaine
Dans Le Lointain (2008)
Commande du GRM (20 mins) – Published By Touch Music création nord-américaine
Repercussions (2011)
Commande du GRM (20 mins) – Published by At The Surface création nord-américaine

Samedi 15 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

ORGANI_SON: Marc Behrens (DE) • Horacio Vaggione (FR/AR)
Marc Behrens est un artiste sonore en perpétuel renouvellement. Son expérience musicale éclectique (musiques industrielle, concrète, minimal glitch, paysage sonore, etc.) et ses nombreuses collaborations témoignent de la diversité esthétique de ses œuvres, dont le point commun est une évidente sensibilité.
Queendom (2009) : 8:07
voice: Yôko Higashi création nord-américaine
Sleppet (2–3): Avalanches, Water and Stones (2008) : 9:35 création nord-américaine Sleppet (4) Glacier (2008) : 10:00
Irregular Characters (2010) : 19:41
using material by: Yasunao Tone création nord-américaineHoracio Vaggione fait partie des pionniers de l’électroacoustique, mais son œuvre ne porte pas le poids du passé, bien au contraire ; nous sommes ici devant une musique d’une grande vivacité. Son intérêt envers le caractère énergétique du son est au premier plan de son travail. La virtuosité du compositeur nous permet d’entrer dans ce monde invisible où matière, durée et énergie sont en pleine convolution. Ses œuvres se présentent sous forme de grandes fresques abstraites qui diffusent leur beauté au travers de la cohérence du discours et de la forme musicale.
Arenas (2007) : 15’ création nord-américaine
Ash (1990) : 15’
Points critiques (2011) : 16’ création canadienne