Archive
M:ST 2 Artists
UNINVITED GUESTS
/ Marie-Suzanne Desilets
& Jean-Francois Prost (Montreal, PQ)
LOCATION: Rooftop of Stride
Gallery
April 3–17 / 2003
(DAILY)
Flat and immense,
filled with secrets and incongruities, urban roofs are viewed as virgin
territories or evolving landscapes that are open to experimentation and
exploration. Uninvited Guests will be an urban intervention piece integrating
two interdependent parts: 1) the installation of a light and mobile dwelling
on a rooftop located in downtown Calgary; and 2) a series of actions whereby
the artists will disseminate plant seeds from this dwelling.
Marie-Suzanne Desiléts is a Montreal, multidisciplinary artist whose practice focuses primarily on public interventions. Presenting her work extensively in Quebec in galleries and urban settings, she has most recently begun collaborating with Jean-Francois Prost.
Jean-François Prost is a Montreal artist, architect and environmental designer who has presented his various exhibitions, interventions, architecture and design works in national and international venues and public spaces.
ART JOCK EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE
/ Liss Platt (New York,
NY)
Olympic Plaza
April 10 / 2003: 12:30 PM
April 17 / 2003: 3:00 PM
In 1999 Liss Platt created the personae 'Art Jock' as a way to fuse her two primary identities, as artist and athlete, into one practice. The works she produces as Art Jock are all traces of sporting activities and represent the gesture and physicality of the sports she plays. While the moniker 'Art Jock' is ironic – juxtaposing two stereotypically opposite cultures and mocking the 'bad boys' of art - the work is a genuine attempt to transform sports into art and to carve out a space for the female-athlete-artist. For MST, Platt will present three aspects of this work, which will include an exhibition of puck paintings in the main space, an off-site performance where she will create a puck painting, and an experimental/laboratory space in the project room that will display a wide range of Art Jock artifacts.
Liss Platt is a New York artist currently living and teaching in Hamilton, Ontario. She has exhibited her work in various galleries and festivals across the US and Canada including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Herland Film Festival, Calgary; The Knitting Factory, New York; and New Works Gallery, IL. Platt has received numerous grants and fellowships including a scholarship for a seven-week residency, The Sporting Life, at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
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