Michael Chambers

Jamaican born, Toronto-based photographer Michael Chambers submitted in 1990 the first black AIDS poser for the AIDS committee of Toronto. According to him his body of work figure as a documentary of various aspects of the human journey, a vehicule for social commentary to stimulate reflection, and to examine passions surrounding diverse world issues. Chambers's accomplishments  have been recognize at numerous occasions. He was the recipient of  several awards namely the 2010 Harry Jerome Award, 2007 WORD Magazine’s Arts Award, and the 2000 Mosaic Image Award for his contributions in art and photography.

http://www.michaelchambersphotography.com/

Geneviève Wallen 

Media coordinator

Dear EAHR members,

On December first it was Day without Art which marks a time when international art organisations take pauses to  reflect and engage with the world wide AIDS crisis and its impact on cultural life. I have the desire to share now and then for the rest of this month some initiatives taken by Canadian institutions and artists. 

Today, I would like to underline the initiative of two non-profits organizations which foster interactive ways to unite art disciplines, discussions and education:

Art for AIDS International
Based in London, Ontario, Canada, this non-profit organization organizes art and awareness workshops, and the funds raised from the sale of student artwork helps grassroots organizations in sub-Saharan Africa. One of its main programs is the Twinning Program in which corporations, school boards, unions, and other groups sponsor a school in their local community and a school in Africa. Workshops are held in both schools, and the students assemble a joint portfolio of artwork. Art for AIDS International has a gallery in downtown London, Ontario, with a permanent exhibition of art made by young people from around the

world.


More information: www.artforaidsinternational.org





Insight Theatre (CANADA)


Developed by Planned Parenthood Ottawa, this is a non-profit, public education theatre program created by, for, and about youth living in Ottawa, Canada. Every year for the last 26 years, senior level students create, act in, and direct an hour-long play on sexual and reproductive health that takes into account issues facing LGBTQ youth.


More information: www.ppottawa.ca/programs.aspx?id=32


Media Coordinator Geneviève Wallen

Special EAHR symposium / Symposium spécial organisé par le EAHR

Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada

Dear EAHR members,

Please join us Wednesday December 5th 2012, from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. in room EV-3.760 for a special EAHR symposium featuring talks by Jon Soske and Sharlene Bamboat in which they will engage with issues that are related to the South Asian diaspora.

Jon Soske is an Assistant Professor of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, and he will discuss two projects that appeared independently in 2009—South-South: Interruptions & Encounters and Chimurenga 14: “Everyone Has Their Indian”—reflecting on different literary and aesthetic strategies of “mapping” the intersecting histories of Africa and South Asia. Well, not exactly, since the maps in question lead to a different place each time one tries to use them, and when one finally returns to where one started, whether “Africa” or “India,” the meaning of the each term has been enriched and displaced by the other, creating geographies of unlikely inheritance and difficult intimacies.

Sharlene Bamboat is a Toronto-based artist who will be speaking about her film, video and performance practice, in relation to her programming experience for both SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) and the Pleasure Dome Experimental Film & Video Collective. Bamboat will also discuss MONITOR, SAVAC’s annual South Asian experimental film and video program; opening up the archive of work from the last 7 years to speak about the shifting nature of identity markers within the diaspora, as well as shifts in politics within a global context. Her discussion will also address the challenges programmers face within a specific South Asian context in Toronto, as well as the ways in which her curatorial and art practices attempt to push the boundaries of conceptual art.

Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada has been organized by Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR), a

EAHR’s activities are made possible with the support of The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History at Concordia University.

EARH Media Coordinators,

Genevieve Wallen and Sarah C. de Montigny

A FRENCH VERSION WILL FOLLOW

Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada

Cher membres EAHR,

Veuillez nous joindre le mercredi 5 décembre de 18h30 à 20h00 en la salle EV-3.760 pour ce  symposium spécial organisé par le EAHR. En cet événement les conférenciers Jon Soske et Sharlene Bamboat aborderont de manière critique certaines problématiques liées à la diaspora sud asiatique.

Jon Soske est assistant professeur en histoire et études classiques à l’université McGill et il fera part en sa présentation de deux projets apparus indépendamment en 2009 soit : South-South: Interruptions & Encounters and Chimurenga 14: “Everyone Has Their Indian”. Ces œuvres font une réflexion sur les différentes stratégies littéraires et esthétiques entreprises afin de “cartographier” l’entrecroisement de repères historiques de l’Afrique et l’Asie du Sud. En fait, il ne s’agit pas d’une carte au sens littérale puisque cette cartographie particulière ne mène jamais au même endroit, car lorsqu’un retour au questionnement  initial se fait, que se soit de l’Afrique ou de l’Inde, la définition de chaque terme employé fut enrichi et déraciné par l’autre créant donc, une géographie ayant un héritage singulier et une intimité lourde de sens.

Sharlene Bamboat est une artiste de Toronto qui discutera de ses vidéos et performances en relation avec son expérience en la création d’une programmation pour la SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) et the Pleasure Dome Experimental Film & Video Collective. L’artiste parlera entre autre de MONITOR un événement annuel organisé par la SAVAC qui fait la promotion de films expérimentaux d’artistes originaires de l’Asie du Sud. Elle abordera aussi en sa présentation ses observations concernant l’instabilité des marqueurs identitaires en la diaspora sud asiatique et changements politiques en un contexte global via une investigation des archives de MONITOR. Sharlene Bamboat traitera donc, des défis et enjeux professionnels encourus afin de repousser les limites de l’art conceptuel et l’établissement d’un programme centré sur un contexte sud asiatique à Toronto.

Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada fut organisé par l’Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR), qui est un mouvement

100% étudiants dont le mandat se centre sur les problématiques de la représentation culturelle en les arts visuels au Canada.

Les activités du EAHR sont possibles grâce au support de l’institue d’études d’art canadien Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky et le département d’histoire de l’art de l’université Concordia.

Coordonnatrices des médias EARH,

Genevieve Wallen et Sarah C. de Montigny

Here are some pictures from Marlee Parsons's Psychic Cell Reader performance at ARTX 480 (advanced integrated studio in contemporary art practices) course’s year-end 2012 exhibition.

FYI, event at FOFA

Dear Friends, Colleagues & Professors, 

Do you have questions about your health? 
Are you concerned with the hand heredity has dealt you? 
Do you want to decode the secrets of your future hidden in all of your cells?

Join renowned Psychic Cell Reader Marlee Parsons as she shares her insights with the Montreal Community. From a sample of cells donated by the client, the cellular analysis will illuminate the client's health future. From Nov 26 through Dec 7 drop into her cell reading clinic for a consultation, graciously hosted by FOFA Gallery.


Clinic hours:
Mon 26 12:30-1:30
Tues 27 3:30-4:30
Wed 28 12:45-1:45
Thurs 29 4:00-5:00

Mon 3 12:30-1:30
Tues 4 12:30-1:30
Wed 5 12:45-1:45
Finissage - Fri 7 5:00-6:00


"Combine" at the FOFA gallery includes 17 works, the "best of" Concordia's Undergraduate Fine Arts Students. Located in the ground floor of the EV Building, Concordia University at the corner of McKay & Ste Catherine Ouest.http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/01exhibitions.htm

Have a great week.
Media coordinator - Sarah C.

A glimpse of Melissa Aytenfisu's vernissage.

A glimpse of Melissa Aytenfisu's vernissage.

                                       
                                 

                                       

I would like to congratulate Melissa for her great work. I also would like to thank her for allowing me to fully participate on the conception her first solo show! It was a nice and warm event. Friends, family and others came to give their support and appreciate her talent. Congrats! I wish you a great continuation.

Geneviève media coordianator

Artist Talk with Lani Maestro

As announced earlier this week, next week there will be a guest lecture initiated by the Concordia University Art History Department in collaboration with EAHR. Come in great numbers this should be very interesting. 

Artist Talk w/ Lani Maestro

Tuesday November 20th, 2:00 p.m., Rm. EV 3.760

Filipina Canadian visual artist, Lani Maestro is the 2012 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist. Maestro will be discussing her art practice, which spans over 25 years.

Have a great week, 
EARH Media Coordinator,

 Sarah de Montigny

FYI

Artist Talk w/ Lani Maestro

Tuesday November 20th, 2:00 p.m., Rm. EV 3.760 -Initiated by the Art History Dept. in collaboration with EAHR.

Filipina Canadian visual artist, Lani Maestro is the 2012 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist. Maestro will be discussing her art practice, which spans over 25 years.

More infos about the artist:

http://www.canadianart.ca/news/2012/11/01/hnatyshyn/

http://plugin.org/exhibitions/2011/lani-maestro-her-rain

Melissa Aytenfisu Exhibition

Dear EAHR followers it is our pleasure to announce the first solo exhibition of our friend Melissa Atenfysu which runs from November 4th to December 1st. The vernissage is this Sunday November 11th !!!

Melissa Aytenfisu’s most recent exhibition of paintings, drawings, digital prints and photographs makes a sharp inquiry on the notion of mobility in the 21st century. The various components of the installation flow seamlessly together, bound by their common focus on human migration, both individual and collective. Some of the works convey physical or literal aspects of human mobility; others illuminate more abstract concepts of change within social, cultural and economic hierarchies. Throughout her works, Aytenfisu weaves a common thread that allows the spectators to understand mobility as both a challenging and transformative feature of the human experience.

The exhibition is born out of Aytenfisu’s personal migration experiences which have in turn made her further aware of others experiences. Rooted in Edmonton Alberta, where she was born and raised, Aytenfisu was transplanted to Montreal, where she has studied and worked for much of the last ten years. A two year stint as a teacher and artist in Macau, China, along with several visits to her ancestral home of Ethiopia further molded her perspectives on place and identity. In both its subjects and themes, Aytenfisu’s artwork has been organically suffused with the rich worldview which she developed as a consequence of her own mobility.

Throughout the Mobility series, Aytenfisu invites the spectator to share the beauty and engage with the energy of her subjects as they perform various forms of mobility. She also challenges the viewer to understand, and perhaps question, the contemporary global paradigms which either promote or inhibit human mobility across social, cultural and economic barriers.

Vernissage : lundi 5 novembre à 18 h

Le MAI a le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage de l'exposition

OÙ AI-JE DÉJÀ VU CELA ?

de l'artiste Parissa Mohit

Exhibition opening: Monday, November 5, 6 pm

The MAI is pleased to invite you to the opening of

WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS BEFORE?

by artist Parissa Mohit

Installation vidéographique projetée sur les fenêtres du MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Où j'ai déjà vu cela ? sollicite par sa poésie urbaine les passants de la rue Jeanne-Mance à Montréal. Conçu à partir de la technique du cinéma d'animation, ce triptyque vidéographique puise son inspiration dans les miniatures persanes anciennes ainsi que dans le Montréal contemporain. Recherchant la similarité entre le passé et le présent, la trame narrative estompe les notions du temps et du lieu. L’œuvre de Parissa Mohit amalgame la représentation picturale médiévale aux images de Montréalais croquées sur le vif. Création gigogne - histoire qui en cache une autre - Où ai-je déjà vu cela ? insuffle un sens épique à ces tranches de vie montréalaises. Danse au tam-tam, bataille médiévale au Mont-royal et moments intimes dans les parcs de Montréal, autant de scènes du quotidien qui se superposent aux légendes persanes.





Les études en scénographie de Parissa Mohit ont grandement influencé sa pratique actuelle dans l’animation. Créés à partir de collages de photos et de dessins, ses films explorent les domaines de l’imaginaire. En 2007, elle crée 01804 un dessin animé projeté au Festival des Films du Monde, et en 2010, l’Homme et le Train rafle lePrix du court métrage Georges Laoun Opticien OBORO du Festival du nouveau cinéma.




Où ai-je vu cela? est le fruit d’une résidence conjointe PRIM/MAI.



A video installation projected onto the windows of the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Où ai-je déjà vu cela ? (Where have I seen this before?) attracts the attention of passers-by on Jean-Mance street in Montreal with its urban poetry. Conceived using animated film techniques, this video triptych draws its inspiration from ancient persian minatures, as well as from contemporary Montreal. Creating a similarity between past and present, the narrative erases the concepts of time and space. Parissa Mohit joins medieval pictorial representation with images of montrealers sketched from real life. A new work with a Russian doll construction - each stroy conceals another - Où ai-je déjà vu cela ? Breathes a sense of epic into these slices of Montreal life. A Tam-Tam dance, a medieval battle on Mount-Royal, and an intimate moment in a park are some of the scenes of everyday life superimposed on Persian legends.




Parissa Mohit’s studies in set design greatly influenced her present-day work in animation. Created out of collages of photos and drawings, her films explore the realms of the imaginary. In 2007, she created 01804, an animated film screened at the World Film Festival, and in 2010 L’Homme et le Train won the Prix du court métrage Georges Laoun Opticien OBORO at the Festival du nouveau cinéma.





Où ai-je vu cela? is the fruit of a joint PRIM/MAI residency.

Pictures from Nuria Carton de Grammont Guest Lecture on October 25th

Our first guest speaker of the season has been a shining success. We would like to share with you a few pictures from Nuria Carton de Grammont’s Lecture as well as thank all those who came to share with us this amazing experience. 

 The Lecture is about to Start, shhhh! =)

 Some of the brave people who came to the lecture on Thursday night having heated discussions about the subculture of violence in Mexico's contemporary art scene. 

Part of the EAHR team with Nuria Carton de Grammont

"Narco-art and the culture of violence–Exploring the emergence of a subculture of violence in Mexican contemporary art" w/Nuria Carton de Grammont Thurs. Oct 25th 2012, 6:00pm – 7:30 pm, EV-3.760

Monitor 9 Submission

                                   *****SHORT FILM SUBMISSION*****


 MONITOR 9: New South Asian Film and Video
DEADLINE: Friday November 9th, 2012 5 PM
SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) invites submissions for its ninth annual
experimental short film and video screening program, Monitor 9.

Monitor 9 is dedicated to the presentation of experimental short films and videos
by/and/or about South Asians from Canada and around the world. We invite
independent and innovative short films and videos that explore the aesthetic and
form of the moving image and its relation to narrative. Monitor 9 encourages new,
experimental and risk-taking work that challenges the viewer’s active
engagement.
Selected works will be screened at the ninth annual short film and video
screening program, Monitor 9 on March 14, 2013 in Toronto, Canada. Monitor 9
will be programmed by independent curator and artist Nahed Mansour.
Monitor is reviewed by a jury of contemporary artists, curators and programmers.
This year’s jury consists of Renata Mohamed, Noni Kaur, Cheyanne Turions and
Rehab Nazzal.

GUIDELINES
Works must be under 20 minutes and produced after 2010.
Submissions from first time directors are welcome. Artist fees will be paid.
Submissions MUST include all the following:
• Name of artist or director
• Full contact information (address, phone, email, website)
• Title of work
• Date of production (No earlier than 2010)
• Brief synopsis of the work (300 words max)
• Brief biography of the artist (200 words max)
• Artist CV
• High-resolution production stills
Submissions can be sent via email with a URL link to the artist/director’s
YouTube/Vimeo account (please provide passwords if necessary).
The subject heading must state MONITOR9_ARTISTLASTNAME to
sharlene@savac.net
Submissions can be sent on DVD (PAL, NTSC) enclosed with the following:
Send all materials to:

SAVAC – MONITOR 9
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 450
Toronto, ON Canada M5V 3A8
Inquiries can be sent to sharlene@savac.net with the subject title: MONITOR 9
All deliveries from international participants must be marked:
"NO COMMERCIAL VALUE" Please do not claim any monetary value over $50
on your package for insurance or otherwise or you will be charged customs,
duties and taxes.
All submissions must be sent prepaid. SAVAC will not accept collect or C.O.D.
shipments and will not accept shipments incurring expenses for duties, taxes or
customs brokerage.
Please note that ONLY selected artists will be contacted by December 21st,
2012. Submissions will only be returned if the package includes a self-addressed
stamped envelope (in Canadian postage) or send a cheque payable to SAVAC
for the return postage amount.
For more information, please contact:
Sharlene Bamboat
Programming Coordinator
SAVAC [South Asian Visual Arts Centre]
Telephone: 416.542.1661
Email: sharlene@savac.net
Website: www.savac.net

Exhibition & Vernissage: "Mapping Cultural Belonging" from March 15th - April 15th, 2012

Mapping Cultural Belonging – An exhibition that examines the construction of the self through in a globalized digital age, where culture is no longer defined by territorial boundaries. 

Featuring works by: Shahrzad Amin, Hans Bobanovits, Kandis Friesen, Keivan Khademi Shamami, Ronak Kordestani, and Cardy Lai.

Please join us for the vernissage and artist talk for Mapping Cultural Belonging, on
Tuesday March 20^th 2012, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm in room EV-3.760. The exhibition is presented in the Vitrine of the 3^rd floor of the EV building from March 15 – April 15, 2012.

This exhibition examines the construction of the self through language, place and policy. In a globalized digital age, culture is no longer defined by territorial boundaries but through the intersection of multiple histories. The works in this exhibition are the products of six Concordia undergraduate students, and they express how each artist negotiates belonging to their family, ancestry, and city of residence. The works engage in the struggle to articulate linguistic and cultural identities. They transcend physical and geographical boundaries by means of adaptation, transnationalism and hybridity.

Mapping Cultural Belonging is curated by EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research work group), a 100% student-driven work group that engages with issues of cultural representation in the visual arts. The curatorial team is comprised of eleven EAHR members currently studying Art History and/or Fine Arts: Carolina Garcia Amatos ▫ Rajee Jejishergill ▫ Adrienne Johnson ▫ Hearyung Kim ▫ Katerina Korola ▫ Sally Lee ▫ Marlee Parsons ▫ Emma Siemens-Adolphe ▫ Genevieve Wallen ▫ Brittany Watson. While the exhibition meets the pedagogical requirements of Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim’s art history course, ARTH 389 (Issues in Ethnocultural Art Histories: Race, Citizenship and Art in Canada), it also provides an opportunity for the participants to gain professional experience. 

For more information on Mapping Cultural Belonging please contact EAHR coordinators Adrienne Johnson and Sally Lee and at ethnoculturalarts@gmail.com

EAHR’s activities are made possible by the financial support of The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History at Concordia University.

Don’t Call It A Comeback Concordia University’s annual undergraduate fibers exhibition March 17 - 24 2012

The Diagonale Artist-Run Center will be presenting in collaboration with the Fibers Student Association, Concordia University’s annual undergraduate fibers exhibition.

+WORK: An ARTX480 Interdiciplinary Exhibition

WORK is a collaborative

 exhibition of artwork by students brought together through the ARTX 480 Integrated Studio In Contemporary Practices course. This initiative comes from a desire to exhibit our work together outside of a university classroom setting, engaging with the wider arts community and the Montreal community at large. For more Info:  http://workyourwork.weebly.com/

Artist talk: Jin-me Yoon Feb. 29, 2012 @10:30am, EV-1.605

Deanna Bowen Lecture Feb. 16, 2012 5:30pm @ McGill University Arts Building, Room W-215

Art History and Communication Studies

Speakers Series 2012

Presents a lecture by: Deanna Bowen

Thursday, February 16^th, 2012: 5:30pm

McGill  University, Downtown Campus

853 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal

Arts Building, Room W-215

“The Ties that Bind: Recent Works”

Deanna Bowen is a descendant of the Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneers of Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. She is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in numerous film festivals and galleries. She has received several grants in support of her artistic practice. Current works have been shown at the Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, the Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, the Images Festival of Film, Video & New Media, the Art Gallery of Peterborough, and the Art Gallery of York University. She was recently awarded research/creation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to develop and create Pain and Wastings (formerly visitations), an experimental video installation/dual portrait based on her mother's stories of growing up in one of the few black families residing in Vancouver, BC through the 1950s-'80s. Bowen is currently working on The Paul Good Papers, an interdisciplinary residency/installation for the Images Festival and Gallery 44 (April 2012 launch) based on the archived recordings of veteran broadcast Civil Rights reporter Paul Good. Bowen will also premiere a major solo intervention/exhibition that unravels the Ku Klux Klan and its connections to Canada for Spring 2013 @ the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) in Toronto.

Co-sponsored by:

The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

Media and Urban Life Research Group (FQRSC)
Social Equity and Diversity in Education

Black Student Network

EAHR - Vitrine Exhibition - Call for Submissions - Deadline FEB 20