About this Event
HABITAT
Join us for an evening of experimental sound and video performance featuring a dynamic lineup of boundary-pushing artists:
Mike Clemow (NYC)
Jenn Grossman (NYC)
Matthew D. Gantt (NYC)
Amanda Gutierrez (MX-QC)
Justine Durand (video) (QC)
Aziz Boughedir (video) (TN-QC)
Doors 8pm
Music 9pm
$15
Cash bar
MIKE CLEMOW (they/he) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. They make performances and installations using sound, text, images, and found objects, creating improvised and speculative sites from documents of experience. Their work addresses the history of media and examines the material conditions and contexts of the creative process. Clemow’s work engages concepts of access, and privilege, and challenges entrenched binary ontologies such as nature/culture, human/non-human, subject/object. Clemow’s work has shown recently in group shows at UnionDocs (NY), the Gadsden Museum of Art (AL) and the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid).
Links:
IG: @mikeclemow
Web: http://michaelclemow.com
JENN GROSSMAN is an experimental composer, audiovisual artist, and sound sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. She is concerned with sensory media's expansive physical and psycho-spatial potentials within a culture of commodification, transforming "every-day" materials into affective, emotive sound vessels and simple ephemera into transportive audiovisual experiences. She's recently presented at SARC's Sonic Lab in Belfast, Ireland, for Roulette’s MATA festival in Brooklyn, the Light Matter Film Festival at Alfred University, NY, and the Re-embodied Sound Symposium at EMPAC in Troy, NY. She curates regularly with her group WISE, highlighting women/non-binary artists working in experimental sound and media arts.
Links:
jenngrossman.net
https://jenngrossman.bandcamp.com/
https://vimeo.com/user7449645
https://www.instagram.com/jenn8grossman/?hl=en
MATTHEW D. GANTT is an artist, composer, and educator based in Troy, NY. His practice focuses on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades. He worked as a studio assistant to electronics pioneer Morton Subotnick from 2016- 2018, releases music with Orange Milk and Oxtail Recordings, and teaches experimental composition and media in various intuitional and DIY contexts. Gantt’s work has been featured in The Wire magazine, Pop Matters, Exclaim!, Tiny Mix Tapes, Bandcamp New, and Notable.
Links:
Diagnostics | Matthew D. Gantt | Orange Milk Records
https://www.instagram.com/gan.tttt/
Matthew D. Gantt's 'Diagnostics' Is Complex, Futuristic, and Totally Bonkers » PopMatters
AMANDA GUTIÉRREZ explores the experience of political listening and gender studies by focusing on soundwalking and radio practices. Her artistic works had been showcased internationally in art residencies like FACT in Liverpool, UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, and Bolit Art Center in Spain. Additionally, her sound artwork has been exhibited at various international venues, including The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Harvestworks in NYC, SBC Gallery, Undefined Radio in Montreal, Errant Bodies Studio Press in Berlin, POP Montreal, the City of Women Festival, and the To)POT Festival in Ljubljana, as well as the ENSEMS Music Festival in Valencia, Sur Aural in Bolivia, and the Tsonami Sound Festival in Chile.
Links:
https://www.amandagutierrez.net/
IG:@cadadosis
VIDEO
JUSTINE DURAND lives in Montreal. Her artistic approach is based on the mixing of analog signals from videos synthesizers and digital remodeling resulting in a minimal and hypnotizing atmosphere. Since 2016, she has made several live performances, music videos and video installations.
Links: https://www.instagram.com/_justine_durand_/
AZIZ BOUGHEDIR is a PhD candidate in art history and sociology at the Université de Montréal and a Tunisian artist based in Montréal. His research and artistic practice explore the construction of social conventions and art networks under colonial and dictatorial regimes. He examines the temporality and authoritarian dimensions of communication technologies, focusing primarily on tube television. His artistic approach integrates sociological and historical perspectives with sculptural and analogue video techniques.
Link’s :
https://www.instagram.com/azizboughedir/?hl=fr-ca
https://histart.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/professeur/in/in31707/sg/Aziz%20Boughedir/
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ACCESSIBILITY:
Rocket Science Room is on the second floor. There is a single flight of stairs off the main entrance with no wheelchair access, however there is a functioning elevator on the main floor. If you require assistance of any kind, please let us know! We'd be happy to accommodate any of your needs to the best of our ability.
Rocket Science Room est au deuxième étage. Il y a un seul escalier à l'entrée principale sans accès en fauteuil roulant, mais il y a un ascenseur qui fonctionne au rez-de-chaussée. Si vous avez besoin d'une assistance quelconque, faites-le nous savoir! Nous serons heureux de répondre à tous vos besoins au mieux de nos capacités.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rocket Science Room, 170 Jean Talon West, Montreal, Canada
CAD 15.00
