Essaie

if winter were a city

alt_N.O.R.D.: A discussion/workshop on nordicity + hacking winter & the city

Sophie Le-Phat Ho, curator (2010)

http://www.studioxx.org/en/evs/altnord

“Nordicité (nordicity) is a term coined in the 1960s by Québec geographer and linguist Louis-Edmond Hamelin with the goal of establishing a vocabulary that linked “northern cultures” together beyond traditional boundaries.

alt_N.O.R.D uses this intention as its starting point: nordicity will be the focus of an aesthetic archaeological exploration to uncover (and thwart) the codes and norms used to define winterly space. It will consider nordicity as a system of practices and power relations, and winter from the artist and the hacker’s point of view. The discussion/workshop presents itself as an encounter between “winter interventionists” of diverse backgrounds where nordicity becomes an object of research, critical analysis and context for creativity…

Today, further neo-colonial ‘branding’ of the North goes under the guise of the Charest government’s wide-scale development project “Plan Nord” which, like the James Bay and the Great Whale hydroelectric projects before it, will not go unchallenged by concerned indigenous nations and others.”

Roadside Attractions

Victoria Stanton (HTMlles 2010)

http://www.htmlles.net/2010/projects/roadside-attraction/

http://vimeo.com/21206182

“How do you show a transitional space? Where are the interstices between leaving and arriving? What are our strategies for getting there? Roadside Attractions is an unconventional travelogue that is more interested in the journey and the acclimatization, than in the final, definitive destination… Shown simultaneously on three screens, the cycle of images in Roadside Attractions (Redux) produce a counter-point to each other, at times harmonious at times disjointed, creating a multi-textual narrative of reflections related to being a body in transit/transition and to ideas of what it means to be, or to call a place, “home.””

FOUR PLACES CALLED HOME

Simone Viger, Melanie Godoy (HTMlles 2010)

http://www.htmlles.net/2010/projects/dwelling/four-places-called-home/

http://vimeo.com/6949914

“Do you know the history of your home? How much of the past can be read? Four Places Called Home travels through interior spaces located in the South West region of Montreal, Canada. What the locations have in common is that they are reconverted buildings. The people who have transformed these buildings describe the unique domestic constructions; revealing alternative, mainstream, personal and academic notions of home.”

Lost Rivers

Kahnawake Voices

Courtney Montour (First Person Digital 2009)

http://www.studioxx.org/en/node/3224

"The project was inspired by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake's delivery of eviction notices to non-native partners residing in the community in February 2010. The current Kahnawake Membership Law and a 1981 moratorium on mixed marriages do not allow non-natives to reside in the community. The Membership Law is now being reviewed and Council is calling on the community for input on the matter. With the delivery of the eviction notices, a local issue quickly became national news but the stories and voices of many went untold. This site is a space for those voices to be heard."

Edith Normandeau

Les rues ont des oreilles + « Audio/Dislocation »

http://www.studioxx.org/en/fbr/wired-women-salon-85

http://www.htmlles.net/2010/projects/les-rues-ont-des-oreilles/

http://www.audiotopie.com/rues

Under the city Mobile (aka Lost River Finder)

Katarina Soukup/Caroline Bâcle

http://www.firstpersondigital.ca/html/projects.html#prjkatarina

http://www.mobilities.ca/projects-2/virtual-day-lighting/

http://spacingmontreal.ca/2009/10/29/montreals-rivers/

Home

An interactive locative media application for the iPhone connected to a cross-platform documentary project about the past, present, and future of our lost urban waterways. Touching upon themes of history, architecture, art, urban exploration and ecology, this app takes us on a fascinating journey to discover the forgotten rivers, lakes, and streams that once crisscrossed the island of Montreal and that were, one by one, diverted underground into the city's sewer systems.

listen to the streets

In modern Athens, the vehicles of mass transportation are called metaphorai. To go to work or come home, one takes a ‘metaphor’ – a bus or train. Stories could also take this noble name: every day, they traverse and organize places; they select and link them together; they make sentences and itineraries out of them – Michel de Certeau, “Spatial Stories”

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Point de fuite – Rose-Marie E. Goulet et Chantal Dumas

http://dpi.studioxx.org/demo/?q=fr/no/09/chronique-actualite-point-de-fuite-chantal-dumas-et-rose-marie-goulet

PUSH/PULL, 2008

Lorraine Oades (shown at Studio XX in 2011)

http://www.studioxx.org/en/evs/exhibition-lorraine-oades

"ViscousCity: thick sound for hot people" (2001)

Anna Friz, I8U, Annabelle Chvostek

As part of the Les États nocturnes event organised by Vidéographe, Studio XX invited the public to attend an all-woman Web jam at the Théâtre de Verdure in ParStudic Lafontaine with female local artists and artists from Austria and Latvia.

http://www.studioxx.org/en/cop/viscouscity-thick-sound-hot-people

Césure de Petit-Goâve à Montréal

Livienne-Helene Cesar Grenier (HTMlles 2010)

http://www.htmlles.net/2010/projects/cesure-de-petit-goave-a-montreal/

http://vimeo.com/14931869

Fearless City Mobile in Vancouver

Bérengère Marin Dubuard (Beewoo) (2008)

http://www.studioxx.org/en/cop/studio-xx-residency-w2-fearless-city-mobile-vancouver

Walking

“the operations of walking on can be traced on city maps in such a way as to transcribe their paths (here well trodden, there very faint) and their trajectories (going this way and not that). But these thick or thin curves only refer, like words, to the absence of what has passed by.”

– Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City”