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<p class="DefaultCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Soundwalk
with Jean Routhier – Saturday, October 29, 2:30PM</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">First
of series of exhibitions, walks and talks in Vancouver and Dubai for Maraya
Projects. </span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">DESCRIPTION</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Based
on time-tested soundwalking techniques, Jean Routhier will introduce sights and
sounds from two key locations: Vancouver’s False Creek waterfront and the Dubai
Marina in United Arab Emirates. Exploring audio-visual links between these
communities through new media, the soundwalk concludes with a brief
presentation of new works by artists M. Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and Henry
Tsang. The soundwalk takes participants from the Roundhouse Community Arts and
Recreation Centre in Yaletown and along Vancouver’s waterfront, closing with a
participant discussion with the artists at Centre A: 2 West Hastings Street.</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">DETAILS</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Saturday,
October 29, 2:30PM</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Led
by Sound Artist Jean Routhier</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Meet
at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Front Lobby Entrance by
the Café 181 Roundhouse Mews (enter from Davie Street, between Pacific
Boulevard & Marinaside Crescent)</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Soundwalk
with Jean Routhier is a part of Centre A’s public programming for the Maraya
Project</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Artists:
M. Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and Henry Tsang</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Date:
November 5 – December 17, 2011</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Opening
Reception and Interactive Website Launch: Friday, Nov 4th, 8pm</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Gallery
Hours: Tue- Sat, 11-6pm, Closed on Sun, Mon and Holiday</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Place:
Centre A: 2 West Hastings</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">MORE
INFO</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Website:
<a href="http://marayaprojects.com">http://marayaprojects.com</a>, <a href="http://www.centrea.org">http://www.centrea.org</a></span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Twitter:
<a href="http://twitter.com/MarayaProjects">http://twitter.com/MarayaProjects</a></span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Facebook:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maraya-Projects/275392745828402">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maraya-Projects/275392745828402</a></span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">ARTIST
BIOS</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Jean
Routhier has an audio leaning art production. Routhier is an audio wrapper, his
approach similar to a store clerk, bagging everything into their sonic essence.
Interested in the gaps and gasps in sounds conducive to the transmission of
tales he sometimes hears in the ether, Routhier finds inspiration in everyday
situations. His work has been presented internationally and nationally at the
Vancouver Vibrates, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Silence
and Signal & Noise Festivals (Vancouver), ISEA 2006 (San José, CA), Open
Air-Ars Electronica 2002 (Linz, Austria), Overgarden Festival (Copenhagen,
Danemark), DLux Media Arts Festival (Melbourne, Australia), Global Mix Festival
(Cracow, Poland), ICMC '94 (International Computer Music Conference, Florida,
USA), La Panderia (Mexico City), École des Beaux-Arts (Aix-en-Provence,
France), Studio Cormier (Montréal), Artspace Gallery (Peterborough, ON), Surrey
Art Gallery(Surrey), Helen Pitt Gallery (Vancouver), Articule (Montréal). His
audio works have been featured on Kunstradio (Vienna, Austria), CBC and
Radio-Canada. Jean curated for the Surrey Art Gallery a series of audio artists
as part of its ongoing Open Sound exhibit, as well as helped organize its audio
art symposium in 2008 and 2009. He is one of the organizers for the
soundwalking group and radio host and producer of Soundscape on CFRO
102.7FM.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">M.
Simon Levin lectures within the Department of Art History, Visual Art and
Theory, University of British Columbia and in Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily
Carr University and has published a curriculum on Contemporary Public Art. He
creates site-based systems that explore the aesthetics of engagement using a
variety of designed forms and tools that address our many publics. These
spatial and pedagogical projects, expand the social agency of art making,
rethinking notions of space and place, authorship and audience. Working
collaboratively and primarily within the public sphere, Levin’s work ranges
from billboard projects, alternative tours of cities, land care centres and
alternative mapping and telecommunication systems. Recently commissioned
projects include a user-generated ‘sousveillance’ system and a global
contributive new media platform, both showcased for Vancouver’s 2010 Cultural
Olympiad. He has been artist in residence for the Vancouver Parks Board, the
TechLab at the Surrey Art Gallery, Emily Carr University and at the
International Art Space, Kelleberrin, Australia. He has exhibited, lectured and
published locally, nationally and internationally.</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Glen
Lowry is writer, cultural theorist and editor. He received his PhD in English
from Simon Fraser University, where he specialized in contemporary Canadian
literature and culture. Lowry's research focuses on collaborations among artist
researchers and other academics. As one core member of Maraya since 2007, he
has facilitated and participated in numerous presentations internationally and
locally, including Art Dubai (2010), Learning From Vancouver symposium held at
Western Front (2010), Interactive Futures '09: Stereo, and ISEA 2011 Istanbul.
>From 2001-2011, Lowry edited the Simon Fraser University-based cultural journal
West Coast Line. Pacific Avenue (LINEbooks, 2009) is his first poetry
collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lowry is the Assistant
Dean of Critical Studies and Community Engagements at Emily Carr University of
Art + Design.</span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<p class="DefaultCxSpLast" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Henry
Tsang’s projects have been exhibited internationally, incorporating digital
media, video, photography, language and sculptural elements in the exploration
of the relationship between the public, community and identity in the new
global order. Projects in the public sphere range from community-based
curatorial and engagement practices to permanent commissioned artworks. Welcome
to the Land of Light is a 100 metre-long installation located on the seawall
handrail along Vancouver's False Creek. He has also worked with artists’
collectives which produce temporary public art installations on shared
political concerns, including The Association for Noncommercial Culture and
Collective Echoes Youth Public Artists Collective, and has mentored many young
artists through various programs. Video installations such as Orange County,
2004, and Olympus, 2006, shot in California, Beijing, Torino and Vancouver,
examine overlapping urban and socio-political spaces; and Napa North, 2008,
looks at the relationship between wine, real estate and cultural translation in
British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. His curatorial projects (Self Not Whole:
Cultural Identity & Chinese-Canadian Artists in Vancouver, 1991; Racy Sexy:
Race, Culture and Sexuality, 1993; and City at the End of Time: Hong Kong 1997,
1997) span the local to the international. Henry received the VIVA Award in
1993 and is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art &
Design.</span></p>
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