<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Starting tomorrow at Eastern Bloc | Montreal, QC.</div><div><br></div><div>///</div><div><br></div><div><div>19 - 22 December 2012</div><div>OBJET INUSITÉ: INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT ON AUDIO ART</div><div><br></div><div>Performances: 19 - 21 December, 8pm</div><div>Closing event: 22 December, 8pm</div><div>Installations: 19 - 22 December, 12pm - 8pm</div><div>Workshops: 19 - 22 December, various schedules </div><div><br></div><div>
LUCAS ABELA, THOMAS BÉGIN, PETER BLASSER, PETER FLEMMING, GAMBLETRON, JEAN-PIERRE GAUTHIER, JEREMY GORDANEER, DARSHA HEWITT, YANN LEGUAY, MAXIME DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, KEIKO UENISHI
</div><div><br></div><div>Eastern Bloc, in collaboration with Suoni per il popolo festival, presents <i>Objet Inusité</i>, an international summit bringing together 15 artists and curators from Montreal and abroad, to collectively explore and discuss the audio/visual aspects of digital art through non-screen based practices. Through exploratory workshops, artist presentations and panel discussions, and site-specific installations and performances, particular emphasis is placed on audio art practices that use the "object" as interface, concentrating on objects of an uncommon/non-standard/residual nature.
</div><div><br></div><div>This 4-day event, co-curated by Eliane Ellbogen and Lisa Gamble, will explore how objects, imbued with a persona, may be activated by their user to take on a life of their own, in a performative or installation context. The presented works seek to examine how the activation of these objects allow for a spontaneous, accidental materialization of the hidden persona of these otherwise inanimate objects. They look at how an object, whether of a discarded or useful nature, can take on a cultural relevance, and how that cultural relevance can be reinterpreted and re-appropriated for an artistic context.</div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://easternbloc.ca/exhibits-objet-inusite-details.php">http://easternbloc.ca/exhibits-objet-inusite-details.php</a><div><br></div><div>///</div><div><br></div><div>
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