Foire / Fair As if All Were Well
Exhibition
May 18 – May 30, 2007
Project Description
This exhibition’s original intent was to present a collective expression of the participatory, team spirit that informs the centre’s activities while also highlighting each participant’s complex artistic identity. The first task was to find an idea that would suite active members and reflect the 2006-2007 call for proposals, under the theme As If All Were Well.
After several proposals were rejected, the concept changed and expanded to include all those who had been active at Skol this past year, along with their invitees from among emerging artists and Skol alumni. Artists were invited to present sketches and drawings, expressions of individual impulses and a testament to the source and origin of all artistic projects. This group show, then, is the outcome of a collective construction developed over the course of a year. It reflects an experimental disposition and offers a living portrait of the Centre, in all its temporal, spatial, and relational ramifications. Whatever the field of practice, all productions emerge from a project, a draft, a vision.
Taking place in a festive atmosphere, the exhibition expresses a diversity and an energy that run both through its program and the works that it presents.
Friday, May 18
Opening Party
Featuring free form music by Dave Macaulay
5pm: Toast to Skolians
6:45pm: Fesses et Crécelle – Performance by Belinda Campbell & Caroline Dubois
7pm: Buffet
8pm: Party!
Every Saturday at Skol 3 to 5pm
May 19 & 26; June 2, 9 & 16
Music for Tripping Over Furniture with Laststrawbox
Barry Allikas, Andrew Harder, Michael Merrill, Dave Macaulay + guest
→ live audio streams in the gallery!
Skol off-site projects 2006-2007: Meet the artists
Thursday, May 24 at 5pm
presentation of Home Beautiful, a collaborative project whose participants include Lisa Ndejuru, Devora Neumark and Pauline Ngirumpatse.
Wednesday, May 30 at 5pm
Nikki Middlemiss presents The Candidates
Wednesday, June 13 at 6pm
Public forum on Membership
Friday, June 15 at Skol
12:30 to 2pm: Patatechniques
a laboratory/workshop facilitated by Alexis Bellavance
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Participating Artists
Barry Allikas • David Armstrong • Matilda Aslizadeh • Héloïse Audy • Ian August • Erin Baillie-Rutter • Jo Ball • Mathieu Beauséjour • Chantal Bélanger • Alexis Bellavance • Thomas Bégin • Jesus Bejar • Françoise Belu • Nancy Belzile • Claudia Bernal • Anne Bertrand • Anne Bérubé • Sarah Blouin • Suzanne Blouin • Catherine Bolduc • Andréanne Bouchard • Carl Bouchard • Belinda Campbell • Dgino Cantin • Cartoon Logic • Nicolas Ceccaldi • Joceline Chabot • Leanne Cipriano • Sébastien Cliche • Cooke-Sasseville • Pete Corrie • Sylvie Cotton • Geneviève Crépeau • Claude Dallaire • Adriana De Oliveira • Nathalie Derome • Robbin Deyo • Ève Dorais • Jeremy Drummond • Caroline Dubois • Martin Dufrasne • Patrice Duhamel • Matthieu Dumont • Chantal Durand • Åsa Elzén • Brendan Fernandes • Louis Fortier • Gabrielle & Arthur • Marc Garneau • Manuelle Gauthier • Philippe Girard • Amber Goodwyn • Andrew Harder • Thomas Kneubühler • Guillaume LaBrie • Constance LaBrie • Patric Lacasse • Louis-Pierre Lachapelle • Natalie Lafortune • Francine Lalonde • Marcio Lana-Lopez • Éric Laplante • Maryse Larivière • Geneviève Larouche • Renée Lavaillante • Isabelle Laverdière • Mathieu Lefèvre • Corine Lemieux • Marion Léonard-Contant • Véronique Lépine • Guy L’Heureux • Hélène Lord • Patrice Loubier • Dave Macaulay • Véronique Malo • Jean Marois • Anna Madelska • Louise Mercure • Michael Merrill • Nikki Middlemiss • Aude Moreau • Anne-Marie Ninacs • Alexis O’Hara • Tana Paddock • Christiane Patenaude • Josée Pellerin • Hoang Pham • Liz Phillips • Julie Picard • Mireille Plamondon • Benoit Pontbriand • Éric Raymond • Lucie Robert • Daniel Roy • Bruno Santerre • Hélène Sarrazin • Camille Sarrazin-Dallaire • Bernard Schütze • Chantal Séguin • Vida Simon • Robin Simpson • Anick St-Louis • Gwenaël Stamm • Cindy Stockton Moore • Catherine Sylvain • Julie-Andrée T. • Felicity Tayler • Yves Théoret • Roman Tkaczyk • Marie-Ève Tourigny • Hélène Vanier • Myriam Yates • Mikolaj Ziolkowski