In this edition of the bulletin
- Steve Lambke: Tues 12 July > Thomas Craig Oliver Terrace at NAC
- A Tribute to Ali: Thurs 7 July > The Film House at the PAC (TOMORROW NIGHT!)
- Ariadni Harper: Sat 9 July > Dennis Tourbin Members Gallery at NAC
- Nathan Heuer’s Scenes from Late Capitalism: Fri 15 July > Show Room Gallery at NAC
- Collette Broeders’ Synchronicity: Fri 15 July > Plate Glass Gallery at NAC
Steve Lambke
Tuesday 12 July 2016
Thomas Craig Oliver Terrace at NAC
Doors at 8:30PM / Show at 9PM
Tickets $12 (+HST) in advance and for NAC Members / $15 (+HST) at the door
Tickets available at NAC
Between 2006 and 2015 Steven Lambke wrote and performed as Baby Eagle, releasing the albums Baby Eagle (2006 Outside Music), No Blues (2007 Outside Music), Dog Weather (2010 You’ve Changed Records), and Bone Soldiers (2012 You’ve Changed Records). He has performed at readings, concerts, events and festivals across Canada, including tours with Ladyhawk (2012), Julie Doiron (2007), and Christine Fellows (2007), and appearances at POP Montreal, Halifax Pop Explosion, CMW, NXNE, Sappyfest (Sackville, NB), Lawnya Vawnya (St. John’s, NL), In The Dead of Winter (Halifax, NS), and The Summer’s End Folk Festival (Grand Manan, NB). A new album, Days Of Heaven, will be released in October 2015. It is his first album released under his own name.
In September 2013 Steven Lambke contributed to the collaborative musical project Community Theatre, performing and recording the Northern Register LP in Whitehorse and Dawson City, YT with Michael Feuerstack, The Burning Hell, Shotgun Jimmie, Marine Dreams, Wax Mannequin, and others. In 2013 Steven Lambke was short-listed for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize for Mule In The Flowers from The Weather Station Duets #2, written in collaboration with Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station). He has performed in a duo with John K Samson at the Canada Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy, in May 2013, and at The Writers At Woody Point Festival in Woody Point, Newfoundland, August 2015.
In 2009, Steven Lambke and Daniel Romano co-founded You’ve Changed Records, releasing, in addition to their own records, albums by The Weather Station, Shotgun Jimmie, Apollo Ghosts, Richard Laviolette, Marine Dreams, and Nap Eyes.
Steven Lambke is also a member of the Constantines: young hearts be free tonight.
THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE FILM HOUSE
A Tribute to Ali
THE LAST ROUND: CHUVALO VS ALI
Canada 2003. Directed by Joseph Blasioli. 100 min. NR
We are proud to present a special tribute to the late, great Muhammad Ali. We will screen a feature-length documentary entitled The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali, which details the build-up to a monumental boxing match between Ali and George Chuvalo, one of the greatest Canadian boxers of all time.
ME WHEE
USA 2016. Directed by Drew Stone. 25 min. NR
We will also screen a documentary short called Me Whee that offers an intimate portrait of Ali from the 1970s. Directed by Academy Award winner Arny Stone, this film has only been presented once in the last 40 years. Come remember the legend.
A R I A D N I H A R P E R
15 YEARS: PHOTOS IN PAINT
Dennis Tourbin Members Gallery at NAC
Opening Reception Saturday 9 July 7PM
On display until Friday 22 July
S T A T E M E N T
My primary source of inspiration for the vibrant and diverse subject matter for ’15 YEARS’ – Photos in Paint, comes from photographs of images that I have taken that capture my interest and challenge my abilities as an artist. My love for detail in shadows cast by sunlight and reflections found in architecture, nature and everyday images are what I’m drawn to emulate.
Check out Ariadni’s MEMBER OF THE MOMENT interview here!
Scenes from Late Capitalism
Nathan Heuer
Show Room Gallery at NAC
Opening Reception
Friday 15 July 2016 7PM
My work is largely concerned with the role of architecture in society as a symbol of cultural values and history. Architecture represents a significant investment of time, resources, and design knowledge, and while we celebrate this fact in the achievements of our celebrity architects, we are less apt to acknowledge the achievement inherent in our more utilitarian structures. The American landscape, in fact, is full of contemporary ruins of factories, hotels, schools, and other architecture that has fallen by the wayside in an aggressively consumerist society. Each of these abandoned structures forms the nucleus of a small narrative, often one of lost livelihoods, budgetary cuts, and dying industries.
I choose to decontextualize the subject of each drawing, removing
the structure from its surroundings and isolating it on a white ground. This aesthetic decision is intended to echo the fragmentary picture of history that we are presented with in a museum, where isolated artifacts are meant to tell us the story of an unfamiliar culture. I use mechanical perspective as a means of meditating on the design process that went into the commonplace structures that I depict. Perspective is not only a visualization tool employed by architects, but it is also a process that helps me to fundamentally understand the space that I am depicting. It is my hope that through these drawings viewers will reconsider the deeper cultural significance of these structures and the ramifications of the intensive capitalism that shapes contemporary American life.
– Nathan Heuer
Synchronicity
Collette Broeders
Plate Glass Gallery at NAC
Opening Reception
Friday 15 July 2016 7PM
My artistic practice is motivated by repetitive activity, marking patterns that map a sense of time and space. Through performance drawing, I communicate how the body traces and experiences space and duration leaving an imprint of past and of present and of what remains. Like a clock of navigational lines, the Synchronicity series
act as a measurement of these intervals, both physical and intangible.
The series of Synchronicity drawings investigate symmetrical, repetitive motion using my body as an instrument to form a rhythmic pattern of line. Inspired by the duality of yin and yang of the I Ching, I execute the drawing with a balance of synchronous motion of opposing line. The drawing is performed in a hypnotic tempo and meditative state that manifests itself into physical form to unite the viewer with the intimacy of the experience. Examining the limitations of the body through continuous motion, the drawings are performed over several hours until a state of exhaustion is reached.
Beginning with intense spontaneous gestures within a small space that replicate, synchronize and divide, the drawing gradually swells and bursts to the outwardly extended body. Like a cell dividing, the internal energy of the process is bilaterally and equally distributed as the image grows. Ultimately, the drawing becomes a study of contrast showing the peaceful-chaotic, soothing-painful and joyful-desperate moments of the performance.
The Synchronicity drawings address ideas of repetition, ritual and unity through a performance of mark making and meditation. As the drawings progress, rhythmic patterns of line emerge and process into organic shapes. The resulting drawings become a trace of gestures leaving an imprint of the shifting context of the meditative process that produced them.
— Collette Broeders
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