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Horaire sujet à changement / Schedule subject to change

 

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Jeudi / Thursday 25 Octobre 2007

 

» que veut dire autochtone?

» what is indigenous?

 

 

9h00 (Ouverture / Opening) : Déjeuner collectif (cercle de dialogue) / Group breakfast (dialogue circle)

Morning Star: Cercle d'ouverture / Opening circle

 

 

10h00: Ateliers / Workshops (3)

 

The Imaginary Border Academy (L'Académie de la frontière imaginaire)

No One is Illegal–Montreal, Ralf Homann & Farida Heuck / Schleuser.net (Germany), Nahed Mansour (Montreal), Kayle Brandon / Duo.Irational (UK)...

 

Listen! Sound, Ecology and the City (Écoutez! L'écologie sonore et la ville)

Peter Cusack (UK), Chris DeLaurenti (US), Jean-Pierre Aubé (Montreal), Eric Powell, Will Hall & Alison Powell (UK/CA), Ryan Mitchell-Morrison (Mik'mag from Listuguj), DJ madeskimo (Inuit), esther b (Montreal), Kathy Kennedy (Montreal), CKUT 90.3 FM producers (Montreal), Marc-Antoine Lapierre / Critical World (Montréal)…

 

Precarious spaces / Spaces of precarity

Roberta Buiani, Alessandra Renzi (Toronto)

 

 

12h30-14h00: Lunch / show-and-tell (1)

Mushon Zer-Aviv and Dan Phiffer (Israel/US): You are not here [ dot ] org

 

 

14h00-16h00: Interventions (3)

Melissa Mollen Dupuis (Montreal): Zone de réserve

+ Emilie Monnet (Montreal), Melissa Mollen Dupuis (Montreal), Anik Sioui (Huron-Wendat): Totem & Taboos

The Think Tank that has yet to be named (Jeremy Beaudry, Meredith Warner, Jethro Heiko, Aaron Hughes, Kenny Deprez & Lena Helen) (US): The Insurmountable Dilemma of a Rooted Practice

Hilary Ramsden (UK): A walk around the block

 

 

16h00-18h00: Table-ronde / Roundtable discussion: Que veut dire autochtone? What is Indigenous?

(modératrices / chairs : Emilie Monnet, Sophie Le-Phat Ho)

 

Kary-Ann Deer (Mohawk)

Hyacinthe Combary (Montreal/Burkina Faso), cinéaste

Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree from God Lake’s Narrow’s, Manitoba), filmmaker

Leila Pourtavaf (Montreal), No One Is Illegal-Montreal

Ralf Homann & Farida Heuck / Schleuser.net (Germany): ZAP THE BORDER

 

 

18h00: Souper / Dinner

 

 

20h00-22h00: Événement de soirée / Evening Event (DARE-DARE en collaboration avec articule)

Emilie Monnet (Montreal), Melissa Mollen Dupuis (Montreal), Anik Sioui (Huron-Wendat), Kary-Ann Deer (Mohawk), Sylvie-Anne Sioui Trudel (Huron-Wendat): Totem & Taboos

Francesca Manning, Baruch de Spinoza, Annie Dillard & Adam Bobbette (Montreal): What types of indigenous occupation explode natural space?

 

22h00: Projections extérieures / Outdoor screenings (DARE-DARE)

Wapikoni Mobile

 

 

 

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Vendredi / Friday 26 Octobre 2007

 

» naturel comment?

» what is natural space?

 

 

9h00: Déjeuner collectif (intervention) / Group breakfast (intervention)

Gina Badger (Montreal): In the Fall We Plant Bulbs

 

 

10h00: Ateliers / Workshops (2)

The Imaginary Border Academy (L'académie de la frontière imaginaire)

Listen! Sound, Ecology and the City (Écoutez! L'écologie sonore et la ville)

 

 

12h30-14h00: Lunch / lecture-performance

Nicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse, Shiloh Krupar, & Laurie Palmer (US): Military Natures

Katerie Gladdys (US): Remote Sensing/Ground Truth

 

 

14h00-16h00: Interventions / performances (3)

Christopher Lee Kennedy & Caroline Woolard (US): A Message from Below

Eric Powell, Will Hall & Alison Powell (UK/CA): Sound.Garden.Scape

Hilary Ramsden (UK): A walk around the block

 

 

16h00-18h00: Table-ronde / Roundtable discussion: Qu'est-ce qu'un espace naturel? What is Natural Space? (OBORO / UpgradeMTL)

(modérateurs / chairs: Anik Fournier, tobias c. van Veen)

 

Jean-Pierre Aubé (Montreal): Titan and beyond the infinite

Susan Coolen (Montreal): Astral Projections

Andrew Chartier (Sherbrooke): A-Machines: Autopsier la nature

Peter Cusack (UK): Sounds from Dangerous Places

 

 

18h00: Souper / Dinner / performance

Nicole Fournier (Montreal): Live Dining

 

 

20h00: UpgradeMTL présente / presents: Listen! Sound, Ecology and the City (Écoutez! L'écologie sonore et la ville) *performance* (Société des arts technologiques [SAT])

 

Permis d’exploitation de Silvy Panet-Raymond (Montreal)

Caroline Dubois (collaboratrice, interprète) et Christian LeBlanc (interprète)

Musique live du groupe Bellerocaille

 

Le signal

Leticia Vera & Hildelena Vazquez (création et interprètes) (Mexique)

 

Montreal Phonographers Union / L'union des phonographes de Montréal

avec / with: Chris Delaurenti (US), Peter Cusack (UK), Jean-Pierre Aubé (Montreal), Eric Powell, Will Hall & Alison Powell (UK/CA), Humdinger (Mik'mag from Listuguj), esther b (Montreal), DJ madeskimo (Inuit), Kathy Kennedy (Montreal), CKUT 90.3 FM producers (Montreal), Marc-Antoine Lapierre / Critical World (Montréal)... et plusieurs autres / and many more !

 

... Tou(te)s, incluant non-musiciens, sont invité(e)s à participer au jam sonore!

... All, including non-muscians, are invited to take part in the sound jam!

 

 

 

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Samedi / Saturday 27 Octobre 2007

 

» occuper quoi?

» what is (there) to occupy?

 

 

9h00: Déjeuner collectif / Group breakfast / show-and-tell

Anja Steidinger & Gerard Cuartero (Spain): inhabited mindmapping

 

 

10h00: Ateliers / Workshops (3)

Boredom Patrol, CIRCA: Shhhhh, Infiltrating Public Space <3 A Rebel Clowning Teaser

Julie Vaudrin-Charette (Québécoise), Julie Champagne Grenier (Québécoise): Manifester nos racines I

The Imaginary Border Academy (L'académie de la frontière imaginaire)

 

 

12h30-14h00: Lunch / show-and-tell (2)

andrew gryf paterson (Scotland/Finland): Hengitä.hankela hengittää (Breathe.difficult to breathe)

Kyd Cambell (Montreal/Vancouver): On Difference #2: Current practices in activist art in Bulgaria, an unocuppied territory?

 

 

14h00-16h00: Interventions / performances (2)

Hilary Ramsden (UK): A walk around the block *(also on the 25th and 26th October)

Julie Vaudrin-Charette (Québécoise), Julie Champagne Grenier (Québécoise): Manifester nos racines II

 

 

16h00-18h00: Table-ronde / Roundtable discussion: Occuper quoi? What is (there) to occupy? (Précarité / Precarity)

(modérateurs / chairs: Sophie Le-Phat Ho, Catherine Melançon)

 

Roberta Buiani & Alessandra Renzi (Toronto): Precarious spaces / Spaces of precarity

Judith Cayer (Montrea): Centre social autogéré de Pointe-St-Charles

Marie-Hélène Cousineau (Montreal): Arnait Video Productions (Igloolik)

Keg de Souza & Lucas Ihlein (Australia): Squatfest

Aaron Lakoff (Montreal): Understanding precarity in Montreal

Bob thebuilder (Montreal): Collectif au travail/at work

 

 

18h00: Souper / Dinner

 

 

20h00: Cabaret de clôture / Closing Cabaret @ L'Archie  @ 5455 AVENUE DE GASPÉ, #701

 

 

Party !!

 

DJ madeskimo

tobias.dj

Humdinger

et plus / and more... invité(e) surprise guests !

 

 

 

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Horaire des films / Film schedule

quotidiennement / daily

 

 

Salle / Room 1

 

10h00 + 13h30

The Circus of (Im)Migration, General Giggles, Boredom Patrol, CIRCA, 2007, 40 min.

 

11h00 + 14h30

Chocolate City, Sam Wild & Ellie Walton (UK/US), 2007, 46 min.

 

11h50 + 15h20

The Right Fit, Nadia Alam (Toronto), 2006, 5 min.

 

11h55 + 15h25

Wilderness Trouble, Carry Peppermint & Christine Nadir (US), 2007, 4 min.

 

12h00 + 15h30

IDP, Tamara Vukov / Volatile Works (Montréal), 2007, 7 min.

 

12h10 + 15h40

Sight for Sore Eyes, Ryan Mitchell-Morrison (Mik'mag from Listuguj), 2007, 7 min.

 

12h20 + 15h45

HMMM-Audio Performance, Kathy Kennedy (Montréal), 2007, 4 min.

 

12h25 + 15h50

One Hundred Thousand Pieces of Possibility, the vacuum cleaner (UK), 2007, 2 min.

 

 

Salle / Room 2

 

10h00 + 14h00

untitled part 4: terra (in)cognita, Jayce Salloum (Vancouver), 2005, 37 min.

 

11h00 + 15h00

Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (Introduction to the End of an Argument) Speaking for oneself... / Speaking for others..., Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman (US/Palestine), 1990, 41 min.

 

12h00 + 16h00

Nikamowin (Chanson/Song), Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree from God Lake’s Narrow’s, Manitoba), 2007, 11 min.

 

12h15 + 16h15

Me, Myself & Kevin Costner, Melissa Mollen Dupuis (Montréal), 2007, 7 min.

 

 

• certaines discussions autour des films se dérouleront dans le cadre de la Conférence autonome
• some discussions around the films will take place as part of the Autonomous Conference

 

 

 

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Exposition / Exhibition

installations / interventions / web

 

 

 

GRENZE

Patrick Fontana, Emeric Aelters, Pierre-Yves Fave (France)

 

I Look Out Of The Window And I See My Death Getting Near

Freda Guttman (Montréal)

 

Reflet

Maxence Mercier et Thomas Fourmond ( Otra ) (France)

 

Remote Sensibility: Binocular Sensing

Marten Berkman (Whitehorse)

 

Sensity

Stanza (UK)

 

Sound.Garden.Scape

Eric Powell, Will Hall & Alison Powell (UK/CA)

 

Welcome Here

Sophie Le-Phat Ho (Montréal)

 

Wheat paste, powdered milk, and other means of social adhesion

David Widgington (Montréal)

 

 

Hors-site / Off-site

 

Montréal. Urbanisme 101. (C'est ainsi que les poules en perdirent leurs têtes)

Marjolaine Samson (Montréal)

 

The Empty Show

Texta (Australia)

 

 

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La Conférence Autonome » Artivistic comprend aussi un volet source-contenu libre (”open-source”). Les participants seront en mesure de s’inscrire le jour même pour tenir des sessions ad hoc qui ne figureront pas dans le programme officiel, mais néanmoins feront partie intégrante de l’évènement. Vous pouvez vous préparer d’avance, mais vous ne devez pas soumettre quoi que ce soit.

 

The Autonomous Conference » Artivistic also includes an open-source component. Participants will be able to sign up on the day-of to hold an ad-hoc session that is not in the official program but is fully part of the event. You can prepare in advance, but you don’t need to submit anything.