Yes, finally the exhibition catalogue came out! There was a book launch on February 4 2010 at the MAI. It was also the last day for my dearest Zoë who worked there as a visual arts coordinator for some years. Without her effort and hard work, my exhibition nor the catalogue wouldn't have been realized.

Texts by Zoë Chan, Shié Kasai, Tatiana Mellema
In French and English

140 pp / colour illustrations /soft cover / 6" x 6"
ISBN 978-2-9809292-4-3

And thanks to Pata, who did a great job in designing the book!

Check out on October 31 at 6pm, CBC Ottawa premier digital channel, Creative Block.

The video launch at Oboro on September 25th went very well. Thanks to everyone who came out!

There was a demo station set for a token-ring network where people could actually make paintings in a group of 4.

I will upload the documentation hopefully soon...

I uploaded some P2P (Peer to painting) production photos.

It's been two Wednesdays ago since I started to be "canned" in the video editing room at Oboro. I had no weekend, not even a day break since. I've been going there every single day, stay there for 8 to 10 hours each day!

It's been quite hot these last few days, and the room is boiling too as it's on the third floor. In the recycle bin my empty coffee cups are starting to pile up.

On the 10th day of the editing (I mean, Friday the 14th of August), finally I started to see some light. I was coming out from this dark cloudy mass. I don't even know how I got here. Today, I mean yesterday (the Saturday) on the 11th day of the editing I'm almost done working with the visual element. I even started to check out some collections of sound from sound effect libraries. Now I really see that I'm getting closer to the completion. My "editor's butt" doesn't hurt as much anymore since the second week and though there are still some days of work left, I'll probably miss this eventually, once all is done. I'll be relieved but sad at the same time. But first, it has to be done, so I'll go back there again tomorrow...

It was the weekend March 28 and 29 when I had a studio shooting for P2P at the New Media Lab at Oboro. I had over a year to plan this project but I was starting to freak out that I didn't plan enough on the day of the performance! It was my first time using a real studio with a real technician (Thank you so much Aaron) and a few people working for me, the setup and the process seemed a real "professional" and was way too different from the way I usually work. I learned a lot over the weekend. I feel that if I ever have another chance working in a situation like this, I can probably prepare myself better. 

We filmed our painting performance in the studio. The performance wasn't open to public but my after thought is that with the setting and everything the setup was very impressive, this could've have been a live performance, entertaining guaranteed. Maybe some other time in the future I can propose this as a live performance.

I ended up with about 7 hours of video footage. I intend to make a short film out of this, probably 20 minutes long or so. I also have 12 beautiful paintings made by four painters (including myself) during the performance. I hope to exhibit them somewhere, as well, in the near future. The fabulous painters who participated to P2P were Jeff Kulak, Jérôme Havre and Claudia Baltazar. Jenny and Dac were busy shooting video. Thanks so much for all your work!

More update on P2P to come. 

Thanks to everyone who went to the M.A.I. and checked out Survival Japanese Cooking between November 13th and December 13th.

I received some press from Hour.ca, The Concordian, The McGill Daily, and La Grange. The exhibit is also scheduled to appear on TV5's Mixeur in early 2009. 

For those who didn't have a chance to come to Montréal and see it in person, I have uploaded some photos of the show here.

And as promised at the vernissage, here's a link to the PDF with the survey results and recipes.

This Wednesday, November 26 at 6 pm at the M.A.I.

Artist, writer, and curator Mark Clintberg will lead the conference Eating Out of Bounds: An Art of Food, A Politics of Taste. This lecture in english will explore the use of food as a primary material for artworks through the examination of eating as an aesthetic experience and political act; artworks that vanish through ingestion; and meal as cultural meeting point.

Thanks for everyone who came to celebrate the opening of the Survival Japanese Cooking at M.A.I!

I'll be soon putting some PDFs for the cook book and the paper models for you to download at home. I just need some recovering time before starting to get back to work. Please come back again a little later.

If you haven't seen the show, please do go see it before December 13th. The MAI gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday12 to 6pm. Hope you like the show...

Google map: 3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, Montreal, QC.