31e Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts de Montréal

Les Finalistes

À chaque année depuis 31 ans, le Conseil des Arts de Montréal célèbre les grands achèvements culturels de notre ville. Les choix sont difficiles mais il y aura toujours des interventions artistiques qui élèvent la barre de l'excellence.

Les finalistes à l’honneur sont : 

•Le Centre des auteurs dramatiques [CEAD] pour le rôle déterminant qu’il a joué dans la naissance du théâtre québécois, appuyant la vitalité créative de sa dramaturgie, son 

rayonnement international et son ouverture à la diversité des écritures. 

•Le Festival interculturel du conte du Québec pour avoir su se réinventer au fil de treize éditions grâce à une programmation ouverte sur l’interculturalisme et des spectacles ralliant de nombreux spectateurs de toutes les générations. 

•Les Films du 3 Mars pour le caractère unique de son mandat, pour l’accompagnement exemplaire de chaque titre de son catalogue ainsi que pour son flair à dénicher des œuvres importantes de créateurs indépendants, connus, issus de la relève ou de la diversité culturelle. 

•Studio XX, seul centre de ressources médiatiques pour les femmes au Canada, pour son soutien aux pratiques alternatives issues des minorités culturelles. 

•Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal pour l’exposition Flux de David Altmejd, dont l’univers vertigineux et éblouissant attirait en 2015 un nombre record de visiteurs. 

•Les 7 doigts de la main pour Triptyque, une magnifique exploration entre cirque et danse, et pour le prestigieux Drama Desk Award venu récompenser la mise en scène de Queen of the Night, à l’affiche du Diamond Horseshoe de New York. 

•Louise Bédard Danse pour la contribution artistique constamment renouvelée de sa directrice au paysage artistique montréalais, dont le cycle Série Solos et la reprise de Cartes postales de chimère, une œuvre phare de son répertoire qu’elle confiait à deux interprètes de la nouvelle génération, illustrent toute la richesse. 

•Sacré Tympan pour une saison 2015 à couper le souffle et pour Parlures et parjures, un spectacle mutant intégrant conte, musique actuelle, folklorique, jazz et rock. 

•LA SERRE – arts vivants pour une année de rayonnement international inédit et pour son rôle de catalyseur d’innovation auprès de la jeune création d’avant-garde en arts vivants, invitant au dialogue entre artistes de toutes disciplines. 

Vous pouvez venir partager cette célébration avec les talents de chez nous ce 24 mars 2016 à 11:30 au Palais des Congrès en réservant votre place ICI.

-LENA GHIO

@ the movies

TRAILER 

MICHAEL MOORE is back with a burning question: Where to invade next? With his usual wit and candor the documentary producer travels the world in search of the answer. The cinematography is excellent as we visit countries like Italy, Slovenia, France, Germany, Norway and Tunisia where I was delighted to see the extraordinary progress the country has made with women's rights. The director and star looks at all the pertinent issues that are mind-blowingly mismanaged in the USA right now! It is shocking that a marvelous country like the USA cannot treat its colored citizens better, feed its children better, educate them better! There is one photograph taken in the early parts of the last century that briefly flashes of about thirty white men smiling as a young black man is being burned alive. I am sorry, I do not understand why this was acceptable behavior for these men. Oh I know torture is relentlessly ongoing with all kinds of victims all around the world- but I don't get it! Moore is told repeatedly that the philosophies he is admiring in a foreign country were inspired by the USA. It is a very sad fact, but at the same time there is a lot of hope. One phrase he said about the USA struck me: "I am from a country built on genocide and on the backs of slaves." And I would add that the country suffers total denial about how the world sees it, behaving like the schoolyard bully even towards their president!

Well worth the time and reflexion.

The Gods Of Egypt is stunningly beautiful!

CHADWICK BOSEMAN as Thor

There is gold everywhere and the God's blood is gold! The story begins with the very handsome rising actor BRENTON THWAITES as a young man in love, Bek. He and his sweetheart, Zaya played by COURTNEY EATON, are getting ready for the coronation of Horus played by NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU of Game of Thrones fame. His antagonist Set is played by GERARD BUTLER and RA is played by no other than GEOFFREY RUSH. But my favorite interpretation was from CHADWICK BOSEMAN as Thor. I love his costume. I love that the Gods are represented as giants as they walk beside mere mortals, I love the re-creation of mythical Egypt with its extraordinary elegance and slick and the strange interpretation given by Rush of the God RA. The story is not complicated, it is a battle for power with many fights and special effects but I enjoyed it. I am in awe of the beautiful film making of today's artists. It is in 3D.

Have a great time at the movies!

-LENA GHIO

C2 Dernières Nouvelles - 24 nouveaux conférenciers - 5e édition - 24.05 > 26.05.2016

Un événement excitant que j'ai vraiment hâte de vivre annonce ce matin les noms de plusieurs conférenciers qui s'ajoutent à la programmation. Je partage quelques noms de la liste avec vous:


A.J. Paron-Wildes – responsable nationale de l’architecture et du design, Allsteel
Ali Velshi – journaliste aux affaires internationales et économiques
Dr. Beth Altringer – professeure d’innovation et de design, Harvard University
Byron et Dexter Peart – copropriétaires et cofondateurs, WANT Les Essentiels
Christine Renaud – présidente-directrice générale et cofondatrice, E-180
Guy A. Lepage – producteur, animateur, réalisateur, auteur et comédien
Guy Crevier – président et éditeur, La Presse
Harley Finkelstein – chef des opérations, Shopify
Hicham Ratnani et Ethan Song – cofondateurs et respectivement directeur financier et directeur général, Frank & Oak
Jake Barton – fondateur et directeur, Local Projects
Michel Laprise – auteur et metteur en scène, Cirque du Soleil
Olivier Royant – directeur de la rédaction, Paris Match
Sandy Speicher – directrice générale de l’éducation, IDEO
Sébastien Turbot – commissaire et directeur global, World Innovation Summit for Education
Wanjira Mathai – directrice, wPower Hub


La liste complète ICI

Vous pouvez achetez vos billets avec un rabais de 20% d'ici le 1er mars 2016.

-LENA GHIO

EDITORIAL: I reply to Bill Gates Linked In letter

This morning I took a moment to read BILL GATES letter concerning his hopes for the future of mankind. Now I know that self-made billionaires like M. Gates and MARK ZUCKERBERG and RICHARD BRANSON eventually MUST consider offering views, philanthropic views that is, politically correct philanthropic views to be precise, to help all of us non-billionaires make sense of why they have all the money and we struggle for every crumb.

This past Monday's letter concerned the much needed quest for clean new sources of energy to help impoverished nations. Looks so wise, so sane, so much like the real solution to poverty! BUT WAIT!!!!

The first issue to be considered before wasting huge amounts of precious resources on finding NEW sources of clean energy to help the poor of the world, who will, by the way, have to PAY for the new clean energy billionaire corporations will create for them to not be poor anymore, the first issue should be: WHERE IS OUR ENERGY GOING TO RIGHT NOW? 

If modern people would stop wasting energy and resources on death and its machine, war, everybody on earth would have enough energy to not be poor, for example! All countries and cultures are guilty of this wasteful behavior so I am not talking about politics. If politicians would stop trying to be media stars by using all that energy to look good to us, and most of us are not fooled by the multimedia presentations of said politicians, energy could be shared to educate poor people. Examples of misused energy are abundant!

So M. Bill Gates here is one source of CLEAN ENERGY TO HELP THE POOR : GOOD MANAGEMENT OF CURRENT SOURCES!

-LENA GHIO

Emerge Art and the intellectual paradox of our time

On the first day I photographed water making images, I saw this most meaningful composition. I am in the center with my camera as water manifested this combination. It is very evocative and made me so curious to see what else it would do. Photo © Lena Ghio, 2013

GRAVITY

" So, the upshot is that gravity drives both gravitational waves and gravity waves, but they have very different properties that shouldn’t be confused. "

Gravitational Waves vs. Gravity Waves: Know The Difference

Feb 8, 2016 09:34 PM ET // by Ian O'Neill

I am so pleased that LIGO has proven Gravitational Waves. Of course they are astrophysicists  and they will use their methodologies and technologies to continue mapping the universe. To measure my comments with the scientific definitions of gravitational wave vs gravity wave, I will have to call the gravitational modulations of celestial mechanics effect on earth gravity waves. But to pursue my argument I will treat all gravitational fluctuations as the various manifestations of the one thing. Like you would say a lake and the ocean are both filled with water regardless of the variables. So in the examples I will show you, we are in a "lake" whereas LIGO's work concerns the "ocean".

Forensic Photoshop process of filtering the

image to reveal the action of water. Original on bottom.

Photo © Lena Ghio, 2016

I am excited for what LIGO's discovery means to my transdisciplinary art practice: the creation of art using knowledge of the operations of gravitational modulations and the Theory of Everything (TOE)  to document the phenomena predicted by this equation E = MC 2 / G + RF = T + S : THAT MY PRACTICE IS BASED ON A STRONG SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION. The quote on top resumes how science has categorized the effects of gravity on nature. However, LIGO registered a passing gravity wave that came from an incalculably distant place in the universe here on earth! This means that this gravitational wave, only one of who knows how many, affected all the living creatures on the planet however subtly. For one thing, it has changed forever how we see the universe. Gravity has operated to alter humanity's view of the world. THAT is how astrology works, through gravity waves. LIGO's discovery proves that gravity waves are propelled forward by Alignment Geometries of Celestial Mechanics ( AGCM ) or the motions of celestial objects. In other words, they have also proven astrology. Again, as in Einstein's original experiment with the eclipse, in the LIGO experiment, the evidence is secured because gravity bends light. Gravity played a major role in the early universe to produce boundless molecules and compounds then stars and water, and life. The LIGO evidence solidifies the role of gravity in TOE but it fails to be comprehensive about applications useful for life on earth or how to measure the consequences of interacting with gravity. My work takes the understanding of gravity to our pragmatic every day level where it can begin to be understood as a force we can engineer. To get there, we must look at it's effect between the moon and the earth, not just at large in the universe. There is a childish notion scientists stick too stubbornly and that is that gravitational modulations do not affect us, that what happens on the surfaces of planets is not part of the fabric of space-time! So they have ridiculed astrology, the original science without which they would not know what they know today and they have failed in understanding how it molds life and affects DNA and evolution, they have failed to solve TOE. The difference between astrology and astronomy is that astrology focuses on the language of celestial mechanics in the same way a musician can make music by using the language of musical notes. Whereas astronomy is studying all the physical attributes of the various musical notes without being capable of creating a symphony. Astrologers have studied various facets of time and space, the distribution of mass ( the planets ) and their angles to one another (AGCM) to get a sense of the implications of gravity waves on human life. From my perspective it is a very naïve view that scientists take when dealing with gravity because it DOES create things and destroy things. When you engage gravity, you set up a chain of events.

All the phenomena photographed and shown here are evidence of the effect of gravity waves produced by AGCM as they reach the earth and affect substance.

"... that they directly detected a gravitational wave, or a ripple in the fabric of space-time. "

Revelation 12:15 (English Standard Version)
"The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth
 after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood." The image
 certainly compelled my research into the language of water. 
Photo © Lena Ghio, 2016

GOD

*WHAT IF what our ancestors described as God was not a figment of their imagination but their personal interpretation of real phenomena that were so impressive to them they divinized them? And perhaps they were right to honor the mystery that is life on earth. Science is trying to find evidence that spirituality or divine events are only imaginary events perceived by a part of the human brain, the God spot, instead of being real cognition of unexplained events. It is the science of "neurotheology" and ANDREW NEWBERG is one of its prominent searchers. Many physicists have decided to announce to the world, without evidence to back them up, that God does not exist or, if they believe in God they cannot really determine a scientific basis for their thoughts. If you put the opening phrase* of this paragraph in context with the evidence I have provided, it suggests our ancestor's brains were fine and they were reacting to real independent phenomena!

On this blog I have provided numerous examples of how water creates images spontaneously in the right context, autonomous images that it creates through refraction, micro-waves and just extemporaneously. Our planet is 71% water. Imagine all this water reacting creatively and emotionally to the universe. Eventually life emerged and began evolving mirroring what water was reacting to.

" EZEKIEL 1:1

... the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God"
We are poised to understand the physics behind what our
ancestors called God. It will not remove its splendor.

Photo © Lena Ghio, 2016

Emerge Art fits into the equation E = MC 2 / G + RF = T + S because the phenomena resurfaced as Neptune ( image making ) began it's cycle in Pisces ( water ). Furthermore, these signs govern my home at this time and that is where, space, I photographed water making images. This is one example how the fabric of space-time opens extra-dimensions from our perspective, how our lives flow from scenery to scenery.

We are about to prove the physiology of the Great Man of Native American cultures that many cultures have identified as God. If this is so, regardless of all theories about God's universal omnipotence, we will discover a fragile being in the context of the universe, a being responsible for us being alive and one now discarded by idiots and savants. It would mean that this Great Man is subject to the rule of gravity like all objects. It would mean it cannot interfere in the fate gravity has in store for us at the material level. It would answer the question of millions upon millions of suffering human beings begging to know why God let's evil things happen.

THE INTELLECTUAL PARADOX OF OUR TIME

Normand, a lemon tree, was planted to be affected by the
same model of AGCM that formed the human features in
the clouds in front of the sun. These are two of the faces he
manifested. My hypothesis was that if gravity waves propelled
 forward by celestial mechanics through AGCM affect
the evolution of life by informing a living entity's DNA, then
the lemon tree would manifest the same form as seen in the
clouds at a similar AGCM because that was the
 command of space time or gravity. And it did!
Photo © Lena Ghio, 2016

We have the opportunity to re-examine with the scientific method the phenomena that are no doubt at the heart of many early religions. If we are currently all delighted by the ability to look into endless blackholes and universal death scenarios of galaxies, while here on earth more and more people are experiencing deep depression due to our planet's ecology and exhaustion, does it not move your heart at all that we can now document the Spirit reaching out to us? I have enough evidence to support the belief that we can, and that we will, develop a language with water that will repair our relationship with the Divine without the mafia like behavior and persecution of brutes and politics. The work I am doing will allow everyone to understand their link to Spirit, it lets everyone know that they are seen by Spirit and how It knows everything! My work is showing you that you are never alone regardless of what happens.

Both men of science and men of God will be challenged to release their deeply ingrained assumptions if they wish to remain relevant because we the masses now have direct access to the source. Men of politics will no longer be empowered to speak in the name of God, or claim Divine Rights, as we the masses will look at truth directly!

" All scientific discoveries are profound and many eventually have everyday applications that we take for granted. "

We've Detected Gravitational Waves, So What?

 Feb 13, 2016 04:13 PM ET // by Ian O'Neill 

-LENA GHIO

Le 34e FIFA: LE TESTAMENT D'ALEXANDER MCQUEEN / AVANT-PREMIÈRE

BANDE ANNONCE

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, une des plus grande vedette du monde de la mode se suicide le 11 février 2010 peu après le décès de sa mère! Le monde entier est sous le choc! Encore jeune à 40 ans, au sommet de sa carrière, un talent hors-pairs!

Sous l'emprise de la dépression et de l'excès de drogues, il se pend et c'est une femme de ménage qui trouve le malheureux génie dans cet état. Les détails sont très morbides.

En avant première du FIFA vous pourrez visionner le film du journaliste LOÏC PRIGENT sur la carrière fulgurante du designer ce vendredi:


AVANT-PREMIèRE 34e FIFA
LE TESTAMENT D'ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
19 février 2016 À 18 h 30

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 
1379-A rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal
Billets en vente en ligne à : http://avantpremiere.artfifa.com/ et au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, à partir d’une heure avant la
représentation.
-LENA GHIO

More exhibitions / Encore d'autres expositions

@ MAC - RAGNAR KJARTANSSON 
11.02.2016 -22.05.2016

A scene from The Visitors, 2012
Une scène de The Visitors, 2012

Français plus bas

How tho describe the art of RAGNAR KJARTANSSON? That was my first question when I entered the first piece World Light - The Life and Death of an Artist, 2015 at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. The room is all dark with four large screens where different scenes are unfolding and the sounds from each of them overwhelm the space. There are some plush seats in the center to accommodate a large number of people at a time. A friend sat beside me and we began to chat. "I don't understand the language." I told him. We looked at the images of a woman being layed in a wooden cabin, a man dying on the rocky bank of a cold river, a man in an evening jacket speaking, and a father with young children around the dinner table. We became engrossed in our conversation and when we returned our attention to the screens, entirely different stories filled the screens. Then I got it! It is as if the artist used all the theatrical devices at hand to create vivid tableaux, as rich as classical painting but alive with music and drama. All the sets are hand painted. The focus is on relationships and collaborations. This is how the artist works and what his work represents.

The artist will be in Montreal starting March 2nd for his live performance at Place des Arts on March 3rd 2016  The Explosive Sonics of Divinity a spectacular musical and theatrical event that will leave you breathless!

FRANÇAIS

Comment décrire l'art de RAGNAR KJARTANSSON? C'était ma première question quand je suis entrée dans la pièce World Light - The Life and Death of an Artist, 2015, au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. La salle est noire avec quatre immenses écrans où se déroulent des scènes et des sons flottants de d'eux envahissent l'espace. Il y a des sièges peluchés au centre pour accommoder un bon nombre de visiteurs à la fois. Un ami s'asseoit près de moi et on engage une conversation. "Je ne comprends pas cette langue." Je lui dit. Nous voyons les images d'une femme en train d'être baisée dans une cabane en bois, un homme qui se meurt sur la berge rocheuse d'une rivière glaciale, un homme en veste de soirée qui parle, et un père avec des jeunes enfants autour d'une table à dîner. Nous devenons absorbés par notre échange et quand on retourne notre attention aux écrans, des histoires totallement différentes remplissent les écrans. Soudainement, j'ai eu un déclic! C'est comme si l'artiste se sert de tous les astuces du théâtre pour créer des tableaux saisissants, riches comme la peinture classique mais vivants pleins de musique et de drame.Tous les décors sont peint à la main. L'accent est sur les relations humaines et les collaborations. C'est ainsi que l'artiste travail et ce que son travail représente.

L'artiste sera à Montréal dès le 2 mars pour sa performance en direct à Place des Arts ce  3 mars 2016 Les Sonorités explosives de la divinité un événement musicale et théâtrale spectaculaire qui vous laissera haletant!

Photos © Lena Ghio, 2016

ART SOUTERRAIN  27.02.2016 - 20.03.2016

Voici le communiqué:

Pré-ouverture du festival 

Art Souterrain 2016 

Soirée festive

Mardi 16 février, 18h à l’Arsenal

2020, rue William, Montréal

Ouvert à tous. Entrée libre

    www.artsouterrain.com

 ART SOUTERRAIN invite la population à une soirée festive, en pré-ouverture à la 8^e édition de son festival d’art contemporain, le mardi 16 février 2016 dès 18h, dans le cadre des mardis culturels TD à l’Arsenal. Celle-ci se déroulera en présence d’artistes invités, des partenaires et collaborateurs et de toute l’équipe du festival. Au programme, ambiance musicale assurée par Pierre Villeret, performances, DJ, bar. 

Le directeur et commissaire principal de Art Souterrain, Frédéric Loury, présentera les grandes lignes de la programmation du festival. Cette soirée sera aussi l’occasion pour La Vitrine culturelle de remettre un prix à un artiste montréalais de la programmation qu’elle souhaite soutenir.

À 19h, place à deux performances qui seront également présentées lors de la Nuit Blanche à Montréal, à la Place Bonaventure.

Chun Hua Catherine Dong : The Yellow Umbrella - An Unfinished Conversation.

12 interprètes sont en interaction avec des parapluies jaunes, signes de protection et de résistance. En imbriquant l’esthétique et le politique, l’artiste explore ici la manière dont des comportements symboliques et situationnels influent notre perception de certains mouvements sociaux.

Hugues Clément : Dazed

Entre kitsch numérique et surréalisme hypnotisant, glitch multiplicatifs et compositions 3D, Dazed témoigne de la confusion caractérisant notre époque, celle d’une infiltration de plus en plus importante de stimuli dans nos sphères privées. Entre son/image et univers numériques/organiques, l’artiste en nouveaux médias Hugues Clément explore avec cette performance audiovisuelle, des possibilités numériques présentées dans différents contextes.

Réservation à info@artsouterrain.com

L’Arsenal est accessible par le métro Georges Vanier ou Lionel Groulx.

ART SOUTERRAIN convie depuis 2009 un large public à découvrir l’art contemporain autour d’un festival unique en Amérique du Nord qui se déploie dans le réseau souterrain piétonnier de Montréal, qu’empruntent quotidiennement quelques 100 000 passagers.

Débutant le 27 février lors de la Nuit Blanche à Montréal, l’édition 2016 de ART SOUTERRAIN, qui a pour thème cette année L’art doit-il séduire ?,  se poursuivra jusqu'au 20 mars, mettant à l’honneur, durant trois semaines d’exposition, les œuvres de 76 artistes ou collectifs canadiens et internationaux, réparties dans treize édifices de la ville souterraine. 

Le festival présente également pour la première fois un parcours satellite qui permettra aux festivaliers de prolonger leur expérience artistique dans dix lieux culturels montréalais partenaires du festival.

Le parcours d’exposition du Festival ART SOUTERRAIN, présenté du 27 février au 20 mars 2016 ainsi que les Cinq à sept à l’Arsenal sont accessibles gratuitement. 

D’autres activités permettent de bonifier l’expérience artistique du festival :

Visite guidées : 10$ (tarifs familial et scolaire également disponibles)

Visite d’atelier d’artiste : 18 $  | Visite d’une Collection privée : 20 $ 

Une passe au coût de 38$ en quantité limitée est disponible à La Vitrine culturelle.

www.artsouterrain.com | facebook | instagram : artsouterrain | #festivalAS2016

ARTEXTE

Photo © Lena Ghio, 2016

Mardi dernier, ARTEXTE a célébré 35 années d'opérations! Nous avons été acceuilli avec un beau petit goûté, l'exposition Archives ouvertes : les lieux d’Artexte, et un nouveau sac Artexte portant une œuvre de Jo-Anne Balcaen.

ARTEXTE est une ressource importante pour tout ce qui concerne l'art contemporain et actuel à Montréal. Si vous êtes artiste, commissaire, historien de l'art, c'est un atout majeur! Vous pourrez visiter lors de la Nuit Blanche à Montréal!

-LENA GHIO