CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2008
STOP., exhibition curated for the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. Exhibition runs January 24 - March 1, 2008. Vernissage : Thursday January 24 17h30, curator tour at 16h30. Featuring Patrick Beaulieu, Simone Jones & Lance Winn, Thérèse Mastroiacovo, Charlemagne Palestine, Samuel Roy-Bois, Helen Tak. Related events: Saturday February 9 at 6:00 pm, free screening of a selection of Charlemagne Palestine’s single channel videos made in the 1970s : You Should Never Forget the Jungle, St. Vitas Dance, Body Music I/Body Music II, Running Outburst, Four Motion Studies, Internal Tantrum. At the J.A. de Sève Cinema, 1400 boul. de Maisonneuve West, ground floor. Saturday March 1st 8:00 pm to Sunday March 2nd 2:00 am. In collaboration with Nuit blanche à Montréal, the Gallery presents performances by Karine Denault and Frédéric Lavoie, plus launch of the START, STOP. catalog. The catalog includes documentation of both START and STOP. exhibition, a curatorial essay, an essay by André-Louis Paré, a text piece by Steve Savage, and bookmarks by Brian Joseph Davis, Karine Denault and Frédéric Lavoie. Design by Feed.

2007
START, exhibition curated for the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. Exhibition runs May 5- June 16, 2007. Vernissage : Wednesday May 5 4-6pm, curator tour at 3pm. Featuring Olivia Boudreau, Peter Courtemanche, Cal Crawford, Stephen Ellwood, Marla Hlady, Adrian Piper and Liv Strand.

2005
Disquiet, guest curator at Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ontario. Participating artists: Bob Bean, Dave Dyment, Afshin Matlabi, Diane Morin, Matt Rogalsky, USSA (Jake Moore & Steve Bates). August 24 - September 22. Reception: September 17. Catalog with CD is available from Modern Fuel.

2004
lucky bastard for festival Ile Danse, Ajaccio, Corsica, France. Co-artistic coordinator with the artistic director of the event Lynda Gaudreau and part of conceptual team (with Lynda Gaudreau).

2003
lucky bastard for the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse, Montréal. Co-artistic coordinator with the artistic director of the event Lynda Gaudreau and part of conceptual team (with Lynda Gaudreau and Martin Tétreault).

||| cover without a record ||| for squint fucker press. With Martin Tétreault, Kim Dawn, Cal Crawford, Jonathan Parant, Alexandre St-Onge, crys cole & Travis Obrigavitch.

2002
stuttermouthface for kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium. Evening including live performances by Brandon LaBelle, Vincent Barras, Caroline Bergvall and Christof Migone. And pre-recorded material from Vito Acconci, Kim Dawn, Scott Russell and Alexandre St-Onge.

2001
Writing Aloud: the sonics of language, book and CD, Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, co-editor. Featuring Vito Acconci, Marina Abramovic, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Achim Wollscheid, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Fred Moten, Brandon LaBelle, Bart Plantenga, Terre Kapsalis, Norie Neumark, Lionel Marchetti, Sean Cubitt, Arthur Petronio, Allen S. Weiss, Vincent Barras, Elizabeth Slavet, Alexandre St-Onge, Kim Dawn, Charles Amirkhanian, Jocelyn Robert, David Dunn, David Merritt. Yasunao Tone, John Duncan, Gregory Whitehead, Michel Chion, David Dunn, Randy Yau.

Ohmix, CD project, Ohm Editions/Avatar. Featuring: Christian Calon, David Kristian, Diane Labrosse, John Oswald, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, Terre Thaemlitz, Ralf Wehowsky.

1998
Double Site: La danse des exceptions, telematic interactive internet performance between Avatar and the Goethe Institute in Lisbon. With Carlos Zingaro, Eric Letourneau, Boris Firquet, etc.

1995
Batteries Below Bathwater, exhibition at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax containing student work from the Advanced Studio Seminar Class I taught. Nov.14-18, 1995.

1994
Rappel, part of the inaugural activities of the Association de création et diffusion sonores AVATAR. Artistic director for this event featuring creations for the telephone space. This project culminated with the release of a CD at the end of 1996.

Ratatatouille, cabaret evening at Galerie Stornaway, Montréal. Feb 3, 1994.

1993
Journées ELECTRO-RADIO Days. Co-artistic director of the Montréal events with Claude Schryer. Dec. 10-11, 1993 Two 3-hour evening concerts; first night live on community radios in Toronto, Vancouver and Montréal, the second live on Radio Canada.

1992
Neighborhood Sounds and other CKUT-FM activities during the 7e Printemps Electroacoustique, Montréal. Co- Curated with Claude Schryer.

1991
Radio Contortions, an international festival of radio art and theory. Co-Curated with Julia Loktev, and Bryan Zuraw, CKUT-FM July 9 -14, 1991 Montréal. An event featuring performances, recorded works, workshops, and a panel.

1990
Touch that Dial, creating radio transcending the regulatory body." Co-Curated with Jean-François Renaud, SAW Gallery Aug. 8-Sept. 12, 1990. An event encompassing installations, performances, symposium, workshop, and broadcasts.