Comments on: Shoot the Moon EP Launch http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/shoot-the-moon-ep-launch/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Committee of Breath Lovers and Beholders of Intonations http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/shoot-the-moon-ep-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-57 The Committee of Breath Lovers and Beholders of Intonations Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:28:19 +0000 http://open.touchbasic.com/journal/?p=112#comment-57 Michael Maranda’s Breath and Intonation - Sept 9 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Maranda will launch the new season at akau inc. on Friday, September 9, at 7:00 pm with Breath and Intonation. Curator Cheryl Sourkes says, “When visiting Breath and Intonation viewers may feel they’ve gone through the looking glass and found themselves in an odd but familiar place, the world inside of books. There is meaning in this world, but perhaps not where one expects to find it.” Breath and Intonation converts major western texts into art objects. Maranda takes the disembodied experience of reading and invests it with materiality. “The approach I’ve taken has its roots in the academic tradition of (Post-) Structuralist analysis.” says Maranda. “However, I’ve applied a set of analytic rules I learned from the books themselves.” Extracts from Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2005 presents ten minimal letterpress works. A single, pointed phrase concerning time drawn from Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is pressed into each sheet in red ink. Syntactic Analyses, 2005 presents a shelf filled with the collected output of Parasitic Ventures Press’ most recent series - ninety books. Some titles are as ancient as Herodotus, others as recent as Marcuse. Maranda faithfully renders every page of each book - with one notable change. Letters and numerals are all but absent. Besides author and title, the only things remaining on each page are the punctuation marks in their original layout. They appear a provocative spattering of dots and squiggles; the pattern of each author’s thought rhythms. Invisible Hand, 2004 suspends six curled, rubber-tree leaves by their stems, each in its own shadow box. Maranda has inscribed quotations from Adam Smith and Charles Darwin retro verso on these leaves. Both theorists wrote during the nineteenth century, the era of mercantile imperialism when rubber was a major economic engine. Breath and Intonation opening party: September 9, 2005. 7:00 pm September 9, 2005. – October 15, 2005. Tuesdays - Saturdays, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm akau inc. is situated at 1186 Queen Street West between the Drake and Gladstone Hotels. The entrance is on Northcote Avenue, west side. For more information: www.akau.ca Fernanda Faria: 416.504-5999 or Cheryl Sourkes: csourkes@sympatico.ca Michael Maranda’s Breath and Intonation – Sept 9
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Michael Maranda will launch the new season at akau inc. on Friday, September 9, at 7:00 pm with Breath and Intonation. Curator Cheryl Sourkes says, “When visiting Breath and Intonation viewers may feel they’ve gone through the looking glass and found themselves in an odd but familiar place, the world inside of books. There is meaning in this world, but perhaps not where one expects to find it.” Breath and Intonation converts major western texts into art objects. Maranda takes the disembodied experience of reading and invests it with materiality. “The approach I’ve taken has its roots in the academic tradition of (Post-) Structuralist analysis.” says Maranda. “However, I’ve applied a set of analytic rules I learned from the
books themselves.”

Extracts from Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2005 presents ten minimal letterpress works. A single, pointed phrase concerning time drawn from Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is pressed into each sheet in red ink.

Syntactic Analyses, 2005 presents a shelf filled with the collected output of Parasitic Ventures Press’ most recent series – ninety books. Some titles are as ancient as Herodotus, others as recent as Marcuse. Maranda faithfully renders every page of each book – with one notable change. Letters and numerals are all but absent. Besides author and title, the only things remaining on each page are the punctuation marks in their original layout. They appear a provocative spattering of dots and squiggles; the pattern of each author’s thought rhythms.

Invisible Hand, 2004 suspends six curled, rubber-tree leaves by their stems, each in its own shadow box. Maranda has inscribed quotations from Adam Smith and Charles Darwin retro verso on these leaves. Both theorists wrote during the nineteenth century, the era of mercantile imperialism when rubber was a major economic engine.

Breath and Intonation
opening party: September 9, 2005. 7:00 pm
September 9, 2005. – October 15, 2005.
Tuesdays – Saturdays, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
akau inc. is situated at 1186 Queen Street West between the Drake and
Gladstone Hotels. The entrance is on Northcote Avenue, west side.
For more information:
http://www.akau.ca
Fernanda Faria: 416.504-5999 or
Cheryl Sourkes: csourkes@sympatico.ca

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