THE UPGRADE! event plays host for a cause. by risa
The Upgrade! Montréal, Artivistic
& [ctrl] collective présentent:
An evening of music, performance and art to support the Critical Art Ensemble Legal Defense Fund.
(Why do they need support? What happened?)
JEUDI, le 22 septembre, 2005 / THURSDAY, the 22nd of September, 2005
La Société des arts et technologiques (SAT) – 1195 St. Laurent
Featuring:
BIOTEKNICA (the project that helped start all the hoopla)
KATHY KENNEDY
ALEXIS O-HARA
BIG-UP BIOMASSIVE
VJ JOHNNY RANGER
CONTROLTOCHAOS.CA: DJ FISHEAD + TOBIAS
Silent Auction featuring art & music from across Canada, priced from $15 – $4000. All proceeds to CAE. Canadian and international artists donating work include Art-Act, Kinga Araya, Bioteknica, Robert Bos, Tagny Duff, George Gessert, Guy Ben-Ary of MEART, Ted Hierbert and Jackson 2Bears, Adad Hannah, Freda Guttmann, Mike Patten, Women With Kitchen Appliances, C0C0S0L1DC1T1, Constellation Records, and writers Brian Massumi, Erin Manning and Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. Film director Magnus Isacsson will be donating a Vaillancourt painting.
_door: $5-$15 (sliding scale, by donation)
This event is, I believe, a piece of a larger fun-filled festival called Artivistic. “What’s that?” you say? Well,
Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary event on the interPlay between art, information and activism that will take place September 22 to 24, 2005, in Montreal QC (Canada).
Integrating performances, exhibitions, interventions, workshops and panels by diverse practitioners and theorists in a multilingual setting, Artivistic is part of an evolving landscape of inclusive events which celebrate the power of engaged art as a catalyst for positive change.
The event aims to promote open transdisciplinary + intercultural dialogue and research on activist art, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate.
(my favorite bit of their site is right at the top, where it says: “[caution] ce site est en Franglais…”
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