Articule

14 novembre 2021
3:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m

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L’origine s’additionne
par Victoria Platel

À qui la chance? Anna Jane McIntyre nous invite à participer à une fête foraine où le présent et le familier se trouvent dans un nouveau contexte. Le/la bossale est un pion dans un jeu de société où les déplacements sont incités par une roue de fortune ou un coup de dé. McIntyre démontre que chaque action du présent s’agit d’un futur réalisé. Elle incarne le personnage du bouffon pour remettre en question le regard soupçonneux jeté sur le/la bossale. « Je suis noire, » déclare McIntyre en lettres moulées avec du goudron et un pinceau. C’est une phrase qui articule à la fois l’évident et ce qui est sur le point de se révéler.

Dans Emphasize, Ngemba et deux autres interprètes tracent la ligne entre ici et ailleurs, et entre hier et aujourd’hui. Le corps noir : comment et à quel point est-il un devenu un problème? C’est une question qui cherche à déchiffrer l’énigme des identités bossales. L'œuvre de Ngemba s’agit d’une série de vidéos projetées sur trois êtres tissant une double conscience qui résiste aux constructions identitaires binaires. Les vidéos racontent une chronologie non exhaustive d’un corps traité de propriété, de découverte anthropologique et d’objet hypersexualisé. D’autre part, il y a des clips qui nous font témoigner quelques événements marquants dans les histoires afro-descendantes qui sont, en dépit de leur singularités, contemporaines et transnationales. Ici, le corps se définit autant qu’il subit.
dana michel, quant à elle, nous fait vivre un cauchemar capitaliste dans SOME ARBITRARY SAFE. michel va à l’extérieur de l’espace avec un pupitre et, indécise, on la voit changer de position plusieurs fois à travers la vitrine. Finalement, elle s’installe à l’intérieur près de son abri improvisé (une tente) auquel elle est attachée au bras. On y retrouve une parodie complexe du milieu de travail. Par exemple, une balle de volley-ball devient chaise de bureau ergonomique et vibromasseur. Elle pose un clavier, une lampe et une souris sur le pupitre et ajuste un casque-micro sur sa tête. Cette image fait appel au télétravail; un répit et un piège qui estompe la ligne entre la vie personnelle et le travail. On enchaîne avec un rituel de pandémie bien trop familier : le clavier et la souris sont obstinément désinfectés avec du rince-bouche. Nous nous en sortons de ce neuf à cinq d’enfer ayant affronté nos mœurs de travail aliénantes.

ArtistsInspire: Question, Wonder, Imagine: Experiencing the World Through Visual Arts
An article looking at the power of arts education.
Article offered by Montreal's English Language Arts Network(ELAN) ArtistsInspire.

This drawing is the result a fun collaboration with Visual Arts teacher Abbie Bowker. Her student Ella made a drawing based on a photo of Inigo & I when Inigo was just a teeny tiny kid. So fun that the student's name is Ella as my eldest niece shares that same name! The photo was by Christina Thomson from when we were hanging out in the local Saint Henri park in Montreal.

Abbie Bowker is a Rowland Fellow. She teaches art at Champlain Valley Union High School in Vermont, U.S.A.

Abbie is also an author! and writes books after my own heart like
Woolly Bear Winter: How North Woods Creatures Weather the Cold
which is available for sale everywhere!

I recommend picking it up at Without Books a not-for-profit bookseller that supports authors and community building (check out their neat podcast!) or Flying Pig Bookstore, a bookstore featuring local Vermont authors.

C'est Briga dans La forêt noire!

Briga and Alix are playing the chanson, ARRIVÉE, de Briga (l'album "Territoire lancé le 29 oct. 2020).

Here we have the last happening in La forêt noire at the Maison de la culture Mercier, the final spot of its Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée tour.

Thank you Briga @brigamusic & Alix @alixnoelguery for your beautiful and generous visit to the forest and music!

Thank you Anne-Marie Hamel @hanmary44 for all your fabulous efforts in keeping the La forêt noire alive and facilitating the fun programming during this challenging era.

Thank you Benoit Z. Leroux for this amazing video!

Thank you to @mtlartsinter and @conseil.des.arts.de.montreal and @canada.council for all the support and making this project and tour possible!

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Very fun project to present artist Chris Miller's phenomenal PILOT particpant portraits in a fake zoom nestled on Georgia Akbar's beautiful desktop documentary.

Game Face (Now You Know) is part of the virtual exhibition, Take a Moment for Representation: An Anti-Racism Series, hosted by Montreal’s Concordia University Library.

An article on the work is here:
Concordia Library unveils its anti-racism virtual exhibition series Take a Moment for Representation:‘An occasion to explore how images and texts have a role to play in the fight for a more inclusive and just society’
March 12, 2021|By Leslie Goldstein

I currently have an artwork featured in the virtual exhibition entitled, VI Inter-American Week for People Of African Descent In The Americas 2021, at the American Museum of Art in Washington DC.

VI Inter-American Week for People Of African Descent In The Americas 2021 was created in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Canada to the Organization of American States.

This exhibition is part of the mission’s celebration of the histories and cultures of peoples of Afro-descent in the Americas. The mission requested that a work from the Global Affairs Canada Visual Art collection be included in the exhibition.

The AMA's instagram post is here--->x

Very happy to have been awarded an honorary membership at People of Print based in Brighton, U.K. There are an amazing collection of inspiring printmakers, print projects and project calls listed on their website. It's absolutely fantastic!!

CTV News The Importance of Black Canadian Art


Angie Seth of CTV News interviews Andrea Fatona on the importance of Black Canadian art.

There a few photos from my portfolio included in this interview, mostly work from the State of Blackness conference that I was lucky enough to attend.

You can see the artist presentations here on Youtube---> x

I am very proud to be 1 of the 10 BIPOC artists chosen for a STEPS Public Art Mentorship!!!

Amazing news and am so excited!!

The site I have chosen is an EMSB schoolyard.

BIGARTTO VISITS PARKDALE-HIGH PARK AND TORONTO-DANFORTH (NOVEMBER 18 TO 21, 2020)


The City of Toronto’s free outdoor public art celebration, BigArtTO, continues to offer residents with opportunities to safely explore their communities this week, while still respecting public health guidelines. And OCAD University is excited to participate as a proud partner.

This week, BigArtTO visits the neighbourhoods of Parkdale-High Park and Toronto-Danforth.

Twenty-one of the BigArtTO productions are the result of a close collaboration between the City of Toronto, OCAD University, and AVA Animation & Visual Arts Inc. Three of the BigArtTO productions are being delivered at waterfront locations and will be activated by program partner, The Bentway. These meaningful partnerships will provide opportunities for emerging Toronto-based artists and students.

November 18 to 21: daily from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Ward 4: Parkdale-High Park

(Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen St. W., M6K 1L6)

Artist: Anna Jane McIntyre (OCAD U Alumna)

Title: The Windbag & the Beginning

Here is a creation myth whose central characters include a seeing volcano, a mischievous wind and a large cat. The Windbag & the Beginning was originally performed Sunday November 21, 2010 at 2:02 pm at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Ontario. This work was curated by Libby Hague for her Free Radical project, which was part of the art and science fair inspired too cool for school curated by Sally McKay and Patrick Macaulay. too cool for school was featured as a part of Fresh Ground new works the national commissioning programme at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Other puppet plays from Libby's Free radical project are available for viewing at: www.libbyhague.com.

Anna Jane McIntyre is an artist whose playful practice combines storytelling, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, performance and microactivism. Her work investigates how people perceive, create and maintain their notions of self, through behaviour and visual cues, in an ever-shifting visual mashup of British, Trinidadian and Canadian cultural traditions.

I am proud to be a Continued Engagement member of the Wildseed Black Arts Fellowship as one of the top 20 submissions. Unfortunately I didn't receive the full fellowship but still very happy to be able participate throughout the year as part of community.

Wildseed Black Arts Fellowship is co-curated by
Rodney Diverlus, Syrus Marcus Ware and Ravyn Ariah Wngz

An article by Canadian Art Magazine is here ---> x

A publication created by THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR IDENTITIES AND MIGRATION (CIIM) in partnership with CCUNESCO, marking the International Decade for People of African Descent.

FACING THE CHANGE CANADA AND THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT – PART 1 CANADIAN DIVERSITY
Vol 16 - No. 3 - 2019
This issue has been supported by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
Contributors: The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean; The Honourable Jean Augustine; Mireille Apollon; Miriam Taylor; Wayne Hamilton; Chuka Ejeckam; Afua Cooper; Dorothy Williams; Jean-Pierre Corbeil; Hélène Maheux; Tari Ajadi; Shana Poplack; Wendy Cukier; Mohamed Elmi; Erica Wright; Rebecca Aiyesa; Oleksander (Sasha) Kondrashov; Christine Lwanga; Oluwasegun Hassan; Christine van de Merwe
English Version

FAIRE FACE AU CHANGEMENT LE CANADA ET LA DÉCENNIE INTERNATIONALE POUR LES PERSONNES D'ASCENDANCE AFRICAINE – PREMIÈRE PARTIE
DIVERSITÉ CANADIENNE Vol 16 - No. 3 - 2019
%Ce numéro a été commandité par la Commission canadienne pour l’UNESCO.

Contributeurs : La très honorable Michaëlle Jean; l’honorable Jean Augustine; Mireille Apollon; Miriam Taylor; Wayne Hamilton; Chuka Ejeckam; Afua Cooper; Dorothy Williams; Jean-Pierre Corbeil; Hélène Maheux; Tari Ajadi; Shana Poplack; Wendy Cukier; Mohamed Elmi; Erica Wright; Rebecca Aiyesa; Oleksander (Sasha) Kondrashov; Christine Lwanga; Oluwasegun Hassan; Christine van de Merwe%
Version française

Kapsula Magazine: Imagined Worlds

And here we have a few of my imagined circus writings. Truly, one of my greatest ambitions is to be a nomadic ringmaster wandering Canada in my caravan and setting up in rural locations. Mmmmm much inspired by Alexaxnder Calder's Le Cirque Calder and Federico Fellini's film La Strada

10.07.2020 – 27.09.2020
TENT Rotterdam

with free art workshop for Rotterdam's youth

'The Visual Life of Social Affliction' is a traveling exhibition featuring 11 artists from the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora around the depiction of social suffering. With works that are sometimes poignant, but also full of beauty and hope, the artists engage with the long experience of violence and loss in the region.

The exhibition is based on the recognition that Caribbean societies emerged from genocide among the indigenous population, enslavement of Africans, and forced labor by Indo-Surinamese and Javanese under colonial regimes - a history of structural violence whose repercussions on social life can still be felt today. . The exhibition tries to capture in images the profound impact of these traditional power patterns on people's lives.'The Visual Life of Social Affliction' is a project of Small Ax , international magazine for Caribbean art criticism. The name 'Small Ax' ('little ax') is taken from a Jamaican saying that became widely known thanks to Bob Marley: “If you are a big tree, we are a small ax”. It inspired the thinking behind Small Ax that relatively marginal creative and critical voices can make a difference by staying involved with people of Caribbean background and the changing contexts in which they live.New work was created for this Small Ax project by artists Blue Curry (Bahamas / London), Florine Démosthène (Haiti / New York), Ricardo Edwards (Jamaica), Deborah Jack (Sint Maarten / Jersey City, NJ), Patricia Kaersenhout (The Netherlands ), Miguel Luciano (Puerto Rico / New York), Anna Jane McIntyre (Canada), René Peña (Cuba), Marcel Pinas (Suriname), Belkis Ramírez (Dominican Republic), and Kara Springer (Barbados / Toronto). Ten writers from the Caribbean diaspora were invited to write about the artists for the accompanying publication.

David Scott and Erica Moiah James curated the exhibit.

Project Wiaspora x TENT: podcast conversationsIn this podcast series, Gyonne Goedhoop and Richard Kofi together with various guest speakers research what 'being Caribbean' means in different Dutch cities. The conversations take place in TENT and can be heard via Project Wiaspora on Spotify.

This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York. This European edition of the exhibition is a collaboration between TENT and the Research Center for Material Culture / Wereldmuseum Rotterdam.

August 2019 -I am proud to be participating in the travelling exhibition Visual Life Of Social Affliction: A Small Axe Project currently on view at The National Gallery of the Bahamas from Aug 22, 2019 – Nov 10, 2019.

The Visual Life of Social Affliction seeks to grapple with the ways in which Caribbean visual practice critically engages long-standing experiences of social suffering. Recognizing the real senses in which the Caribbean not only was born in the structural violence of Native genocide, African slavery, and Indian indenture instituted by colonial powers, but has been sustained since then by the relentless continuation of institutionalized disrespect, disregard, and dishonor, this project seeks to capture the destructive impact of dominating powers on the lives of Caribbean people. Our wager is that the visual arts constitute one of the most vital expressive and hermeneutic optics through which to explore social life in general and the life of social affliction in particular.

Participating visual artists include Marcel Pinas, Anna Jane McIntyre, Miguel Luciano, Florine Demosthene, Patricia Kaersenhout, Belkis Ramírez, René Peña, Ricardo Edwards, Blue Curry and Kara Springer.

Participating writers include Kaneesha Parsard, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Marielle Barrow, Erica Moiah James, David Scott, Claire tancons, Chandra Frank, Anna Kesson, Christina León



The Visual Life of Social Affliction is a project made possible by David Scott, Erica James, Nijah Cunningham, kempadoo roshini and Juliet Ali

For the entire month of August you will be able to find me gazing at the Atlantic ocean from St. Michael's printshop working away on a series of toy theatres, sets and cast. The theatre and puppets will continue my work to create a visual language from Quebecois, British and Trinidadian folklore and traditions.

Tia Connolly is this your photo?

I am proud to say that my print work, Monday's Manifesto, was used for The Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI) 35th Anniversary Conference, Rethinking Race and Sexuality: Feminist Conversations, Contestations, and Coalitions at Condcordia University, Montreal .

The prints were given as a thank you to the keynote speakers Françoise David, Gayatri Gopinath and Anne McClintock.

You can see images of the recipients and their prints here --> x.

My artwork is currently up for oglng in Salem, Oregon

My work will be featured in Rebeca Patek's multidisciplinary dance piece Real Eyes May 31 at the The Chocolate Factory Theatre on Long Island May 31st to June 2nd. Go and see it if you are around!! You will leave the performance forever changed.

From June 8 to June 24 as part of the Luminato festival, there will be a collabo-installation made by my aunt, Jean Boulby, myself and my brother Neil McIntyre at Fort York in Toronto. It's called The Encampment and features 200 tents commemorating the histories of civilians in and around the time the war of 1812. We have chosen to focus on Josiah Henson born June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883, an escaped African-American slave, whose amazing story was published in 1949 The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself and was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin published in 1852. In response to reading his biography I have carved a wooden portrait and posted him naked to be clothed by my aunt, who has done extensive research and also constructed a story laden quilt. My brother and I will also construct a sound element to go with the sculpture.

February 25 21h00 to 3h00 I will be performing shadow puppet tales inspired by the people places things of Montreal. I am located in a building at Bonaventure Metro. If you want to come and find me in this awesome Art Souterrain adventure you can check the map and co-ordinates at their website. I will say hello to the ghosts in person. MMmmhhmmmmm.

O lallalalala I love this project!

Billboards featuring art instead of ads.

You can see some of the images I submitted
here.

I will have more images in Richmond, Virginia and Salem, Oregon later in 2012.

If you would like to participate in this you can check out the call at Billboard Art Project.

Photo by Vincent Lafrance

I will be performing from 21h00 to 3h00 this February 25. My piece will feature stories and observations from Montreal illustrated through shadow puppetry.

For information on the event, check Art Souterrain

Hello there!! I now have a brand new Etsy shop !

For those of you who don't know Etsy is an online shop that specialises in featuring the work from do-it-yourselfers and crafts people. It is a haven for finding reasonably priced homemade gifts and treasures.

I will be presenting a costume entitled "Alice Black" at this fashion show.

FASHION WONDERLAND is now less than two weeks away! This exclusive fundraising soirée takes place on Saturday May 14th at the Darling Foundry in Old Montreal and combines fashion and art to help make a difference. Doors open at 7:00pm for a cocktail reception (cash bar) followed by a Wearable Art Fashion Show at 8:30pm. This highly anticipated show will feature looks created specifically for this event by up-and-coming Montreal designers and inspired by an Alice in Wonderland theme. Top three designs, as selected by our panel of industry experts, will win prizes. This year’s impressive judging panel includes: Canadian design icon, Marie Saint Pierre; trendsetting designer, Dimitri Chris; Joshua Fagan and David Archer, owners of womenswear boutique JoshuaDAVID; and Montreal correspondent for FLARE magazine, Janna Zittrer. Don't worry we also have prizes for you, raffle prizes include: one night stay at Crystal Hotels, breakfast included; $250 gift card for Montreal Gourmet to any of their 6 restaurants; $600 Dom Rebel Tee Shirt; and 2 passes for Bains Scandinaves. Please see attached for more information!
All net proceeds from this event will be donated the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada to help in the fight against blood cancers. Tickets can be purchased online at www.heelsandheart.com/tickets and they are selling fast! Purchase yours now to be sure not to miss this WONDER-ful evening!

anna Jane mcintyre Beaubienne Baptiste, ballerine de la nouvelle Vague
La soirée du 12 mai soulignera également le lancement de l’oeuvre Beaubienne Baptiste, ballerine de la Nouvelle Vague d’anna Jane mcintyre. Cette oeuvre ornera la façade de l’édifice Graff de mai à octobre pour la 4e édition du projet S’exposer aux intempéries, mis sur pied par l’Atelier Graff. Initiant des artistes à la conception, à la réalisation et à l’installation d’une œuvre d’art public éphémère en milieu urbain, ce projet offre une vitrine à l’art actuel tout en mettant en évidence les multiples possibilités de l’image numérique.

Anna Jane McIntyre est fascinée par les arts du cirque — le spectacle nocturne, le glamour, le kitsch, la lumière et l’action. Dans son travail, elle explore l’animisme, le rituel, l’invisible, l’imaginaire, le convenu, l’équilibre et l’asymétrie. À son arrivée à Montréal, l’artiste a été frappée
par le pouvoir évocateur des noms de rues ; la connotation très optimiste de la rue Beaubien lui a inspiré le personnage de Beaubienne Baptiste, incarné par l’artiste le temps d’une photographie. À la fois Montréalaise, ballerine et superhéroïne, cette icône étrange et douée de pouvoirs surnaturels surplombant la rue surveille les passants.
Artiste multidisciplinaire, Anna Jane McIntyre vit et travaille à Montréal. Elle a obtenu une maîtrise en arts visuels de l’Université Concordia en 2010, après un baccalauréat à l’OCAD (majeure en arts d’impression). Elle expose régulièrement son travail au Canada depuis 1998. Pour voir ses projets récents, consulter dontarguewithghosts.blogspot.com.
Nous remercions la Galerie Graff pour sa collaboration. Nous remercions également le Cirque du Soleil de son appui au projet S’exposer aux intempéries .

L’Atelier Graff est un lieu de création qui soutient et valorise la multiplicité des approches, la liberté de recherche et d’expérimentation et qui aborde les défis de l’art actuel en encourageant l’émergence des nouvelles pratiques reliées au développement des arts d’impression. Ce centre d’artistes autogéré s’adresse à ses membres, artistes professionnels et émergents d’horizons divers, en leur proposant un environnement de travail stimulant généré par le partage d’un espace de création qui favorise l’évolution des démarches individuelles et collectives.