Membres de CLARK

RELATED EVENTS

POSTE AUDIO /

MAY 14 – JUNE 20

EXHIBITION SPACE

Each centre has its own written and oral history. Much of CLARK’s history has been built through oral narratives, weaving its reputation through 27 years of existence. To mark this anniversary on the theme of secret society, two of CLARK’s staff members, Claudine Khelil and Roxanne Arsenault, came up with the idea to collect stories from its members in a space that lends itself well to the confiding of secrets: the space between the gallery’s walls.

These are the Centre’s secrets, the sometimes anecdotal, sometimes compromising revelations that are partially revealed here in the Poste Audio. Voices have been modified and names have been censored to keep the mystery alive. Played randomly, these excerpts tell a continually reconstructed history of CLARK, with all its contradictions, lack of objectivity, and just a bit of mythology.

C.K. and R.A. would like thank the members who confided their secrets, and especially Pascal Desjardins for his countless hours of audio editing that helps preserve (in part) the identity of these witnesses.

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ART, LITTERATURE & COMMUNITY /

SUNDAY MAY 24, 2PM

at Bibliothèque du Mile End (5434 avenue du Parc)

This off-site activity is presented in echo to the Société secrète 27th anniversary exhibition presented at CLARK. In conversation with the public, artists and thinkers will talk about imaginary books, diverse influences and inspiring writings.

Open to everyone !

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SCREENING NIGHT

DOUBLE PROGRAM /

THURSDAY JUNE 4, 7H30

1. SELECTION PROPOSED BY ANNE-MARIE ST-JEAN AUBRE

Starting point of a work in progress

A short selection of works based on the theme of the secret society. Secret society, hidden, occult, invisible, alien-ated ? Or, when irrational characteristics associated to the Other are re-appropriated in order to assert and subvert. With video works by artists Camille Ducellier and Soda Jerk who are interested by the figures of the witch and the alien as spaces of other possibilities.

2. SÉLECTION PAR LES MEMBRES DE CLARK

sur le thème de la société secrète

After the intermission, ciné-CLARK will present a program of weird and occult movies chosen by it’s members.

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TRIANGULAR ROUND TABLE

(members discussion) /

MARJOLAINE BOURDUA, SÉBASTIEN CLICHE, ALEXIS DESGAGNÉS, SONIA PELLETIER and ASEMAN SABET

THURSDAY JUNE 11, 6 – 8PM

EXHIBITION SPACE

Conversation with CLARK members taking place in the temporary conspiracy room of the gallery. The discussion will focus on art, politics, history and other themes found in the anniversary exhibition, Société secrète.

Key words : prophecy, fiction, anonymous, secret code, conspiracy.

Beer, wine and snacks will be served.

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SOCIÉTÉ SECRÈTE

FINAL EVENING (PERFORMANCES)/

ORGAN MOOD, JACQUES MARCHAND, DANIEL OLSON

NADÈGE GREBMEIER FORGET, MONNOCONE

THURSDAY JUNE 18, 9PM

2 days before the end of the exhibition, CLARK has invited members and past artists from it’s programming to come celebrate it’s 27th anniversary for the last time.

The evening will include short performances, experimentations, and possibly, secret interventions..

Stay for the final punch. 😉

ORGAN MOOD

Musical, optical and relational improvisation (no songs from O.M. albums will be played).

organmood.net

JACQUES MARCHAND (sound) & LAURIE-ANNE LANGIS (movement)

Clarkosoïque era, secret movement.

NADÈGE GREBMEIER FORGET

in collaboration with MARYSE LARIVIÈRE

JE TE SOUFFLE LE MOUVEMENT À L’OREILLE  // Hint #2 — PÉTULA CLARK received poems by M.L. written on postcards from New York, Toronto, Niagara Falls and Vancouver. She will interpret these short texts during her performance, as well as images produced for Secret Society by D.O.

www.nadege-grebmeier-forget.com/

DANIEL OLSON

“Ut comœdi, moniti ne in fronte appareat pudor, personam induunt, sic ego hoc mundi teatrum conscensurus, in quo hactenus spectator exstiti, larvatus prodeo.”

MONNOCONE

Analog synth initiatory session.

monnocone.bandcamp.com