Art Bits

Mannie and I have resurrected a series of polaroids we did in 1980!  We’ve made a book of them, plus there’s an exhibition in Portugal starting next week!

The Portuguese Polaroids

SX-70 Polaroid photos of Portuguese sailors in
St. John’s Newfoundland in 1980
by Kent Barrett and Manfred Buchheit

In 1980 the Resource Centre for the Arts / LSPU Hall presented a play on the Portuguese fishery on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland entitled Terras de Bacalhau.

Click To View The Images Or Slide Show

We (Kent Barrett and Manfred Buchheit) as artists associated with the Hall, decided to create an impromptu exhibition of portraits of the fishermen on board several boats in port by using the SX-70 camera. Our thought was that we could create an exhibition relevant to the theatre production immediately and have it up during the run of the play.

To effect this, we went down to the harbour, where the ships were anchored, and asked sailors if we could photograph them. We offered each an SX-70 print  if they agreed, and many took us up on the offer. They were very cooperative, even permitting us on board, and enjoyed being photographed. We hope some of them still have the original prints we gave them. A second photo was kept for our project, and these were the ones exhibited in 1980 at the Hall…

Between 1980 and now, these original prints had been stored away, and basically forgotten about until earlier this year when Manfred rediscovered them while sorting through his voluminous collection.

We hope you enjoy this little slice of the history of our home, St. John’s Newfoundland.

No worries. You’ve got a whole month to try and guess what The Arts Council will be buying this year.

Upcoming grant deadline: Professional Project Grants Program

The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) is now accepting applications for its:

Professional Project Grants Program

(for individual artists, groups, and non-profit arts organizations)

Application deadline: 16 March 2010

(Projects must start on/after 15 May 2010)

Contact the NLAC for an application form and details:

The Newman Building, 1 Springdale Street, St. John’s

726-2212 or toll free 1 (866) 726-2212 (NL only)

www.nlac.nf.ca nlacmail@nfld.net

Janet McDonald
Communications Officer
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
1 Springdale Street
P.O. Box 98
St. John’s, NL
A1C 5H5

Tel: (709) 726-2212
Toll Free: 1(866) 726-2212 (NL only)
Fax:(709) 726-0619

jmcdonald@nf.ai

Hey Kids! Want to do research for the next generation of illuminati mind control programs? Sure to make your career in advertising and hollywood crowd control movies! Here’s your chance.

NFB Hothouse 6: Call for Submissions

Deadline: February 19, 2010

Program Dates: April 05 – June 25, 2010

Theme: Inside Out

Tell it in a minute. Do it in 3 months. Make it Stereoscopic 3D.

The National Film Board of Canada seeks submissions from emerging filmmakers (young and not-so-young), and artists intrigued by animation art, for the 6th edition of Hothouse, a 12-weekpaid apprenticeship in full-on, all-inclusive, real-world animation filmmaking.

A new dimension this year — and a giant experiment — Hothouse 6 will be produced in stereoscopic 3D!. No need to dust off your red and blue glasses or script elaborate face-poking scenes; this is about using space as an essential story device and expressive tool (intimacy, fantasy, paradox, etc).

Hothouse is about making animation faster and more flexibly, embracing animation’s many possibilities while maintaining creative and technical excellence. We’re looking for six new talents who are willing and able to jump head-first into this intensive, immersive experience.

Submission Criteria:

Submissions must be received by 5pm (Montreal time) on Friday February 19 and must be sent via email or post. The six successful candidates will be notified on Friday February 26.

For more information:

Janet McDonald
Communications Officer
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
1 Springdale Street
P.O. Box 98
St. John’s, NL
A1C 5H5

Tel: (709) 726-2212
Toll Free: 1(866) 726-2212 (NL only)
Fax:(709) 726-0619

jmcdonald@nf.aibn.com
www.nlac.nf.ca

Yes, you have found us. We are indeed the IlluminArti conspiracy, well done. It’s not going to help you, though. Your feeble human mind cannot resist our incredibly powerful technologies of power and secret Art secrets of Art. You may have penetrated the sigils to get this far, Neo, but rest assured our secret hypnotic art powers are far beyond your capability to resist…

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For those who feel they never get a word in edgwise, now’s yer chance. Utilizing AMAZING TECHNOLOGIES and the intertubes you can thrill to the far-speaking wonders of the Eastern Edge. Don’t miss it.

REMINDER | WORDS IN EDGEWISE

Tonight is the night!

Don’t miss WORDS IN EDGEWISE, an interdisciplinary speakers series between MPhil and Eastern Edge. Tonight 7pm. It’s pay what you can and there will be snacks and refreshments available!

Featuring:
+ Jason Penney, skype-ing in from the UK, on his exhibition Afterblast currently on view at Eastern Edge
+ Debbie Collingwood, will read her essay “First Person Inquiry: The Continuing Story of the State of My Art,” a work inspire…d by the 1959 song, “What a Wonderful World.” There may even be singing!
+ Also, a late addition to the show! A special dramatic reading of a scene from “Memorandum” by Czech absurdist dissident playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel.

Visit the Facebook event page for more details:
http://www.facebook.com/index.php?lh=684ec3edacb2fe1d1677557667362074&#/ical/event.php?eid=264161896121

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Eastern Edge Gallery
72 Harbour Drive
po box 2641 station c
St. John’s, NL, A1C 6K1
709-739-1882
easternedgegallery@gmail.com
www.easternedge.ca

Or somebody, maybe it’s you, how would I know? Need a 2nd JOB in addition to your night gig patrolling the Walmart to pay that HYDRO BILL?

Sure, we all do. Here ya go:

Office Receptionist
(Nine Month Contract)
St. John’s

The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) is seeking applications for the position of Office Receptionist.

The deadline for applications is Friday, February 5, 2010 at 4 p.m.

Interested parties should submit their resumes to:

Reg Winsor
Executive Director
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
P.O. Box 98
1 Springdale Street
St. John’s NL A1C 5H5

No telephone inquiries please. Only those selected for an interview
will be contacted.

For more information on requirements and qualifications see www.nlac.nf.ca

Janet McDonald
Communications Officer
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
1 Springdale Street
P.O. Box 98
St. John’s, NL
A1C 5H5

Tel: (709) 726-2212
Toll Free: 1(866) 726-2212 (NL only)
Fax:(709) 726-0619

jmcdonald@nf.aibn.com
www.nlac.nf.ca

Something to do tomorrow beside join the Canadians Against Re-Opening Parliament facebook group.

OPENING TOMORROW JANUARY 9th
ARTIST TALK + OPENING RECEPTION
EASTERN EDGE GALLERY 3 to 5pm

S.A.G.S.R.I
Michael McCormack (NS)

Afterblast
Jason Penney (NL/UK)

On January 9th visit Eastern Edge Gallery for the first exhibitions of 2010! The Suitcase Art Gallery Space Research Institute (SAGSRI) launches its newest project. Newly opened, the St. John’s branch of SAGRSI will host an installation of the mission’s work to date - its continuing struggle to compete in the ’space race’ - and share their story of exploration and its affects on both the traveler and the environment they visit.
Michael McCormack is an interdisciplinary artist and art practitioner. He was the creator and custodian of the McCleave Gallery of Fine Art since 2002, until the suitcase gallery merged with SAGSRI in 2007. After several years of extensive traveling, Michael has returned to Halifax where he works as a representative of SAGSRI Maritimes, and as Director of Eyelevel Gallery.

In conjunction with the space mission, Jason Penney presents survival packs for drag queens and queers post-apocalypse in his exhibition Afterblast. After all the end of the world is near. Each purse contains a home adorned with found objects and reclaimed materials. A man climbing a bleak hill of debris, dressed for the future in discarded fashion co-inhabits the space. A look forward into a past future. Also presented Penney’s automata sculpture featuring a cast of trash inspired characters, who, infused with a new mythology find themselves in a darkened alley compulsively performing and exploring each other. Jason Penney is originally from St. John’s and is currently completing a MFA at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.

Exhibition Dates: 9 January to 20 February

…
And don’t miss the Rogue Gallery:

Time After Timeline
until January 29th

Exhibition by Yoohoon Kim
30 January to 20 February

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Mary MacDonald
Assistant Director

Eastern Edge Gallery
72 Harbour Drive
po box 2641 station c
St. John’s, NL, A1C 6K1
709-739-1882
easternedgegallery@gmail.com
www.easternedge.ca