Esther Bourdages aka EstherB.

Friday, October 29, 2010

RADIO ART: Diffusion, Broadcast, YUL@Soundgate, Danemark, October 15 - November 14, 2010

RADIO ART COLLECTIVE YUL : Neil Grifith, Eric Boivin, Esther B

Pièce entièrement constituée de sons de l'environnement, Mons realis est une carte postale sonore abstraite de Montréal. Elle témoigne de la richesse ethnique du paysage sonore de Montréal. Based on field recordings, The piece Mons realis that we did is an abstract sound art postcard of Montreal. We wanted to depic the rich ethnical sounds fabric of that city. More info

Monday, December 14, 2009

Mon mémoire de maîtrise est publié en Allemagne

depuis septembre 2010.

Les sculptures cinétiques de Jean Tinguely: Pour une lecture du spectacle de la vie et de la mort.

Éditions universitaires européennes, (org. 2002) 2010,

illustrations noir/blanc, 148 pages.

ISBN 978-613-1-52351-9

http://www.amazon.de/sculptures-cin%C3%A9tiques-Jean-Tinguely-spectacle/dp/6131523517/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1287979013&sr=8-1

Nous voulons considérer les sculptures-machines de Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) comme des organismes pourvus d'une capacité de vie et de mort. Si l'art d'Occident a depuis longtemps su donner à des corps statiques l'illusion de la vitalité, Jean Tinguely, à l'instar des artistes reliés aux diverses tendances de l'art cinétique, anime ses oeuvres d'un mouvement réel induit mécaniquement. La particularité de Tinguely consiste cependant à rapprocher l'effet-machine d'un dynamisme à connotations organiques. Le hasard et l'imprécision, voire la panne, guettent le fonctionnement de ces amalgames d'objets recyclés articulés à des rouages, leur conférant un caractère de fantaisie mais aussi d'incertitude qui peut tourner au désespoir : certaines sculptures de Tinguely se suicident littéralement en s'auto-détruisant devant le public. Ce livre se propose d'examiner la spécificité et la signification de la production de Jean Tinguely au sein des pratiques modernes de la sculpture. Il s'attachera tout particulièrement au spectacle que produisent ces machines ludiques. Celles-ci entretiennent un dialogue avec le public, en sollicitant tous ses sens et sa participation active.

BIO

Esther Bourdages works in the visual arts and technology art fields as a writer, independent curator and scholar. She holds a MA in Art History from Université de Montréal, where she wrote about the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely and the relationship between sculpture within an expanded field, as multimedia and sound art. Her curatorial research explores art forms such as site-specific art, installation art and sculpture, often in conjunction with technology (media and digital art). She develops since couple years a research on curating sound art, that she had opportunities to present in some contexts, as Mutek and Eastern Bloc in Montreal.

Working as a long-term collaborator on contemporary art exhibitions with the Darling Foundry / Quartier Éphemère in Montréal has provided many opportunities to develop her work in these areas. Esther Bourdages is particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary projects that relate to contemporary ideas in the fields of architecture, anthropology, urbanism, and cultural studies. Recent work related to this has examined urban environments in relation to the social and historical fabric of cities. An especially important aspect of her curatorial practice is sound, which she endeavours to treat as an independent rather than supplementary medium. She has authored many articles and critical commentaries on contemporary art. In addition to her creative practice, she is also actively involved in artist-run-centres and independent structures - as Agence Topo and Perte de signal. She is currently the Secretary, after to be President (2012-2016), on the Board of Director at Eastern Bloc, a leading Digital Art Exhibition & Production Centre dedicated for emerging artists. She is involved since many years with Quartier Ephémère / Darling Foundry. During 2015, she was the editor in chief of .dpi, a Journal dedicated to digital and feminism culture, produced by the Studio XX in Montreal. She is co-host of CAFE on CKUT radio, FM 90.3 since 2011, where she talks about art and culture.

She works at OPTICA, centre d'art contemporain since 2017.

As a musician, she performs under the name of Esther B - she plays turntable, handles vinyl records, and records soundscapes. She has performed in Canada, the US and France ; additionally, her works have been presented in England, Germany, Palestine, Portugal, Belgium and Danemark. Improvisation allows to her to create raw, non-linear music peppered with altered sonic quotes and abstracted sounds, textures mostly produced by vinyls that have undergone specific alterations (grinding, cutting, etc.). She is a member of the turntable trio Vinyl Interventions with Carrie Gates (Saskatoon) and Marinko Jareb (St. Catherines, Ontario). This outfit has been presenting its eponymous workshop. Since 2002 She has organized A Microphone in a Noize Storm, a concert series dedicated to new music. She also do radio art pieces based on field recordings.

esther.bourdages [at] gmail.com

Esther Bourdages aka EstherB.

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Friday, October 29, 2010

RADIO ART: Diffusion, Broadcast, YUL@Soundgate, Danemark, October 15 - November 14, 2010

RADIO ART COLLECTIVE YUL : Neil Grifith, Eric Boivin, Esther B

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Mon mémoire de maîtrise publié en histoire de l'art / My master thesis in art history published