Esther Bourdages aka EstherB.: September 2020

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

La section GRANDE RENCONTRE DES ARTS MÉDIATIQUES EN GASPÉSIE dont je suis commissaire a été suspendue pour l'édition 2020. Afin de donner un aperçu de l'édition de l'an passé, nous diffusons une archive qui introduit la performance audio/visuelle/visual A SEISMOLOGY OF REMINISCENCE, primeur mondiale, 2019, Percé.

Interview avec / with Esther Bourdages, commissaire / curator

de la 5E GRANDE RENCONTRE DES ARTS MÉDIATIQUES EN GASPÉSIE / 5th GRANDE RENCONTRE DES ARTS MÉDIATIQUES EN GASPÉSIE /et les artistes / and the artists:

Ivetta Sun Young Kang

(Can, Kor) - visuels / visual

Matthew Wolkow

(Can) - visuels / visual

Eric Dong Ho You

(Can, Kor) - son, musique / sound, music

Video interview: Caméra/camera et prise de son/ sound par/by

Lucile Parry-Canet

2019, ANG-ENG, 11 min 34 sec

La GRANDE RENCONTRE DES ARTS MÉDIATIQUES EN GASPÉSIE section, 2020's edition which I am the curator, has been suspended. In order to give a point of view of last year's edition, we are releasing an archive: an interview about A SEISMOLOGY OF REMINISCENCE, World Premiere, 2019, Percé.

De gauche à droite, left to right:

Eric Dong Ho You

Ivetta Sun Young Kang

Matthew Wolkow

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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