[microsound-announce] Maraya Projects: Soundwalk with Jean Routhier – Sat, Oct 29, 2:30PM Vancouver | Dubai

[Emma Hendrix]

Soundwalk with Jean Routhier – Saturday, October 29, 2:30PM

First of series of exhibitions, walks and talks in Vancouver and Dubai for
Maraya Projects.

DESCRIPTION

Based on time-tested soundwalking techniques, Jean Routhier will introduce
sights and sounds from two key locations: Vancouver’s False Creek waterfront
and the Dubai Marina in United Arab Emirates. Exploring audio-visual links
between these communities through new media, the soundwalk concludes with a
brief presentation of new works by artists M. Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and
Henry Tsang. The soundwalk takes participants from the Roundhouse Community
Arts and Recreation Centre in Yaletown and along Vancouver’s waterfront,
closing with a participant discussion with the artists at Centre A: 2 West
Hastings Street.

DETAILS

Saturday, October 29, 2:30PM

Led by Sound Artist Jean Routhier

Meet at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Front Lobby Entrance
by the Café 181 Roundhouse Mews (enter from Davie Street, between Pacific
Boulevard & Marinaside Crescent)



Soundwalk with Jean Routhier is a part of Centre A’s public programming for
the Maraya Project

Artists: M. Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and Henry Tsang

Date: November 5 – December 17, 2011

Opening Reception and Interactive Website Launch: Friday, Nov 4th, 8pm

Gallery Hours: Tue- Sat, 11-6pm, Closed on Sun, Mon and Holiday

Place: Centre A: 2 West Hastings



MORE INFO

Website: http://marayaprojects.com, http://www.centrea.org

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MarayaProjects

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maraya-Projects/275392745828402



ARTIST BIOS

Jean Routhier has an audio leaning art production. Routhier is an audio
wrapper, his approach similar to a store clerk, bagging everything into
their sonic essence. Interested in the gaps and gasps in sounds conducive to
the transmission of tales he sometimes hears in the ether, Routhier finds
inspiration in everyday situations. His work has been presented
internationally and nationally at the Vancouver Vibrates, the  Silence and
Signal & Noise Festivals (Vancouver), ISEA 2006 (San José, CA), Open Air-Ars
Electronica 2002 (Linz, Austria), Overgarden Festival (Copenhagen,
Danemark), DLux Media Arts Festival (Melbourne, Australia), Global Mix
Festival (Cracow, Poland), ICMC '94 (International Computer Music
Conference, Florida, USA), La Panderia (Mexico City), École des Beaux-Arts
(Aix-en-Provence, France), Studio Cormier (Montréal), Artspace Gallery
(Peterborough, ON), Surrey Art Gallery(Surrey), Helen Pitt Gallery
(Vancouver), Articule (Montréal). His audio works have been featured on
Kunstradio (Vienna, Austria), CBC and Radio-Canada. Jean curated for the
Surrey Art Gallery a series of audio artists as part of its ongoing Open
Sound exhibit, as well as helped organize its audio art symposium in 2008
and 2009. He is one of the organizers for the soundwalking group and radio
host and producer of Soundscape on CFRO 102.7FM.



M. Simon Levin lectures within the Department of Art History, Visual Art and
Theory, University of British Columbia and in Critical and Cultural Studies
at Emily Carr University and has published a curriculum on Contemporary
Public Art. He creates site-based systems that explore the aesthetics of
engagement using a variety of designed forms and tools that address our many
publics. These spatial and pedagogical projects, expand the social agency of
art making, rethinking notions of space and place, authorship and audience.
Working collaboratively and primarily within the public sphere, Levin’s work
ranges from billboard projects, alternative tours of cities, land care
centres and alternative mapping and telecommunication systems. Recently
commissioned projects include a user-generated ‘sousveillance’ system and a
global contributive new media platform, both showcased for Vancouver’s 2010
Cultural Olympiad. He has been artist in residence for the Vancouver Parks
Board, the TechLab at the Surrey Art Gallery, Emily Carr University and at
the International Art Space, Kelleberrin, Australia. He has exhibited,
lectured and published locally, nationally and internationally.



Glen Lowry is writer, cultural theorist and editor. He received his PhD in
English from Simon Fraser University, where he specialized in contemporary
Canadian literature and culture. Lowry's research focuses on collaborations
among artist researchers and other academics. As one core member of Maraya
since 2007, he has facilitated and participated in numerous presentations
internationally and locally, including Art Dubai (2010), Learning From
Vancouver symposium held at Western Front (2010), Interactive Futures '09:
Stereo, and ISEA 2011 Istanbul. From 2001-2011, Lowry edited the Simon
Fraser University-based cultural journal West Coast Line. Pacific Avenue
(LINEbooks, 2009) is his first poetry collection.  Lowry is the Assistant
Dean of Critical Studies and Community Engagements at Emily Carr University
of Art + Design.



Henry Tsang’s projects have been exhibited internationally, incorporating
digital media, video, photography, language and sculptural elements in the
exploration of the relationship between the public, community and identity
in the new global order. Projects in the public sphere range from
community-based curatorial and engagement practices to permanent
commissioned artworks. Welcome to the Land of Light is a 100 metre-long
installation located on the seawall handrail along Vancouver's False Creek.
He has also worked with artists’ collectives which produce temporary public
art installations on shared political concerns, including The Association
for Noncommercial Culture and Collective Echoes Youth Public Artists
Collective, and has mentored many young artists through various programs.
Video installations such as Orange County, 2004, and Olympus, 2006, shot in
California, Beijing, Torino and Vancouver, examine overlapping urban and
socio-political spaces; and Napa North, 2008, looks at the relationship
between wine, real estate and cultural translation in British Columbia’s
Okanagan Valley. His curatorial projects (Self Not Whole: Cultural Identity
& Chinese-Canadian Artists in Vancouver, 1991; Racy Sexy: Race, Culture and
Sexuality, 1993; and City at the End of Time: Hong Kong 1997, 1997) span the
local to the international. Henry received the VIVA Award in 1993 and is an
Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art & Design.


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