Artists in residence | Carried Away : The Fruit Outside of the Frame
Following a first iteration in June 2022, during the Experimental Cinema Symposium, artists Vida Simon and Jack Stanley will continue their residency for two months in the Salle Norman McLaren. They pursue their visual and performative research around Carried Away, a project first presented in 2017.
Conceived as both a tableau vivant and an open frame that focuses on improvisation and the act of witnessing, Carried Away: The Fruit Outside of the Frame is built around a series of gestures that evoke cinema at its rawest: the trace, the frame, the light. This ever-changing performance-installation weaves together many forms—live drawing, object play, sound, photography, and video—and relies heavily on the metaphorical resonances within elemental materials—handmade charcoal, plant life, water, and stone.
From January 12, 2023, the gallery will be open to the public: the artists will share the fruits of their work and will regularly be present for durational performances in the exhibition space.
Exhibition opening on January 12, 5.30 pm.
Exhibition
From January 12 to 29, 2023
12 am-9 pm, Mo.-Fri.
2 pm-9 pm, Sa.-Sun.
Durational performances
January 14, 19, 21, 26 and 28, 2023
3.30 pm- 6.30 pm
The artists would like to thank the Cinématheque québecoise, as well as the following organizations where earlier iterations of Carried Away were presented: Comox Valley Art Gallery, BC; Galerie B-312, Montreal; Ad ognuno la sua p’arte, Italy; Villa des arts, Senegal; Bòlit Centre, Catalonia; La Chambre blanche, Québec ; and At Home Gallery, Slovakia.
Vida Simon and Jack Stanley
Vida Simon combines various media to form site-responsive installations and performances. She has presented her work internationally in diverse contexts: galleries, hotel rooms, storefronts, theatres, rooftops, abandoned houses, a former synagogue, a horse stable, a tiny church, a former sanatorium... In addition to her ongoing collaboration with Jack Stanley, Simon’s recent projects include Le bureau du savon, a participatory piece in a rented office space (Montreal, 2022), Too much/Not enough at CIRCA (Montreal, 2020), and A Very Slow Blue, a performance on Ile Tatihou (France, 2018). Simon’s work foregrounds improvisation, intimacy, fragility, and ephemeral materials. In 2021 she published her first children’s book, L’univers bleu d’Anouka.
Jack Stanley’s practice includes artmaking, writing, independent curating, arts administration, and editing. His interest in interdisciplinarity and context-oriented art started in the early ‘90s while studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since then he has been preoccupied with the issue of place and the often-overlooked significance of context in the production and reception of artworks. Key theoretical areas of interest include hospitality, situated knowledge, critical regionalism, and institutional critique. Between 2011 and 2014 he was Director of Programs at Fogo Island Arts, a not-for-profit cultural organization in Newfoundland, best known for its international artists-in-residence program. Stanley is based in Montreal.
