Montreal’s 1976 Summer Olympics saw the city gesturing, often haphazardly, towards modernity. One particular stride towards innovation was captured in the ceremonial torch relay. Rather than being transported on foot as per tradition, the Olympic Flame was electronically transmitted via satellite from Athens to Ottawa by means of an electronic pulse derived from the eternal flame. In Ottawa, the signal was transformed into a laser, which then ingnited a torch that was carried by hand to Montreal.

We propose to transport a flame from the site of the first nuclear reactor built for commercial use in the United States in Shippingport, PA to an exhibition at the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal, QC. Rather than simply restaging the 1976 relay, our collaboration seeks to collapse the distances between the context of the Montreal Olympics and this artifact of the atomic age as a way to reinterpret their inherent utopian ideologies and access their entropic potential.

Craig Fahner & Steve Gurysh

Sept 2011

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ISSUE/03:THE WORKERS INSTALL A WORK.

June 9th to 30th at the KHYBER ICA.

An installation of work by Robin Simpson, Bridget Moser, BURGHARD, Willie Brisco, Craig Leonard and Brad Troemel. Video work by Jacqueline Lachance. Accordion-fold Lecture by Craig Fahner, Tess Edmonson and Danielle St-Amour. Collected writings by Brad Tromel, Jacob Wren, Willie Brisco, Tess Edmonson, Danielle St-Amour, BURGHARD, Robin Simpson, Danna Vajda, + more, + a selection from the epilogue of BECOMING TARDEN by Jill Magid.

Curated by Palimpsest

Interactive PDF library URL soon.

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ISSUE/03: THE WORKERS INSTALLING A WORK

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

The upcoming installment of Palimpsest Magazine will take the form of an exhibition at the Khyber ICA from June 9th to June 30th in Halifax, NS, presented alongside a PDF publication of related images and texts. We are soliciting submissions of any nature: video works, audio works, print, text, performance, sculpture, etc, for either the exhibition or publication (or both).

We are interested in soliciting personal and critical reflections on the following: transference; the exchange of data and information; the degradation or protraction of the value of information; process; language and time; connectedness and distance; work and proximity; the distance between the initial and the conclusive; and, finally, the residue of these exchanges.

The exhibition, The Workers Installing a Work, will focus on the practice of outsourcing. We are interested in considering outsourcing as a way to investigate the negative space between an idea and its resolution. The Workers Installing a Work will address the personal and social politics of communication of information over space and time. The Workers Installing a Work will consider outsourcing as both a metaphor and a methodology. We will look to outsourcing for reflections on interdependence, systems of validation, and the distance between human and political bodies.

For more information, please email us at info at palimpsest dot ca.

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jackie’s video for dirty beaches is on pitchfork:

http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/15549-golden-desert-sun/

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jan verwoert @ DHC/ART

This is not a game. This is not just about figuring out a winning formula before someone else does. There’s nothing more stupid than playing smart. But playing plain stupid won’t do either. So you got a secret? Guess what, that doesn’t make you special. For I have a secret, too. We all do. Secrets are not such a new thing. Secrets started long ago. The question is how to share them, how and with whom, with whom how? What if you don’t know me but still feel that I might be someone to share secrets with (as I may strike you as someone who could keep them)? How do you talk to me? How do you address, summon, evoke, invoke, convoke, provoke people like me, like you, like us? How do you want to talk to my, your, our soul? You make art. That’s what you do. Because it’s still one of the best ways to keep and share secrets and address the soul. So artistically, philosophically, emotionally, socially, existentially, politically, ethically, sexually, spiritually the crucial question is: how to develop the mode, manner and style in which you desire to share secrets and address the soul? It’s a question of artistic form, rhetoric and attitude and a question of how we want to be with and towards each other.

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launched @ the CCA.

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PRE-ORDER

In anticipation of the launch of Palimpsest ISSUE/02: MEDICINE, February 26, 2011, we’re offering 15 copies of the limited edition of 50 for pre-order through our website.

ISSUE/02: MEDICINE is an unbound collection of printed matter and other work concerned with ideas of the body, illness, health, physicality and spirituality. MEDICINE incorporates video work from Brendan Reed, Jason Harvey, and Michael Leach, written work from Craig Fahner, Tess Edmonson, and Willie Brisco in conversation with AA Bronson, and a collection of printed matter and visuals from Maryanne Casasanta, Stacey Ho and Lindsey Nolan, Dan Joyce, Matthew King, Pierre Le Hors, Adam O’Reilly, The Parker Branch (Jason Hallows/Anna Madelska), Nikholis Planck, Xenia Benivolski and William Young. All pieces are individually packaged in acid-free paper and collected in a handmade archival folder.

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