About the artist…

Born in Los Angeles, Oli Sorenson has lived and worked in London (UK) between 1999 and 2010, to combine his artistic activities with curatorial work (including several events at Tate Britain, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the British Film Institute). Sorenson has often exhibited internationally, including at the Millennium Museum (Beijing), the Media Art Institute (Amsterdam), ZKM (Karlsruhe) and DokFest (Kassel). He performs regularly in media festivals such as ISEA (Helsinki and Nagoya), Mapping Festival (Geneva) and MAF (Bangkok). He is now based in Montreal, Canada since 2010.

As a remix artist, Sorenson defines his practice by subverting preconceptions of originality and singular authorship, an approach that is often delivered via media performance projects in festive and collaborative contexts. His explorations are fed particularly by a fascination for the overabundance of content and information available online, as much as a critique of the strict copyright rules imposed on mechanically and digitally reproducible media.

About the work…

The Pistoletto Video project is a continuation of my recent remix work, which involves borrowing the creative gesture of other artists to direct them towards materials and issues that have not yet been explored by these authors. Here I destroy LCD screens in the same way that Michelangelo Pistoletto breaks his big mirrors. I’m tackling technological materials to produce a multitude of performance artifacts, such as those broken LCD screen photos.

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About the artist…

Steve Heimbecker. Artist, composer and creator of multi-channel sound systems. Conceptually his work is based upon his fascination with the architecture of space and the measurement of time within space including his natural inclination toward cross-modal representation. His installations, compositions and performances have been presented across Canada, Europe, New York City, and Peru, and are included in such public collections as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Alberta Art Foundation, and the Foothills Hospital Foundation. He lives and works in the Eastern Townships of Québec.

About the work…

The work is one of the many neologisms created by the artist for his series of multi-screen installations and performance poetry Ripaliper, METAFIVE and Notes realized between 2012 and 2016. Taberneige was written by the artist on March 16, 2014 and was then scanned and scanned for use in its digital productions and prints.

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About the artist…

Originally from Argentina and based in Chicago, Pat Badani is an international artist with a master’s degree in Visual arts from the Art Institute of Chicago. As a practitioner, researcher, professor, editor and curator, she is interested in the relationship between new media and the social sphere. Her conceptual and contextual practice is articulated through artistic creation, research and writing on subjects such as housing, transculturality, the migration movements of the population and a development-oriented way of life sustainable.

Her work has been presented in North and South America, Europe and Asia. She has participated in many international symposia and her writings have been published internationally, and she has received numerous awards and honors. Badani is currently a professor of integrated media at the Illinois State University School of Art; Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Media Arts at Columbia College, Chicago; editor-in-chief of Media-N Journal, the New Media Caucus; and guest editor of “Artelogie”, EHESS (France). Since January 2017, she sits on the Board of Directors of ISEA International.

About the work

With this work, Badani emphasizes his apprehension about privacy and personal space in a surveillance context. Paule Marcus wrote about the work: “With make-A-move, it is the creative and playful potential of surveillance that is staged. The possibility of subjectivity within this process is revived by close-up portraits and the intimate distance they impose. Through this work, Pat Badani invites us to think of surveillance as something that can be re-appropriated to shape a public space to the benefit of its many singularities. “

The work was designed and produced by Pat Badani during a residency at TOPO, in co-production with Art Souterrain, Montreal, whose 2015 edition was about safety, and with the support of Patrice Coulombe (technical advisor) and Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt (production assistant).

• Inkjet print. Archive quality paper acid free – Fuji Premium Matte 230g.  Format: 16×20 po. / 40×50 cm. Not framed.

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About the artist…

Audrey-Maude McDuff received a master’s degree in Visual Arts from Concordia University in 2014. She creates installations combining drawing and video that reflect on time, the appearance and disappearance of the image and the deployment of thought. Her work has been presented in several individual and collective exhibitions, including Agence Topo, Art Mûr Gallery, the Société des arts technologiques (SAT), and several editions of Montreal’s Nuit Blanche. She has also exhibited in the United States, Italy and Belgium. She lives and works in Montreal.

About the work…

Carnets de capture is a video installation in which the notebook, the workshop and the deployment of thought are at the heart of the concerns. Between drawing, video and performative gestures, this work questions the close link between a thought and its support. The work reflects on the conditions of emergence of an image or an idea. It presents an attempt to “capture” a fleeting thought. This desire to want to “seize” is definitely a failure. To follow the multitude of ideas that pass through our heads, images are formed, transformed, but do not remain.

• Inkjet print. Archive quality paper acid free – Fuji Premium Matte 230g. Format: 16×20 po. / 40×50 cm. Not framed.
• Flat rate of 150 $ CAN. Available at TOPO’s office without any other fee. If shipped, shipping and packaging costs will apply.

About the artist…

Artist in the fields of visual and media arts, performance and poetry. He has presented his projects across Canada, the United States, Brazil, Poland, England, Germany and China. He is the recipient of several local, provincial and national grants and awards. His multifaceted background and conceptual vision of art led him to found a series of open-ended projects such as: Conspiration H₁N₁, Projet Citoyen Modèle, Édifice H. Nadeau pour la poésie, LHN (Ligue Hugo Nadeau) and C.A.C.H.E. (Centre d’Art Caché d’Hugo pour l’Éternité) in order to pursue a certain artistic autonomy. He is originally from Saint-Zacharie in Chaudière-Appalaches and currently lives in Montreal.

About the work…

Digital print composed from the video game Nous Aurons, presenting the cooperative Archipel (Laurentia) on the territory of the former island of Montreal, unceded Mohawk territory. The “graffiti” visible on the building comes from the exhibition “The idea of the common” of the artist Anne-Marie Ouellet.

• Inkjet print. Archive quality paper acid free – Fuji Premium Matte 230g. Format: 16×20 po. / 40×50 cm. Not framed.

• Flat rate of 150 $ CAN. Available at TOPO’s office without any other fee. If shipped, shipping and packaging costs will apply.