MOVING TRAILER PROJECT🚚
... in 2018
Poster design by Cha Ji Ryang
Moving Trailer 2018 is the second iteration of Quite Ourselves as an artist/friend collective. Continued from the 2017 Moving Trailer Project, where Quite Ourselves accommodated five artists in a moving van on rental, this year's Moving Trailer expends its invitation to a broader range of artists who are eager to share their W.I.P/completed work/ experimental gesture/ movements seeking intimacy with the public in the city. Relocating the Mont-royal Mountain on the top of the moving trailer that does never stop but only keeps moving forward, these artists dream of relocating their identities, home-sickness, and reshaking their inherent bodies and surroundings that they are only temporarily in.
by ivetta
2018. 09. 15 - 2018. 09. 16 in Mooniyang/Tiohtià:ke/Montreal︎︎︎
︎︎︎ Project development and coordination by Quite Ourselves
︎︎︎︎︎︎Poster design by Cha Ji Ryang
︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎Curatorial feedback by Muhan Zhang
︎︎︎︎︎︎Artists’ Trailers (click to see each artist’s itinerary on a moving van)
Jin Heewoong’s Moving Trailer
Sophia Dacy-Cole (Flo)’s Moving Trailer
Florence Yee’s Moving Trailer
Matthew Wolkow & Ivetta Sunyoung Kang’s Moving Trailer
Rodrigo Velasco’s Moving Trailer
Matthew’s Ng’s Moving Trailer
CCVX?’s Moving Trailer
Poster design by Cha Ji Ryang
🚚 Jin Heewoong’s Moving Trailer 🚚
Sept. 15th, 2018 ~ 7-10am
McGill Ghetto -> Mont-Royal Mountain
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description:
Two objects are placed and rely on each other inside the moving trailer. Each time the moving trailer moves, these two objects show instability due to the speed of the vehicle and trembling due to the condition of the road surface. Sometimes it will crash into the wall, it will hit each other and tangle. When the vehicle stops, we see the distance between these two objects. The physical sexperiences that these two objects having as they moved, it is implicitly projecting the situation of emotional movement in the relationship.
Artist Statement:
Jin Heewoong is carrying out an experimental process of discovering combinations of particular objects in our surroundings, the order and chaos within such combinations, and thee aesthetic elements inherent in objectss, and then creatiing new meanings through alteratiions in arrrrangement, enumeration and space.
McGill Ghetto -> Mont-Royal Mountain
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description:
Two objects are placed and rely on each other inside the moving trailer. Each time the moving trailer moves, these two objects show instability due to the speed of the vehicle and trembling due to the condition of the road surface. Sometimes it will crash into the wall, it will hit each other and tangle. When the vehicle stops, we see the distance between these two objects. The physical sexperiences that these two objects having as they moved, it is implicitly projecting the situation of emotional movement in the relationship.
Artist Statement:
Jin Heewoong is carrying out an experimental process of discovering combinations of particular objects in our surroundings, the order and chaos within such combinations, and thee aesthetic elements inherent in objectss, and then creatiing new meanings through alteratiions in arrrrangement, enumeration and space.
🚚 Sophia Dacy-Cole (Flo)’s Moving Trailer 🚚
Sept. 15th, 2018 ~ 11am-2pm
Parked at Musée des hospitalières de l'Hôtel Dieu de Montréal
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description:How do we withstand the precarity and displacement of contemporary life? How do we recover from the shocks, ruptures, and traumas? In short, where do we store our vitality? Artist-activist Joseph Beuys claimed that after his WW2 fighter plane was shot down over Crimea, he was saved by Tartars, who swaddled his battered body in insulating layerss of felt and fat.
Artist Statement:
Sophia Dacy-Cole has an MFA from Monash University, Australia. She makes performance sculptures. Sophia comes alive in toouch and texture.
🚚 Florence Yee’s Moving Trailer 🚚
Sept. 15th, 2018 ~ 2-5pm
Parked at 262 Avenue Fairmount O
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description:This is an installation of found objects that I’ve embroidered with sayings from my grandmother. Due to a history of intergenerational and present/personal trauma, I cannot tell my grandmother of the many voilent incidents that have occurred in my lifetime, despite how close we are. Yet, I still find comfort and unspoken solidarity in the mundane everyday advice she tells me in relation to coooking, eating and hygiene.
Artist Statement:
The act of physical reproduction mirrors my interest in cultural reproduction, the ways in which a generation transmits knowledge to the next, and how it has been interrupted in my family. This exploration of authenticity (or lack therof) has prompted my practice to commemorate the objects and experiences of my Cantonese-Canadian/Québecoise diaspora, mostly through my relationshiip with my grandmother and language.
🚚 Matthew’s & Ivetta’s Moving Trailer 🚚
Sept. 15th, 2018 ~ 6:30-10pm
Parked at Rue Cherrier near La Fontaine Parc
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description:Trailers is a collaboration betwen Wolkow and Kang, which brings together forty pairs of selected stills from 35mm Hollywood found footage trailers into a moving trailer. As ‘creatio ex materia”, sourcing for their own archive, trailers are artworks in themselves built from complex acts of ‘collage’ and ‘montage’. Their purpose is to implement and convey the idea of a film to viewers, while unfolding key plot elements into a crescendo that will not reveal the climax. As an installation, this piece will disrupt the means of the commercial film trailer as it will shine a new light upon the same images. Within this playful and subversive act of ‘collage’, hidden and inherent narratives will emerge from the addition of disparate text and images, thus revealing a sum that will be greater than their simple juxtaposition, or as an utopic Guillaume-En-Égypte would say: ‘At that moment, poetry will be made by everyone’.
Bios of Two Artists:
Animated with the curiosityy for new knowledge, Matthew Wolkow creates a cinema revealing and recounting the persons and stories he meets. Situated between essay and experimentation, rubbing the real, the imaginary, speech, words, and sensorialities, his work benefits from this hybridity where form is approached as a resolution. Ivetta Sunyoung Kang is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Montreal.
🚚 Rodrigo Velasco’s Moving Trailer 🚚
Sept. 16th, 2018 ~ 11am-2pm
Parked at 77 Rue Bernard Est
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description: Rodrigo Velasco (yecto) will attempt an audioviual session in the moving trailer exploring the interconnections between sound and visuals through live coding. This will be presented alongside a collaborative editorial project between himself and different artists from Mexico through “MERMA”, which is an independent editorial based in Guadalajara, Mexico, that explores speculative and disruptive apporoaches in design through collaboration and printed materialities.
Artist Bio:
Rodrigo Velasco - from Ecatepec, Mexico, is weaving dialogues between text, sound, and image through live coding. Usually as yecto or ’rrrrodrrrrigo’, Velasco creates live doded improv-based electronic music and /or audio-reactive visual explorations.
🚚 Matthew Ng’s Moving Trailer 🚚
Sept. 16th, 2018 ~ 2-7pm
Parked at Rue Bisson and Notre Dame ST W
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description:
Recent projects go out into the world to search for materials in junk yards, abandoned lots, or construction zones. The works are presented in a demolished lot in the city. In a post industrial society which thrived on the consumption and destruction of spaces to create more spaces, these works will be presented along side the things already present in the location, as if to say these objects all embody a past presence, the activities of these entities are unknown yet we can sill discern with certainty that the space embodied a life, a function or fertile ground for regrowth.
Artist Statement:
The movement of ideas and cultural exchange is expressed in my process, which often involves the negotiation between objects, textures, and materials, as well as between optic experience and bodily somatic experiences. My works fulfill a visual archive of a specific humanity trough improvisation, touch, and feel in the wake of mechanization and the traces of bodily presence.
Recent projects go out into the world to search for materials in junk yards, abandoned lots, or construction zones. The works are presented in a demolished lot in the city. In a post industrial society which thrived on the consumption and destruction of spaces to create more spaces, these works will be presented along side the things already present in the location, as if to say these objects all embody a past presence, the activities of these entities are unknown yet we can sill discern with certainty that the space embodied a life, a function or fertile ground for regrowth.
Artist Statement:
The movement of ideas and cultural exchange is expressed in my process, which often involves the negotiation between objects, textures, and materials, as well as between optic experience and bodily somatic experiences. My works fulfill a visual archive of a specific humanity trough improvisation, touch, and feel in the wake of mechanization and the traces of bodily presence.
🚚 CCVX?’s Moving Trailer 🚚
Sept. 16th, 2018 ~ 8-10pm
Parked at 455 Prince Arthur St W
Montréal, QC, Canada
Project Description: For Moving Trailer 2018, CCVX? Will park a moving truck in a narrow alley of McGill Ghetto. It is a place where the collaborators had lived for most of their time in Montreal, where their memories originated. Also, it is the place where a large proportion of student population move in and out of yearly. The place itself generates a certain kind of vibrant energy, while being a neighbourhood where most people never settle down. Seeing the alley surrounded by bricks and dumps from the shifting populace, CCVX? attempt to bring the forgotten exterior into the interior of a parked trailer, hose inherent trait is to move.
Artist Bio:
CCVX? is a collective of a video artist (Ivetta Sunyoung Kang) and a sound artist (Eric You) that primarily plays with the malleability of space and time, through playing with audiovisual information of a specific site and duration. For Moving Trailer 2018, they aim to carry out an experimentation of bringing the spatiotemporality of an exterior into the interior of the moving trailer, in a form of a performance.
