A rhyming Seussian hello to you, dear bloglings! Get ready to talk Montreal, because Immony Men’s Effections: We need to talk is coming to Occurrence this week. Mirana Zuger presents D is for Water at Ottawa’s Terence Robert Gallery. Micah Lexier is up to more shenanigans with exhibitions all over the map, but if you get a chance, check out Two Arrows Pointing in Opposite Directions now on display at Toronto’s Conveinence Gallery. Eryn Foster (ToD interviewee numero uno!) and John van der Woude combine for Google Earth at Gallery 44 in Toronto. Enjoy!
—Mike Landry
By Mike Landry
Immony Men poses in a scene from his video series, "Effections."
I have to wonder if Immony Men has gone off the deep end working on his latest project, Effections. Given the excruciatingly tedious process of the Montreal-based artist’s work, it’s entirely possible.
“I’m geared to the labour but I end up blurring the lines between whether I am writing fiction or is the fiction writing this actuality,” says Men. “I’m building a living room set to replicate physical souvenirs that a couple would inhabit. I’m torn whether it’s fictional narrative or actual narrative.”
It’s more likely Men is legitimately awesome than insane. Effections, builds from his previous work, Taking Care of Business, which had him working 9-5 printing wall-sized images of an office bit by bit on Post-It Notes. For Effections Men shot about six minutes of film, which he then fractured into about 10,000 frames, printed digitally, edited, crumpled and then recompiled back into video. Read the rest of this entry »
