Politaoke

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 5 – 9 PM
55 NOTRE-DAME WEST (METRO PLACE D’ARMES)
For more information, please visit us online at www.artdissidentart.com

The Art + Anarchy Montreal 2008 collective is pleased to invite you to the opening of a new exhibition in Montreal, *Dissident Art, *on September 5th from 5pm – 9pm at 55 Notre-Dame West (in Old Montreal, metro Place d’Armes).

The vernissage will feature performances by Diana Arce (Berlin),
showcasing her political speech karaoke Politaoke in Montreal for this first time (with laughable extracts from Brian Mulroney, Stephen Harper and more!), and The Shining Mantis (New York), engaging in a spontanteous chalk-on-black-wall drawing war between the collective’s two members.

Returning after the success of the Art + Anarchy exhibition in 2007, which saw 230 local and international artists exhibit their work, this year’s exhibition represents a more curated turn with fifteen artists. From Caro Caron’s (Montreal) excellent artistic musings on the gentrification of Montreal’s artist neighbourhoods (Homele$$$) to the pairing up of artist Jackie Sumell (Brooklyn) and Herman Wallace, a Black Panther member whose life sentence is currently up for review, the exhibition offers variety in concept, style and contribution to the meaning of dissidence in art. In addition to the fifteen chosen artists, the exhibition will be offering a room in which unsolicited artists are invited to come hang their own
political work.

The complete list of participating artists is: Diana Arce, Mathieu Beausejour, Caro Caron, Howard Chackowicz, Kathryn Delaney, Ronen Eidelman,Freda Guttman, Gord Hill, Dayna McLeod, Jesse Purcell, Michael Rakowitz, The Shining Mantis, Jackie Sumell / Herman Wallace, Rick Trembles, Tania Willard.