MICHAELA GRILL + PHILIP JECK + KARL LEMIEUX // STEVE BATES

Saturday, June 14

Daïmôn

78 rue Hanson (Gatineau)

7:00pm - 11:00pm

All ages

FREE

Austrian video artist Michaela Grill (laptop), together with Canadian filmmaker Karl Lemieux (16mm projectors) and British turntablist Philip Jeck (turntables), will present a unique and improvised audio-visual performance in which image and sound, analog and digital elements are synergistically interwoven.

Steve Bates (guitar/electronics) will perform his ongoing wrestling match with the electric guitar, exploring minimal harmonic elements and noise.
 
More information about the artists:

MICHAELA GRILL (Austria) studied in Vienna, Glasgow and London and has made various film/video works, installations and live visuals, performances in Austria and abroad. She lives and works in Vienna.
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PHILIP JECK (UK) works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record.
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KARL LEMIEUX (Canada) is a co-founder of Double Negative, a film collective based in Montréal focused on the production and screening of experimental film and has worked on several music and performance- based live projections.

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STEVE BATES (Canada) is an artist and musician living in Montréal.

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Presented by Available Light Screening Collective, in collaboration with Daïmôn, pleasure thru sound, and the Austrian Cultural Forum | Austrian Embassy Ottawa.

CLOSING FORMAT
Friday, December30
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format was a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre. It ran for the duration of 2011, and is closing with its final edition on Friday, December 30th.  Please join us and help celebrate endings and beginnings.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in the community where it may be helpful.

All proceeds of CF will be split evenly between SITE Ottawa and Vancouver's PIVOT:

SITE
"...an effective mandatory health program, which has been in operation since 1991...deemed a necessary public health measure to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, primarily HIV and Hepatitis-C virus, and to minimize the risks associated with substance use in society. "

PIVOT
"Pivot's mandate is to use the law to address the root causes of poverty and social exclusion. Our name is metaphor for our approach to social change - by making the most tangible violations of human rights the focal point of our efforts, we exert maximum pressure in order to shift society toward greater equality and inclusivity."


Massive gratitude to those who made this series possible:

- Shanghai Restaurant, and Don in particular, who has been so welcoming and patient with us, and let us use their fine space and PA for the series, for free, and made us some nice little finger foodies and menus, and provided a space in which we could play this music.

- CHUO 89.1 FM, who sponsored the series with in-kind donation of radio ads that they kindly allowed us to make.

- Everyone who came out, donated money and ears and time and always created such a friendly, stimulating and open vibe at the OF nights.

- And lastly but importantly-- all the DJs who took part and donated their time and love of music. Without whom.

Stay tuned...from the ashes of OF perhaps something new for 2012...

Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

OPEN FORMAT 12

OPEN FORMAT 12
Friday, December 9
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in the community where it may be helpful.

All proceeds from OF 12 will be going to Organizing4Justice, a "collaborative effort of several local groups and individuals.  It is aimed at those involved and/or interested in community organizing and activism in the Ottawa-Outaouais region."

Capacity is limited!

Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.