Date & time
Thursday, October 20, 2022
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Arts & culture
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LOCAL RECORDS: SONIA SHERIDAN FONDS WITH AM TRÉPANIER
Speaker(s)
SONIA SHERIDAN FONDS WITH ANNE-MARIE TRÉPANIER
Cost
This event is free
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Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Sarah Greig, Study for Graphic Score, 2022. Installation view of the exhibition Thinking and Supposing. Trajectory of an exhibition Sarah Greig + Thérèse Mastroiacovo at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2022. Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Sign up for our next Local Records archive session on Thursday, October 20 starting at 2:00 PM. With guest animator AM Trépanier, you'll examine the fonds of artist Sonia Sheridan and the ethos, processes, and teaching behind her Generative Systems program through the 1970s. This edition will take place at the Médiathèque Guy-L. Coté housed in the Cinémathèque québécoise, RSVP required.
In art lingo, a study typically refers to a work that captures a moment with a future composition in mind, or an exercise aimed at building skills for who is executing it.
As artists, Sarah Greig and Thérèse Mastroiacovo place study at the heart of their practice, asserting a "generative unfinishedness" in their works. Their rigorous processes of image capture and (re)generation through drawing correlate with the dynamic thinking behind the Generative Systems program, created and directed by artist Sonia Landy Sheridan (1925-2021). On offer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1970 to 1980, this unique program focused on the transmission between artists, industrialists, scientists, and students, and was anchored to the technical apparatuses, copiers of all sorts, analogue synthesizers, computers, software, and video cameras,found in the classroom. For the lab coat-garbed students who passed through the program these technologies became at once the subject and the tools of study.
The archives of the vast undertaking that made up Generative Systems are preserved in the Sonia Sheridan fonds, acquired by the Daniel Langlois Foundation in 2005 and transferred to the Cinémathèque Québécoise in 2011, where they are kept today. The documents within underscore Sheridan's role as a precursor in the fields of art, media, technology, and pedagogy. From a selection of prints, technical drawings, personal notes, pedagogical material, slides and videos, this workshop will examine the study as a generative method at the heart of creative practice.
RSVP : robin.simpson@concordia.ca