The 24 Hour Art Marathon component of the Festival has arrived! Here is the line-up:
24 HAM | SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AUG 21-22 | NOON-NOON
Beginning on Saturday at noon and continuing all night long until noon Sunday, several dozen artists will be on-site at the Eastern Edge creating original works, including sculptures, prints, paintings, drawings, embroidery, and even body painting. People attending the Marathon can watch the creativity unfold, participate in one of the ongoing interactive installations, or take-in the many bands that will be playing music through the night as part of the celebrations. It is guaranteed that you will see things you have never seen before!
LALIE DOUGLAS (QC) $TORE | SAT AUG 21 | 12-5PM
Art – it’s not just for artists anymore! Through simple kits, Lalie Douglas provides the objects, materials and step by step instructions for you to carry out your own versions of her performances and public intervention projects. Lalie will be on hand to explain the kits and do demonstrations of the different performances.
Montreal artist Lalie Douglas creates objects, installations and performances which question our expectations of how art should behave both inside the gallery and outside in public spaces. She has exhibited in Quebec and internationally and holds an MFA from Concordia University.
PASHA MALLA AND STEFANIE BRUCE (ON) COME IN, GO AWAY | SAT AUG 21 | 12-8PM
Come visit CFAs Pasha Malla and Stefanie Bruce in their impromptu living room in the Eastern Edge parking lot and go away with a free painting — all they ask is for a good story in return. Participants will eventually also receive free copies of a chapbook that compiles the day’s stories and images together. Their practice combines found object construction, painting, drawing, collage, archival research, conversation, narrative text and documentation to explore ideas of comfort, nostalgia, community, loneliness, death, and, particularly, time.
Stefanie Bruce, a graduate of NSCAD’s Fine Arts Program, has most recently shown work at the Halifax Public Archives and St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York. Pasha Malla is the author of The Withdrawal Method, a Globe and Mail “Best Book” of 2008 and winner of the Trillium Book Award.
PICK-ME-UP ARTISTS COLLECTIVE (NL) I LOVE…? | SAT AUG 21 | 12-8PM
A bicycle-powered audience-generated piece whereby participants complete the sentence: “I Love…”, having complete freedom to express this complex emotion however they wish. Photographs of the participants and their expressions of love are projected for all to see, but in a random sequence, creating anonymity.
Founded in 2008, Pick-Me-Up Artists Collective brings together emerging visual artists for the purpose of fuelling inspiration and providing creative outlets. PMU offers members a socially supportive network which will encourage the cultivation of ideas and the continuing development of skills and concepts, creating educational, collaborative and career-enhancing opportunities between artists.
SOAPBOX PUBLIC PERFORMANCES | SAT AUG 21 | 1-5PM
She Said Yes! Theatre’s Clown Crew uses the Pochinko Clown through Mask technique as they have a picnic and cause some havoc. Kimberly Byrne performs musical spoken word regarding love as a volitional progress through travel teach and vegetarianism. Seraka, a local belly dance troupe, focused in Gypsy-style belly dance with influences from tribal and modern.
24 HAM MUSIC AND PERFORMANCES | SAT+SUN AUG 21-22 | 7:30PM-5AM
While the artists are busy creating, come by and take in one of the many live performances happening in the Eastern Edge Gallery space during the 24 HAM. Admission is $10.
8-8:45 Megan Morrison
Romance, Business, Letters and Braziers
Megan Morrison seeks an artistic and fresh perspective of people in their later years. Her work and art involves multiple forms of communication. Megan works with persons living with dementia and their families. In addition to singing the Blues, she is a PhD candidate in Medicine, a downtown resident, and a “come from away”.
9-9:30 Cafeteria
Members: John McDonald, Craig Francis Power, Ben Thwaites, Pheilm Martin
Two years ago the drummers wife left him so he bought Rock Band. He enjoyed it so much he bought a kit and bugged his friends to jam.
9:45-10:15 The Hot Faucets
Members: Andreu Wrice, Nicole Fiander, Brad Soper, Jeff Pardy
We’re a band that simply loves to make and play music. Based out of St. John’s, the Hot Faucets have an album in the works which will be released this summer. Thank you so much to the 24HAM for having us and especially to St. John’s for making this the greatest summer ever.
10:30-11:00 The Mudflowers
Members: Megan McLaughlin, Nicole Fiander, Meghan Harnum
Formed in McLaughlin’s garage three years ago in their hometown of Bishop’s Falls, they packed it up, graduated high school, recorded a demo, and moved to the city all in the span of a week. With near-future plans for a new album and a Canadian fall tour, they feel like they’re just beginning.
11:15-11:45 JUICER
Members: Derm Kean, Kris Hamlon, Mike Wyatt, Mike Coffin
Derm came home from Montreal and immediately went to CBTG’s to meet up with Stefan. Derm said “I want to start a new band.” Stefan fills the bass shoes. Derm did not sleep that night and went to Hava Java early in the morning and asked Mike to join on guitar—Mike said yes. Kris Hamlon joined eventually ‘cause Derm got sick of playing synth and finds him attractive. Fin.
12-12:25 Anna Felaxos
Let’s Talk About Celine
This will be a performance piece that compares and contrasts the work of Celine Dion with that of French literary figure Ferdinand-Louis Celine. The performance draws on drag queen aesthetics, feminist and queer performance art, as well as critical theoretical approaches to camp.
12:40-1:10 The Ice Cream Headaches
Members: Florian Creme, Lothlorien Creme, Finbar Creme, Julius O. Creme
The Ice Cream Headaches are several divisions of the same cosmic being. Each member is continually recreated to be an expression of the basic universal impulse. Every so often, they descend upon various cities, small towns, and forest groves on planet earth to unleash this impulse and bring it to life in human beings.
1:25-2:25 Diamond Rings
Members: John O’Regan
Diamond Rings is an emotional outlet for Toronto-based artist and musician John O. His lyrically evocative pop songs are composed with a stolen MIDI keyboard, borrowed laptop, and second-hand guitar.
2:40-5 Mrghosty with BK Strangler
BK Strangler is an artist living in St. John’s, NL who works with visual art, music, sound, and multimedia. He will be using one turntable and mixer with a loop peddle and some distortion pedals. Not a DJ set, it will be more of an exploration of sounds and samples.
MARATHON EXHIBITION AND AUCTION | SUNDAY AUG 22 | 1-4PM
Support your local artists! An exhibition of the 24 Hour Art Marathon artworks created throughout the event will be presented on Sunday August 22 from 1-4pm. A special piece from the Gerald Squires Gallery has been donated for bidding as well, and we thank him for his generous, continued support of the 24 HAM. Bidding will close for the silent auction at 4pm.
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