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Peter Dowling and Rob Kennedy – visiting artists from Scotland, summer 2007

Two Presentations in Montréal, August 2007

1             Séverine Hubard welcomes :   Installation and Performance , Sunday 26 th August , at Studio Ernest Cormier , 3460 rue Saint-Urbain at Sherbrooke ( http://www.calq.gouv.qc.ca/artistes/studios/cormier.htm / http://www.severinehubard.net/ )

FREE ENTRY

From 8pm , installation all evening – till late

Performance at 9pm – prompt start!

… feel free to bring your own drinks … … beer will also be on sale …

Peter Dowling and Rob Kennedy will present a new LIVE work that continues a series of collaborations drawing on the combined techniques of composition and improvisation as used in both sound and video performance.   This work has been produced in residence at PRIM during August 2007

2             PRIM presents :   Installation, Performance, Video-showing and 5.1-audio presentation , Tuesday 28 th August , at PRIM , rue Fullum ( http://www.primcentre.org/ )

FREE ENTRY

6pm – 8pm , open-house presentation of work-in-progress, including Peter Dowling's new 5.1-audio work – ‘ Black Box Picnic (semaphore is dead) '.

7.30pm – screening of a new recorded video work by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling, and a solo computer-performance by Peter Dowling.

Works produced in residence at PRIM during July - August 2007

Information on the artists :

Peter Dowling :                         Composer/sound-artist and performer.   Recent works produced by SNYK (Denmark); AHRC (UK); seventhings (UK).   More information, sounds, etc at: http://www.steadykammer.net/

Rob Kennedy :                         Sculptor/video-artist and performer.   Recent exhibitions/screenings include “Something is wrong here, something should be done about it”; Solo show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK; ‘Jewel', group show, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK; PureScreen, Castefield Gallery, Manchester, UK

Selected works can be viewed at:

www.cathode.org.uk/sundowning.html / www.isisarts.org.uk/crisis/rob_kennedy.html / www.lauschmann.com/egoburger/spring2006/html/page27.html

Their residency has been supported by CALQ (Québec) and SAC (Scotland), and produced by PRIM in Montréal.   This residency is part of a three-year exchange programme instigated by CCA (Glasgow, Scotland) and CALQ, facilitating the creation of new works by artists from Montréal and Glasgow

More links:                         http://www.primcentre.org/             http://www.calq.gouv.qc.ca/index.htm

                                    http://www.cca-glasgow.com/             http://www.scottisharts.co.uk/

                                    http://www.steadykammer.net/             for more info and links etc…