The armature for this exposition is designed to illuminate, provide power to each viewer’s motor and house all commissioned super-8 films.
Steve
There were a great number of people who helped me out ......
Keith Pattington (electronics design and fabrication)
Anni Lawrence and Anni Lawrence Catering
Kate Lawrence
Pierre Giroux
Janis Tiefenbach
Joakim Jasenovic
Jon Claude Bieschke
Wright Daniel
Quartier Éphémerè/ Foundry Darling
Steve Topping Artist, builder and the technical Director at Founderie Darling in Montreal
toppingstop@gmail.com
http://stoppin.blogspot.com
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Solo Exhibitions
2009, August 5-15 Festival Acadien de Caraquet, showcased artist in production
2009, Sept 30-Oct 4 Art Pop: Pop Montreal, featured artist
2008, June 5- 30 Rock and Roll: Selected Contemporary Art in Newfoundland, A1C Gallery, St. John’s, NL
2008 Jan 19- Feb 6 ESPACE BLANC 4 : MARQUER LE PAYS, Caravanserail, Rimouski, QC
Residency and exposition of art on the ocean ice sheet
2007, Mar 07-Apr29 Capsule Memoir , Cinematheque Quebecois
An exhibition of 28 super-8 film-loops (30sec) in a machine of my creation.
2006, Jan15-Mar 23 Flatlander, Boreal Art Nature, Labelle, QC
Reflective thumbtacks in trees made to be level with one another for 2km
2005, Feb15-Mar 15 Les Domes de Glaces, Lachine Cannal, Montreal
Construction of domes of ice 6m x 2.5m high as public pavilions.
Coll. w/ Ana Rewakowicz. Co-produced and with Quartier Ephemere
2004, June 18-20 SpliceThis! International Super-8 Film Festival, Toronto, ON
Featured artist, photo exposition, video installation, film
2003, May 1-29 Box Expo Gallerie Skol, Montreal QC
2001, Feb 8-Mar 9 Upstairs, Solo Exhibition gallery, 787 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON
2000, Sept 03-31 Rain Paintings, Rogue space, Eastern Edge Gallery, St John's Nfld.
Group Exhibitions
2002, Oct 6-Mar 30 Against Time Armando Museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands -Reading Canada Backwards film
2002, Sept 13-Dec 7 The Dwelling, Optica, 372 St-Catherine West, Montreal, QC
2001, Oct 2-Jan 20 The Infinite Between Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, PEI
and Mar 15-Apr 14 The Infinite Between, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, -Reading Canada Backwards film.
1997, Mar 28-April 19 Headquarters/ Man-Size with Marie-Paul MacDonald, Adrian Blackwell, Ken Hayes, Kika Thorn, Joep van Lieshout -Reading Canada Backwards film
Interventions
2000, Mar/April The Anti-Loft Symposium, Toronto, ON
-Symposium on post studio practice organized by Marie-Paul MacDonald and Ken Hayes. Interventions included was my Anti-loft living space in Montreal
1997-98, June U-Haul Film Festival, Toronto, ON
U-haul truck w/ screen inset in the back door. Back projected S-8 films stopping at different neighbourhoods/ communities.
Collaboration. w/ Eric Aurandt
1997, Nov-April Snow Shack, Cartier, ON
The Snow Shack was constructed as a winter shelter on “Crown land” near Cartier, Northern Ontario. It used only radiant heat and foil insulation.
Film Festivals
2004 Splice This! Toronto International S-8 Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Featured artist, Reading Canada Backwards, Box Expo, photos
2002 Anti-Matter Film Festival World Tour, Victoria, BC, Reading Canada Backwards
2001+02 Blinding Light Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Reading Canada Backwards
1998 “Splice This!” Toronto International S-8 Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2000 Anthology Film Archive, New York, N.Y. (16mm),
1999 Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France, Reading Canada Backwards
1998 Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, QC (16mm),
1997 Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC,
-Reading Canada Backwards, Premiere of 16mm version
Publications
2006 Fuse Magazine Vol. 29, pgs 24-35 (Collective Dab)
2005 Unboxed: Engagements in pulic space, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
ISBN 1-896183-13-1
2005 Super Super 8, Experimental Works for Educational Environments
DVD special edition published by Canadian Filmmaker’s Distribution Center
2004 LaDemeure, Optica, Montreal, QC
2002-2003 Skol (centre des arts actuel) 2002 - 2003
“On Box Expo” - Daniel Hall
“La Piece Cinetique” - Caroline Martel,
“224 Words/Minute” - Marie-Paul Macdonald
2002 Transportable Environments, Marie-Paul Macdonald, "Wearable Environments"
ISBN 0 419 24250 3
1997 Headquarters/ Man-Size ISBN 0-9682465-0-8
Articles
2003 On-Site, #10, “The Reality of an Inflated Utopia”
2003 On-Site, #10, Marie-Paul Macdonald, “Romantic Nomads”
2003, May Montreal Mirror, Christine Redfern
2000 Mix Magazine Vol.26 No.2 Fall Vince Tinguely “Interview w/ Anti-Loft artist”
2000 Anti-Loft Symposium, online publication, Michelle Marek, www.anti-loft.org
2004, Jan Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2003, May Skol, Montreal, QC
2002, Oct Optica, Montreal, QC
2002, Oct Armando museum, Amerhestfort, Netherlands
Relevant Experience
Collective Dab:
A collective of architects and artists who practice urban planning jamming to influence development interests toward more radical and creative solutions. http://collectifdab.ca/#
Articule Artist run centre, Montreal, QC: Board Member (2006- present) and Programming Committee (present)
Eastern Edge Artist run centre, St-John’s, NL, exuberant volunteer
