Swivel: Recent Episodes
Rheal Lanthier and Francois St-Jacques
Swivel is a series of interivews with artists, art collectors, and art viewers in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The hosts of Swivel are Paul Litherland and Julie Keller.
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Interview with the directors of Art Mur, Rhéal Lanthier and François St-Jacques about how Art Mur has grown from its St-Henri beginnings to the present incarnation on St-Hubert near Rosemont in Montréal. In French with some anglais.
Paul and Julie interview David Elliot at Galerie Joyce Yahouda, This is a great exhibition!
Interview with Toronto artist Bill Burns. Bill is the director of the company “Safety Gear for Small Animals” and we learn how the company is organized. Bill is showing this work worldwide, From MOMA in New York to Buenos Aires. A rare interview with a fascinating artist.
Paul and Julie talk to artist Ingrid Bachmann about her work in her show “Digital Crustaceans v.0.3: Homesteading on the World Wide Web” at InterAccess in Toronto with Pookie the hermit crab... More information can be found at http://www.digitalhermit.ca
Since 1972 Bonnie Baxter has participated in more than 150 exhibitions of print and video work in Québec, Canada and Internationally. She talks about her work Rewind, and a recent installation at the FOFA gallery at Concordia University. She works with print media primarily and produces installation works.
Paul and Julie talk to Francois Morelli about his multidisciplinary practice during his exhibition at Galerie Outremont.
While on a photographic assignment for the Agnes Etherington Gallery in Kingston, Ontario, Paul Litherland catches up with installation - painter Harry Symons to talk about using various structures and systsems as organizing principles that can be applied to how one looks at painting or a body of work.
To start off the new year, Paul interviews Jo-Anne Balcaen, a Montreal installation artist, about her artworks and upcoming projects.
Paul Litherland interviews Sebastien Giguere, Jasmin Bilodeau and Nicolas Laverdiere, members of the artists collective BGL. These exciting artists have found working together to be a constant source of inspiration and pleasure. They have recently finished their exhibition LES EFFETS DE MODE ET AUTRES PIRATERIES DU GENRE at Galerie Optica.
This interview is in French...
We interview Karen Trask today, and talk about her new exhibition “En attente d’un baiser” exhibiting in Little Italy in Montreal during June, 2006. We talk about the physical nature of text, the life of Marcel Proust and how it becomes a bed made of paper being exhibited in a shed.
Christine Redfern is a Montreal artist currently working on a project combining video and drawing. She’s also a writer, bringing art to the masses through her writings in the Montreal Mirror and Canadian Art among other publications. Join Paul Litherland and Julie Keller in their conversation with Christine in Swivel.
Join Paul Litherland and Julie Keller in this show as they introduce themselves and Swivel, a podcast about contemporary visual art in Montreal.