Diadem Discos and Library

Mapping the Everyday: Neighbourhood Claims for the Future | Nov. 17, 2011 – Feb. 25, 2012

gmsmg — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:06:11 +0000

Mapping the Everyday: Neighbourhood Claims for the Future | Nov. 17, 2011 – Feb. 25, 2012

This process-oriented exhibition is a collaborative project between the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC), visiting artist Elke Krasny, the art collective desmedia, the collective red diva projects, the collective Coupe, Out of Bounds: Festival of Site-Specific Interventions, students from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, and the Audain Gallery.

Mapping the Everyday is an exhibition with a multitude of collaborative platforms. For one such platform, both Aja Rose Bond and Gabriel Saloman have collaborated with the DEWC, The Audain, Elke Krasny and others to help produce the content and identity of a future library which will replace the one stolen from the DEWC many years ago.

As well, Gabriel Saloman participated in Out of Bounds: Festival of Site-Specific Interventions and will discuss his work along with others during a student led panel on Jan. 19, at 7pm in the Audain.

Discussing Out of Bounds
Student-lead panel discussion on the Out of Bounds: Festival of Site-Specific Interventions held in the DTES

Running during the month of November, Out of Bounds was organized by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, an MFA student in the SCA at SFU. It features work by graduate and undergraduate visual arts students from the SCA. Students regularly travel across the DTES, moving between the two facilities the SCA uses for instructional and studio spaces. Although transitory, students are a regular, everyday part of the community of the DTES, even if they, themselves, do not recognize that relationship. Foregrounding their connection to and participation in the neighbourhood, Out of Bounds challenged students to engage actively and creatively in the area, producing a variety of site-specific interventions at different locations in the DTES. For Mapping the Everyday, Bourcheix-Laporte and the artists participating in Out of Bounds have been invited to host a panel discussion in the Audain Gallery to address their experiences realizing the festival and the multiple challenges of producing site-specific art in the DTES.

For more information about the exhibit, workshops and artists involved:

http://sfuwoodwards.ca/index.php/audain

The TCP Show | Adhere | January 11-14

gmsmg — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:26:22 +0000

The Contingency Plan will be performing The TCP Show at the Firehall Arts Centre from January 11-14, featuring two choreographies: Adhere & Las Tres Marias.

“What is it to be alone”? This question is what shapes Adhere, the first piece in a double bill featuring new choreographies from The Contingency Plan, winners of the 2010 BC Buds Silver Development Award. Adhere layers movement, text and an atmospheric soundtrack composed by Gabriel Saloman to explore countless ways we experience being along and the struggle we face between belonging with ourselves and outside in the world.

The second half of the evening is brought to you by the imaginative genius of Tara Cheyenne Performance. Inspired by religious iconography centering on “Las Tres Marias” (The Three Marias), with a dash of Steve Martin stand up circa 1970 – choreographer extraordinaire Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg fashions this comedic new piece for the three ladies of The Contingency Plan.

2 for 1 tickets for the preview on Wednesday, January 11

Talkback Thursday, January 12 – Share your questions and feedback with the cast after this performance.

A Firehall Arts Centre Presentation
Produced by The Contingency Plan
Adhere choreography by The Contingency Plan
Las Tres Marias choreography by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Adhere Original Text by Samanth Mehra
Adhere Sound Design by Gabriel Saloman
Las Tres Marias Sound Design by Marc Stewart
Lighting Design by James Proudfoot

The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest! issue #8

gmsmg — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:43:59 +0000

The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest! has released its 8th issue:
Grassroots Modernism

It includes a re-edited version of The Subjective Object, or Harry Hay in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, by Gabriel Saloman. Other contributors include Ron Sakolsky, Ultra Red, Libertad Guerra, Meg Wade, Gavin Grindon, Mattias Regan, Sue Bell Yank and many more.

The online edition can now be visited here… http://www.joaap.org/issue8/8toc.htm
The Issue 8 Print issue will be released in January and designed by Microtyp and is now available for pre-order.

Unofficial Channels | Mattin

gmsmg — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:18:11 +0000

Friday, November 25 & Saturday, November 26, 2011 | 8PM
Free panel Saturday, November 26, 2011 | 6:30PM

VIVO (1965 Main Street)
$15 Friday night | $10 Saturday night | $20 both nights
Tickets and 2-day passes available at the door.

Unofficial Channels is a two-day event exploring alternative forms of music distribution, netlabels, noise and improvisation. Its guest of honor is Mattin, a noise artist and theorist from Basque Country in Spain. On Saturday Mattin will be performing along with Masa Anzai & Anju Singh (Vancouver), EDR (Vancouver), Hitori Tori (Vancouver), Holzkopf (Vancouver), and on Sunday in collaboration with the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble.

On Saturday, November 26 there will be a panel discussion with Mattin including Gabriel Saloman, Anju Singh, Jim Carrico and moderated by Jake Hardy.

Following the panel, and then again at the conclusion of Mattin and the VEE’s performance, DJ Tapes (Aja Rose Bond) will be performing live remixes of tapes and music streamed from various free music websites.

unlike taste | Dancing on the Edge Festival

gmsmg — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:30:48 +0000

This year Dancing on the Edge Festival and the Firehall Arts Centre invited Vanessa Goodman, a local choreographer, dancer and educator to create a new site-specific public work. Vanessa was kind enough to ask me to compose a new piece of music to accompany her work. The result was 4 performances of unlike taste in downtown Vancouver’s Victory Square.

After years of mutual admiration and dreaming Vanessa and I were finally able to work together and we’re very excited about the result. I encourage you to seek out Vanessa’s work in her collective The Contingency Plan and in the company dancersdancing. Huge thanks to the amazing work of Cai Glover, Jacqui Lopez, Lindsey White, Michael Kong, Lexi Vajda, Marisa Gold and Milena Read who danced and co-created this piece. Also a huge amount of appreciation for the community of that park for supporting this work.

- Gabriel

Hyper-Craft Studio: Aja Rose Bond at the Art Bank

gmsmg — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:28:31 +0000

“HYPER-CRAFT studio” is a 24hour installation of Aja Rose Bond’s art studio, recent works, a major work in progress, a large data flow diagram and the first performance of the sound piece “Labyrinthine”. It is the closing event of her residency at the Hammock.

Friday, April 29 – Saturday, April 30 2011.

Artbank, 1897 Powell st. Vancouver B.C.

Opening: Friday, April 29, 2011, 8pm

Open Hours: Until April 30, 2011, 12 – 5pm

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“We are at a moment where traditional binaries in art and craft theory – high/low art, functional/non-functional, digital/analog, hand/machine – are no longer viable, where the imploding contradictions and distinctions between the material conditions of practice and the rhetoric that accompanies them no longer maintain their discrete autonomy but intersect and collide. It is in these points of intersection and rupture between practice and theory where things get interesting.”

- Ingrid Bachmann, New Craft Paradigms

The prefix hyper- denotes an exagerration, “over, beyond, overmuch, above measure.” In hyper-craft, it is an exagerrated emphasis of materials and their qualities. It’s not that hyper-craft work is more physical than other kinds necessarily, but that it uses particular references and methods to bring attention to the materiality of the work. I understand this to be a restorative gesture of balancing more than an extreme in an art-culture that consistently exhalts ideas, theories and concepts at the expense/neglect of the physical qualities of works.

The split between the physical and intellectual is deep and profound. It affects everything. Exploring the much denied co-dependence of these realms is an act of healing. Incorporating the rich histories and social use-contexts of a craft-associated method or material has a way of disrupting or displacing the dominance of the “idea” of the work. It is grounding. Often it is considered base and maligned.

Art and Craft have distinctions as the physical and intellectual do, but to polarize and oppose them is counter-productive and detrimental to our ability to deeply and fully experience either. If these dualities were instead to be placed on a 3-dimensional spectrum, hypercraft would place itself somewhere in the center. Where these seemingly seperate systems interact is where they are most dynamic and unstable. If radical change and wholeness is desired, this is one place where it is to be found.

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Aja Rose Bond is an intermedia artist with background in music, craft and fashion respectively, drawing from the deep influence of D.I.Y. punk, Anarcha-Feminism and Witchcraft. She explores the interplay of the public and the private through collaborations, collective organizing, solo-projects and a variety of mediums including sound, performance, installation, textile sculpture, drawing, painting, collage and social practices. By attempting to balance service and self-care within her practice as a whole, and by ritualizing both process and presentation, she creates spaces wherein their boundaries may overlap or dissolve altogether.

While at once being a political statement and an economic necessity, the use of found and reclaimed materials is instrumental to her understanding of the subtle life within objects. She is especially drawn to the use of found cassettes, fabric that has been worn on the body and salvaged fur and leather because of their inherent and tangible past-lives. Her intimate relationship with occult traditions has deeply informed her process which includes the use of divination, symbols and geometry to align and reveal the more hidden elemental and energetic aspects of the work. It is an intuitive/intentional approach wherein conceptual analysis reveals itself lastly, if at all.

She is self-taught with the exception of some formal training in fashion and contemporary music. Her other projects and collaborations include; The STAG (Strathcona Art Gallery), Her Jazz Noise Collective, UNARC (Underground Network of Artist-Run Culture), WOEVAN (Witches of East Van), Seamrippers Craft Collective, Diadem (w/ husband Gabriel Saloman), In Flux (w/members of Shearing Pinx), DJ Tapes and the Women’s Studies performance series co-produced w/VIVO Media Arts Center. She lives in Vancouver.

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The Hammock Residency is a collaborative art project founded and directed by Vancouver artist Heidi Nagtegaal. Residencies take place in her house and in other spaces in East Vancouver made possible through community partnerships. If you are an artist and have an idea for a residency please visit Hammock’s website for more information. Applications are received year round with flexible programming. Hammock focuses on the process of making art. It is a community hub, happenstance event space and good space to let things happen. It’s the spaces between the thoughts that inform the thoughts and ultimately the art object. Applicants from all creative backgrounds are welcome. www.hammockresidency.com

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Balcone is a non-profit society that presents contemporary art projects in a variety of situations and spaces throughout Vancouver. Without a permanent location, we operate with mobile offices and flexible programs that are reactive to social, political and economic challenges within the local arts community. Our mission is to create a unique context – outside of traditional frameworks – for the practice, curation and exhibition of contemporary art in Vancouver and beyond. Our primary purpose is to advance education by establishing and maintaining artistic programs for the benefit of the community. www.balcone.org

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Artbank – a place for art and music opened May 7th, 2010. 1897 Powell st. Vancouver B.C. – heyartbank@gmail.com – www.heyartbank.tumblr.com

http://diademdiscos.wordpress.com/aja-rose/

Diadem does Fake Jazz!

gmsmg — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:15:06 +0000

Fake Jazz and Diadem presents…

The Volunteer Ecstatic Orchestra
(ecstatic rhythm ‘n’ drone featuring members of Basketball, Nam Shub, Diadem, Ora Cogan and more)
Caving
(Andy Dixon’s Hip-hop mash-up gets extra weird)
Mangina
(Fredrick Cummings’ diva drag perversion performance persona)
Platypus Toof
(Amberleigh’s drum’n'synth mind stretch)
Eden Vaudry
(Psychedelic video freak outs from Victoria)

plus
DJ Tapes
(grimy magnetic DJ action)

Weds, April 20th
at the
ASTORIA

Links

Astoria http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5969700673

Caving http://caving.bandcamp.com/

DJ Tapes http://diademdiscos.wordpress.com/aja-rose/music/dj-tapes/

Eden Vaudry http://www.edenveaudry.com

Mangina http://www.facebook.com/frederick.cummings

Platypus Toof http://soundcloud.com/platypustoof

Live Music: Diadem and DJ Tapes

gmsmg — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:34:53 +0000

Returning from a winter hibernation is DJ TAPES who will be joining an amazing line-up of local and international electronic music artists on March 5th and 6th celebrating the centennial of International Women’s Day.

Utopia Now Festival intends to be “The largest women’s lineup in electronic music western Canada has ever seen! Daytime unconference (with 150 participants) & evening showcase (1000+ attendees) celebrating women and digital culture.” Other featured performers include Peaches (Berlin), Tanya Tagaq (NWT), Isis Salam (Toronto), Cris Derksen, Betti Forde (Toronto), B-Traits (London/YVR), Librarian, Lynx (Oakland), Zenobia Salik, She, Blondtron, Lady Lane, Tank Girl, Miss M, Just Sheila, Bles-sed, The Square Root of Evil, Miss Innocent, JNL and more. Media artists include VJ Electrabelle, Julie Gendron, Sebnem Ozpeta, Claudia Medina, Krista Lomax and more.

Lots more information can be found here…

As well, check out this mix made for the event by Blondtron…

Blondtron Utopia Now Festival

DIADEM is coming out of hiding in March with 2 really amazing shows. First up we’ve been invited by W2, Soundscape & Panospria to perform at the 7th iteration of the wonderful “Quiet City” series. We’ll be part of an evening of listening and moving with some great locals: Myths, Tusk, No UFOs and Nurse. The show will be March 11th, 9pm at the W2 Storyeum.

A few weeks later DIADEM will be joining Magneticring, V. Vecker, Doc Spinny, and re-joining both MYTHS and Tusk for a night of intentional ritual performances in celebration of the Equinox. Email diademdiscos % gmail % commm if you would like more information about the event.

5 Moons Before the Riot

gmsmg — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:16:30 +0000

DIADEM will be exhibiting a new artwork as part of the PuSh Festival’s Counter Mapping group exhibition at the Roundhouse Centre.

http://pushfestival.ca/shows/counter-mapping/

Please join us for the opening of Counter Mapping, a visual art exhibit that has been created to accompany the PuSh Festival performance of City of Dreams, presented with Urban Crawl.

Counter Mapping – Exhibit Opening

Tuesday January 18, 2011 at 5pm

Gerry Thorne Exhibition Gallery, Roundhouse Arts & Recreation Centre

Light refreshments will be served, and artists will be present.

This exhibit opening is free and open to the public, no RSVP is required.

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DIADEM have created a piece called 5 Moons Before the Riot.

Two maps reflect one another as alternating subjective detournements of the imposition of concrete, structure and control. A soft-sculpture collage of textiles and adornments suggests the topography of Vancouver’s landscape – coloring the land that lies beneath and the energetic operations that take place along its surface. This topography is juxtaposed with a flat wall map showing streets and landmarks of the cityscape. This map is broken; conformed to a sacred geometric pattern that prioritizes the ley line structure of social relationships rather than the objective patterns of architecture.
In the Fall and Winter of 2009/2010 a group called WOEVAN (Witches of East Van) performed a sequence of public rituals in an effort to create a protective shield around various communities, families and friends, all of whom would be negatively affected by the events before and during the Winter Olympics. With the intention of creating hidden “energetic reservoirs”, WOEVAN mapped a pentagram upon the city, meeting for five months on the full moon to perform private/public actions at what they determined to be critical sites of relationship and activity. This work is an interpretation of these actions.

Crafty Stuff

gmsmg — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:01:11 +0000

Aja Rose Bond will be busy this December selling crafts, sculptures & books at three different Vancouver venues. Firstly, at Collage Collage she’ll be exhibiting her 4 anonymous dolls that made their first appearance as part of the STAG’s premier exhibition. Each doll is a unique blend of clay, paint, textiles and paper. They’ll be part of a group show devoted to dolls opening Thursday, December 2nd from 7-9pm.

Beginning the next day, December 3rd, Aja will be debuting her soft-sculpture cakes at the Mono Clothing Gift Shop. The offspring of Claus Oldenburg and Martha Stewart, these cakes are each subtly different with their own distinct scent made from natural spices, herbs and oils. A curated temporary store featuring objects, art & accessories, each item priced $100 & under, the Gift Shop will be open Fridays 1 – 8, Saturdays 12 – 6 & Sundays 12 – 6 from December 3rd – December 17th at 8 E. Cordova St. @ Carrall.

And finally, only a few hours after the Mono Clothing Gift Shop opens its doors, The Western Front will be hosting its annual arts and craft sale, Toque. This year’s theme is a focus on books, text and printed material and there will be vendors ranging from Collage Collage to Arsenal Pulp Press. Our friends the Tin Can Studio were invited to participate and they in turn invited The STAG to do a residency in their space. So… The STAG will be presenting work from their permanent collection, offering free printed matter left over from their Free Art! show, previewing the DATA-BASE library project by current artists in residence Sylvain Daval & Sarah Folquier, and on top of all of that there will be crafts for sale and gift certificates for Psychic DJ. Toque opens Friday , December 3rd from 6 – 9 pm and will continue Saturday between 11am – 4pm.