Title & Author:

In search of Expo 67 / edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press ; [Montreal] : Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, [2020]
©2020

Description:

ix, 230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Also issued in French under title: À la recherche d'Expo 67.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Monika Kin Gagnon -- Materialities and Temporalities -- As Sovereign as Love / David K. Ross -- Le Chemin de L'énigme / Marie-Claire Blais and Pascal Grandmaison -- Un jour, One Day / Cheryl Sim -- Trophées (Montréal, 1967-2017) / Simon Boudvin -- Until Finally O Became Just a Dot / Charles Stankievech -- Greg Curnoe's "Dorval Mural" as a Critical Response to Expo 67 / Johanne Sloan -- National Identities: The Canada Pavilion -- L'arbre est dans ses feuilles / Althea Thauberger -- Panning for Gold / Walking You Through It / Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley) -- Of Our Lands / De nos terres / Nunanni / Geronimo Inutiq -- National Identities: The Indians of Canada Pavilion -- Earth Mother Hair, Indian Hair, and Earth Mother Eyes, Indian Eyes, Animal Eyes / Duane Linklater -- Indian Momento / Krista Belle Stewart -- Untitled / Mark Rudewel -- The Indians of Canada Pavilion / Guy Sioui Durnad -- From Indian to Indigenous: Temporary Pavilion to Sovereign Display Territories / David Garneau -- Digital Reimaginings -- Kaléidoscope II / Jean-Pierre Aubé -- N-Polytype: Behaviors in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis -- MAC Version / Chris Slater -- Montréal délire / Stéphane Gilot -- Le Huitiéme Jour, 1967-2017 / Emmanuelle Léonard -- Archival Remixes -- Reprise / Dave Ritter and Kathleen Ritter -- By the Time We Got to Expo / Philip Hoffman and Eva Kolcze -- 1967: A People Kind of Place / Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyẽ̂n -- Spectacles of the World: Expo 67 as an Optical Amusement Park / Caroline Martel, in collaboration with Mathieu Bourchard-Malo -- Expo 67 and the Missing Archive, the Anarchive, the Counter-Archive.

Summary:

"Though Expo 67 looms large in our collective memory, it is often remembered nostalgically as a remote historical event. The conditions that made Expo an exceptional cultural moment are often forgotten: remarkable creative freedom was granted to artists, architects, filmmakers, and designers to experiment with technology and new forms, resulting in an incredible diversity of cultural production. Originating with the Musée d'art contemporain's 2017 exhibition, In Search of Expo 67 brings together original work from nineteen artists and new critical essays to explore the connections between archives and memory. Organized thematically, artists' words and works are put into dialogue with archival imagery that reconstructs key aspects of the original event. Works by Marie-Claire Blais and Pascal Grandmaison as well as Cheryl Sim explore the physicality of the artificially constructed Expo islands while texts and images rethink and remember key locales such as the Canada and Indians of Canada Pavilions. Expo influenced ideas about Indigenous Canadians at home and abroad at the advent of a new political and cultural conceptualization of Indigeneity: Duane Linklater's art reimagines Norval Morrisseau's seminal Expo mural Earth Mother and Her Children, while Krista Belle Stewart reconstructs a single frame of a short NFB documentary about Indigenous life in vinyl over a "classic colonial grid" of sixteen window panes. Artworks employ contemporary digital media and tools to explore key elements and experiences of particular pavilions. Janine Marchessault provides a history of film at Expo and its archival difficulties. The book also documents six original multi-screen large-format films from Expo 67. Contemporary work in film by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyn, Geronimo Inutiq, and Philip Hoffman and Eva Kolcze interrogates the official memory and narratives of Expo 67. The result is a critical rethinking and creative reimagining of Expo that shows how vital it remains over fifty years after it occurred, and the role of both research and creation in questioning and sustaining cultural memory. Brilliantly illustrated with original artworks and archival documents and images, In Search of Expo 67 revitalizes this utopian moment in Montreal's history as a site of unexpected tensions and immense creativity."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780228001140 paperback
0228001145 paperback

Subject:

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec)
Expo (Bureau international des expositions) (1967 : Montréal, Québec)
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau)
Art, Canadian 20th century Exhibitions.
Artists Canada.
Art canadien 20e siècle Expositions.
Artistes Canada.
Art, Canadian.
Artists.
Canada.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gagnon, Monika Kin, 1961- editor.
Johnstone, Lesley, editor.
Johnstone, Lesley editor.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal issuing body, host institution

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308652
Call No.: BIB 254006
Status: Available