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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gagnon, Monika Kin, 1961- editor.

Johnstone, Lesley, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec).

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau).

Art, Canadian--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Canadian.

Artists--Canada.

Artists.

Canada.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

ix, 230 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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 fif ty 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.

Contents:

Materialities and Temporalities

As Sovereign as Love p. 34 / David K. Ross

Le Chemin de l'énigme p. 39 / Marie-Claire Blais and Pascal Grandmaison

Un jour, One Day p. 43 / Cheryl Sim

Trophées (Montréal, 1967-2017) p. 47 / Simon Boudvin

Until Finally O Became Just a Dot p. 52 / Charles Stankievech

Greg Curnoe's "Dorval Mural" as a Critical Response to Expo p. 60 / Johanne Sloan

National Identities: The Canada Pavilion

L'arbre est dans ses feuilles p. 80 / Althea Thauberger

Panning for Gold / Walking You Through It p. 89 / Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley)

Of Our Lands / De nos terres / Nunanni p. 96 / Geronimo Inutiq

National Identities: The Indians of Canada Pavilion

Earth Mother Hair, Indian Hair, and Earth Mother Eyes, Indian Eyes, Animal Eyes p. 106 / Duane Linklater

Indian Momento p. 112 / Krista Belle Stewart

Untitled p. 117 / Mark Ruwedel

The Indians of Canada Pavilion p. 122 / Guy Sioui Durand

From Indian to Indigenous: Temporary Pavilion to Sovereign Display Territories p. 135 / David Garneau

Digital Reimaginings

Kaléidoscope II p. 148 / Jean-Pierre Aubé

N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis - MAC Version p. 154 / Chris Salter

Montréal délire p. 160 / Stéphane Gilot

Le Huitième Jour, 1967-2017 p. 165 / Emmanuelle Léonard

Archival Remixes

Reprise p. 170 / Dave Ritter and Kathleen Ritter

By the Time We Got to Expo p. 178 / Philip Hoffman and Eva Kolcze

1967: A People Kind of Place p. 182 / Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyen

Spectacles of the World: Expo 67 as a Optical Amusement Park p. 188 / Caroline Martel, in collaboration and Mathieu Bouchard-Malo

Expo 67 and the Missing Archive, the Anarchive, and the Counter-Archive p. 194 / Janine Marchessault.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780228001140

0228001145

OCLC:

1126217940