As part of the Festival HTMlles :

ALEJANDRA MARIA PEREZ NUNEZ a.k.a. Elpueblodechina (Chili)
PN (Power Noise)
RACHEL ECHENBERG (Montreal)
reaction
Performance Friday 19 octobre 2007 – 20h

ALEJANDRA MARIA PEREZ NUNEZ et ZOSEN
Electronics Crash Course: a DIY Resistance 2. Radio
Workshop : Friday October, 19th & Saturday 20th, 12pm – 4pm

Text :

ALEJANDRA MARIA PEREZ NUNEZ a.k.a. Elpueblodechina, PN (Power Noise)
In this live noise performance, the artist will be using sound processings and her own DIY electronic instruments to perform around the meaning of noise and its relationship to geopolitics.
www.elpueblodechina.org

Bio : Alejandra Perez Nunez a.k.a. elpueblodechina is a Chilean sound artist and performer. She works with open source tools, electronics and text, while developing her own expressive instruments. Currently based in Europe, she has taken part in interdisciplinary collaborative projects dealing with psychogeography and social science fiction in Barcelona, and has created musical performances with France-based Spectral Investigations Collective. Alejandra is also a sound partner of d.R.e.g.S., bureau d'études, SIC and the Moscou Laptop Orchestra. She enjoys teaching through DIY workshops and is determined to find new ways to make her practice socially and historically conscious.

RACHEL ECHENBERG, reaction
"My art practice explores presence through a body of work that highlights vulnerable, intimate and empathetic relationships. I have always been drawn to long duration actions that point towards slow physical and conceptual transformation. In the past few years, my work has been moving between live performance and visual/mediated images. This development has led me to question how proximity and dislocation affect the exchange between an artwork and its viewer. In contrasting image and sound with live presence, I am wondering about possibilities for active empathy and productive exchange from a distanced perspective." Rachel Echenberg 2007.

Bio : Rachel Echenberg’s work in performance, video and visual art has been performed, screened and exhibited throughout Canada and Europe as well as in Chile, Morocco, Lebanon and Japan. Her single-channel videos are distributed by Vidéographe in Montreal and are part of several collections.

ALEJANDRA MARIA PEREZ NUNEZ et ZOSEN
Electronics Crash Course: a DIY Resistance 2. Radio

Workshop : Friday October, 19th & Saturday 20th, 12pm – 4pm
25 $

Creation of a solar powered FM transmitter and AM receiver with an antennae, with experimentation session.

Maximum number of participants is 10.

Registration: 514.871.0268 or galerie@lacentrale.org

For this project, La Centrale would like to thank Studio XX, HTMlles and Oboro.

La Centrale would also like to acknowledge the continual support of our artists, members, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal, les Brasseurs GMT, Quincaillerie Azores and Susanne de L.-Harwood.