a whole lot has happened recently. its kept us real busy… and away from the blog… so here is some of it (and there is tuns more to come!)
some ideas and bits and pieces of the fashion show project:
visual identity, flyers, posters, program, and banners by 24 karrots
can you say attention! O-M-G!!!
our collaborative project with Article’s Luce Beaulieu, i.e. the lady behind , is getting plenty of attention… all the hard work (and most def, not just OUR hard work… there is , but thankfully Luce has already taken care of that!) is paying off!
so a little bragging, cause we like bragging: three flyers, from the three fashion shows (below). two have past, and there is one left… this friday! yay! its part of the Festival Mode & Design in down-town montreal!
thanks Luce, for taking such good care of your blog, it makes it so much easier for us! 
at this rate, you’ll hit the half million hits as soon as all our friends read this post!
The Post-Amen project is a collaborative effort revolving around a body of work entitled The Distortion of Light, created by multi-media artist Shannon Jamieson, also known as Amen. In 2004, Amen began production of a substantial selection of digitally manipulated photographs; large scale, often horizontal and vertical panoramas ’stitched’ together, these mise en scenes often contain the artist, melding herself to place and subject. After her suicide last June, she left behind an extensive body of work unprinted or exposed. The Distortion of Light is a selction of seven of these prints.
Continuously drawing inspiration from derelict buildings, structures that fall on the periphery of public awareness, Amen employed these sites to generate her artwork. The photographs selected were taken at L’Eglise du Bon Pasteur, a disaffected 18th century church in Lyon France, which greatly informed Amen’s artwork during her residency there. The church served as a departure point for investigation, not a blank canvas, but a structure imbued with social history and meaning. It is at this site that Amen explored how religious values have constructed and marginalized her desires.The images are printed on backlit film, which render them visible from both sides. They will be exhibitied as floating panels: megachrome prints mounted between plexi-glass, suspended from the ceiling. Not restricted to walls, but rather suspended throughout the space, the panels allow us to walk around them, between them, amongst them. As ghosts anchored from a single point, they rest precariously and move faintly upon slight provocation.
Amen’s artwork is driven by a ceaseless curiosity in the multiple perceptions and presentations of identity. Amen’s practice involves mark-making, and frequently employs self-portraiture as part of an original, piercing and profound inquiry into the mutable elements that constitute identity, its performance and social tailoring. Her investigations are often navigated by her own struggle with gender normative dogma and doctrines – that paradoxically also offer possibilities for self actualization.
Also to be exhibited, a sensitive investigation of the residue, other documents and works which surround the particular time and place in which The Distortion of Light was created. The evidence: emails, maps, sketches & marks, has been gathered and recuperated by digital means to serve as a translation of this narrative. The content insights consideration of context and consequence of the creation of a particular body in a particular life.
Amen was a graduate from Concordia’s Fine Arts Department in 2005, and participated in an international exchange during her final year of study in Lyon France. Jamie Ferguson, also a Concordia Fine Arts graduate, was with Amen at L’École des Beaux Arts de Lyon during the creation of The Distortion of Light series. Fiona Annis, is currently a Concordia Fine Arts student and initiator of the Post-Amen project. Our mentor, Jim Bell is a multi-media artist and student in Concordia’s cyberarts program.This project was supported by the Quebec government & Jeunes Voluntaires. Also, special thanks to Concordia University.
our friend Jamie’s project…. she been working on this for a really long time, so this is a big deal! show up! ça promet!
if you got any questions, leave a comment, we will be happy to fwd it to her!
