LAST PARTY
La Petite Mort Gallery presents
IM/OUTTA/HERE
Saturday August 8, 2015 / 8pm to Midnite / $5 Cover
LIVE SHOW by Montreal’s HUA LI, a unique vision of neo-soul, hip-hop, jazz sophistication and electronic glitz
Live DJ Tunes by GLOZE (Montreal, Canada)
Killer Edibles by Chef Yana Gilbuena (New York, USA)
Art Installation by Rock Star MARISA GALLEMIT
Refreshments by TALINE “HOT LIPS” JIRIAN
Artwork featured from the Gallery Archives.
Door Security by THE/MAN/WITH/NO/PITY
LPM Gallery is Canada’s Coney Island’ – Felipe Bracelis, artist & friend, 2013
The Countdown continues, and just as in Beyonce’s anthem of the same name, we are moving through the last thrilling key changes and cueing the marching band horns.
La Petite Mort Gallery completes its werewolf-like metamorphosis into LPM Projects at the end of August and we invite you to join us August 8th to help celebrate our transition at NO MORE MORT.
Bring it like you did for Y2K: reminisce and kiss, twerk and laugh, honour the past, (de)consecrate the temple, dream of what comes next. (Or, you can party like it’s 1999, whichever you prefer.)
We promise tequila dreams, street meat, basslines in your vertebrae, endless air-kisses, broken 5inch heels and a hangover that feels like your first heartbreak.
This is it, the final climax. We’d love you to come. – text by Marisa Gallemit
Closing Gallery Press Release:
We have always known when to leave a party, and from day one of operations, our plan was to make the most of this location with a ten-year plan. Today, the reach of our projects has grown in a manner that is out of our hands. We are excited to be able to expand our roots, and moving beyond the confines of a single gallery space. As of the end of August 2015, La Petite Mort Gallery will conclude operations at the 306 Cumberland building, and instead focus on its continued work to creating impactful, socially engaged projects that reach across local and international spaces. Naturally, with these shifting priorities, we are transitioning partially into a humanitarian, non-profit model, while still working with our best collectors for continued art sales.
Why a countdown on our website? It is a marker of our commitment to change. Plus, the countdown is exciting to us.
Our work is not done. We would like to stress that the LPM is not closing, but adapting to a changing local market and climate for contemporary art. We will continue with a strong commitment to our work as a commercial gallery until we close September 1, 2015, providing a carefully curated, diverse program of exhibitions and events. In the same breath, this countdown is a call out – a last chance to be apart of the space itself, including rentals for private exhibitions and events.
LPM thanks all of its devoted supporters, and anticipates the exciting work that lies ahead.
In light of these changes, we are very pleased to announce the formation of LPM Projects, a new hybrid venture that combines the curatorial visions of Guy Berube. The focus of LPM Projects is to produce challenging, socially engaged contemporary art projects with an international perspective.
This focus is anchored on the spirit previous projects that include Disciples (2014-ongoing), Windows From Prison (2015), User (2007-2011) and Low (2007). Currently, we are planning major exhibitions and programs in cities that include New York City (USA), Toronto (Canada), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Santiago (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Valparaiso (Chile).
LPM Projects will take on fluid structure. Individually, we will still be engaged with certain separate, offset projects, however this venture is meant to give direction, focus and public visibility to our collaborative work and shared priorities. Over the past year, across numerous successful international projects, we have realized the creative potential in combining of our individual strengths. LPM Projects functions to explore this synergy with a new expanded set of curatorial goals. – Adam Barbu, Gallery Writer & Curator
HUA LI:
“A rap label’s dream… her approach to rapping, a kind of early ’90s Lil Kim bravado mixed with the more insightful, emotionally resonant lyrics of a Jean Grae, would be menacing if it weren’t so raw and beguiling.” – Consequence of Sound
Hua Li 化力 is the unapologetic alter-ego of Montreal-based multi-disciplinary performing artist Peggy Hogan. Hua Li’s unique vision of neo-soul, hip-hop, jazz sophistication and electronic glitz has had audiences stunned since her self-released The Bound Feat
http://peggyhoganmusic.com/blog
DJ GLOZE:
http://www.gloze.bandcamp.com/
MARISA GALLEMIT:
Marisa Gallemit is an Ottawa-based visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, assemblage and site-specific installation. After studying film at Carleton University (Ottawa) and the New York Film Academy (NYC), her focus shifted to more three-dimensional works, concentrating on organic forms and textures contrasted with re-purposed materials, aspiring to make monuments to our collective and subtle human experiences.
Informed by the concept that every object carries its own history and energy, her selection process of materials for the work is paramount. Found objects and discarded artifacts are favoured as much for their visual markings of time and wear as for their symbolic significance; as souvenirs from a particular time period or fossils of a lived, emotionally-charged experience.
Gallemit tells stories by manipulating, deconstructing and distorting objects into sculptural compositions which mimic the corporeal and the natural. The predominant narrative in Gallemit’s work is the odyssey of human emotion and the goal of each reconciled assemblage is to pose the questions and reveal the answers in equal measure: Where are we from? Where are we going?
YANA GILBUENA:
The SALO project: The SALO Project: Cooking and Gathering People in all 50 states through Filipino Food. SALO is a traveling Filipino Pop-Up Feast gathering adventurous diners who dare explore regions of the amazing 7,107-island Philippine archipelago through food beyond adobo and lumpia. Please join us for a five course traditional family style dinner full of extraordinary flavors composed from local and seasonal ingredients, served on banana leaves and eaten old-school sans utensils (kamayan), and an unprecedented opportunity to explore Filipino cuisine in a unique atmosphere. Check out:www.facebook.com/saloseries Menu subject to change accordingly to market availability and seasonality of ingredients.
Portion of the proceeds will be donated to ARK: Advancement for Rural Kids (www.ruralkids.org) to build a school in an area in the Visayas, Philippines struck by Typhoon Haiyan which has a farming and feeding program to empower the youth to be producers not consumers.
https://eatfeastly.com/meals/d/19310828/salo-ottawa/?rf=fwebcmktshrecopy
https://instagram.com/saloseries/
Guy Berube
Gallery Director
La Petite Mort Gallery
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