MUTEK

festival

credits: MUTEK06/Miguel Legault

Montreal, April 25th, 2006 - The Darling Foundry - Visual Arts Center, tuned in to new tendencies and open to various artistic expressions is happy to welcome once again the Mutek organization and the edition of their 7th festival. The Darling Foundry invites enthusiasts of visual and sound experiments to discover this former industrial building reconverted by Quartier Éphémère and to appreciate the multiple interpretations of the works of Giorgia Volpe presented for this occasion.

Whereas a progressive collaboration began with MUTEK last year, with the sharing of the office headquarters, affinities between our two organizations lead us to envision more sustained musical programming thus responding to one of the Darling Foundry's main objectives, being commixture and the expansion of the public by offering the space to other artistic organizations.

Sound reveals a new dimension in the apprehension of architecture. In fact, certain industrial buildings have the capacity to be transformed in to highly exploratory echo chambers for sound works, as we discovered through the Silophone, Tunnel or Nénuphar installations, produced by Quartier Éphémère. The Darling Foundry has, since it's opening, accommodated many concerts that were proposed by exterior organizations. The intensity of the music and it's public, adequately counterbalances the languorous rhythm of the exhibitions.

Let us recall that the Darling Foundry opened it's first building in 2002, offering artists and their public two exhibition spaces, offices and the Cluny Artbar. Soon, Quartier Éphémère will inaugurate the second phase of the project, that is to say twelve creation and production studios and residencies, thus completing the original concept of regrouping artists and their public together in one place.

Contact Caroline Andrieux (514) 392 1554
caroline@quartierephemere.org