Michael Eddy (MTL)
© Michael Eddy, 2021.
Launch of the book-as-exhibition
February 3rd, 6h00 PM on Zoom
Conversation between artists Michael eddy and Jeanne Randolph
* Gallery will be open from 12h00 to 6h00PM Thursday to Saturday.
* Specially for the launch, the gallery will stay open until 20h00 PM.
articule is pleased to participate in the fourth edition of Credos. This project starts with the support of Verticale — centre d’artistes and continues with the support of articule in Montreal.
Credos is a series of four editions that started off as table-top group mini-exhibitions conceived for church-basement bazaars in Laval and Greater Montreal throughout 2019–20. The first two editions took place in different Armenian congregations in Laval. When the COVID-19 pandemic put subsequent Québec editions on hold, a version was transported to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and shown in the frame of the all-day public art festival “Art in the Open.” An 8-hour online radio program was broadcast alongside the tabletop displays. The fourth edition takes the form of a book-as-exhibition that will take place at articule artist run centre. The public is invited to come see the book-as-exhibition install and to meet the artist and buy the book in person at the gallery.
Artist-curator Michael Eddy has invited artists and authors from near and far to contribute to these furtive exhibitions by proposing works — one-of-a-kind or multiples, material or immaterial, for sale or not — that address the ideas of belief or creed [1].
[1] In Latin, the word credo means “I believe”, but it’s interesting to note that it is also contained in the word credit. In French, credo bears a religious meaning (Le Credo, or The Creed in English) and a non-religious meaning (un credo, a creed), which refers to the set of principles that one’s conduct and inform one’s opinions.
To have access to the complete transcript of the talk :
Michael Eddy is an artist and writer working across various disciplines and media, including performance, drawing, writing, and installation. His interests lie in rhetoric and decision making, in negotiations of autonomy, and in questions relating to experience and value. Eddy frequently works in collaboration with others, the longest-term of which is the collaborative trio Knowles Eddy Knowles. From 2010 to 2013, he was co-organizer of the independent artist-run space HomeShop in Beijing. His work has been exhibited and published internationally. Eddy is a resident in the Darling Foundry's Montreal Studios for 2019-2022.
With contributions from Lea Cetera, Mina Hedayat, Craig Leonard & Michael Fernandes, Jones Miller, Pak Sheung Chuen, Jeanne Randolph, Alessandro Rolandi, Jamie Ross, and others.
Jeanne Randolph is a cultural critic, author, performance artist and psychiatrist whose work explores the relationship between art and psychoanalytic theory. She is based in Waterloo. She is the author of My Claustrophobic Happiness (2020), Shopping Cart Pantheism (2015), and Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming and Other Writings on Art (1991), among other works of "ficto-criticism."
Listen to Verticale’s podcast recorded last September with the artist as part of the third phase of the project.
* Note that it has been recorded in French/English.
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