Striking a match between social justice artivism and oppositional cultural practice
The Printemps québécois ended 2 1/2 years ago. It was the largest protest movement in Québec history that lasted six months and was punctuated by more than 600 demonstrations, actions, occupations and blockades that dominated public discourse and pervaded private conversations.
It’s interesting to watch how people interact with the Printemps CUBEcois protest banner installation as it was on exhibit in the EV Building Atrium at Concordia University from October 12th to the 18th, 2014. The time-lapse video of the CUBE’s exterior was recorded between 5-6pm during a Thursday rush hour. It was initially recorded at the rate of one photograph every 2 seconds using a GoPro Hero 3. The images were edited together at a video frame rate of 12 frames per second (FPS). So for every second that passes in the video, the actual time that lapsed during the...
Last weekend, I drove to New York City to carry the banner for Montréal’s Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble (CIE) during the massive People’s Climate March on Sunday, Sept 21, 2014. The CIE was invited to New York, with several other radical marching bands, by Brooklyn-based Rude Mechanical Orchestra (RMO) for two reasons: 1) to celebrate RMO’s 10th anniversary and 2) to have a musical presence within the People’s Climate March. The CIE has its own banner, which of course I brought but I decided to bring a second banner along, that I selected selected from the archive, to bring it back...
