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W.L. Altman (Sackville, NB)W.L. Altman is a composer and laptop performer. His written works are performed and commissioned by musicians across North America, and confound conventional models of notated music by sharing real-time creative processes with the performers through improvisation and reactive listening. He will be debuting a new collaborative project about Sackville’s cultural history at the 2008 Ok.Quoi?! festival. |
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Melanie Colosimo (Halifax, NS)Melanie Colosimo is a Halifax based artist, working in drawing, photography, and installation. Currently she is expanding the young minds of Canada's Ocean Playground in the education department at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and is an assistant preparator. Melanie has been actively involved in the local community assisting in artist-run centres, arts advocacy groups, and public galleries, and is also serving as President of the Association of Artist Run Centres from the Atlantic. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University in 2006. Melanie will be coordinating the Kids Corner Power Jam at Ok.Quoi?! this year. |
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Darren Copeland (Toronto, ON)Darren Copeland is a radio artist and producer based in Toronto. As artistic director of New Adventures in Sound Art he curates the annual Deep Wireless festival of radio and transmission art. He also has created radio art works for Kunstradio in Vienna, Deutschlandradio Kultur in Berlin, CKLN radio in Toronto, and for the CBC. This year, he has an original piece of audio art, entitled “Sackville Sweeps”, for Ok.Quoi?! to be broadcast on CHMA. |
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Ian Crutchley (Sackville, NB)Ian Crutchley divides his time as a composer between electro-acoustic and instrumental compositions. Some of his recent works explore the melding of the two, as well as improvisatory live electronics and multimedia collaborations. He received his first formal instruction in music and began composing at Douglas College and the University of British Columbia where he obtained his Bachelor (1988) and Master (1993) of Music. He then completed his PhD in Music Composition (1998) at the University of York in the UK. At Ok.Quoi?!, Crutchley will be working with W.L. Altman, and giving a talk on his own work. www.mta.ca/music/faculty/crutchley.html |
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Linda Rae Dornan (Sackville, NB)Linda Rae Dornan is an interdisciplinary artist creating performance, video, and audio art about interior spaces and processes of being. She lives in Sackville, NB and has had her work shown across Canada, in the United States, and in South America and Europe. Her weekly audio art show, or something like that, will be broadcast during the festival on CHMA 106.9 FM, the campus/community voice of the Tantramar marshes.
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Leah Garnett (Sackville, NB)Sackville-based artist Leah Garnett has exhibited in Canada, the US, and Germany as well as attending residencies at the Banff Centre and the MacDowell Colony. Currently she teaches at Mount Allison University in the fine arts department. She also hosts a weekly radio show “Drawing on Air”, which will be broadcast during the week of the festival on CHMA 106.9 FM, where she travels into the hearts and homes of many.
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Sarah Jane Gorlitz (Toronto/berlin) and Wojciech Olejnik (Toronto/Berlin)Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik have been collaborating on videos and sculptural installations since 2006 under the name SOFT TURNS. They concurrently maintain separate practices; Sarah Jane’s focus is on painting, while Wojciech’s is in computer-based art. They live and work together in Toronto and Berlin. Two of their works, “/mm” (2006) and “Just add water” (2006), will be projected at the Sackville Music Hall throughout the week. |
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Ken Gregory (Winnipeg, MB)Winnipeg artist Ken Gregory works with do-it-yourself interface design, live performances and radio broadcasts, hardware hacking, audio, video, and computer programming. He has exhibited in both national and international media and sound arts festivals. Recently, the National Gallery of Canada acquired Gregory’s work “12 motor bells”, a large sound installation, and the Art Gallery of Windsor exhibited a survey of his work, entitled Cheap Meat Dreams and Acorns. Gregory will be the Open Studio Artist-in-Residence throughout the festival and will be hosting a Creative Lab workshop on Acoustic Kite Making. |
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Richard Hornsby (Fredericton, NB)Richard Hornsby studied clarinet at the University of Toronto and Indiana University. Richard is Director of Music at the University of New Brunswick and he has played with the Toronto, National Arts Centre, Indianapolis, and Hamilton Symphonies, and has been heard with the Canadian Saxophone Quintet, New Music Concerts, and on numerous CBC broadcasts. He is founder and director of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival. At Ok.Quoi?!, Hornsby will be collaborating on W.L. Altman’s new work, “Sackville Hear”. |
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Eleanor king (halifx, ns)Eleanor King is an interdisciplinary artist who works with site-specific installation incorporating elements of audio, video, photography, and sculpture. Her work fuses found materials in a playful way to critique social behaviours, investigating consumer and tourist cultures. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has participated in residency programs in Canada and the US. Eleanor teaches in the Media Arts department at NSCAD University and holds the position of Exhibitions Coordinator at Anna Leonowens Gallery. She is also a member of indie-rock bands The Just Barelys and The Got to Get Got. King will be facilitating a Creative Lab workshop at Ok.Quoi?! 2008. |
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Lucy MacDonald (Sackville, NB)Lucy MacDonald is teaming up with friends for the third round of Drawing Sound at the 2008 Ok.Quoi?! festival. Lucy is Curator of Education and Community Outreach at the Owens Art Gallery where she develops collaborative projects, school programs, family activities and the other ways to connect people with the visual arts. Lucy received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University and a graduate degree in Museum Education from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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Alex MacKenzie (Vancouver, BC)Alex MacKenzie is a media artist working in film, video, light projection, and performance. He received a BA with Honours from Carleton University, and has worked with a variety of independent film organizations over the past 15 years. He was the founder and director of The Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, The Blinding Light!! Cinema, and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival, and currently works as an independent curator, graphic designer, and writer. For Ok.Quoi?! 2008, he has put together a program for the Outdoor Video Drive-In entitled Riffiing the Light Fantastic. Click here for the full program. |
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Penny McCann (Ottawa, ON)Penny McCann is a media artist, curator, and director of SAW Video, an artist-run video production and presentation centre in Ottawa. Penny served as chair of the board of Galerie SAW Video, president of the Independent Film and Video Alliance (now IMAA), and member of Available Light Screening Collective, an experimental film and video exhibition collective in Ottawa. She has screened and exhibited her work at festivals and galleries throughout Canada and internationally. For Ok.Quoi?! 2008, Penny has put together a program for the Outdoor Video Drive-In entitled Sure as the Stars Shine Above. Click here for the full program. |
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Andrew R. Miller (Fredericton, NB)Andrew R. Miller founded Motion Ensemble in 1998. Andrew is principal bass of Symphony NB, Atlantic Sinfonia, Opera NB and is a faculty member of the NB Youth Orchestra. He has played with the Canadian Opera Company, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Miller has written music for orchestra, dance, chamber music, film, theatre, and performance art. At Ok.Quoi?!, he will participating in W.L. Altman’s work “Sackville's Ears.”
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Helen Pridmore (Sackville, NB)Helen Pridmore has performed across Canada and the USA as soloist and chamber musician as well as recorded for CBC Radio and Albany Records. She specializes in new music and extended vocal techniques. Celebrated for her performance of old standards, her greatest devotion is to new composers, new music and new sounds. She earned her doctorate at Eastman where she studied and has studied extended vocal techniques. Helen teaches voice at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. This year, she will be part of “Sackville's Ears.” |
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Ryan suter (sackville, nb)Ryan Suter is a multimedia artist currently living in deep Middle Sackville. His media work explores the spaces between things seen and things heard through the lens of film, music, and galactic anomalies. He will be producing a new work, accident now! for Ok.Quoi?!’s Media Artist Residency. Ryan teaches part-time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada and England.
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eric walker (ottawa, on)Eric Walker studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He began exhibiting in 1982 with a graduation show at the Anna Leonowen's Gallery (NSCAD), and has continued to work and exhibit primarily in the university/regional art gallery/artist-run scene for two decades. Walker has exhibited his artwork widely in Canada, with international representation in group shows in Lublin, Poland (1987), Mexico City (2001), Amsterdam (2001), New York (2006) and in 2002 a solo exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. Walker lives in Ottawa. At Ok.Quoi?!, he will be screening a series of video works entitled “Railway Lands.” |
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Yo Rodeo (Halifax, ns)Yo Rodeo Poster Co. (or YoRoPoCo) is the design/screen-print art team responsible for the 2008 Ok.Quoi?! festival’s visual identity. Seth Smith and Paul Hammond joined forces in the summer of 2003 to seduce and hoodwink the local indie scene out of their last precious pennies in exchange for beautiful artwork. They're known for their love of reconstructed patterns, clashing colours, bold graphic style, and destruction of text and typefaces. The enemy of the true-type font, and the ally of hand-set type, they count misfit animals and bad drawings among their closest friends. |
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visit sappyrecords.com for a list of musicians performing this year. |
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