Ecole de la Montagne Rouge:
Àvenir [Future]
August 9- September 20, 2012
Opening Reception:
Thursday, August 9th, 7-10pm
Interference Archive
131 8th St #4
Brooklyn, NY
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The École de la Montagne Rouge (EDLMR)—an initiative of young, socially-engaged artists who are mainly from the bachelor of graphic design program at École de Design - UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)—is collaborating with the Interference Archive to experiment with ways of using the spaces of the gallery as sites for gathering, place-making, production and exchange on students protest in Québec and all around the world. Through its actions, thoughts and research in the area of graphics, EDLMR offers a unique aesthetic approach to revolutionary movements and an alternative way of helping the Quebec Spring makes it mark:
"We and thousands of other students across Quebec believe that education is a right, not a privilege reserved for the well-off. The tuition increase jeopardizes access to higher learning for our generation and future generations. Sensing that an unlimited general strike is looming, many protest movements and pressure tactics are being organized across Quebec. This is an opportunity for all students to show solidarity, defend our points of view and get involved so that we can create a balance of power in relations with the government. Our victory depends on the daily efforts made by each and every one of you."
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Also Upcoming:
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CAN ART STOP A WAR?
THE POWER OF POSTERS TO EDUCATE, AGITATE, AND INSPIRE
A Visual Presentation by Carol A. Wells:
August 15th, 7pm
From the Russian Revolution to the current wars, posters have been central to winning the hearts and minds of the people who pay the costs of war with their lives and their tax dollars. This presentation will show how posters have been used to promote and oppose wars throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on posters that oppose diverse U.S. interventions. Carol Wells is an activist, art historian, the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. (image: Amerika Is Devouring Its Children, Jay Belloli, Silkscreen, 1970)
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SIGNAL:02
Book Release Party:
August 23rd, 7-10pm
Join Alec Dunn and Josh MacPhee as they celebrate the release of the second issue of Signal, A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing political graphics, creative projects, and cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles. Signal digs deep through our common history to unearth this often-overlooked but essential role art and culture have played in struggles the world over.
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