Concordia Studio Arts Visiting Artist program presents:

Boréal Art/Nature: Kinga Araya, Carl Ruttan and Costanza Silva

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Visual Arts Building VA-323
1395 René Lévesque Blvd W.

An evening with members of Boréal Art/Nature and Montreal artists Kinga Araya, Carl Ruttan and Constanza Silva who will present works created during the residency series Reconnaissance/Recognition  at Centre ArtTerre in the Laurentian forest in 2004-2005.

Boréal Art/Nature

Boréal Art/Nature is an artist-run centre that proposes creative immersion in nature as a means of connecting with history, evolution and the current and complex issues binding nature and culture. Boréal Art/Nature provides an atmosphere of ephemeral inventiveness that explores the notion of integrating works of art into the environment and spurs reflection on how one’s presence in nature can, through the process of making art, encompass other areas of study and social action. Centre ArtTerre is a 300-acre heritage forest in the Upper Laurentians. This natural landscape is Boréal Art/Nature’s centre for research, creation and diffusion.

Kinga Araya
Walking Through the Woods 
Presentation of a small publication produced in collaboration with Maureen Korp.

Multidisciplinary artist Kinga Araya completed a doctorate on Walking in Performance. She has presented her works in Canada, the U.S., Australia and a number of European countries. At Centre ArtTerre, she took her first walks in the Quebec wilderness.

Carl David Ruttan
Permaculture: Mapping the Site
Presentation of a Web site

Emerging artist and globe-trotter Carl David Ruttan brought inspiration with him in the form of "permaculture," a new approach based on sustainable development, which advocates the exhaustive study of all interrelations within an environment prior to any intervention. Over the course of a series of visits spanning four seasons, he recorded various empirical observations of the territory’s geophysical features.

Constanza Silva 
In the Path of a Gnat
Video Presentation

Constanza Silva’s work explores the interdependency between technological development, the planet’s changing ecology and artistic practice and questions the anthropocentrism of the viewer while eliciting the most human of responses. She has  exhibited in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Lima, Peru and Sao Paulo, Brazil.