nuna (now) at Ace Art, May 17 2012

97 POSITIONS OF THE HEART
Thursday, May 17, 2012 | 7pm
Ace Art | Google Maps
290 McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba

http://nunanow.com/

núna (now) is pleased to present the launch of Jaik Josephson’s volume of poetry, 97 Positions of the Heart, coinciding with the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers’ adaptation of his book, which performs May 10 through 13th at the Rachel Browne Theatre. The recent launches of new books by Michael Benjamin Brown and Sylvia Matas will also be celebrated at this event.

97 Positions of the Heart is a lyrical travelogue through the courageous life of Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945). Poet Jaik Josephson mines both her biography and literary catalogue to escort the reader into her remarkable world. Each poem charts Smart’s persistent quest to resist the forces that sought to claim and silence her. Text is paired with illustrations by Erin Josephson-Laidlaw to reveal a vast emotional range that meditates upon Elizabeth’s bewildering childhood, a tumultuous romantic pairing with English writer, George Barker, the experience of motherhood and her pursuit of a prosaic language that speaks a truth about life in the social margins.

Michael Benjamin Brown’s Winterhousesis an ‘unsequenced’ group of 60 pages of images and language. Symbols, ranging from the scientific to the mythological, the numinous to the beautiful, and the mysterious to the matter-of-fact weave throughout the work, while changing form on any given page. Metamorphosing interpretation occurs through individual’s random arrangements. Viewers might conjure narratives or simply a singular impression.

Sylvia Matas’s In Every Direction consists of images and text. There is no narrative – it is more of an incomplete collection of information that describes overlapping mental and physical environments. There are references to (among other things) sound and movement through time and space, in and out of intensity and in and out of focus.

Exhibition up May 17 – May 24

Featured artists:

Erin Josephson Laidlaw
Jaik Josephson
Michael Benjamin Brown
Sylvia Matas

nuna at ace art, Winnipeg

 

 

 

nuna poster 2012

 

 

When you sit on the chair, it makes a big noise, ace art, Winnipeg

 

 

 

Robbie Rousseau

 

 

 

corner with wood floor

 

 

 

Freya Olafson and Erika MacPherson are in the the Núna (now) Curatorial Committee and Board of Directors

 

 

It take a lot of wires and a Mac laptop to make art

 

 

 

Michael Benjamin Brown

 

 

 

 

 

Ming Hon looks on with suspicion

 

Jaik Josephson reads from his poetry book, 97 positions of the heart

 

Johanna Riley performs the poetry of Elizabeth Smart

 

 

 

 

Interesting old wood, pipes and wires in Winnipeg's old warehouses

 

The stairs up to ace art

 

 

Sarah Roche and Johann Riley, from Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, perform an excerpt from 97 positions of the heart

 

 

 

 

the poetry and illustrative book "97 positions of the heart" by Jaik Josephson and Erin Josephson Laidlaw