Urgent news: If you’re one of the 16K+ people who tapped *interested* or *going* on FB… sorry to say we’ve only got room for a fraction of y’all this year!
This means if you want to be part of the OG’s coming to the 1stEdition-AwesomeSauce-LaunchFestival, you should snag a ticket ASAP.
Good news: As of the time of this post, it’s not too late to buy a ticket… yet!
So for all you mushroom champs out there who want to:
Feel the warmth & kindness of the local & international fungi community
Hear enlightening ideas about mushrooms of all kinds
Have your mind blown by conscious & creative music, art, food & drinks
Forever have the flex privilege of saying you went to the 1st Edition of MMF
…time to grab a full fest, Friday or Saturday pass before they run out!
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At MMF, we feel fungi are ambassadors of a future in which we know ourselves more clearly, feel more deeply, love more openly, and live in greater harmony with nature. If this resonates with you, then you’re sure to find your people at the fest.
The Infringement Festival is an international, interdisciplinary critical arts festival that features theater, music, film, culture jamming, street performance and visual arts, with an emphasis on activist art and work that challenges the commodification of culture.
Montreal Infringement Festival, a grassroots, Do-It-Yourself festival is based on the original Edinburgh Fringe of 1947! Made to make an impact and protect independent arts from corporate interference, this festival is likely for you!
In 2007, ctrllab hosted its first theater setup at the Montreal Infringment Festival, while also exhibiting the works of visual artists Isa Pardi and Nikki Smith.
Check out the info bellow, and find out what went on during that week at Ctrllab
Origami by Nikki
Since childhood, Nikki has always enjoyed paper. Spending her time in Montreal doing quiet shifts in sleazy dives on St. Laurent, she got to turn the bills in the cash register into a wardrobe of folded shirts and matching boots. Then she moved on to bigger and better things making paper balls out of six and sometimes 30 pieces of paper. She doesn’t use glue.
The Blind Date –Carlo DiMarco
A humorous story of a blind man and a young sighted woman who fall in love through touch. A convergence of two worlds, using brail as their cupid, to find a new meaning for beauty. A new work from revolutionary blind educator Carlo DiMarco.
Vampires are rarely confronted with the question of their own mortality. But with rivers rising, ice caps melting, and blood becoming ever more toxic, Dracula is faced with an important dilemma. If the humans he feeds on go extinct, what happens to vampires?† A play about bloodsucking, existential torment, and the end of the world.
Matt Jones (Left) is an Artistic Director, writer, and dramaturg behind Blacklist Committee for Unsafe Theater. Jason C. McLean (Right) Co-founder of Montreal Infringment Festival
Lot Lizards takes place at a truck stop in a lean-to. Two down-and-out prostitutes coexist despite the harshest of situations; a story of misguided triumph over a dangerous and lonely world. Tim and Norm cling to one another, and although it is not a conventional relationship, these two have learned through their own broken lives to accept love on their terms, not ours. After all, if a flower can somehow grow through a crack in the pavement, perhaps love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to. A respected filmmaker, writer, and director, Shellenberger has incorporated digital media into the play, for a stunning and original effect.
Love (of Christ) Letters –Gail Golden/Dramatic Solutions
A staged reading of emails between a liberal Jewish woman from Buffalo and a conservative Christian man from Tampa—anti-Semitism, homophobia, and racism in Disney World!
BECAUSE WE DIDN’T FIND WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR WHAT WE FOUND DIDN’T EXIST WITHOUT US.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE FILM COLLECTIVE
Founded in 2004, the Double Negative Collective (le collectif Double négatif) is a Montreal-based group of film, video, and installation artists dedicated to creating, curating, and disseminating experimental film.
Ten of the Double Negative Film Collective’s members exhibited their own version of a 16mm Celluloid loop installations that described their own way of translating the sentence into a moving image. We, on the other hand, thought to link all the involved member’s links in one spot, hoping for you, to dig and find the rest of what didn’t exist without us.
Check out the video of the loops exhibited at Ctrllab in 2007
Find more of these experimental filmmakers’ works on LIGHT CONE.
LIGHT CONE is a nonprofit organization whose aim is the distribution, promotion and preservation of experimental cinema in France and around the world.
LIGHT CONE’s primary mission is the distribution of the works in its collection, in their original format whenever possible, to cultural organizations such as nonprofits, cinemas, museums, universities, galleries and festivals.
LIGHT CONE operates as a filmmakers’ cooperative, guaranteeing to the authors (or the rights-holders) the ownership of both the physical copies and the moral rights of the distributed works.
Carmen Ruiz: Part owner of Studio D 325 as well as member of Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, which got a JUNO Nomination for best World Music album in 2016. Carmen is still choreographing and performing in Montreal and all over Canada.
Kiani Del Valle: Choreographing and performing in music videos with some of the most prominent bands such as Floating Points,Matthew Dear, and Brandt Brauer Frick. She has toured with EMIKA and CLARK round Europe, and has just performed with RY X in Los Angeles as well as at The David Lynch Foundation for choreographer Ryan Heffington who is know for his work with SIA, Massive Attack, and Arcade Fire.
J.S. Rousseau: Still creating and researching, he is now part of one of Montreal’s leading Multimedia art companies of the PixMob. J.S. is creating Wirelessly-controlles LED objects to transform people into pixels, crowds into display screens.
Emma Kate Guimond: A part of WIVES – a performance collective based in Montreal and Toronto, forming their own brand of outrageous feminist performances. This summer they presented their piece Feeled at OFF.T.A.
Ed Janzen – Has been writing and creating since before we even met him 🙂 He really hasn’t stopped doing what he loves.
We follow them. We support them, and hope to host them again on their journey’s to become the NOW AND THEN they always dreamed off.
Collecting physical fragments left by experience is sometimes necessary to preserve something before it is lost. Traces of Yesterday explored how images have the power to evoke different interpretations of memory and time.
Ctrllab‘s first exhibit – March 2007 – What a way to start our blog and tell you all our story and that of the many people that crossed our path.
Blue Booties await you at the door, ‘slip them over your shoes please‘, worried about the snow, stones, and salt damaging our brand new floors. We stood there watching as hundreds of young artists walked in to our space – leaving a trail of water as the snow turned into a slush in their blue plastic shoe traps. We laughed, excited to see how this will all turn out, how it will change each of our lives, and set us on the road we are now.
Furthermore, in case you haven’t heard – in the news this week – Brian Hunter wins the 18th RBC Canadian Painting Competition !!! Congratulation Brian – We are so proud to be part of your journey.
Seems like only yesterday you had your first exhibit at Ctrllab.
So, here we are, opening our doors again, to the emerging and mid-career artists of Canada and the world. Hoping to leave another trace in the future of the makers and shakers of the art world, and the memory of the community that supports it and us.
No words can express your loss. It was an honor getting to know you, to work with you, and a pleasure to be inspired by your drive, your kind words and your passion to create and be creative.
We talked of many Ctrllabs over the years, especially of building one in your hometown – Caracas – Venezuela.
You helped reignite the fire in our hearts, hence the courage to reopen our doors.
Thank you for always believing and for being yourself
after years, of growth and progress we are back to make out legacy bigger and better. looking back at the history of ctrllab we are pretty certain that Montreal has not had enough! even after 2 years of closing doors we were mentioned in magazines, blogs and much more as the fans craving has not died.
This October Ctrllab is back to bring you the most diverse collection of artists from all sorts of art discipline. Make sure to book your show today before its too late
Urgent news: If you’re one of the 16K+ people who tapped *interested* or *going* on FB… sorry to say we’ve only got room for a fraction of y’all this year!
Feel the warmth & kindness of the local & international fungi community
Hear enlightening ideas about mushrooms of all kinds
Have your mind blown by conscious & creative music, art, food & drinks
Forever have the flex privilege of saying you went to the 1st Edition of MMF
