Le temps du rêve - Nuit Blanche [Montreal 2012]

Le temps du rêve // The 6 Trials of Picaroo

Live shadow performance with animated video projections and black light.

Presented at APRIM in the Belgo Building for Nuit Blanche - Montreal 2012.

35 audience members are enclosed by hand-printed fabric walls. The set was created at Megalo Print Studios in Australia.

Allison Moore & Arthur Desmarteaux [Egotrip Productions] 2012.

[see images of the set: MEGALO]

Special thanks to Jesse Orr for her awesome help in puppet manipulation.

Nuit Blanche - Montreal - Le temps du rêve

images: Allison Moore 2012

Here are a few photos from Le temps du rêve. Performed at ARPRIM in the Belgo building for Nuit Blanche - Montreal, 2012.

Dans le cadre de Nuit blanche à Montréal, ARPRIM invite les noctambules de tous âges à pénétrer dans une forêt enchantée habitée de créatures mystérieuses. Alliant le théâtre d’ombres et de marionnettes, Arthur Desmarteaux et Allison Moore (Egotrip Production) présentent Le temps du rêve, un spectacle immersif et surréaliste inspiré du paysage australien.

Trois représentations sont prévues à 20h, 22h et minuit. Il sera aussi possible de visiter la scène avant et après les représentations. Les places sont limitées : premiers arrivés, premiers servis. Durée : 45 minutes

Project developed in residence at Megalo Print Studios, Canberra Australia [October-December 2011]

Urban Terrarium

Video Documentation of a new video installation created at Oboro New Media Labs in Montreal. Urban Terrarium is a video assemblage combining hand-drawn animation, photo collage and live-action video to create a panoramic videoscape of a fantastical metropolis. Based on cities I have visited and translated through my imagination, it is neither a past, present or future space but a hybrid world mashed up by mass media and globalization. I combine hand-drawn illustrations with cut-out textures from photo-imagery. These elements are composited together in After Effects to create a 3 screen wide video projection as one seamless animation. Habitants are lost in the details of the metropolitan resembling ants in their terrarium farm.

Urban Terrarium // 3 screen Video Installation from Allison Moore on Vimeo.

Sound: Arthur Desmarteaux

This project was funded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec [CALQ], and developed in residency at Oboro New Media Labs through the New Media Grant for Young Artists, in partnership with La Caisse populaire Desjardins du Mont-Royal. The final installation of Urban Terrarium was screened for the public as part of the Les journées de la culture event in Montreal on October 1, 2011.

Micropolis 2.0 - Open Studio Toronto

Micropolis 2.0 - Allison Moore & Arthur Desmarteaux.

Here is a little video documentation of an installation at Open Studio in Toronto. The exhibition is up from January 12 - February 18, 2012. Micropolis is an ever-expanding installation comprised of collaged screen and digital prints, assembled so they evoke a busy modern commercial street with pedestrians, creatures and vehicles passing by. The installation has an anthropological character inspired by the cityscapes of Québec City, Montréal and Toronto. A modular diorama of cardboard figures and shapes placed at different levels on wooden shelves, covering the perimeter of the gallery walls.
Printed by Allison Moore and Arthur Desmarteaux at Graff Print Studios [montreal], Open Studio [Toronto], and Engramme [Quebec City].

Australia - been there done that

image: Egotrip Productions 2011

hey hey!

it's been ages since I posted updates. I went to Canberra, Australia for a residency at Megalo Print Studios with Arthur Desmarteaux. We were there for 6 weeks in November/December making a new puppet show. Check out this LINK for updates!

image: "The 6 Trials of Picaroo" presented at the Canberra Scout Hall, 2011

Big thanks to Megalo Print Studio for an amazing experience.

PsycheDADA Opening reception

Here are some of the highlight photos from the opening reception at AKA gallery in Saskatoon. An AKA Gallery and PAVED Arts collaborative project co-curated by Tod Emel and David LaRiviere. Featuring works by Larry Carlson, Arthur Desmarteaux & Allison Moore, Keith Murray, Noxious Sector and Jeremy Shaw. Arthur and I brought our large puppet heads to share with others for the opening reception, and we also painted a large mural. Photos by Bart Gazzola.

PsycheDADA [group exhibition in Saskatoon]

Arthur Desmarteaux and Allison Moore in Saskatooooon! September 2011 [read below]

PsycheDADA

///September 16th - October 21, 2011 Opening Reception: September 16 at 8 PM

Psychedada brings together artists whose practices contend with the anomalies and oddities of chance at play in creative consciousness. Arthur Desmarteaux & Allison Moore (Montréal, QC), Larry Carlson (New York, NY) Arthur Desmarteaux and Allison Moore present brilliantly coloured and image dense serigraphs, prints, collages and puppet shows, creating a heady mix of Rabelaisian excess and underground comic trippyness. Carlson's videos are a high speed jump cut leap into a vertiginous Technicolour information overload, animated realizations of the mind bending juxtapositions of his collage work. Larry Carlson's website is here.

Psychedada is a collaborative curatorial project by Tod Emel (AKA) and David LaRivierre (PAVED Arts).

Mosaic Website LINK

The mosaic is finally installed and permanently on display at the Children's Public Library in Point aux-trembles, Montreal, QC.

Please view this website to see more info on the project: Le grand rassemblement.

Opening Reception and Inauguration event: Sunday, October 2.

mosaic animation

paysage de glace

Paysage de glace [excerpt from performance] - egotrip productions shadow show from Allison Moore on Vimeo.

catching up with the egotrip

I have lots of octopus arms in many projects now. Arthur Desmarteaux and myself recently created a puppet theatre company, Egotrip Productions. We started producing a series of short shadow puppet shows in Montreal for Cafe Concrete. Currently our main focus is an immense public art project for the City of Montreal. We are making a massive ceramic mosaic mural for the youth library in Point aux trembles. Please check out our blog, for updates on these exciting projects. EGOTRIP. I am also in residence at Oboro New Media Labs creating a video installation entitled Urban Terrarium. More updates soon...too busy creating!

2boystv workshop

Some photos from my recent workshop with artist duo 2boystv. We created performances, integrating play with shadows and video. Artists: Jullie Desrosiers, Lynn Katrine Richard, Noemie Guerin Gosselin , Katia Talbot, Chloé Lefebvre, Arthur Desmarteaux and Allison Moore. Big thanks to 2boystv: Aaron Pollard & Stephen Lawson.

Workshop with 2boystv

image: 2boys.tv : Aaron Pollard & Stephen Lawson
This last week I participated in an intensive 6 day workshop with Aaron Pollard and Stephen Lawson of 2boystv. Based in Montréal, this transdisciplinary collaborative duo have created and toured, nationally and internationally, a wide repertoire of epic multimedia cabaret works, performances, videos and installations. The workshop concentrated on integrating performance with video projections, and was organized through the Association Québécoise des Marionnettistesoste.