Festival Phénomena 2013

PHENOMENAL OCTOBER
October will be a crazy amazing month, especially with Festival Phenomena in Montreal.  I am pleased to be presenting a multitude of projects for the festival.

1] I am ecstatic to announce the Quebec Premiere of the film SMILE STEALERS in collaboration with Festival du nouveau cinéma [FNC]. After 4 long years, the film will finally be played in MTL where it all began. And we are cooking up a big performance event at Sala Rosa le 18 octobre, for the opening night of the festival: Join the FB event for INFO.

2] Egotrip Productions will be premiering a brand new multimedia Sci-Fi shadow puppet show at Sala Rosa: Tout inclus sur la Planet Rouge.  Arthur Desmarteaux and I are pleased to be sharing the stage with good friends Jesse Or and Max Kelly, who will be performing their new show The More of Everything Revival Hour - Lundi 21 octobre [more info soooon!]

3] I am also creating the video projections for La Mythologie Expliquee, a special tableaux vivants performance at Bain Saint-Michel, created by artistic director D.Kimm. [18, 19, 20 october]

HERE IS THE TRAILER FOR THE FESTIVAL:
  Stay TUNED...

Mosaic Mural Timelapse - Egotrip Productions

A year ago Arthur Desmarteaux and I made a Mosaic Mural in the children's library at Point-aux-trembles, Montreal. Here at long last is the timelapse video of our process.

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].

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.

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!