Artists are listed in the order that their Year One, Week One videos were received. Some artists have embarked on a second year!
Click on the >> to visit each artist's grid.
Dayna McLeod
Year 1, Start Date: 04.01.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 11.01.2010 >>
Dayna McLeod is an intermedia artist who likes to try new things. She conceived and coordinates 52-Pick-Up.
www.daynarama.com
Alexis O'Hara
Year 1, Start Date: 04.01.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 11.01.2010 >>
Alexis O'Hara is an undisciplined artist gaily toiling in luminous obscurity. She likes to sing, crack jokes, twiddle knobs and press record. She pays rent in Montreal. 52pickupvideos is her new crush.
www.dyslex6.com
Nikki Forrest
Year 1, Start Date: 04.01.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 14.02.2011 >>
Nikki Forrest is an interdisciplinary artist working in Montreal.
Jackie Gallant
Year 1, Start Date: 04.01.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 31.01.2011 >>
Jackie Gallant is a Montreal based musician and sound artist who has recently discovered the joys of snorkeling and video making.
Alain Goulem
Year 1, Start Date: 04.01.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 16.08.2010 >>
Alain is a Montreal actor/director/writer/musician...but he hates titles.
Midi Onodera >>
Start Date: 04.01.2009
Midi Onodera is a Toronto-based film/video artist who is obsessed with toy camera.
www.midionodera.com
mél hogan
Start Date: 18.01.2009 >>
Start Date: 19.12.2011 >>
Mél Hogan is studying to become a digital doctor and has recently joined a noise band, and is making some haiku-videos.
www.melhogan.com
Meredith Fowke >>
Start Date: 25.01.2009
Meredith Fowke is a novice film maker, mother and human being.
Skidmore
Year 1, Start Date: 25.01.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 15.03.2010 >>
Skidmore is a reluctant performer, painter, potty poet. Here and now, one hopes, transiting tech tardation and alliteration.
www.skidsofrenic.com
Peter Kingstone >>
Start Date: 15.02.2009
Peter Kingstone likes things. And he does stuff. He is distributed by Vtape and represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery. Invite him home.
www.peterkingstone.com
Joey Stevenson >>
Start Date: 01.03.2009
Joey Stevenson lives in San Francisco. She is a hairdresser who is constantly searching for the next feminist dance party.
Lex Vaughn >>
Start Date: 08.03.2009
Lex Vaughn was once told that artists who have interests in too many things will never make any money. Why didn't i listen?
www.lexvaughn.com
Nightwood >>
Start Date: 15.03.2009
Nightwood is lady-fronted rock trio from Montreal!
www.nightwoodband.com
Chelsey Lichtman >>
Start Date: 05.04.2009
Chelsey Lichtman aka Chelsey Licht-a-Womyn, is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto. She is the co-founder of the fat activist and performance duo The Fat Femme Mafia, and the host of Granny Boots, the radical queer weekly performance night at the Gladstone Hotel.
GinO Belleci >>
Start Date: 19.04.2009
Maureen Grant
Year 1, Start Date: 26.04.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 30.08.2010 >>
Maureen Grant is documenting a year of analog and digital media experiments.
Thea Chapman >>
Start Date: 31.05.2009
Thea Chapman loves old Abba videos and playing with cameras. She lives and goes to school in Montreal. She is 6 years old.
Sabrina Ratté
Year 1, Start Date: 20.12.2009 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 03.01.2011 >>
Sabrina Ratté is interested in the diverse manifestations of the digital image, moving or still. Her work explores virtual worlds inspired by science fiction, utopic architecture and early video art.
www.cinepoeme.blogspot.com
George >>
Start Date: 11.01.2010
George is a performance artist, developing his video making practice while participating in the 52 Pick Up project with much enthusiasm and delight.
Matthew Forbes
Year 1, Start Date: 06.06.2010 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 06.06.2011 >>
Matthew Forbes delivers mail for money and makes films and videos for himself and anyone else who might want to watch. I also pine for the country a lot. www.matthewforbes.com
Donna Akrey
Year 1, Start Date: 28.06.2010 >>
Year 2, Start Date: 06.06.2011 >>
Donna Akrey lives and works in Montreal. www.mobiusstripmall.blogspot.com
Glenn Gear >>
Start Date: 09.08.2010
Glenn Gear is a multi media artist with a very messy studio. Occasionally some interesting and even beautiful things manage to pop up from the debris...animation, installation, live projection, new media, retro media, and detritus. I just make stuff. My art, like my life, is a work in progress. www.youtube.com/glenngear | www.volatileworks.org (alias: 'Lou')
Amber Goodwyn >>
Start Date: 22.11.2010
Amber Goodwyn is a musician/writer/filmmaker/artist/zinester/blogger/activist who is learning what it means to be less jack-of-all-trades and more master of one something. www.ambergoodwyn.com
Brian McKenna >>
Start Date: 22.11.2010
Brian McKenna is from Lethbridge Alberta. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
Lamathilde
Start Date: 29.11.2010 >>
Start Date: 12.12.2011 >>
Lamathilde is a video-sound-performance artist. she plays with the coby low-grade video camera to make some videhoïkus.
www.lamathilde.com
Emily Gan >>
Start Date: 29.11.2010
Emily Gan is an artist and yogi, currently living and working in Montreal. thesidedoor.ca
Erin Sexton >>
Start Date: 27.12.2010
Erin Sexton is excited by limitation, pulling apart and stripping down any process she encounters, often arriving at the opposite extreme. Currently living in Montreal, she explores sound through video, installation, and performance. erinsexton.com
Trevor Aikman >>
Start Date: 03.01.2011
Trevor is a freelance documentary editor mostly located on the windswept prairies of Regina, Saskatchewan. He’d like to do much more of this.
Teodora Zamfirescu >>
Start Date: 10.01.2011
Teodora is an artist who lives and works in Vancouver at the moment. She likes this idea because it's mainly like having deadlines with yourself but with some additional outside pressure. She's going to try to not overthink the videos for this cleanse. www.teodoraz.net
Anick St Louis >>
Start Date: 18.04.2011
Anick St-Louis likes to work with images and sounds (these days she needs to take risks).
Shereen Soliman >>
Start Date: 30.06.2011
Shereen Soliman is a fiend about video art, but lately, she's been really digging super8 and 16mm, especially those sturdy, old-school, hand crank bolexes.
Jane L Kasowicz >>
Start Date: 08.08.2011
Jane L Kasowicz dabbles in all that is esoteric, plays in multiple Montreal projects and is a recent video aficionado. Everything is an experience.
Zohar Kfir >>
Start Date: 15.08.2011
Zohar Kfir is a Montréal-based video artist working with experimental video, interactive art and installation. www.zzee.net
Annie Briard >>
Start Date: 29.08.2011
Annie Briard is an interdisciplinary artist producing open-ended fables in fantastical universes often taking the form of animated video installations to question our dissociated environmental and interpersonal relationships. She is represented in Montreal by Joyce Yahouda Gallery. www.anniebriard.com
Monika Kin Gagnon >>
Start Date: 26.09.2011
Monika got hooked on toy cameras after Midi Onodera's toy camera workshop in Montreal. 52 Pick Up is the perfect antidote for her 5-year film archiving project. www.archivingr69.ca
T.L. Cowan >>
Start Date: 17.10.2011
T.L. Cowan lives in Brooklyn, but still prefers Montreal bagels. T.L.'s pickup videos are loosely connected around the title "Forgiving Medjugorje: A Reconciliation Cycle." Rules for the game include learning something new for each video. www.tlcowan.net |
