ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable) Montreal, Canada

Talk, Screening, Performance.

Presented by grunt gallery
grunt gallery, 350 East 2nd Ave. http://www.grunt.bc.ca

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12

Location: Time and Location TBA

This project will see ATSA work in Vancouver in the DTES to produce a new work for the spring of 2009.

During the LIVE in Public The Art of Engagement conference ATSA members Annie Roy and Pierre Allard will give a talk on their provocative work at the conference and screen videos of the their ongoing project State of Emergency in an alley in the DTES. State of Emergency is a week long camp for the homeless in Montreal they have produced annually since 2002. Annie and Pierre will use the event to meet and confer on the collaboration they will produce during the summer and fall of 2008. The resultant work will be presented in 2009 as part of the PUSH festival.

ATSA is an organism founded in 1997 by artists Pierre Allard and Annie Roy to create so-called urban interventions: installations, performances and realistic stagings bearing witness to the various social and environmental aberrations which preoccupy the two artists.