September 24-Le Révélateur
Posted by | Amy Beste | Posted on | September 21, 2015
Thursday, September 24 | Montreal-based video artist Sabrina Ratté and musician Roger Tellier-Craig in person!
Le Révélateur, still from AfterImage Selves (2014). Courtesy of the artists.
Le Révélateur is Montreal-based video artist Sabrina Ratté and musician Roger Tellier-Craig (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fly Pan Am). Using digital and analog tools, the two produce mesmerizing audiovisual performances of pulsing light corridors, abstract color washes, spaced out synths, and jump-cut rhythms—paying homage to the pioneers of electronic and computer art, while exploring entirely new dimensions. In this special program, the duo performs a new, long-form composition and screens a selection of Ratté’s short videos. Presented in collaboration with the experimental music series Lampo. 2011–15, Canada / USA, HD Video and live performance, ca 70 minutes
Le Révélateur (2008) has performed across North America and Europe, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), On Land (San Francisco), Mutek (Montreal), Mutek.Mx (Mexico City), Electric Fields (Ottawa), Micro Mutek (Barcelona), Suoni per Il Popolo (Montreal), Send+Receive (Winnipeg), Tone Deaf (Kingston), Sight + Sound (Montreal), and POP Montreal. Recordings are available on Gneiss Things, NNA Tapes, and Root Strata.
Sabrina Ratté (1982, Montreal) is a visual artist, mainly working in the field of video. Her work has been shown internationally, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Museum of the Moving Image, and Phillips’s inaugural Paddles ON! sale. She is part of the online collective Computers Club.
Roger Tellier-Craig (1975, Sorel, Quebec) is an electronic musician, whose musical past is profoundly rooted in Montreal’s underground scene, including iconic rock outfit Godspeed You! Black Emperor (which he left in 2003), Fly Pan Am, and Et Sans (with Alexandre St-Onge).
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Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists.
CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Video Data Bank.
Programs take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
