minute is a structure which promotes collaboration between artists for the creation and dissemination of media art involving sound and image. The minute collective was founded in 2002 by Nicole Gingras and Eric Mattson, two independent Montreal curators known for their commitment to innovative works which explore our observation and listening habits, and by the cultural worker Suzanne Saint-Denis, currently administrative director of the Montreal theatre company ubu . minute 's activities focus on assisting the creation of work in media art, sound art and music and on disseminating this work at home and abroad. minute 's activities are ad hoc and have been noted by audiences for their unique qualities.

minute 's activities and productions include

Frictions Minibloc (QC/CA)
Artificiel.Process ("Martin TÈtreault") (QC/CA)
Film : Stefan NÈmeth (Radian) (AT) and Steven Hess (Pan American, Fessenden) (US)
Berlin100% Batterie! : Martin TÈtreault avec 10 batteurs: Marcello Silvio Busato, Rudi Fischerlehner, Hanno Leichtmann, Beat Hannes Lingens, Peter Schlewinski, Aaron Snyder, Rut Waldeyer (DE), Steven Hess, Michel Langevin.
Burning Monkey, Christ's Mass and a Bestial Wail : Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) (FI)
Duo : Martin TÈtreault, Michel Langevin (Voivod) (QC/CA)
Club Transmediale, Berlin, 27 Janvier 2009.

Le passe-muraille, evening concerts with Angel (FI, DE), Oren Ambarchi (AU) and Alexandre St-Onge, Érick Dorion, Roger-Tellier Craig, Aun, Martin Tétreault, the Quatuor de tables tournantes and Michel Langevin (QC). October 28 and 29, 2008, Montreal.

100 % Batterie!, an evening of drum solos. Martin Tétreault with 4 turntables and 9 drummers (QC). April 2007, Montreal.

50/50, concert: Aun (QC), Chop Shop, Daniel Menche, Plotkin & Wyskida (US). April 2007, Montreal.

Porté disparu dans une quincaillerie,Cd, dvd and bilingual booklet on the kinetic and sound work of Jean-Pierre Gauthier. ORAL, 2007.

Concerts, during the exhibition Tracking the Traces . Curator: Nicole Gingras. CM von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren (SU), Mika Vainio (FI), Olaf Bender (DE), April 2006, Montreal.

Ectoplasmes 5x2, Creative laboratory for which eight artists were invited to work in pairs and an event to present the work produced: Pierre-André Arcand and Mario Côté; Alexis Bellavance and Hugo Girard; Nikki Forrest and Nelly-Eve Rajotte; Manon Labrecque and Martin Tétreault. Event: prim and sat , Montreal, November 2005; Mutek, June 2006.

Monotonprodukt 07 20y++ Cd re-release of a legendary vinyl record from the 1980s by the Austrian artist Monoton. Bilingual booklet. ORAL, 2002.

 

 

Nicole Gingras, author and exhibition curator, is interested in experimental cinema, video, Web art and sound art. She has edited the anthology Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art (Artextes, 2003) and published a series of interviews with the Montreal artist Raymond Gervais (2007). Her projects for 2009 include an exhibition of the work of Rolf Julius in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Montreal.

Eric Mattson is an independent curator in the fields of electronic music and new media. He has organised performances of electronic music in Quebec and abroad at venues such as the IDEAL festival in Nantes; Garage, Club Transmediale and Tesla in Berlin; Koneisto in Helsinki; Isea 2004 in Tallinn, Estonia; and in Oslo and Bergen, Norway. Director of ORAL_records, which produces records that explore sound in all its aspects, he is also the North American antenna for the German record label Raster-Noton.