Sarah Foulquier & Sylvain Daval | A Dime and a Shoe String | Thursday, July 7
Sarah Foulquier & Sylvain Daval
« A dime and a shoe string »
Thursday, July 7
6pm-8pm
The STAG
826 E Pender St.
The STAG is pleased to invite you to the launch of « A dime and a shoe string », a new publication produced by Sarah Foulquier and Sylvain Daval.
This event will end Sarah Foulquier and Sylvain Daval’s 6 month residency at the STAG where they have developed their project - Self Shelf Swap - in collaboration with an international team of collaborators and the STAG. The project’s mandate is to create a network of individual micro-libraries available to everyone from a common shared catalogue - centralized on the Internet. The development of Self Shelf Swap anticipates the Strathcona Art Gallery’s transition in Fall 2011 into a semi-public library, event space and reading room. The manuals comprising « A dime and a shoe string » correspond to the first version (0.1) of the project. As the name suggests, it is a bricolage of experiences and reflections on developing the project and its first technical developments. Symbolically and effectively in a professional catalogue system the manual is the first book of a library; it is for Foulquier and Daval a discreet way to introduce themselves (in)to our shelves. This publication combines two manuals: How to do your library and How to participate to the STAG library. It is a limited edition of 50 and will be free and available to all who attend.
The Self Shelf Swap team is composed of Foulquier and Daval, along with fellow members Sebastien Feugère, artist and computer developer, and Yves Saint-larry, graphist, both of whom live and work in France, and Sydney Hart, an artist and theoretician who lives and works in the UK.
Sarah Foulquier lives and works in Vancouver. Born in Avignon, France, she holds a DNAP (diplôme national d’arts plastiques) from the École Des Beaux-Arts De Lyon and a DNSEP (diplôme national supérieur d’arts plastiques) from the École Nationale Des Beaux Arts de Bourges. Foulquier has participated in exhibitions at the Centre D’art Contemporain (Meymac, FR), La Calavera (Lyon, FR), Chantier Public (Lyon, FR), the Roger Tator Gallery (Lyon, FR) and Sous-location (Montréal, QC). She had a solo show in 2010 at Western Front, Vancouver.
Sylvain Daval was born in Aix-en Provence, France. He studied visual art at the National Art School of Bourges, and at the Art School of Avignon, as well as music composition at the Conservatory of Music of Bourges. His installations and sound performances have been included in several exhibitions in Canada and Europe. In recent years his practice turned towards collaborative forms and in-process pieces, such as the Carle Colline Collection, the Lower Mainland Painting Co (LMPC) and the Temporary Gallery of Reproduced.
http://selfshelfswap.org/
