The PHI Centre is offering many events to discover this fall. The new programming is an extension of the summer, with some new features and some great returns. With a positive reception, Horizons VR, the exhibition featuring award-winning virtual reality works on a variety of subjects including reeducation camps in China, schizophrenia, the importance of an endangered language and romantic relationships, has been extended until January.
PROGRAMMING
AT THE PHI CENTRE
A selection of four award-winning virtual reality works from around the world, ranging from the United Kingdom, Canada, Nepal to Kazakhstan. Their subject matter ranges from interpersonal relationships, culture, memory, neurodiversity, and stories of political and social urgency.
It’s estimated that 1,500 of the world’s languages are at risk of becoming extinct by the end of the twenty-first century—this represents a fifth of recognized languages. Kusunda (2021), currently on display at PHI Centre, is a virtual reality experience by Felix Gaedtke and Gayatri Parameswaran that explores efforts to revive the Kusunda language in Nepal. This panel discussion will address the realities facing Indigenous languages throughout the world today. The speakers will reflect on the roles artists, writers, journalists and technology play in assuring the survival and revitalization of these languages and the cultures they each carry. More information to come.
Guests: Joséphine Bacon, Léuli Eshrāgi, Caroline Monnet and Gayatri Parameswaran moderated by Mojeanne Behzadi.
Phoebe Greenberg, Chief Creative Officer and Founder of PHI, will speak with London-based Italian artist Marco Brambilla about his relationship between film and new technologies in relation to his work Heaven's Gate, presented at the PHI Centre. More information to come.
In collaboration with the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
For a second consecutive year, the PHI Centre presents the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma's selection of immersive works. More information to come.
With a brand new concept and presented in a different room, this sound experimentation space will be back this fall. More information to come.
EXTRA MUROS
Place des Arts and PHI are pleased to present a new virtual immersive art experience in the Place des Arts exhibition hall: AS WATER FALLS, a creation of Montreal studio Iregular. The presentation of this work marks the second year of a three-year partnership between the Société de la Place des Arts de Montréal and PHI to promote the presentation of innovative works at Place des Arts.
As part of the 15th anniversary of the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art and the 10th anniversary of the PHI Centre, PHI is collaborating with Pop Montreal and invites you to an activity-filled happy hour with music, artistic performances and a food truck to celebrate these two great milestones. More information to come. =
To celebrate these four buildings, their histories and especially to pay homage to this important place in Old Montreal, this new multisensory installation puts forward light, sound and movement that activate and highlight the architectural elements of this site. At the intersection of Bonsecours Street and Saint-Paul Street East. More information to come.
A communication will be sent to present the musical program with more than 14 concerts as well as a festive event to celebrate PHI's anniversaries.
To purchase tickets, visit phi.ca
Photo: Adil Boukind
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