Melissa Cartwright, Rebecca LaMarre, Avery Nabata - September - December 2008

First ever group show and it will be traveling across Canada!
For dates see www.collapsingopposites.com

Melissa Cartwright is an artist, shoe designer and burlesque producer. She studied textiles at NSCAD University and shoe construction at F.I.T. in New York City. Melissa creates wearable art using hand embroidery, ribbons & ruffles, polka dots & snaps. She is currently employed as a designer for John Fluevog Shoes in Vancouver, B.C.

www.melissacartwright.com/

Rebecca LaMarre is a recent graduate of the Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is interested in text and it's ability to make maximum impact with only modest output. She encourages audience participation and likes to think her practice exists somewhere in the blurry boundary between cultural inquiry and art.


www.rlamarre.wordpress.com

Avery Nabata grew up in Vancouver, B.C. and was born during Expo '86. Her art practice focuses primarily on sculpture and installation, investigating areas pertaining to space and time. She paints houses for a living and is currently a student at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design.

www.sites.google.com/site/forevereverh/

Sean Maxey: July-September 2008

Prawn is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac - Sean Maxey

July 19, 2008 - Corner Tandoori w/ Collapsing Opposites, Adrian Teacher, Elton Bong, JPMP, Candles

August 7, 2008 - Hoko's Sushi Bar w/ Collapsing Opposites, The Phrenologists & Kill the Buddha

September 20, 2008 - The Railway Club - Collapsing Opposites/ Bible Belts 7 inch Release Party w/ Greenbelt Collective


Symptoms tend to develop rapidly although the initial presentation can be delayed and/or deceptively mild. You may become uneasy, upset and red in the face. You may also develop a rapid heartbeat, prickling and itchiness in the skin, throbbing in the ears, sneezing, coughing and difficulty breathing. Shock may then follow, in which blood vessels become leaky, blood pressure falls and you could become cold, clammy and faint.

www.neptuna.com

Chrystal Fisher: May - July 2008

Conversions and Equivalents -- Chrystal Fisher

May 6 @ The Plaza - Vancouver, BC
w/ Better Friends than Lovers, The Trucks, Northern State

May 9 @ The Astoria, Vancouver, BC
w/ You Say Party! We Say Die!, Wintermitts, Better Friends than Lovers

June 21 @ Hoko’s Sushi Bar, Vancouver, BC
w/ Collapsing Opposites, Mt. Royal, Women, Ok Vancouver Ok

People have explored many tasks in order to enhance knowledge production. Composers imagined a world of mixed senses where sounds evoked colours. Quattrocento Italian painters and merchants studied geometry in order to demonstrate their cleverness and wit. Roleplaying types use a twenty-sided die to gauge their moves as successes or failures. An amateur magician, facing blindness, made the world a brighter place. This set of circumstances inevitably led to Fisher's elusive containment of a medium that oscillates while circumnavigating the drum.

Yule Log & Collapsing Opposites

photos by Fred A. Hatfield

Fight Fire With Fire @ little mountain studios

Yule Log (part deux?) from mairin deery on Vimeo.



FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE - Mairin Deery

march 29, 2008 @ little mountain studios - vancouver, bc 8pm
with performances by collapsing opposites, russian words, b.a. johnston, brent randall and his pinecones, international falls

wood is a combustible material that has been used to construct many possessions: forts, paper, musical instruments, among others. common perceptions of this substance can be disguised and detached from the root. there is a tendency to view the urban museum as indestructible, even though decomposition is inevitable for a spliced up tree. transformation may take years and change form several times before successfully eliminating source materials. what goes up may burn down. mairin deery's yule log, a stop-animated fireplace made of felt, projects a latent fire on the front of a kick drum, instigating a conflagration of the senses.

for more info:
mdeery@eciad.ca

Call for Submissions (ongoing)

four on the floor projects aims to provide an intimate traveling space for the production and display of new forms of visual art. Exhibitions are hosted on the kick drum of a fully functioning set of drums, and are featured on stage in live performances with several touring Vancouver based bands. Information on the artist and their work is made available to audiences at shows.

Submissions of any sort are encouraged, and may include: a painted or collaged drum head, a fabric wrap, assemblage/installation, and so on.

Work should be suited for a drum head with a 22 inch diametre.
Those selected will be offered a 3 month showcase on the drum.

Please send proposals to fouronthefloorprojects@gmail.com
and include a description of the proposed work, brief bio, and images or a link to your work (c.v. optional)

The Story

In October of 2007 I met Lindsay Dobbin of the Halifax band - Play Guitar , through a chance encounter -- she was living in the apartment above a friend's place, where my band was crashing while on tour. In search of a password to their wireless I went up to talk to her and in the process realized she was also a drummer and had just finished painting her bass drum head for an upcoming show at the Halifax Pop Explosion. I loved the drum head so much that I asked if she would paint one for me in time for my band's show (coincidentally also at the Pop Explosion). She agreed! Her image of "Catras" was immediately admired by many and added so much to the life of my drums that it prompted me to start this project.

four on the floor projects began in January 2008 with an open call for submissions to hold rotating exhibitions on the front of my kick drum. Thanks to Lindsay for the inspiration and to Catras for being such a great mascot for this endeavour.