Calendar
March 2010
March 11
Fourteen Miniatures, performance at Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Montreal.
April 2010
April 1-3
InterAzioni XXIII Festival, Cagliari, Sardinia.
April 5-26
Residency and performance-installation, At Home Gallery, Samorín, Slovakia.
May 2010
Exhibition
At Wilder & Davis Luthiers to coincide with launch of The Conservation and Restoration of Violins (I was commissioned to do artwork for the book.)
Performance
Cantastoria: A Drawn Opera, Montreal (location to be confirmed.)
June 2010
June 11-21
Approaching Stillness, residency #3 with Tedi Tafel, Galerie Articule - culminating in performance for summer solstice, Montreal.
September 2010
September 11
9th International Performance Art Festival, Turbine Giswil, Switzerland.
October 2010
Early October
TraficArt 2010, performance-installation, Saguenay.
Book Launch: Inklings
gestes, murmures, ruminations
a book of drawings by Vida Simon
Book Launch
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7pm.
Drawn and Quarterly
211 Bernard Ouest
Montreal, Qc. H2T 2K5
(514) 279-2224
www.drawnandquarterly.com
The idea for this book came about as I was leafing through my journals from over the years and felt compelled to extract drawings from the sea of words. But then having done that, sometimes the words slipped back in when it seemed necessary to provide a glimpse of the context. The selected drawings range from sketches created for, or after performances, to remembering dreams, to observing a teacup. Inklings seeks to honour the fleeting processes that are usually kept private, transposing fragments of many books into one intimate book.
Inklings was printed in an edition of 500, of which 100 copies were numbered and signed.
Published with the assistance of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec.
ISBN 978-2-9811503-0-1
Black and white, 96 pages, 5 x 6 inches
$20.00
Biography
Vida Simon's work has been presented internationally, in a diverse range of contexts — galleries, hotel rooms, storefronts, theatres, rooftops, and books. Her work incorporates various media, combined to form site-responsive installations and performances. Linking all aspects of her practice is a passion for drawing, a form that most directly expresses her interests in visual storytelling, materiality, and embodiment. Her performances often foreground the ephemeral gesture of live drawing. Vida Simon lives in Montreal.