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Noeuds d’écoute/Listening Knots

The research and creation budget of my residency allows me to hire interns and since early this spring, students from l’Université de Moncton and Mount Allison University have been working with me to make sections of fishnets using paper threads spun from  the following dictionaries: English, French and English to Mi’kmaq.  So far with their help, I have several sections of the English and French dictionaries tied together making a net that is approximately 15 feet long by 4 feet high. I hope to be able to double this in size next term, adding the sections made this past fall […]

More Waves, More Nets

I have been re-reading The Waves, by Virginia Woolf as well as other texts, all in researching and preparing for my return to New Brunswick and the second phase of my residency at the Université de Moncton and now to Mount Allison in Sackville. One of the reasons for choosing The Waves is Woolf’s multiple references to spinning and threads connecting words and ideas. “How strange to feel the line that is spun from us lengthening its fine filament across the misty spaces of the intervening world. He is gone; I stand here, holding his poem. Between us is this […]

The Architecture of Writing or Re-reading and Re-writing – One Line at a Time (With My Fingers)

Paper as material and metaphor has been a focus in my work for many years. I am specifically interested in exploring the connections between paper and words, text and textiles. I am currently working on a series of paper weavings/drawings/sculptures using the pages from three books: À la Recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, Ulysses by James Joyce and The Waves by Virginia Woolf. I now see that this is an undertaking of several years and not just one year as I had originally planned. I imagine this work as a way of physically deconstructing and re-presenting the narrative […]

The Matter of Words/sword

That tiny shuffling of letters in words to makes, sword always fascinated me. I like many have been completely heartbroken by the attack and subsequent murder of six men at prayer in a Ste-Foy mosque one week ago today. If only we could wind back the clock to undo this tragedy. The concluding discussion has definitely been around words and their impact. Now we talk, we write, we demonstrate and we worry this terrible knot however we can in an attempt to unravel its hold on us all. Who are we?  We are forced to ask ourselves. Tone down the […]

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Deux projets sont prévus pour l’ouverture de la saison de l’automne : Inside-out Poems, une collaboration avec David Jhave Johnston sera présenté au Poste Audio du Centre Clark, du 6 septembre au 12 octobre, 2024. Il y aura une discussion ouverte au public le 19 septembre à 18h chez Clark, 5455, avenue de Gaspé, local 114, Montréal.               Dans Then Again,   je propose une série de collages crées de lithographies imprimées il y a plusieurs années et un bateau construit de couvertures et le pages de dictionaires. L’exposition sera présentée à Produit Rien du 5 au 22 septembre, 2024. 6909, rue Marconi, Montréal.

For the opening of this fall season, I have two major projects: Inside-out Poems,  a collaboration with David Jhave Johnston will be presented at the Poste Audio of Centre Clark from September 6  to Octobre 12, 2024. A discussion will be held for the public on September 19, 2024.               In the exhibition, Then Again, I present a new series of collages created from lithographs printed years ago and a boat constructed with dictionary covers and pages. The exhibition will be held in Produit Rien,  September 5 -22, 2024. 6069, rue Marconi, Montreal.

Un entretien avec Maria Rosario Roseo de la revue en ligne d’art et de textiles, Artemorbida est maintenant disponible :  https://www.artemorbida.com/karen-trask/?lang=en  L’article est en conjunction avec la Biennale intérnationale du lin de Portneuf.

 

La Fabrique culturelle présente La tisserande et le parachutiste, une vidéo tournée par Anna Lupien et Geneviève Philippon de Paul Litherland, mon conjoint, moi et notre aventure qui est Produit Rien.

.https://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/13628/paul-litherland-et-karen-trask-la-tisserande-et-le-parachutiste-dans-les-ateliers

 

Une vidéo de ma performance, Ne tenir qu’à un fil présentée à Produit Rien en 2022 en conjonction avec la Fondation PHi est maintenant disponible pour visionner. Consulter l’onglet Works – Performance.


Maria Rosaria Roseo of Artemorbida, the on-line art textile magazine from Italy interviewed me recently in conjunction with the Biennale intérnationale du lin de Portneuf. The interview is available here: https://www.artemorbida.com/karen-trask/?lang=en

 

La Fabrique culturelle presents, La tisserande et le parachutiste by Anna Lupien and Geneviève Philippon a video about my partner, Paul Litherland, myself and our adventure which is Produit Rien.

https://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/13628/paul-litherland-et-karen-trask-la-tisserande-et-le-parachutiste-dans-les-ateliers

 

As part of the exhibition …and Room in the Bag of Stars at the PHI Foundation, my performance Hanging by a Thread normally scheduled for January 9, 2022 was presented in April 2022 at Produit Rien. A video of my performance, Hanging by a Thread presented at Produit Rien in conjunction with La fondation PHi in 2022 is available for viewing under the section Works – Performance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New work idea : Mother piano

Photo: Paul Litherland   My partner Paul inherited this piano in 2009 from his mother. A Steinway, built in Hamburg, Germany in 1937, it was purchased by her mother in Belfast, Ireland and sent to her sometime in the sixties to Vancouver where they lived. Paul’s grandmother was a well-known and respected piano teacher in Belfast. As a child, I had a strong love-hate relationship to the piano. I took music lessons for many years and despite the fact that I rarely practiced, I managed to learn the basics. My mother played the piano and sang.  She probably taught me […]