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SERENDIPITY

An encounter between tradition and modernity

OpeningSaturday, May 13th, 2017From 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

The Exhibition from May 12th to 20th, 2017

Tuesday to saturday at noon to 18 pm

MAI3680, Jeanne Mance Street

Place-des-Arts Station

Free Entrance

Montreal, March 1st, 2017

Festival Accès Asie and Videographe, in collaboration with MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), proudly present this year`s edition of Serendipity, a project highlighting the artistic contributions of Asian-origin communities in the cultural life of Montreal and Que-bec. Serendipity takes place on Saturday, May 13th at MAI.

Serendipity evolved from a chance encounter of several artists. Seek-ing to promote diverse voices and discourses in image and move-ment, this project brings together musicians and composers with videographers to reflect Quebec’s Asian diversity. Serendipity pres-ents emerging art forms, incubates new ones, and creates art image and sound projects from mono-band videos to unedited video instal-lations.

As part of Festival Accès Asie 2017, we are pleased to present new works from Serendipity’s participating group artists: Paul Tom and Yuki Isami; Gabriel Dharmoo and Ivetta Kang; Hadi Jamali, Amir Amiri and Showan Tavakol; Alisi Telengut and Lamia Yared in collaboration with Nathaniel Huard; and kimura byol - nathalie lemoine and Hazy Montagne Mystique.

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Paul Tom – VideographerPaul Tom is a filmmaker and video editor specializing in animation and documentary film. He’s also a professional editor, curator of museum video exhibitions and a facilitator of many cultural mediation projects in diverse communities. Born of Cambodian parents in a refugee camp in Thailand, he approached the themes of the construction of identity, family relations and the exploration of silence as a means of commu-nication. His short films have been screened in many festivals aroud the world. (www.paultom.ca)

Yuki Isami – FlutistA native of Japan, Yuki Isami first discovered the world of music through piano at the young age of four. After winning first prize from the Tôhô Gakuen College of Drama and Music of Tokyo and the Con-servatoire de Musique de Montréal, Yuki continued her musical career as a flutist. She has performed for several orchestras (e.g. Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Orchestre Symphonique de Qué-bec) as well as at festivals in Japan, Canada, Argentina, USA, and Eu-rope. Yuki is presently undertaking several projects associated with Japanese culture and music through the use of traditional instruments such as Shinobue, Shamisen and Koto. Most notably, Yuki has collabo-rated on “Musique japonaise : Branches et racines” and Tsuki, a visual musical tale from Japan. (www.yukiisami.com)

Gabriel Dharmoo – ComposerGabriel Dharmoo’s musical practice encompasses composition, vo-cal improvisation, and academic research. His works have been per-formed and presented across Canada and internationally. Dharmoo has received numerous awards from the Canada Council for the arts, the SOCAN and different live-arts festivals such as Summer Works Performance Festival and the Amsterdam Fringe Festival. His mesti-zo identity (Quebecois from his mother, Caribbean with Indian roots from his father) led him to study carnatic music with four well-known maestros in Chennai (India) in 2008 and 2011. Since then, he has ex-plored the interaction of the traditional with the new and the notion of imaginary folklore. (www.gabrieldharmoo.org)

Ivetta Kang – VideographerOriginally from South Korea, Ivetta Kang makes cinema, videos, and visual performances. She creates fragmented narratives within audio-visual languages, using mostly lo-fi images, metallic sounds, ruptures of different spoken languages, and handcrafted superimposition. She generates abstract audiovisual from the obvious and transforming it into the concrete triggering spectators’ imaginations. She studied fic-tion cinema in South Korea and recently graduated from the MFA pro-gram at Concordia University. Her films and videos have widely been screened at various festivals. (http://cargocollective.com/ivettakang)

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Hadi Jamali – VideographerHadi Jamali is a Montreal based Iranian artist. He graduated from the University of Science and Culture (Tehran) with a degree in Visual Communication-Studio Arts. Since 2003, he has worked as creative director and visual designer for a number of institutions as well as pursuing his experimental freelance work. He now dedicates his time to multidisciplinary art practices, including video, installation and pho-tography. His current works involve defamiliarizing everyday objects to capture how people today relate to their surroundings. His recent video work, The Marathon of Remain is now part of the Arsenal Gallery collection. (www.hadi-jamali.com)

Amir Amiri – MusicianAmir Amiri was born in Tehran, Iran, where, in his early years, he stud-ied the santur, a stringed instrument very popular in classical Persian music. He also studied classical Indian music with the masters Ravi Shankar and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Arriving in Canada in 1996, Amiri participated in a residency at the Banff Centre of the Arts, a place of inspiration he has returned many times. Amiri has since worked extensively as a percussionist, composer, musical director, and consul-tant for numerous Canadian dance and theatre companies, as well as orchestras, and in television and film. (www.amiramiri.com)

Showan Tavakol – MusicianBorn in Tehran, Iran, Showan Tavakol began his music studies playing the violin and later turned to the Kamancheh (Iranian bowed string instrument). Tavakol earned a music degree in ethnomusicology and composition. He is now composer-in-residence of l’Ensemble du Choeur de Trombone and Le Grand Ensemble Contemporain at the University of Montréal. Tavakol also composes music for documenta-ries, short and feature films, and plays Kamancheh in the contempo-rary Iranian ensemble Kamaan. He has several albums to his credit. (www.shwantavakol.com)

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Alisi Telengut – VideographerAlisi Telengut, is a visual artist and filmmaker currently based in Mon-treal. She creates frame by frame animation using hand-made painted visuals to generate movement for her films. She is interested in no-tions of visual poetry, lyrical representations of memory, and exper-imental ethnography. Her recent films received awards at Stockholm International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Cana-da International Film Festival. Her films have also been screened at Sundance, TIFF, Cannes (Talent tout court program), Slamdance, Ed-inburgh, ZINEBI and in many film festivals and world exhibitions of animation and moving images. Her work has also contributed to eth-nographic, ethnocultural and archaeological research archives. (www.cargocollective.com/AlisiTelengut)

Lamia Yared – SingerLamia Yared was born in Lebanon and grew up in Montreal. For ten years, she has been singing and exploring Mediterranean and Mid-dle Eastern music culture. She has specialised in the repertoire of Le-vantine music and studied with singers from Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. With her collective group, Ensemble Zaman, she has been performing repertoires written by Syrian and Egyptian com-posers from the Ottoman period. She has performed for a variety of Festivals such as Festival du monde arabe, Festival des cultures Syri-ennes de Montréal, Festival des Traditions du monde of Sherbrooke, and Maisons de la culture. (www.lamiayared.com)

Nathaniel Huard – Guest MusicianNathaniel Huard discovered Arabian percussions more than 10 years ago. Having studied the popular rhythms of the Darbuka (Arab drum) with Trevor Salloum in British Columbia. He then discovered the Riqq (Arab tambourine) and classical Arabic music studying with the master Michel Merhej Baklouk, Lebanese percussionist of the Rahbani Broth-ers and the Singer Fairouz. It was in Aleppo, Syria, that he first heard the Muwashahat, a form of sung poetry, and learned Arabic music with complex rhythmic phrases. Nathaniel Huard is very active on the Montreal music scene, combining Arabic music with Turkish, Persian, Greek and Jewish music, with groups such as Ensemble Zaman, En-semble Al Zahawi, Essence Yéménite, Ana Masri, Amir Amiri and many others.

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Hazy Montagne Mystique – Sound ArtistChittakone Baccam Thirakul is a sound artist born in Thailand of Laotian and Taï Dam origin. He has been working in the experimen-tal music scene since 2008 and is constantly exploring new sounds. In 2010, he co-founded the label, Jeunesse Cosmique, and is cur-rently its artistic director. In 2012, Baccam began Hazy Montagne Mystique, a sound vision project exploring what happens when we closes our eyes. His Laotian background infuses his music. A very active artist, he has extensively performed in shows and festivals, and collaborated with numerous artists, such as Alain Lefebvre and Guillaume Vallée. He has released a number of albums and received several awards for his work. (https://hazymontagnemystique.band-camp.com)

kimura byol – nathalie lemoine– Videographer

kimura byol - nathalie lemoine was born in South Korea from a Kore-an mother and Japanese father. kimura-lemoine, a conceptual mul-timedia feminist artist, creates works about identities – diaspora, ethnicity, colorism, post-colonialism, immigration, gender – in cal-ligraphy, painting, digital imagary, poetry, video, and photography. kimura-lemoine has exhibited, screened, and published her works internationally. As a curator, kimura-lemoine has developed proj-ects that give voice and visibility to minorities. She currently works as an activist archivist on the ACA (Adoptees Cultural Archives) doc-umenting the history of adoptee culture through media and arts.(https://starkimproject.com)

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