Minute is a structure which promotes collaboration between artists for the creation and dissemination of media art involving sound and image. The Minute collective was founded in 2002 by Nicole Gingras and Eric Mattson, two independent Montréal curators known for their commitment to innovative work which explore our observation and listening habits, and by the cultural worker Suzanne Saint-Denis, currently administrative director of the Montreal theatre company Ubu. Minute’s activities focus on assisting the creation of work in media art, sound art and music and on disseminating this work at home and abroad. Minute’s activities are ad hoc and have been noted by audiences for their unique qualities.
 
Nicole Gingras, author and exhibition curator, is interested in experimental cinema, video, web art and sound art. She has edited the anthology Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art (Artextes, 2003) and published a series of interviews with the Montréal artist Raymond Gervais (2007). Her projects for 2009 include an exhibition of the work of Rolf Julius in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Montréal.
 
Eric Mattson is an independent curator in the fields of electronic music and new media. He has organised performances of electronic music in Québec and abroad at venues such as the Ideal Festival in Nantes; Garage, club transmediale and Tesla in Berlin; Koneisto in Helsinki; Isea 2004 in Tallinn, Estonia; and in Oslo and Bergen, Norway. Director of ORAL_records, which produces records that explore sound in all its aspects, he is also the North American antenna for the German record label Raster-Noton.
 
MINUTE’s activities and productions include
 
Monotonprodukt 07 20y++
CD re-release of a legendary vinyl record from the 1980s by the Austrian artist Monoton. Bilingual booklet. ORAL, 2002.
 
Ectoplasmes 5x2
Creative laboratory for which eight artists were invited to work in pairs and an event to present the work produced: Pierre-André Arcand and Mario Côté; Alexis Bellavance and Hugo Girard; Nikki Forrest and Nelly-Eve Rajotte; Manon Labrecque and Martin Tétreault. Event: PRIM and SAT, Montreal, November 2005; Mutek, June 2006.
 
Concerts, during the exhibition Tracking the Traces (Curator: Nicole Gingras): CM von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren (SU), Mika Vainio (FI), Olaf Bender (DE), April 2006, Montreal.
 
Porté disparu dans une quincaillerie
CD, DVD and bilingual booklet on the kinetic and sound work of Jean-Pierre Gauthier. ORAL, 2007.
 
100 % Batterie!
An evening of drum solos. Martin Tétreault with 4 turntables and 9 drummers (QC). April 2007, Montréal.
 
50/50, concert
Aun (QC), Chop Shop, Daniel Menche, Plotkin & Wyskida (US). April 2007, Montréal.
 
Le passe-muraille
Evening concerts with Angel (FI, DE), Oren Ambarchi (AU) and Alexandre St-Onge, Érick Dorion, Roger-Tellier Craig, Aun, Martin Tétreault, the Quatuor de tables tournantes and Michel Langevin (QC). October 28 and 29, 2008, Montréal.
 
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