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Self driving cars, PDF’s, Apollo 15 & small shrubs. (2023, 2024, 2025)
Solo exhibition, woodblock prints, members gallery, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal; as well as in group exhibitions in the main gallery, fall 2023.
Nov 2024 Me to You, You to Me - Our Encounter through Printmaking, curated by Se-Eun An , Space Sophora, Séoul, Korea. Sponsors: Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange
100 Dollar Reward
Interactive Web-page performance, part of The iRave Pavillion for the Wrong Biennale. Curators Andres Manniste, Joyce Yahouda, Laurent Bouchard. 2023/2024
Items: screen device of the viewer’s choosing; in what ever circumstances the viewers find themselves (in our case a rain storm); single webpage with a zero object button and a Q & A.
The Q & A : Conversation about objects continued from the Q&A at the start of 10,000 Francs Reward by the poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers, in an interview form for the Catalogue/Catalogus exhibition at the Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1974.
10000 Francs Reward 100 Dollar Reward (bonus round: Victor Hugo’s 1000 Francs Reward)
Flower Opera for the Chambermaids. Photographs. (2017)
20 rooms. 40 photographs, a cascading series of 8 images. Repetition. Memory. Duets. An opera built on a shared memory of a people’s opera performed late one Sunday afternoon in Kunming, China 1989 (2017)
Architectural commission.
Architect: Di Hua Wei. Client: Hotel Bromont, Quebec.
Machines that talk and send alerts. A 3-D radio multi-space broadcast; and one true fan (April 2021). Anteism Project Space, Montréal.
Pandemic lockdown. Taking liberties.
“Made possible with the support of the Canada Council of Arts' Digital Strategies Program, Anteism will be making webcasting resources available to artists, groups, organizations, and institutions who operate on a smaller scale, in order to bring their otherwise displaced programming into the public sphere.
Libération (MTTSA3-DRBSMPPGS1TF online). Livestream broadcast and Q & A. Anteism Project Space. Montréal. (June 2021)
Presentation of the post production version in a YouTube live stream broadcast to a virtual (and invisible) yet real public of just over 80 people. Followed by a Q & A. With a live reading and discussion seeded from an art questionnaire in ESP Cultural Magazine 2: The Glitch In The Art System — do differences between offline and online experience of art still exist — and are questions like this even relevant nowadays.
Archived on the Anteism live stream channel.
Production and editing by Madeleine Black and Pascal Bartschat at Anteism project space.
Towards a new economy of art? Photograph and editorial text (2017)
Dreams and discontents. Babysteps to something new.
InFlux, Journal of Media Art, published by MediaNet, Victoria, B.C.
Film swap. Collaboration, with the Mexico City photographer Christian Dallan.
Published in モノマニア LOVE (2021)
“Swapping films with strangers may be the last thing you'd have in mind, especially with transit problems, but here we are.”
Plague year. Japan blocks Canada Post, although post between Canada and Mexico remains open.
Publisher/photo editor/forward written by Anne Murayama. Tokyo, Japan.
Love Money Weather Project. Website. (1996) (2001 article by Sylvie Parent, CIAC, A look at Web art in Quebec:
fifteen works by Quebec artists commented
and put into perspective in the short history of the Web
Intelligent Agents. Love. Money. Weather. Pirate-hosted on the CIM Center for Intelligent Machines server, McGill University.
Featured at the 1997 Manifestation internationale de vidéo et d’ art électronique, Montreal; and in Toronto at the >iceflow>> exhibition at Interaccess, "a new medium emerges", curated by Tom Leonhardt and Camille Turner.
the border. From website to magazine. Photographs. (1998)
Four double page spread montage for print space, Ciel Variable No.42 L’authenticité 3 .
War. The live video feed of the Vaalimaa cross border truck traffic between Finland and Russia that makes up the Money part of the border currently transmits a question mark.
the border images come from the web project The Love Money Weather Project. Even though these images were never meant to represent the LMW Project they’ve ended up as the only surviving remnants.
the border archived as image scroll here, at Ciel Variable, ART PHOTO MÉDIAS CULTURE.
Experimental Cinema. Documentation carte blanche. (2021 - ongoing)
Photos of experimental film filmmakers at their screening events, for la lumière collective and Visions Mtl.
H Photographs, text. (1996)
Published in Public 14, an “address to the phenomenology of being in Québec”. Editor, Janine Marchessault
Photographs, and a few words on language by Hélène Cixous; & also K. Two double page spreads.
Piercing. Photo Book.
“… a lavish, unbridled imagination, marked by an often raw and sometimes hard reality”
Photographs, Petra Mueller. Words by the Quebec playwright Larry Tremblay.
Published by Dazibao Press. (1999) In print. Buy here.
3x52 Project. Collaboration. Artist books. (2021)
Sustained connection over the course of a year. Petra Mueller with the artists Janine Duns and Marion Syme
June - Sept 2025 Accumulation, group exhibition UQTR Université du Québec à trois-Rivière, curator Dominique Choquette
