Hea R. Kim

Hea R. Kim is an artist who works with ceramics, fibres, mass-produced objects, and a host other mediums and materials, with which she creates intricate installations that evoke dream worlds. She recently presented a solo exhibition entitled Vomiting Flowers at the MAI. It featured mutating ceramic vessels, objects encrusted with bits of plastic drinking straws, and plenty of bunnies. Hea is the co-founder of The Matchbook Project, a curated collection & exchange of artworks that fit into matchboxes. We are happy to welcome her to CKUT studios for the July 4th episode!

view of Hea R. Kim's exhibition Vomiting Flowers; MAI, Montréal; photo: Paul Litherland

Erin Gee

We will be speaking with Erin Gee for the June edition of the show.

Erin Gee is a media artist and composer. Her past projects have involved robots, ASMR, video games, and interactive electronics. A central concern of her work is the intersection of human voice & emotion with technology. Erin is from Regina, Saskatchewan and she obtained her MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. She has presented her work internationally, and she was recently invited to the University of Maine as a research associate.

Her Project H.E.A.R.T., a virtual reality work made in collaboration with Alex M. Lee, is being presented at Perte de Signal, June 7th to 15th.

Erin Gee; photo courtesy of the artist

CKUT 90.3 FM's Funding Drive 2019

CKUT's 2019 Funding Drive is now up and running, until May 5th! Please support independent, non-commercial, creative, and accessible community radio by pledging any amount that you can to our station.

For the Out of Lines Funding Drive episode, May 2, we are bringing you highlights from the past little while, showcasing some of the amazing guests we have had the good fortune to feature on the show.

With a donation of $10 or more to Out of Lines, you will be entered into our special prize draw: up for grabs, 2 passes for 2 people to visit the Collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. (Merci, MMFA!)

There are also many other prizes available with a pledge to CKUT, at various donation levels.
To donate, and for more info, please visit: http://funding.ckut.ca/

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Sky Goodden

Sky Goodden is an art critic & editor based between Montreal and Toronto. She is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, the esteemed online art publication. She has written for an array of art magazines, and is currently teaching at Concordia University as an Artist-in-Residence. We are excited to welcome her to CKUT studios for April's episode!

Sky Goodden

Justine Skahan

Our guest for March is Justine Skahan, a Montréal-based painter whose work speaks of the domestic and the uncanny. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and was a finalist in the RBC Painting Competition in 2016. Later this month she will be showing work at Galerie.a in Québec City.

Justine Skahan, Dogwood 3, oil on panel, 12" x 16", 2018

Marx Ruiz-Wilson

Marx Ruiz-Wilson, the delightful person behind IntoThis Podcast and TAP Art Space, is our special guest for February! We will get to know him and learn how his interest in contemporary art in recent years has lead him to become an active member of the Montreal art community.

Marx and Audrey at their independent exhibition venue, TAP Art Space, Montréal

Happy New Year!

We've taken a little holiday and will be back on the airwaves in February. Stay tuned...

Laurence Pilon

Gusting in with December is an interview with Laurence Pilon. Laurence examines the intersection of social & environmental issues through her abraded and shimmering paintings.

Her latest exhibition, Spongieuses, at Galerie Nicolas Robert, continues through January 26th.

update: we also Dialled-a-Poet and happened upon Cynthia Girard-Renard!

Laurence Pilon, Strategy Meeting, oil on panel, 30"x34", 2018

Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux

For the November 1st edition, we will be speaking with Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux! He is a painter and photographer, who aims through his art to "suggest the diversity that lies within the universality of life." His work is featured in the exhibition Interwoven at the Conseil des arts de Montréal, up until November 22.

Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux: Annone, acrylic on canvas, 20"x16", 2018

Nika Fontaine

On October 4th we are excited to welcome Nika Fontaine to Out of Lines!

Nika is an artist whose work is suffused with spirituality and mysticism. Her signature material is glitter, which she uses to create dazzling paintings that invite meditative engagement. She is from Montreal but has been based in Berlin for the past ten years. Nika is currently in town for a brief period of time and will be presenting some of her work on October 19th at Assurart (from 4:30pm on; artist talk at 6pm).

Nika Fontaine, Prana #7, 2018, 60cm x 50cm, glitter on burlap

Jessica Eaton

Jessica Eaton will join us for a live interview on the September 6th show! Jessica uses experimental analog photography techniques that lead us to question the reality of the visible world. The cube is one of her central motifs, and her enigmatic images often reference hard-edge abstraction.

She currently has an exhibition entitled Iterations up at Antoine Ertaskiran Gallery until October 6th.

Jessica Eaton, cfaal 1104, 2018
Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal

Marisa Portolese

Our August (and undeniably august) guest is Marisa Portolese. Marisa is an artist who works with photography, often creating portraits of women that both question and borrow from conventions of representation. She recently spent time as an artist-in-residence of the McCord Museum combing through the William Notman Photographic Archives, and is currently presenting an exhibition at the museum based on this research: In The Studio With Notman.

Angélique Wilkie, 2018, Marisa Portolese

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Skawennati

For the July 5th episode, we bring you an interview with renowned new media artist Skawennati!
Skawennati engages with online and digital technology for her projects, and is especially known for for her machinimas (movies made in virtual environments), notably TimeTravelerTM. Her work is featured in the International Digital Art Biennial 2018, which is happening this summer in Montreal.

Kiva Stimac

Kiva Stimac will be live with us in studio on June 7th. Kiva is an artist/printmaker (and founder of Popolo Press) whose gig posters enliven the streets of Montreal with their daring design, ingenuity, and beauty.

poster by Kiva Stimac

The Beatrice Wood Episode

May 3rd: a show dedicated to the legendary Beatrice Wood

Bea Parsons

Thursday April 5th - artist extraordinaire Bea Parsons will be live in studio to tell us about her paintings, and how in recent times monotype printing is winning her over. She is a storyteller of the highest order, so don't miss out, gather round your radio at 2pm...

Bea Parsons, Out of Reach, 2018, monotype print 30 x 22 inches 

Sandra Meigs

On Thursday March 1st we are broadcasting an interview with the *amazing* artist Sandra Meigs, which was recorded earlier this year at her exhibition Room For Mystics (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto). We spoke about this major exhibition, elevated experiences through art, her collaboration with composer Christopher Butterfield, and her art practice at large.

Room For Mystics, Sandra Meigs (photo: Art Gallery of Ontario)

Also on the show: talking about Hilma af Klint!

CKUT Black History Month Special

February 1st was the occasion of a special broadcast at CKUT -- 12 hours of Afrocentric programming courtesy of BSN McGill! Check out the station's archives for this rad programming that ran from 11am - 11pm. (That means no episode of Out of Lines for February, but the program will be back in March.)

Simone Blain

Welcome, 2018.
We spoke with Simone Blain about her delightful paintings on view at Projet Pangée, in an exhibition where "ugly and pretty commingle."

Chantal Khoury

An interview with painter Chantal Khoury to talk about her exhibition Home & Haven.

Also on this episode: reading from Jane Eyre, and Art News!