Haunting the periphery of the Canadian music scene for about two decades, singer, composer and video artist Laurel MacDonald has released several critically acclaimed CDs, each produced by her creative partner Philip Strong. This body of work features Strong’s distinctive sonic signature and MacDonald’s otherworldly vocals. Their music has been heard in countless film, television, theatre and dance productions, one of which earned them a Gemini Award in 2003.

In 2008 MacDonald introduced her solo performance project Videovoce, integrating her voice with electronics and video. With Strong at the sound design helm, she has taken this project to the Summerworks, Art School (Dismissed) and SOUNDplay festivals in Toronto, and to MUTEK in Montreal.

She premiered her video/sound installation XXIX as part of the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festival at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in October 2010, where it received the Scotiabank People’s Choice Award in the Open Call category.

In 2011, XXIX and MacDonald’s experimental film Sequential Duet have screened at film festivals in five countries. The interactive tablet-based app and video installation Alone Together, created by MacDonald and Shawn Kerwin during a residency at Canadian Film Centre Media Lab, premiered at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in October 2011.

UPCOMING

AN EXHIBITION OF VIDEO WORK AT ART & DRINKS, TORONTO, THURS & FRI NOV 24-25, 2011 • 6 -11 pm

Improbable Music is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition of video art by Laurel MacDonald at Art and Drinks in Toronto, on Thursday, November 24 and Friday, November 25, 2011 from 6-11 pm.

Art and Drinks is a newly opened art bar/gallery showcasing video art - a project of media artist John Oswald - exhibiting, in addition to MacDonald, video work by Canadian artists Michael Snow, David Rokeby, John Oswald, Renée Lear, Bettina Hoffmann, Max Dean and Mark Reale.

This two-night show will present video work by MacDonald from 2006-2011. As a musician and composer, sound figures centrally in nearly all of MacDonald's featured work, including dance videos, abstract pieces developed for use in MacDonald's Videovoce performance project, and thematic works commissioned for Toronto Alternative Fashion Week, the Luminato festival and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Also featured will be a new interactive project entitled Alone Together, a tablet-based app developed in collaboration with Shawn Kerwin as part of MacDonald's 2011 residency at the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab.

Thursday November 24 & Friday November 25, 2011 • 6-11 pm • No Cover

Art and Drinks • 800 Dundas Street West, Toronto

(2 blocks west of Bathurst at Palmerston Avenue)