Women and animals
INTIMATE AND UNSETTLING: Werner’s “Girl in White Suit”Parisian Laundry (3550 St-Antoine W.) celebrates International Women’s Week with a new exhibition showcasing the work of two Montreal artists, jake moore and Janet Werner.
“As a figurative painter, I’m always looking for ways of going beyond the external appearances of my characters,” says Werner. As a result, the paintings in Who’s Sorry Now delve into the inner worlds of her subjects, engaging the viewer on a more direct and intimate level. Once again, Werner’s stripped-down landscapes are populated by images of women and girls, but here the portraits are less naturalistic. In playing with proportion, colour and scale, Werner creates works that are both lovely and unsettling. She allows us to see the fragility, determination and strength that exists in these women and in all of us.
moore describes her project as an “installation that considers the connections between desire, fear and the uncanny.” Set into the Laundry’s bunker, Pet evokes the animal world without directly referencing any specific creature. In doing so, it asks us to contemplate our relationship to the object rather than the object itself, using the “other” to raise questions about the self.
by STACEY DEWOLFE
Pogos, Slushies and queer
performance
Noisemakers Roving Party Machine want to feed you more pogos at SpectacleExquisiteduCrapCathartique, a program celebrating RPM’s darling  theme: artificial excess. Following their watchword “too much is not enough,” the rad queer performance artist-caterers promise ongoing performances, multiple video installations, DJs, concession stands with their famous boozy slushies and various other “gross shit” this Friday, March 12, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. at Eastern Bloc (7240 Clark). Mme Présage will be telling fortunes. Go for that eighth slushy because hurling is encouraged, for once, and chances are, she can even read the future in your vomit, like some diviners do with tealeaves.
If you aren’t into puking and pogos but do want a good dose of attitude, come see the slosh and flotsam left over on display as an installation on Saturday, March 13 from noon–6 p.m. At 4 p.m., Rover P. Machinery, the legendary (fictive?) persona behind the curtain will be making his first public appearance, delivering an artist’s presentation on queer identity and performance.
by DAVID LEVITZ
The other Tiffany
Truman Capote immortalized Tiffany & Co. as the most coveted American jeweller, but a new exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1380 Sherbrooke W.) eschews this history in order to show you the other Tiffany.
 Tiffany Glass, on until May 2, showcases the work created by Louis Tiffany, the son of jeweller Charles Tiffany, and charts Louis’s trajectory from his early years as a painter and his Paris education to the creation of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, which would eventually leave its own legacy, though on a somewhat smaller scale.
What started as a company dedicated to stained glass windows became known for its glassware and eventually their famous Tiffany lamps. Though the pieces on display are often stunning and modern beyond their time (most of the pieces on view were created at the end of the 19th century), the most interesting part of the exhibit is the influence of North African culture on the work, at a time when many designers were looking to Japan.
by SACHA JACKSON
IS IT ART?
iGESTURE: Forget the iPad—the Gesture Cube is the latest technology to watch. Designed by LUNAR Europe and developed in conjunction with Ident  Technology and Zinosign, the Gesture Cube uses intelligent design and gesture-based interfaces that enable the communication device to be activated by the wave of a hand.
Looking something like a computer and TV hybrid, the Cube allows you to access the Internet, listen to music and video-chat with family and friends. With five display screens in all, it’s sort of like rolling your cell phone, laptop and iPod into one—except it’s stationary. However, the Cube is so attuned to its surroundings that when you move it to another room or space, it automatically hibernates.
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Arts hole
TEA AND R&B: Drop in to Gallery la Centrale (4296 St-Laurent) for a spot of tea and stay for the artist talk with Palestinian writer, musician, producer and storyteller Abeer Alzinaty, aka Sabreena Da Witch. Alzinaty, who released her debut album on Women’s Day earlier in the week, will talk about choosing to perform R&B, rap and dancehall in Arabic and English and the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestine conflict tonight, Thursday, March 11 from 6–8 p.m. • SEASONAL ART: Artist Marc Gagnon’s latest show, Spring Collection, opens at Monastiraki (5478 St-Laurent) with a vernissage tomorrow, Friday, March 12 at 5:30–11 p.m. It runs until the 28th. • BRAINS AND BEAUTY: Neuroscientist, sculptor and photographer Dr. Ivar Mendez gets to the heart of things with a discussion about The Sciences, the Arts and the Human Condition with Professor Norman Cornett this Saturday, March 13, 1–3 p.m. at Galerie Samuel Lallouz (1434 Sherbrooke W.), $25, $20 with student I.D.
Artistat
The number of days left to catch Bodies to Bodies III (Les Chemins de traverse – Metz) by choreographer Isabelle Van Grimde, featuring four dancers and five
musicians and playing at Agora de la danse (840 Cherrier): 3
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