This episode of Unusual Music Exchange is with video artist Renée Lear, who has taken an unusual interest in unusual music. We listen to and discuss unusual music from Ween and Clown Core to Mississippi Fred McDowell.
We also did a video screening, which you can watch below or on YouTube. This features a short art video we did together, a music video Renée did for one of my songs (featuring a family of barn owls), and a few of Renée’s brilliant works.
Thanks to Dunlop Art Gallery, YYZ Artists Outlet, and CJTR for sponsoring.
Audio
Renée Lear Part 1
Renée Lear Part 2
Video
Film in Focus – Owls, Opera, and a Painted Nettle Plant
Artist Bios
Renée Lear
Renée Lear is an experimental video artist, performer, photographer and filmmaker. Her practice engages both playfully and critically with the material, instruments and processes that produce moving images. Her recent work includes video, video installation, video performance, video mixing in live environments, animation and GIF montage. She works both solo and in collaboration with other artists, musicians, DJ’s, chefs and dancers. Her work has been shown in art galleries, festivals, underground cinemas, performance spaces, dance clubs, music venues, ad hoc public spaces and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Renée Lear lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Unusual Music Exchange
Unusual Music Exchange is an evolving platform for sharing unusual music of any genre. It may function as a magazine, a podcast, a community, a radio show, and a de facto record label. UME begins with the pleasure of listening to unusual music, whether experimental, rock, classical, pop, folk, hip hop, or whatever. It may also be a space to think about music as art, art as music, and just what these things are in our lives.