
2001 Festival International de Jazz de Montreal/DJ Series, Montreal,Canada Performances with: DJ Smash, Jazzanova, Dzihan & Kamien, Gilb'r & I:Cube, Tiga, Shantel HVW8 Art Installation Live Performance Pieces from 1999 -- 2008. Ten years ago the original idea behind the a HVW8 composition/piece was to pay hommage to someone deserving in their field whether it was musically, such as Miles Davis, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Augutus Pablo; politically, like Shirin Ebadi, Noam Chomsky, Romeo Dallaire; a tribute to other artists, like Malike Sibyde and Mies van der Rohe; or just persons deserving of being called 'heavyweights', like Richard Pryor and David Suzuki. HVW8 would take the iconography and sample it like a jazz standard and freestyle around it, building something to call our own and proud to represent. One of the principle artistic projects of Heavyweight Production House, the Heavyweight Art Installation is made up of Tyler Gibney, G Starship and Dan Bulller. The three artists work in collaboration, not unlike the dynamic that came from past mural jobs, graffiti exploits, art parties and comic jams, to create painted compositions live within club settings and before music audiences. Using the environment as inspiration, the painters instantlly blend ideas onto the canvas, sampled from a rolodex of sketchbook images, Polaroids, old photographs, pop iconography and brush techniques. With each painting taking about 3-4 hours to complete, the process is a challenge of <b>...</b>
HVW8
Live Painting
Montreal
Gene Pendon
Tyler Gibney
Dan Buller
HVW8 Art Installation
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