{"id":762,"date":"2008-04-04T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/04\/04\/pieces-of-resistance\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:40:29","slug":"pieces-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/04\/pieces-of-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pieces of resistance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terraheather1\/2375771817\/in\/set-72157604322357101\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2419\/2375771817_4d88b2f63b.jpg?v=0\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Montreal&#8217;s marginal spaces seem to hold particular appeal for its artists. Last year, Karen Spencer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/taking-it-to-the-streets\/\">decorated fences, laneways and parking lots<\/a> with her oblique trilingual dreams; Julie Favreau and Caroline Dubois <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/15\/under-construction\/\">occupied a vacant storefront<\/a> on Beaubien Street, turning an empty space into one of constant reinvention; and the artists of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dare-dare.org\/\">Dare-Dare<\/a> took a forlorn corner of Mile End and made it into the centre of gravity for the city&#8217;s most interesting and innovative art. Now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/neath.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/02\/pieces-of-resistance-flags-for-a-vengeance\/\">wayward Heather Utah<\/a> has found herself in the area around the Falaise St. Jacques, where she has marked an entire corner the city with her &#8220;flags for a vengeance&#8221;: colourful quilts that mark an outpost of ambiguity, spontaneity and humanity in the rigidly-marked space of this drably suburban landscape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terraheather1\/2375769529\/in\/set-72157604322357101\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3093\/2375769529_11cdb9de5b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Photos by Heather Utah; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terraheather1\/sets\/72157604322357101\/\">click here for the full set<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal&#8217;s marginal spaces seem to hold particular appeal for its artists. 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