Seripop
{{Short description|Canadian art duo}}
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Seripop refers to the art duo Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau, who have collaborated on album covers, prints, book illustrations, and installations.{{cite web|title=Seripop's art exists in rock 'n' roll posters|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/04/02/seripops-art-exists-in-rock-n-roll-posters/|publisher=Chicago Tribune|author=Lauren Viera|date=April 2, 2004}}{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/seripop-struts-gallery/|title=Seripop Blows Up Print & Process in Sackville|last=danieljoyce|website=Canadian Art|language=en-US|access-date=April 14, 2020}} The name Seripop is short for Serigraphie Populaire, French for "Popular Screenprinting".{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/seripops-chloe-lum-and-yannick-desranleau-on-garbage-grants-and-life-after-aids-wolf/|title=Seripop's Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau on Garbage, Grants, and Life After AIDS Wolf|last=Jax|first=Kristel|date=June 22, 2015|website=Vice|language=en|access-date=April 14, 2020}} Seripop was long based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2024, Lum and Desranleau moved to Edmonton, Alberta to begin teaching at the University of Alberta.{{Cite news |title=These artists make videos that are sincere, funny and totally Canadian. Why aren't they ever shown together? |last=Collins |first=Leah |date=2024-10-24 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/these-artists-make-videos-that-are-sincere-funny-and-totally-canadian-why-aren-t-they-ever-shown-together-1.7361875 |access-date=2025-04-08 |work=CBC Arts}}
Biographies
Lum and Desranleau met in the underground noise music scene of Montreal, eventually forming their first band Electric End. They began making their hand-printed posters as a way to attract people to their shows, but then eventually dropped out of art school in the early 2000s to make tour posters for six bands' entire tours, resulting in 25 to 45 posters for each band. Both are graduates of Montreal's Concordia University. The two are also members of noise rock quartet, AIDS Wolf,Adams, Gregory (November 19, 2008). "[https://www.straight.com/music/aids-wolf-makes-sick-sounds AIDS Wolf makes sick sounds]", The Georgia Straight. Retrieved June 26, 2013. which has since stopped playing shows.
Exhibitions
What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? – Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada{{Cite web|title=Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau {{!}} What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?|url=https://www.latitude53.org/current/2019/4/10/chloe-lum-and-yannick-desranleau-ffbeb|access-date=June 26, 2020|website=Latitude 53|date=September 6, 2019 |language=en-US}}
MAC Collection: Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau – Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada. Curator: Marie-Eve Beaupré.{{Cite web|title=Review: Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau in Montreal|url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/chloe-lum-and-yannick-desranleau/|access-date=June 26, 2020|website=Canadian Art|language=en-US}}
The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements) at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau
Awards
They won the 2007 Juno Award for CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year for designing the cover of The Looks album by MSTRKRFT.
References
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External links
- [http://www.seripop.com Seripop website]
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