INSTALLATIONS
: GENERAL PROGRAM : OASIS
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Isabelle
Hayeur
Issue
Installation video, 2004, Québec
Isabelle Hayeur's work focuses mainly on photography,
she has, however, created several videos, insitu installations
and web art. She is interested in the territories
that reveal the challenges of our time and to this
end she documents areas that are being developed,
exploited or in a process of being rebuild. Her work
has been shown in Quebec, Canada, Finland and Mexico.
'Issue' is an interactive video installation presented
in the former sediment exit of the incinerator. The
large-scale projection creates the impression that
this vast alley opens up onto a desolate industrial
wasteland. As the viewer moves forward into the space,
the alley seems to strech out and telescope towards
the horizon thus creating a perspective of the infinity
of the desert which the work echos.
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Remco
Schuurbiers et Bijan Dawallu
The Scene : Berlin-Texas, The art of pingpongcountry
installation, 2004, Hollande
Remco Schuurbiers (29-09-1968/Breda/the Netherlands)
lives and works in Berlin since 1998. Studied photography
and image & sound at the royal academy of fine
arts and Conservatory in the Hague. Next to his artistic
work as photographer and video artist he is curator/organiser
of the Club Transmediale Festival in Berlin.
Bijan Dwallu : He studied visual communication at
University of Arts Berlin (UDK). Since 1996, he lives
and works in Berlin as a graphic designer and artist
at his own studio: "Aroma, Büro für
Gestaltung“ (www.aromaberlin.de)
One part of the project “the art of PINGPONGCOUNTRY"
is the actual event PINGPONGCOUNTRY where we invite
people to run around our table-tennis table until
dawn, while we play country music. The other part
of the project deals with the visual aspects of PPC.
These consist of the communication of the project
via our homepage and flyers and an experimental works
like installation panels and video works. You could
say that our works play with clichés of sports
(table tennis in particular) and country music.
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Vlan
Paysages & Pavel Pavlov
Mise en Tas
Installation, 2004, Québec
With his photographic series and video installaion,
Pavel Pavlov documents ths built character of the
landscape. For the realisation of his artworks, he
diverts the strategies of fitting out that control
the body and the look of the walker.
In the frame of the event Désert, the collective
VLAN Paysages has invites Pavel Pavlov to realize
a video installation that reates the physical and
temporal transformation of their intervention Mise
en tas. By this collaboration, the artists wnated
to create a situation of exchange between the disciplines
of the fitting out and the visual arts to put together
a look on the commun object of their research : the
landscape.
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Vertex
Paroles des Cendres
Installation sonore, 2004, Québec
Vertex (Andrew Watson et Nicolas Basque) are interested
in the creation of sound installations and the interpretation
of electroacoustic works in an improvised form.
'Paroles des cendres' is an abstract sound documentary
about the incinerator based on the theme of remembrance
and abandonment
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Candela
2
Last Transmission
Installation, 2003, Allemagne
candela2 is an artist duo from Germany, working together
since 1994. Oliver Schulte and Maik Timm studied Fine
Arts and Visual Communications at the School of Fine
Arts Kassel and worked there as Research Associates
in the fields of Video and New Media. Their recent
works are active and interactive video-/sound installations
and performances.
Extract of the text of Dr. Karin Stempel:
candela2 have successfully produced a highly complex
structure of image and sound using the most advanced
technical means: a visually and acoustically open
structure that produces itself interactively through
partially controllable and partially controlled aleatory
and autonomous feedback.
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Roland
Ulfig et Tom Balaban
Mirage
Installation, 2004, Québec
Roland Ulfig is a Montreal native who is currently
completing his internship with the Ordre des architectes
du Québec. He formed RUB four years ago to
cross the intersection between architecture, graphic
design, and sculpture.
Born in Bucharest, Romania,Tom Balaban now lives and
works in Montréal. Architect by training his
work straddles different media bound by an overriding
obsession with form. He has been exhibited in several
group shows in North America and Europe.
"The role of the object is to restore silence"-Samuel
Becket
Expressing the ideas of an emerging hidden life and
the expanding slowness of thought, the mirage manifests
itself as the symbolic illusion of the breathing incinerator.
A multi-layered distortion of lines, the piece represents
an abstraction of the geographic horizon. Like waves
of heat emanating off the hot desert bed, the mirage
oscillates and bends light to create space instilling
the inanimate surface with the breath of life.
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Isabel
Forner
Oscillations
Fleuve Niger Mali 2003, 2003, France
An author of video and photographic works. She makes
documentary films.
A video-travelling between Koulikoro and Timbuktu.
An immersion in the oscillations of a fluvial rhythm.
Distance from things. Depth of the landscape
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The
Marswalkers
Courants d'Ère
Installation, 2003, USA
A duo that uses different media through the appropriation
of mass media material in order to create spaces
that comment on the emptiness of the mediasphere
— a shallow surface that is too full makes
one blind to reality. The transformation and filtering
of this matter lessens its persuasive power.
Eight speakers covered in paper. The membranes cause
the paper to vibrate. Random transmission of media
sound fragments. Variation of the sound volume.
Contrast between the physical vibrations of the
paper and the nature of the media fragments.
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Dana
Lévy
After the End
Installation, 2003, Israël
Dana Levy born Tel Aviv, Israel 1973. Studied in Britain,
currently lives in Israel, where she teaches video
art. Creates in the field of digital photography,
single-channel video and video/multimedia installations.
Her works have been screened and exhibited at art
spaces and festivals around the world.
In this minimalist work, the oil pumps and church
bells are hints of the two main reasons for war- money
and religion. The title suggests that after the end,
the oil pumps and church bells will continue to function,
perhaps longer than people.
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Horacio
Zabala
Le Désert grandit
Installation, 2004, Argentine
Horacio Zabala, Buenos Aires, 1943. Artist, architect
and theoretician. From 1976 to 1998 he lived in
Rome, Vienna, and Geneva. He currently lives in
Buenos Aires.
A parked car is filled with sand up to its windows.
The sand spills out of the vehicle into the exterior
space. Coming from the inside of the car one hears
a voice reciting the following quotation:
"The desert grows, woe to him who harbours
a desert."
(Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
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Ex æquo
Points d’écoute/Points de vue
Installation, 2004, Québec
Ex æquo is a artistic duo that is particularly
interested in the various artistic links between sound
and image.
Specially conceived for this event. Ex æquo
is proposing a sound walk of the multiple "little
urban deserts" that today's des Carrières
incinerator consists of.
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Choi
Heesun
Des(s)ert
Installation, 2004, Corée
Choi Heesun was born in 1974 in Seoul, Korea. She
attended the Cergy national of fine Arts. She participated
in Europeen exhibitions and Korea. She currently
lives and works in Paris.
I present images of nature, by using objects that
are found in my life. Although there is no door
to open, or layers of wall in a desert, it is like
a limitless labyrinth that nature created.
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Roland
Baladi
Work untitled in progress
2003, France
"Roland Baladi
is one of the pioneers of video art…he continues
to invent radical models that very humorously and
quite elegantly question the signs of the videosphere
that we live in since the advent of the Television
age. A questioning that is after all the very foundation
of video art."
Jean Paul Fargier
The installation "Work untitled in progress"
could have been left untitled. It is without commentary
and in any case it has no meaning but that of being
no wiser than clockwise.
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Ana Rewakowicz
The occupants
Installation, 2004, Québec
Ana Rewakowicz is an interdisciplinary artist and
researcher living and working in Montreal. She works
with inflatables and explores relations between temporal,
portable architecture, the body and the environment.
"Occupants" explores spaces in-between transitional
zones of flexible and formless presence within the
context of social, urban and architectural processes.
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Mélanie
Bédard
Créer des Sentiers pour les Chantiers
Installation, 2003, Québec
Mélanie Bédard is a Quebecois artist
who now works at Rouje, Québec City. Through
installation, video, colour and action photography
I seek to create unusual sensorial universes, experiences,
landscapes that bear witness to nature all the while
removing us from it, that question our nature, actions
and living conditions.
CRÉEZ DE SENTIERS PARMI LES SENTIERS is a video
taken from the eponymous installation that was presented
at Rouje arts and events in December, 2003. Designed
around a video projection,which is, like a fountain
or a water pond in a garden design, the focus point
of reflection. A place of relaxation, reverie, and
both passive and energetic contemplation.
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David
Jhave Johnston
Refuge(e)
Installation, 2003, Québec
David Jhave Johnston is a nomadic artist who is temporarily
roosting in Montreal. In the spring of 2004 he graduated
with distinction from the Digital Image and Sound
Programme at Concordia Univ. Primarily a poet, in
1999 he finished a six-year exploratory project of
hand-written mixed-media work before completely devoting
himself to digital creation (creating a year-long
exhibit called NomadLingo for the Year01 site). Among
other activities, he has exhibited with the Symbiosis
Collective, developed digital work for Bioteknica,
Ollivier Dyens, Sarah Flair (among many others). He
has exhibited in 2 new media Biennials: Montreal 2002
& Toronto 2003.
refuge(e) is a video installation that plays with
time and displacement. real-time processing with fx
controlled by the viewer recycle previous visions
of the exhibition space in an infinite regress. refuge(e)
invites the viewer-participant subject to reconsider
notions of spatial or temporal ownership while reinforcing
awareness of the body as a distinct entity. |
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