INSTALLATIONS PROGRAM BY FABRICE MONTAL : LE DÉSERT ET LA RÉPÉTITION

		Nicolas Bolduc DUBERGER 7H30 PM Installation vidéo, 2004, Québec Nicolas Bolduc has been fascinated by video for several years. As a technician and video artist he has been associated with the work of other artists such as Éric Gagnon. He works mainly at La bande vidéo (BV) in Quebec City. He has created a series of videos on the theme of deserted Quebec suburbs which will soon be brought together on a BV productions DVD. For this event he is presenting an installation that is based on one of these videos. The world is endlessly writing its drama. We can err on its surface without ever knowing its text. We can arrive late to the rehearsal, but whether we want to or not, the play is always on. Whether we want to or not, it will not wait for us. The transposition of theater into life sometimes asserts itself through affects expressed in the context of an action that is not automatically recognizable, or entirely pleasant, because, in essence, that which is pleasant is consensual, since it concerns both the senses and the absence of effort and innovation. Dead calm, the shunning of imbalance and the joyful repression of a fundamental given that is called the movement of existence, are, unfortunately, helpless before death, for the refusal to move is also a means to hasten its arrival. This is the feeling that one experiences in watching Nicolas Bolduc's videos with their travellings through the heart of consensual neighborhoods of wintry suburbs devoid of any human trace except the occasional turned on light. It is a critique of the desertification of humanity and its standardization. This eloquent paradox we call the "mass produced prefabricated single family home" is but another lie which hides the emptiness of a society that builds a spectacle of wealth by impoverishing real life. This is an installation which for the most part draws on the video called DUBERGER 7H30 PM (taken from the name of the well-known Quebec suburb) within a projection set-up that through its triptych juxtaposition of three television sets, recalls and parodies the form of a bow-window. The suburban landscape is cyclical and the projection is looped. The world moves but its statement is static and its thought barren as a desert
		PHYLM ( Emmanuel Lefrant/ Philippe Pasquier) Survie Installation audio vidéo, Montréal-Québec, 2004 Emmanuel Lefrant was born in 1975. He makes films like others cultivate their garden. His films are a work on speed, rhythms, mater and colour, and on the revelation of the "secret forms" of film emulsion. He treats film with acid or sometimes hangs it under two feet of earth in order to submit it to the random effects of the subterranean oxides. This results in moving and colored abstractions whose fluid and organic movement reveals a troubling beauty. Philippe Pasquier, who was born in the same year, is an artificial intelligence researcher. He is currently working on various projects in which he combines his research with artistic creation. He is also a musician, a member of Avatar and one of the pillars of the very popular Soirées Machines (Quebec City) dedicated to electronic music. They are childhood friends. They grew up in Nantes, in Brittany. One has been living in Quebec City for several years and the other recently moved form Paris to Montreal. They decided to combine their talents in the adventure that is PHYLM. If you do not know what to do in a desert, you can always try survival. In a house for outward bound products, they shall have spread thick clouds of smoke. Equipped with this atmosphere, Survie, if so it is tube be, will be pierced with electronic rays hurled by videographic canons. The beams will be materialized through the thickness of cold clouds, while our ears will take on the adventurous mission reconfiguring the space of our perdition in the random (in)voulntary abstraction served up by the artists. The exploration of the image goes through the beam of the projection. […] Fire transforms matter into smoke. The isolation of those it inhabits, theur solitude; The breathlessness, the suffocation that it causes; The obliteration of borders that it brings about, recalls the vastness and infinite horizons of the desert; The projection onto smoke evokes the notion of the mirage. […] The video projection and the computer-controlled ambiophony is made up of modulated loops which self-generate a formal and abstract discourse that sets the trap of a ravishment.