PROGRAM
2 : SOUS LE SOLEIL EXACTEMENT
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Aaron
Pollard & Stephen Lawson
Occupée
video,
2’23’’, 2004, Québec
Together, Lawson and Pollard create and tour multimedia
performances and videos. Their work has been presented
across Canada and in Italy and Spain.
A campy look into the psyche of a “silent-era
doomed divinity” reveals a familiar human
struggle with displacement.
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Naomi
Oliver
Catastrophising
video, 2’’, 2003, Australie
Naomi Oliver is an Australian artist who works in
varied mediums, with a focus on experimental video
art, installation, photography and sound pieces. The
greater portion of this work has observed the correlation
between emotional and bodily experience. She has exhibited
in a number of group exhibitions.
'Catastrophising', 2003 presents two impossible, fantastical
situations - the first a lounge room scene where a
girl adorned in a nightgown spins at unrealistic speed,
on her side, and also hovers in the air. Below her,
two male figures continue reading on a couch, unperturbed.
It is ambiguous as to whether the male characters
notice and make a conscious decision to silently ignore
the phenomenon. The second section of the work takes
place in a bedroom setting, where the same girl's
figure has left her bed during the nights' sleep and
is spinning perpetually above her flung covers; as
though she is in a trance or some hypnotic state.
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Frédéric
Dumond
Harangue, video
4’, 2002, Québec
Frédéric Dumond was born in 1967. He
is a writer, artist, videast and performer. In his
installations, sound pieces, videos, happenings, language,
words, speech and meaning as fundamentals of the thinking
are the main elements of his work. In his most recent
texts, he evokes more directly the Human being and
the Living.
A character (the videast, himself, in fact) is stand
up on a trestle. (In French, the word «tréteau»
(trestle) is exactly the same for the tool, used for
example by a handyman, and for the stage, which is
particularly meaningful in that video). The movements
he makes to stay in balance are also orator_s ones.
What implications ? And to what end ? (or in what
intention ?)
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Docteur
François Courbe Artiologue,
In Memoriam Imhotep
vidéo, 5’19’’, 2002, France
Born in 1969 in Mortagne au Perche, France. He lives
and works in Paris and Normandy. He is a professor
of Legal Artiologie, a member of the Artiologie Academy,
Dean of the department of Artiologie, specialist of
GMA (Genetically Modified Art) and founder of Pansementics
as a recognised organ of social good. A Mix-media
artist: video, photography, sound, installations and
performance.
The KomOmbo temple, where the cult of the crocodile
god Sobek was celebrated, is particular in that it
houses a relief representing Imhotep in front of an
operating table that shows all of his instruments.
Imhotep was a famous architect, a genius in his time,
who was the first architect to have his name inscribed
on a monument. Imhotep was raised to the status of
a god, and was depicted as a healing god.
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Kim Barr
Black Rock Burning Man
video, 30’, 2003, Canada
Kim Barr was born in Montreal, studied Fine Arts and
Photography at Concordia University, and in 1992 relocated
to Milan where she continued her studies at the Istituto
Italiano di fotografia. She is a photographer and
also does video work.
Black Rock Burning is a half-hour documentary on the
annual Burning Man festival, a week-long extravaganza
of art, music and alternative culture held in the
Nevada desert. The film captures the phantasmagorical
art and creative people that create the temporary
utopia which is Burning Man. It's produced by December
Productions.
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Flutura
& Besnik Haxhillari
Stars and Dictators
video, 15’, 2004, Québec
Flutura (1970) and Besnik Haxhillari (1966) or the
two Gullivers are an artist couple from Albania who
live in Quebec, Canada, since 2000. Their multidisciplinary
work (video, performance, installation, photography,
drawing) has been shown in Germany, Austria, Canada,
Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.
Imagine 50 years of cheering. We lived in the DESERT
of the cheering crowd. This was a media desert created
by an entire ideological and media system that oppressed
anything that was not socialist and communist.
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Philippe
Hirsh
In
video, 23’, 2004, Allemagne
Philippe Hirsch was born in Germany. He studied design
at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. He specializes in
3D animation and received a grant from the Bauhaus
to create "In".
"Hanna, it’s about your belly again. Lena
or Dave. You have to decide." The film articulates
itself through the "seeing" of its protagonist
Hanna ? a person in an existential situation.
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