PROGRAM
3 : NON-LIEUX
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Emmanuel
Avenel et Marie-France Giraudon
Circumvisions
vidéo, 31’, 2004, Québec
Emmanuel Avenel and Marie-France Giraudon work and
live together in Montreal. They have created videos
and installations since 1987. Their video Transe(e)
bleu was shown around the world in various festivals
and museums: world wide festival, Champ Libre, videobrazil,
Wro 01…
A circumpolar navigation between the real and the
unreal turns into a strange adventure trip in a
mysterious universe of mirages. A quest to overcome
all the limits of the horizon, of the infinite…
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Alexandre
Berthier
Alchimie
diaporama, 6’55’’, 2004, France
Alexandre Berthier cooks and roller skates, he never
takes a nap, he smiles at people, and catches himself
thinking and during all this time he makes images
and more images.
On a stretch of land, between the ocean and the mountains,
a hunt for the last light before darkness. A struggle
against the cold that grows more difficult with the
fading light; a rediscovery of human traces in a wild
environment , deserted for the time of a new night.
The photographer, whose hands are stiff with cold
also tries to capture this last light , this light
which transform inanimate objects from their metallic
cold into a soothing source of warmth and vivid colour.
For a brief instant this transformation of materials
gives the photographer the illusion of holding an
alchemist's power…
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Peter
Rose
The Geosophist's Tears
vidéo, 8’11’’, 2002, USA
Rose’s works in film, video, installation, and
performance have received extensive international
exhibition, and have led to the generation of new
cinematic structures, improvisations in fictitious
language, and the invention of obscure journeys.
The Geosophist’s Tears is a lament for a lost
American innocence. It uses a variety of visual strategies
to propose and discover intriguing structural features
of the uninhabited Western landscape.
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Christine
Wilmes & Patrick Mascaux
Stopping time
video, 12’19’’, 2003, Belgique
C.Wilmes et P.Mascaux - she is a sculptor & and
he an architect by training - met in Mexico City in
1987. Based in Brussels, they have been working as
a duo since 1994. They have scanned the memory of
places removed from time in Mexico, Europe, Quebec,
the US and Australia. The project has been presented
in museums and galleries in Belgium, France, Quebec
and Australia.
Silicone molds, photographic and sound details make
up the videos "STOPPING-_TIME." Five sequences
of sensorial archives of deserted landscapes take
us on an in-depth exploration of the frozen time of
these desolate places.
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Anouk
De Clercq
Portal
Image de synthèse, 12’’, 2003,
Belgique
Anouk de Clercq (Brussels, Belgium) Her great challenge
is to confront various disciplines – image,
music, text, architecture, graphics – and allow
them to come together in interior landscapes.
‘Portal’ unfolds a space where you can
drop your guard: a rhythmical, geometrical landscape,
a soothing place made from sloping shapes and whispering
sounds.
Produced by Joost Fonteyne for Limelight and Anno’02,
Courtrai (B)
Distributed by Montevideo, Amsterdam (NL)
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Guylaine
Bédard
Sédimentaire
diaporama, 2’, 2004, Québec
The artist's strong interest in urban nature and her
ongoing need for technical experimentation enabled
her to create a dramatic ensemble which reflects a
personal vision of the hidden side of life.
Having never seen a desert, I created a series of
images that evoke an impression of desert isolation
and extreme conditions without ever leaving Quebec.
Music by B.Friedman and M.Akita
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Nelly-Eve
Rajotte
Lumi, 3’21’’
vidéo, 2003, Québec
Nelly-Eve Rajotte, a member of Perte de Signal, is
currently completing a Master's degree at the Visual
and Media Arts School, Université du Québec
à Montréal. Her work concentrates on
single-channel video and installation that focus on
an aesthetic and sensorial exploration which destabilizes
an environment that is both visual and auditory.
This video explores the formal relationship between
light and sound. Using the obstructed perspective
of the painter De Chirico as an inspiration, I undertake
a deconstruction of the videographic signifier. |
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