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Geneviève Chevalier
Mirement/Towering
In this book, we take stock of the Mirement/Towering project as a whole and set out to explore the territories of thought underlying Geneviève Chevalier’s practice. The discursive framework established here situates her work within a developing theoretical horizon on contemporary art and philosophy of nature. The essays respond to each other via transversal concepts, as do the respective programs of the three organizations that have come together to support the project.
Artist: Geneviève Chevalier
Authors: Gentiane Bélanger, Mélanie Boucher, Alain Deneault, Stéphanie Posthumus & Heather Rogers
Co-published with Foreman Art Gallery of University Bishop’s and Galerie UQO
Art of Research
Art of Research is a publication and exhibition project bringing together the works of Stephanie Comilang, k.g. Guttman, Catherine Lescarbeau and Thérèse Mastroiacovo. The project originated with a desire to valorize those artistic practices based on research and experimentation, from the idea of resisting the reflex to cover up the reflexive portion, the artistic posture so essential to developing a creative project—an artwork. It is thus a question of bringing forth this muted behind-the-scenes, to cast light on those untilled moments, moments of sway, if not of tension, between the conceptualization of a project and its realization.
Artists: Stephanie Comilang, k.g. Guttman, Catherine Lescarbeau, Thérèse Mastroiacovo
Authors: Biba Bell, France Choinière, Mika Hannula, Laura Huertas Millán, Sarah Turcotte
Steve Bates
Three Sounds
Three Sounds is part of Black Seas, a larger body of sound, moving image, installation, performance works which began in 2015. Black Seas is a project about listening to noise through desire, agency and encounter.
Anchored in historical and contemporary experiences of auditory hallucination, Three Sounds is inspired by the breadth and depth of this sound world in both pathological and non-pathological instances and the continuum between these two extremes. The project is influenced by multiple sources from literature to film, visual art, music, sound and media art as well as cognitive science, psychiatry, anthropology, religious studies, philosophy and shared stories.
Three Sounds revolves around three non-linear video and sound stories: Noise, Voices and Music. The three stories unfold through three images, one after the other, supported by details that form reminiscent links between them.
Authors: François J. Bonnet, Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt
Entends-tu ce que je vois? Do You See What I Hear?
Images so that we may hear; sounds so that we may see. A willingness to refine our understanding of the world, to extract from the unique relationship of sound and image a meaning that transcends our initial perception of the whole. As though the incompleteness brought forth by the absence, censorship or obliteration of one sense contributes to the making of sense. As though the essence of the matter resides in unfulfilled expectations, or in the avowed lacunae of several of the artworks brought together here.
Watch, listen more closely to catalyze a sharper form of consciousness and an enduring acuity that permit an ever-clearer reading of things and of this world, which, for the first time in history, is called upon to face its precariousness through an incessantly mediated reality.
Artists: Wojciech Bąkowski, Bianca Baldi, Simon M. Benedict, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Myriam Bleau, Bojan Fajfrić, Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann, Rosalie Jean, Kapwani Kiwanga, Douglas Moffat, Naveen Padmanabha, Jen Reimer & Max Stein, Sofie Thorsen, Marie Voignier.
Authors: France Choinière, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, Aseman Sabet
Myriam Jacob-Allard
T'envoler
It is at the crossroads of personal history and collective memory that Myriam Jacob-Allard’s work lingers. These take form in the exhibition around two narratives: a popular song and a family story. The title of the exhibition, T’envoler, is borrowed from a country song, a musical genre with a particular resonance for the artist’s family. Country music, at times described as “white people’s blues”, has the same visceral quality, that impulse to be close, in simple terms, to everyday life and feelings.
Authors : France Choinière, Lauren Fournier, Cynthia Girard-Renard
D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories
In D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories, Vincent Bonin explores the notion of deferred receptions of theories and art through language, context and translations. The book explores the gap between the publication of a text in one language and that of its translation, or between the inaugural presentation of an artwork in one context and its subsequent display.
Author: Vincent Bonin
Velibor Božović
Nothing Will Surprise You Here
With Nothing Will Surprise You Here, Velibor Božović has succeeded in infusing a dose of truth which surpasses our desire to cling to reality and facts, letting us be carried along by the self-evidence of events. Nothing surprises us here, but everything eludes us, as if aspirated by that truth held in shadow, so intrinsic that it is only revealed in the abstraction of the unspoken. We might see here an attempt to legitimate fiction as a means of attesting to history, but also a manifestation of the ascendance of the map over the territory.
Authors: France Choinière, Gwynne Fulton
Home Sweet Home. À propos de l'inquiétude
Home Sweet Home. À propos de l’inquiétude is built around the motif of the home, first of all to mark Dazibao’s permanent new space, but also as an expression of the uncertainty necessary to creation and to the pursuit of thinking about art. What the works brought together thus share is the way they turn the obvious upside down to reveal or give form to this necessary doubt, this constantly shifting state unsuited to quietude.
Artistes : Raymonde April, Juan Betancurth, Johanna Billing, Matthew Buckingham, Jennifer Campbell, Nancy Davenport, Bettina Hoffmann, Joseph Ismail, Patrick Jolley & Reynold Reynolds, Mazen Kerbaj, Thomas Kneubühler, Rob Kovitz, Søren Lose, Maria Marshall, Christof Migone, Gunvor Nelson, James Nizam, ONF, Anne Parisien, Paulette Phillips, William Raban, Gisela Restrepo, Ben Rivers, Jon Sasaki, Ron Terada, Chih-Chien Wang
Live rightly, die, die...
Live rightly, die, die… explores the contemporary phenomenon of artistic tourism and the exotic through a select number of visual works. However, instead of simply illustrating or documenting the recent trends that might be associated with tourism and the exotic in contemporary art, Live rightly, die, die… attempts to address the phenomena of tourism and the exotic within an eccentric frame of historical reference and in a way that exposes their spatio-temporal ambiguities, tensions and possibilities. It is through these ambiguities and tensions that the question is raised of the possible existences of unknown places, opaque languages, singular encounters, treacherous, unstable spaces and idiosyncratic exchanges.
Author: David Tomas