Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Temporary

One potato, two potato...it's your life...

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:20:10 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Fernandes, Michael

Artwork creator(s):

Fernandes, Michael

Text author(s):

Fernandes, Michael

Text author(s):

Fernandes, Michael

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

Occupied the space of Galerie du MAI, its windows and its neighbouring streets.

Artwork description

Source: MAI (2007). Michael Fernandes. One potato, two potato...it's you life.... Montréal: MAI

Description:

The artist offered an itinerary in the gallery and outside.

The MAI's eight windows were blocked up to present text fragments in fluorescent lettering.

Posters announcing lost cats were distributed on walls and lampposts throughout the surrounding streets. The poster was touched up by the artist, though he took care of preserving all the information.

On the other side of the large windows, the MAI's exhibition hall was plunged in darkness. Four stations were indicated on the ground. A soundtrack and projection were associated with each one.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Remarks on image:

Photos 1 and 2: Installation in the windows (text). Photos 3 and 4: Installation of a series of posters

Text of the artwork:

While working for different people in the past

Je ne travaillais pas pour le gouvernement

I'm working for my country

Peu importe qui vient

I have not been working for government

Peu importe qui s'en va

whoever comes

whoever goes

ce n'est pas mon problème

if the people are being busy somewhere

Ils ne vont nulle part ailleurs partciper à quelque activité guerrière

si les gens sont occupés quelque part

they are not going anywhere else to some war-like activities

Text theme:

Relationship to work and country

Artwork theme:

Interpenetration of art and life, trade, exchanges, multiple voices, fragmented message

History

History:

Galerie du MAI gave carte blanche to Michael Fernandes, a Canadian artist known for his artwork and his ecclectic body of work. During an artist residency in Montreal, he shot short video, almost too simple little stories. One potato, two potato... is a game, a random game, but it is also a change of roles, a turn of events. This artwork traces a quest for identity in tongue-in-cheek style.

One potato, two potato ... it's your life ...
February 8 to March 31

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Michael Fernandes

Document(s):

Michael Fernandes. One potato, two potato...it's you life...

Michael Fernandes

Homage to Parenthood

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:14:09 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Latour, Toni

Artwork creator(s):

Latour, Toni

Text author(s):

Latour, Toni

Text author(s):

Latour, Toni

Collaborator(s):

Her father

Installation year:

2010

Remarks on location:

Brighouse Station

Artwork description

Source: Toni Latour (2010). Toni Latour News. (http://www.tonilatour.com/upcoming.html)

Description:

Homage to Parenthood is a six-panel public art installation on display at the Canada Line Brighouse Station. On the panels are 100 clichés, idioms and sayings written in colours that mirror those of the rainbow.

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Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Life is a bowl of cherries.
Nobody's perfect.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Better late than never.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Always look on the bright side of life.
Patience is a virtue.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Don't cry over spilled milk.
This too shall pass.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Every dog has his day.
It's not the end of the world.
Good things come to those who wait.
Stop and smell the roses.
Do it with a smile on your face and song in your heart.
Turn over a new leaf.
Seize the day.

Rise and shine.
What you see is what you get.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Only time will tell.
If you want it done right, do it yourself.
Measure twice, cut one.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
One bad apple spoils the bunch.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
If the shoe fits, wear it.
You're one to talk.
It's my way or the highway.
No pain, no gain.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Get your feet wet.
Break a leg.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Stand your ground.
Live and learn.

Think good thoughts.
Home is where the heart is.
No man is an island.
One day at a time.
Get off your high horse.
Beggars can't be choosers.
What goes around comes around.
You reap what you sow.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Ask and you shall receive.
It's a dog eat dog world.
Better safe than sorry.
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
Wait for the dust to settle.
No news is good news.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Put your best foot forward.
Take the bull by the horns.
Keep your head above water.
Life goes on.

You can do it.
Get with the program.
Don't be a chicken.
Nip it the bud.
Wha'ts good for the goose is good for the gander.
Laughter is the best medicine.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Roll with the punches.
Every rose has its thorn.
Don't put your foot in your mouth.
Hold out an olive branch.
Take it on the chin.
It could be worse.
Put your money where your mouth is.
Silence is golden.
Waste not, want not.
The third time's a charm.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Count your blessings.
Don't rock the boat.

Every cloud has a silver lining.
There are plenty of fish in the sea.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Tomorrow's a new day.
Many hands make light work.
Keep your chin up.
Get on the ball.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
His bark is worse than his bite.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Cross that bridge when you come to it.
Don't hold your breath.
When it rains, it pours.
Time flies when you're having fun.
All that glitters is not gold.
The best things in life are free.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
That's the bottom line.

Text theme:

Clichés, idioms

Artwork theme:

This work explores ideas of language, family upbringing, and the cultural specificity of clichés and idioms. It also exists as an homage to her recently deceased father.

History

History:

Part of the 2010 Vancouver Biennale

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

"I began the project by writing down all the sayings that my dad would use, and then did research on commonly used idioms and clichés from North America, which are incredibly culturally specific. From there, I had tons to choose from and the process really moved into the editing phase. It was a lot like writing a 100-line poem. The phonetic flow of each line was really important, along with the interconnected meaning. There are blocks of text that thematically relate to one another." Toni Latour

Matthew Hoekstra (2010). Dad may be gone, but not his words. Richmond Review
(http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/richmondreview/entertainment/95465209.html)

Artist's biography:

Toni Latour

Document(s):

Homage to Parenthood

Dad may be gone, but not his words

VB Learn

Toni Latour - Text Projects

There is no place like home

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:01:37 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lum, Ken

Artwork creator(s):

Lum, Ken

Text author(s):

Lum, Ken

Text author(s):

Lum, Ken

Installation year:

2001

Artwork description

Source: Mois de la photo (2001). THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME. (http://www.moisdelaphoto.com/2001/lieux/fr_bleury.html)

Source: Craddock, Sacha (2001). Ken Lum, There is no place like home. (http://www.mip.at/en/werke/464.html)

Description:

Giant banner featuring portraits of people from various backgrounds along with their personal thoughts.

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Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Je pourrai jamais me
sentir chez moi ici
J'me sens pas chez moi ici

Wow, j'aime vraiment ça ici
J'vais jamais retourner chez moi!

J'suis écoeuré de vos idées
sur les immigrants
C'est aussi chez nous ici

Text theme:

Country of origin, nationality, "internationality", immigration

Artwork theme:

Country of origin, emotions related to immigration and differences between nationalities. Awareness that home (the place that welcomes you) can be anywhere, regardless of nationality or religion.

History

History:

This project was originally produced by the Museum in Progress for the facade of the Kunsthalle in Vienna, in association with the Canadian Embassy and the League for Human Rights. The text was in English.

Event date(s):

2001

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

This Canadian artist presents There is no place like home, designed for the facade of the Kunsthalle in Vienna. This work involves various protagonists, colours and opinions. The aim of the project is to give the public the means to consider the image differently depending on whether it is displayed in a public or private space. More specifically, he is interested in examining the way immigrants reconstruct their identity in their host country.

Artist's biography:

Ken Lum

Document(s):

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Ken Lum, There is no place like home

Monument for East Vancouver

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:56:00 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lum, Ken

Artwork creator(s):

Lum, Ken

Text author(s):

Lum, Ken

Text author(s):

Lum, Ken

Installation year:

2009

Artwork description

Source: Vancouver (2009). Monument for East Vancouver. (http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cultural/publicart/)

Description:

Neon cross. It contains the words "East" and "Van" intersecting at the letter "A", in the manner of a crossword puzzle.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

East Van

Text theme:

The words serve both as territorial markers and as a revival of an underground symbol of pride and rebellion in East Vancouver.

Artwork theme:

Creates multiple references and associations, including ones with religious and irreverent undertones, which can be interpreted as an affirmation of the identity of the East neighborhoods of Vancouver.

Dimensions

Height:

18.2m

Other information

Note(s):

“[The crossword] signifies the identity of those living in the Eastern part of the city and is often accompanied with the word “rules”. [This] is ironic, as traditionally those in the West of the city have held the economic and political power, though the real estate boom more recently has rendered the boundary between East and West more fluid. The piece monumentalizes a rearguard gesture of defiance, protest, and assertion of identity.”
- Ken Lum

City of Vancouver (2009). Monument for East Vancouver.
(http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cultural/publicart/2010/mm_vaneastmonument.htm)

Artist's biography:

Ken Lum

Owner(s):

City of Vancouver

Document(s):

Ken Lum constructs icon to rule over East Vancouver

Monument to 'East Van' rises near VCC terminal

Monument for East Vancouver

"Mapping and Marking" public art program

La forêt

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:29:01 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Atelier Pierre Thibault

Artwork creator(s):

Atelier Pierre Thibault

Text author(s):

Dorion, Hélène

Text author(s):

Dorion, Hélène

Collaborator(s):

Pelletier, Guillaume; Février, Virginie

Installation year:

2010

Artwork description

Source : Photo transmited by Marie-Claude Langevin

Description:

Group of five wooden beams with glass panels. Inside the toppled beams, text is written on the glass panels.

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Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

L’arbre, à l’insu de mon
corps, qui respire.
J’écris à travers ses
feintes, au milieu d’un
vent qui protège de
soi-même. De l’arbre,
je te dirai la vie qui s’y
abrite, ce point fragile
entre la force et
l’abandon.

Il n’y a pas de commencement.
L’amour, le silence, la lumière
sont là depuis toujours.
Le commencement est en nous
depuis toujours.

Text theme:

The environment

Artwork theme:

Working in association with the Teknograv glass workshop, Atelier Pierre Thibault presents La forêt, an installation that takes a sensitive and poetic approach to the environment and its exploitation. Here, wood is presented as an element for architectural construction, while glass is used as a medium to capture light and reconstruct words.

Text reference:

D’argile et de souffle

History

History:

From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the entrance hall of the Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition Architectures en vers, which consists in five architectural installations inspired by poetry. These installations were created by collectives of well-known and up-and-coming architects working with glass artists. The exhibition is presented as part of the “Montréal, 2010 City of Glass” program, under the direction of the Board of Montreal Museum Directors.

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The chosen verses are from author Hélène Dorion, from the collection D’argile et de souffle, published by Éditions Typo (2002).

Artist's biography:

Atelier Pierre Thibault

Author's biography:

Hélène Dorion

Document(s):

Architecture en vers exhibition at Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque

Architectures en vers, présentée dans le cadre de Montréal, ville de verre 2010

Table-ronde - Exposition “Architectures en vers” à la Grande Bibliothèque

A Thousand Kisses Deep

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:23:35 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Pelletier, Éric

Artwork creator(s):

Pelletier, Éric

Text author(s):

Cohen, Leonard

Text author(s):

Cohen, Leonard

Collaborator(s):

Bourgeois, Olivier; Martineau, Annie; Turgeon, Amélie

Installation year:

2010

Artwork description

Source : Photo transmited by Marie-Claude Langevin

Description:

The installation consists of a gigantic glass prism with a rectangular base, which is split in the middle to disclose a silky texture that longs to be touched. The rectangle is covered with letters through which we distinguish the excerpt of a text.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

You the live I’m
Turning you tricks
Odds your ditch are
I’m getting it fixed
Lefethereas toifallit’s
To real stay beat alive

Text theme:

Poetry, Sensual

Artwork theme:

The team from Éric Pelletier, architectes has designed a work of art that is masculine, strong, dark and subtly sensual, a reflection of the poet who inspired it. Leonard Cohen's A Thousand Kisses Deep / Dans les profondeurs de mille baisers evokes thoughts about the man and his poetry, but especially on the depth and mystery of rich artistic production.

History

History:

From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the entrance hall of the Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition Architectures en vers, which consists of five architectural installations inspired by poetry. These installations were created by collectives of well-known and up-and-coming architects working with glass artists. The exhibition is presented as part of the “Montréal, 2010 City of Glass” program, under the direction of the Board of Montreal Museum Directors.

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

A Thousand Kisses Deep
The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it’s done –
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it’s real,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.
I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep:
You ditch it all to stay alive,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.
And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.
Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet –
And then consented to be wrecked,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.
I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
I guess they won’t exchange the gifts
That you were meant to keep.
And quiet is the thought of you,
The file on you complete,
Except what we forgot to do,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.
And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.
The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat…

Artist's biography:

Éric Pelletier

Author's biography:

Leonard Cohen

Document(s):

Architecture en vers exhibition at Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque

Architectures en vers, présentée dans le cadre de Montréal, ville de verre 2010

Table-ronde - Exposition “Architectures en vers” à la Grande Bibliothèque

Rencontre au confluent

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:06:30 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Bergeron, Suzanne

Artwork creator(s):

Bergeron, Suzanne

Text author(s):

Laferrière, Dany

Text author(s):

Laferrière, Dany

Installation year:

2010

Artwork description

Source : Photo transmited by Marie-Claude Langevin

Description:

Group of glass panels with a concrete block. On the vertical panel, we can see the text and a path created with 1 ¢ coins. On the horizontal panel, the artist has inlaid wooden wafers and a recycled cardboard lattice.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

J’ai toujours pensé que c’était le livre qui franchissait les siècles pour parvenir jusqu’à nous.
Jusqu’à ce que je comprenne en voyant cet homme que c’est le lecteur qui fait le déplacement.

Text theme:

Litérature

Artwork theme:

Rencontre au confluent is a glass book that opens onto the world and artistic creation – both architectural and literary. Here, the designer is not inspired by the poet, but rather pays tribute to him. The viewer is invited to make a connection with Dany Laferrière’s novel L’énigme du retour (2009 Médicis prize), published by Éditions du Boréal.

Text reference:

L'énigme du retour

History

History:

From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the entrance hall of the Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition Architectures en vers, which consists of five architectural installations inspired by poetry. These installations were created by collectives of well-known and up-and-coming architects working with glass artists. The exhibition is presented as part of the “Montréal, 2010 City of Glass” program, under the direction of the Board of Montreal Museum Directors.

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Suzanne Bergeron of Amiot Bergeron architectes reveals her deepest thoughts in a work of shadow and glass that is highly moving in its simplicity.

Author's biography:

Dany Laferrière

Document(s):

Architecture en vers exhibition at Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque

Architectures en vers, présentée dans le cadre de Montréal, ville de verre 2010

Table-ronde - Exposition “Architectures en vers” à la Grande Bibliothèque

Murmures dans la main du temps

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:50:04 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Collectif C-M-R

Artwork creator(s):

Collectif C-M-R

Text author(s):

Vigneault, Gilles

Text author(s):

Vigneault, Gilles

Collaborator(s):

Cousineau, Florent; Montero, Alejandro; Rheault, Cindy Diane

Installation year:

2010

Artwork description

Source : Photo transmited by Marie-Claude Langevin

Description:

Murmures dans la main du temps is a spiral sculpture. Its labyrinthine structure of woven raw material evokes movement, inviting the viewer to stroll along, carried by the words of the poet from Natashquan. All words are stained yellow, except for the word "rouge" (red), which is red.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Un jour je ferai mon grand cerf-volant
Un côté rouge, un côté blanc
Un jour je ferai mon grand cerf-volant
Un côté rouge, un côté blanc
Un côté tendre
Un jour je ferai mon grand cerf-volant
J’y ferai monter vos cent mille enfants
Ils vont m’entendre
Je les vois venir du soleil levant

Puis j’attellerai les chevaux du vent
Un cheval rouge, un cheval blanc
Puis j’attellerai les chevaux du vent
Un cheval rouge, un cheval blanc
Un cheval pie
Puis j’attellerai les chevaux du vent
Puis nous irons voir tous les océans
S’ils sont en vie
Si les océans sont toujours vivants

Par-dessus les bois, par-dessus les champs
Un oiseau rouge, un oiseau blanc
Par-dessus les bois, par-dessus les champs
Un oiseau rouge, un oiseau blanc
Un oiseau-lyre
Par-dessus les bois, par-dessus les champs
Qui nous mènera chez le Mal méchant
Pour le détruire
Bombe de silence et couteau d’argent

Nous mettrons le mal à feu et à sang
Un soleil rouge, un soleil blanc
Nous mettrons le mal à feu et à sang
Un soleil rouge, un soleil blanc
Un soleil sombre
Nous mettrons le mal à feu et à sang
Un nuage monte, un autre descend
Un jour sans ombre
Puis nous raserons la ville en passant

Quand nous reviendrons, le coeur triomphant
Un côté rouge, un côté blanc
Quand nous reviendrons, le coeur triomphant
Un côté rouge, un côté blanc
Un côté homme
Quand nous reviendrons, le coeur triomphant
Alors vous direz ; ce sont nos enfants
Quel est cet homme
Qui les a menés loin de leurs parents ?

Je remonterai sur mon cerf-volant
Un matin rouge, un matin blanc
Je remonterai sur mon cerf-volant
Un matin rouge, un matin blanc
Un matin blême
Je remonterai sur mon cerf-volant
Et vous laisserez vos cent mille enfants
Chargés d’eux-mêmes
Pour jeter les dés dans la main du temps

Pour jeter les dés dans la main du temps

Text theme:

Evokes childhood, idealism, the willingness to go higher

Artwork theme:

Evokes childhood, Earth and hopes for a better world.

Text reference:

Le grand cerf-volant

History

History:

From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the entrance hall of the Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition Architectures en vers, which consists of five architectural installations inspired by poetry. These installations were created by collectives of well-known and up-and-coming architects working with glass artists. The exhibition is presented as part of the “Montréal, 2010 City of Glass” program, under the direction of the Board of Montreal Museum Directors.

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The C-M-R collective, which brings together a multidisciplinary artist (Florent Cousineau), a graduate architect (Alejandro Montero, Tergos ecological architecture and building) and a photographer (Cindy Diane Rheault, images ECOterre), was inspired by Le Grand cerf-volant (Éditions le vent qui vire, 1982) by Gilles Vigneault, to design a sculpture that evokes childhood, Earth, and hopes for a better world.

Author's biography:

Gilles Vigneault

Document(s):

Architecture en vers exhibition at Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque

Architectures en vers, présentée dans le cadre de Montréal, ville de verre 2010

Table-ronde - Exposition “Architectures en vers” à la Grande Bibliothèque

Vers tissés serré

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:38:15 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

The Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Team

Artwork creator(s):

L'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux / The Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Team

Text author(s):

Beaulieu, Michel; Beausoleil, Claude; Brault, Jacques; Melançon, Robert; Brossard, Jacques; Caccia, Fulvio; Chamberland, Paul; D'amour, Stéphane; Miron, Gaston; Monette, Hélène; Nepveu, Pierre; Plourde, Danny; Théoret, France

Text author(s):

Beaulieu, Michel

Beausoleil, Claude

Brault, Jacques

Melançon, Robert

Brossard, Jacques

Caccia, Fulvio

Chamberland, Paul

D'amour, Stéphane

Miron, Gaston

Monette, Hélène

Nepveu, Pierre

Plourde, Danny

Théoret, France

Collaborator(s):

Campeau, Sylvain; La Maison de la poésie de Montréal

Installation year:

2010

Artwork description

Source : Photo transmited by Marie-Claude Langevin

Description:

Created by assembling hundreds of glass jars, the installation Vers tissés serré sends visitors on a poetic journey through Montreal, with help from words by Gaston Miron, Pierre Nepveu, Jacques Brault, Claude Beausoleil, Hélène Monette, Stéphane D’Amours, Paul Chamberland, Fulvio Caccia, Michel Beaulieu, Nicole Brossard, France Théoret and Danny Plourde. Each element distinguishes itself through the poetry it displays.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Excerpt:

Montréal tu me perds Montréal c'est bien toi

dans ces rues dénudées dans des blocs de verre

ces images et des livres te contant des histoires

les faux sans fond d'une ruelle où nul ne va

plus loin c'est encore toi plus avant dans le vide

tu bâtis pauvre ville pauvre enfance infinie

Text theme:

Poetic Montreal journey, city

Artwork theme:

Urban density. The city.

Text reference:

Variables

Sans fin Montréal

Montréal, tu t'en vas

Il n'y a plus de chemin

Au petit matin

Montréal

Vue du mont

Dans l'abstraction proliférance urbaine

Le mal du pays

Temps linéaire

Mi-juillet

Villeray

Monologue de l'aliénation délirante

La femme qui dort dans le métro

Vers quelque (sommes nombreux à être seul)

History

History:

From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the entrance hall of the Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition Architectures en vers, which consists of five architectural installations inspired by poetry. These installations were created by collectives of well-known and up-and-coming architects working with glass artists. The exhibition is presented as part of the “Montréal, 2010 City of Glass” program, under the direction of the Board of Montreal Museum Directors.

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Team (architects) is concerned with the issue of urban density. The city, when it shows true density, is a viable alternative to urban sprawl and can be perceived from the perspective of sustainable development.

Document(s):

Architecture en vers exhibition at Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque

Architectures en vers, présentée dans le cadre de Montréal, ville de verre 2010

Table-ronde - Exposition “Architectures en vers” à la Grande Bibliothèque

Untitled (It)

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:01:54 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Kruger, Barbara

Artwork creator(s):

Kruger, Barbara

Text author(s):

Kruger, Barbara

Text author(s):

Kruger, Barbara

Installation year:

2010

Remarks on location:

On the facade of the Art Gallery of Ontario

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Marie-Claude Langevin

Description:

The artwork consists of a series of found images and statements.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

LOVE IT

SHOVE IT

PRAISE IT

PLEASE IT

DOUBT IT

SHAME IT

BLAME IT

KISS IT

BUY IT

BELIEVE IT

Text theme:

Imperatives imposed on the public by advertisers

Artwork theme:

Explores how photography informs and transforms human behaviour, especially via the medium's connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism and propaganda.

How we are to one another

History

History:

The installation responds to CONTACT’s theme for 2010, “Pervasive Influence,” which considers how photography informs and transforms human behaviour, especially via the medium’s connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism and propaganda.

May 1 - August 30, 2010

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

“I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.”

Barbara Kruger

Artist's biography:

Barbara Kruger

Document(s):

American Artist Barbara Kruger to Appropriate AGO Façade

Barbara Kruger - Scotiabank CONTACT

Making a statement

AGO paid to be wrapped in advertising

Questions & Artists: American artist Barbara Kruger shakes things up on the AGO's façade

Les Mots (volet 2)

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:07:13 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Faubert, Julie

Artwork creator(s):

Faubert, Julie

Text author(s):

Faubert, Julie

Text author(s):

Faubert, Julie

Dictionnaire / Dictionary

Installation year:

2010

Remarks on location:

Location of the inscriptions, see: Figure 7

Artwork description

Source: Dare-Dare, Julie Faubert (2009). Les Mots. (http://lesmots.dare-dare.org)

Description:

An urban intervention project which comprises some 125 words* written in an ephemeral manner on the sidewalk, along with dates - lost words (1900-2000), new words (1900-2000) and invented words (2010). New words are in black; lost words, in white; and invented words, in pink.

* The dates represent the year in which each word appeared in a dictionary or disappeared from it (the dictionary being, as it changed name throughout the century, the Petit Larousse illustré, the Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré, the Petit Larousse and the Larousse illustré).

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

LOST WORDS

aérivore 1951

aéromancie 1959

bancocratie 1924

barbariser 1959

biophilie 1924

brouillement 1981

civilisable 1998

corporalité 1951

défeuiller 1998

demi-monde 1998

dentellerie 1968

désaveugler 1951

échappade 1959

emmiellure 1952

épuise-volante 1935

essuie-plume 1981

galantiser 1951

hausse-pieds 1968

ignorantisme 1959

illimitable 1959

immesurable 1958

impresse 1959

incalculablement 1952

inconquis 1951

indisciplinable 1981

indomptabilité 1959

inobéissance 1959

intégrisme 1959

journoyer 1951

juste-milieu 1984

libertiner 1959

magisme 1959

malséance 1981

météoromancie 1988

monarchiser 1959

monopode 1951

mugueter 1968

néophobe 1959

nonchaloir 1968

oisivement 1998

oublieur 1953

pantouflerie 1959

recontinuer 1959

redormir 1959

reniflerie 1959

rhabilleur 1998

robeuse 1977

s’entre-baiser 1952

servilisme 1959

sous-jupe 1981

tantet 1959

tortuosité 1981

traînasse 1959

trifouiller 2006

tue-vent 1959

vaguesse 1924

vacillation 1981

végéto-animal 1959

INVENTED WORDS

amouriste 2010

anamour 2010

aquoiboniste 2010

choubouler 2010

criminogène 2010

euphorienne 2010

madamour 2010

outremonde 2010

NEW WORDS

applaudimètre 1985

archiver 1959

assoiffer 1981

budgéter 1989

calculatrice 1952

cash 1952

catégoriser 1981

civilisé 1959

classable 1981

compartimenter 1935

compétitif 1959

comportement 1951

comptabiliser 1941

concurrentiel 1959

conformisme 1952

contrôlabilité 1981

cosmos 1952

créativité 1968

effeuilleuse 1981

errance 1951

espace-temps 1968

esthétisme 1951

états-unien 1989

éveilleur 1989

exproprié 1989

extraterrestre 1980

extrémisme 1935

fantasme 1959

fric 1951

giga 1959

gratte-ciel 1924

gratte-pieds 1951

hermétisme 1951

homogénéiser 1906

incompréhension 1935

intégrisme 1959

inuktitut 1993

invivable 1959

linéarité 1981

made in 1981

méthodologie 1952

miniaturiser 1952

minijupe 1968

minoritaire 1935

misandre 199?

multimillionnaire 1941

nano 1959

normaliser 1935

normalité 1959

onirique 1959

optimal 1959

orgasme 1959

orthogonalité 1981

performant 1977

post-it 1998

privatiser 1981

pur-sang 1951

quantifiable 1981

racisme 1948

rentabiliser 1971

semi-liberté 1981

s’entre-baiser 1952

sous-humanité 1981

standard 1924

sud-américain 1959

suralimenté 1991

surréel 1959

surexploiter 1981

surproduire 1951

unijambiste 1951

Text theme:

The artist divided the words into series: hunger, feet, capital, power, order and control, America, art, morals, lost floating, measurement.

Artwork theme:

The project uses city space as a space for collective thought about the words we use. The lines of the Quartier des Faubourgs's sidewalks become reading surfaces that flow to the rhythm of passers-by. The act of walking becomes a play on words, a constellation of ideas and of whimsical, critical, perhaps even cynical word associations.

History

History:

The intervention is carried out in two stages:
Action 1: December 3, 2009
Action 2: June-July 2010
As part of Dare-Dare's regular programming

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

"Je porte un regard critique sur les mots qui nous permettent (ou non) de penser, les mots que l’on ne malmène pas assez, les mots qui, pour être vraiment exacts, devraient eux aussi être inventés constamment. Quelles sont ces vagues – apparition et disparition de mots – qui, à travers les siècles, nous forgent une pensée particulière? Ces mots qui entrent et sortent de nos bouches, apparaissent un jour, on ne sait trop pourquoi et se collent à nous pour quelque temps : qu’est-ce qu’ils trimbalent avec eux? [Ce] projet utilise l’espace de la ville comme espace collectif de réflexion sur les mots que nous employons." – Julie Faubert

Source: Julie Faubert (2010). Les Mots – Projet. <http://lesmots.dare-dare.org/projet>

Artist's biography:

Julie Faubert

Source:

lautrechatnoir@live.fr

Document(s):

Entre les murs des galeries

Les Mots

Everything is going to be alright

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:32:26 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Creed, Martin

Artwork creator(s):

Creed, Martin

Text author(s):

Creed, Martin

Text author(s):

Creed, Martin

Installation year:

2009

Remarks on location:

On a façade of the Wing Sang Building in Chinatown.

Artwork description

Source: Martin Creed (2009). Planètecastor. (http://canada.grandquebec.com/vancouver-2010-jeux-olympiques/patrimoine-vancouver)

Source: The Canadian Design resource (2009). Martin Creed. (http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/urban/)

Description:

On a façade of the Wing Sang Building in Chinatown (the oldest building in the neighborhood), we can read the words "Everything is going to be alright." The neon letters are visible from the Georgia Street viaduct.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Everything is going to be alright

Text theme:

An ironic warning

History

History:

Martin Creed's work has been exhibited in various forms and in several locations around the world: Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (1999); The Portico, London, UK (1999); 42ndStreet, New York, USA (December 1999/January 2000); etc.

Dimensions

Height:

22.86m

Width:

0.91m

Other information

Note(s):

This neon artwork is installed on a façade of the Wing Sang Building in Vancouver's Chinatown. The artwork and the building are owned by art collector and real estate mogul Bob Rennie. He asked artist Martin Creed to install this artwork on his building. Rennie made "Everything is going to be alright" his philosophy for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.

Artist's biography:

Martin Creed

Owner(s):

Bob Rennie

Document(s):

Everything is going to be alright

We, 2008

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:35:49 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Plensa, Jaume

Artwork creator(s):

Plensa, Jaume

Text author(s):

Plensa, Jaume

Text author(s):

Plensa, Jaume

Installation year:

2009

Artwork description

Source: Vancouver Biennale (2010). WE. (http://vancouverbiennale.com/sculptures_page.php?sculptureID=19)

Description:

Sitting proud and peaceful, this 16-foot-tall human figure is made up of characters from eight alphabets: Latin, Greek, Russian Cyrillic, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic and Chinese. The sculpture is dramatically illuminated at night.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Characters from eight alphabets

Text theme:

Represents places of meditation and silence, where the soul and emotions can find refuge from a world that is so deafening, the mind gets lost in it.

Artwork theme:

This work of art celebrates the linguistic diversity and multiculturalism of Vancouver by putting multiple alphabets together to create a larger-than-life sculpture in human form.

History

History:

The Vancouver Biennale mounts biannual public outdoor art exhibitions, creating an open air museum. Each exhibition features world-class international sculptures, new media and performance art located in parks, beaches and urban plazas. The objective is to celebrate art in public spaces and to create a uniquely accessible cultural destination where residents and visitors from around the world can come to experience the brightest world-renown as well as up-and-coming talents in contemporary art, completely free of charge, throughout the seasons.

Dimensions

Height:

Other information

Artist's biography:

Jaume Plensa

Document(s):

Vancouver Biennale announces Jaume Plensa's new work entitled We

Vancouver Biennale: We

Autres lieux de passage et lieux d'arrêt

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:23:32 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Gagné, Caroline

Artwork creator(s):

Gagné, Caroline

Text author(s):

Pedestrians

Text author(s):

Public

Installation year:

2003

Artwork description

Source: Caroline Gagné (2008). Caroline Gagné. (http://www.carolinegagne.ca/iiix/oeuvres/details/?id=oeuvres&k=7)

Description:

24 plates have been moulded into the gullies that are created by ground erosion (through the movements of pedestrians). The sentences on the plates are taken from conversations with the pedestrians.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Je viens ici avec une amie. On apporte un sac de peanuts.
Les écureuils viennent les prendre dans notre main.

Je suis allée qu'une seule fois, avec
ma première blonde.
C'est un beau souvenir, on chantait

Des arbres vraiment spéciaux, sont là bas,
je ne sais pas qui
les a plantés là
ou s'ils y étaient déjà

Beaucoup de gens m'ont
parlé de la fanfare

Il y avait des grands ormes qu'on a dû abattre à cause d'une maladie

Je t'ai
toujours
traversée
depuis que je suis
petite
car j'allais à l'école,
proche

Il y avait beaucoup de fleur et
aussi des animaux
Les paons étaient l'admiration

C'est l'fun faire du
vélo ici,
surtout depuis que l'asphalte
a été refait de ce côté

Text theme:

Memories, experiences, memory

Artwork theme:

This installation highlights our connection to erosion - that normal, everyday wear and tear that we inflict to the urban landscape. It testifies of these imperceptible transformations brought about over time because of erosion, and of the way passing time also transforms memories.

History

History:

Project: Terrains d’entente is part of the "Supra Rural" residency program (14 projects from 1999 to 2002), which focused on movement to reveal an element of the urban experience.

Dimensions

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Note(s):

Caroline Gagné is interested in urban landscape truisms and types, particularly the idea of erosion, whether it is linked to the environment, to everyday objects or to the connection we have to them.

She works on site-specific projects, either located in public places (a park, a familiar building) or refering to these places in the context of indoor exhibitions or Web projects. An observer of all those anonymous and banal gestures that ponctuate city life, Caroline explores the notions of fragility and absence through a delicate use of everyday materials and objects that may seem mundane but that were in fact chosen for their significant connection to the world.

Artist's biography:

Caroline Gagné

Source:

caroline@carolinegagne.ca

Document(s):

Terrains d'entente, 2002-2003

THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:31:59 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Terada, Ron

Artwork creator(s):

Terada, Ron

Text author(s):

Terada, Ron

Text author(s):

Terada, Ron

Installation year:

2010

Artwork description

Source: City of Vancouver (2010). Public Art. (http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cultural/publicart/2010/lg_thewords.htm)

Description:

The work takes the form of a large freestanding sign that sits in front of the library, just off the southern entrance of the building, by heavy pedestrian traffic.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE

Text theme:

Reference to the past

Artwork theme:

Using a typography that is at once familiar and accessible, the artwork is a reference to Vancouver’s neon past, when the famous BOW-MAC sign and legendary Woodward’s W reigned over the city’s skyline.

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Note(s):

“The sign takes its cues from an era of signage when signs were seen as celebratory, grand and iconic – in effect, as landmarks in their own right, a kind of symbolic architecture… Taken within the context of a public library, the work touches upon – in a very poetic way – the use of words and language as boundless and imaginative, as a catalyst for a multiplicity of meanings.”

Ron Terada

Source: City of Vancouver (2010). Public Art.

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cultural/publicart/2010/lg_thewords.htm

Artist's biography:

Ron Terada

Document(s):

"Mapping and Marking" public art program

Apparaître/disparaître : LES MOTS

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:28:56 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Faubert, Julie

Artwork creator(s):

Faubert, Julie

Text author(s):

Faubert, Julie

Text author(s):

Faubert, Julie

Installation year:

2009

Artwork description

SOURCE : Centre Dare-Dare (2009). Dare-Dare.Apparaître/disparaître : les mots. (http://www.dare-dare.org/faubert)

Description:

Art intervention with light. Words with the dates on which they appeared or disappeared from the dictionary are mounted onto people. Words in red have been lost; words in blue were new additions to the dictionary.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Biophilie (1919)

Assurance-vie (2001)

Suralimenté (1990)

Aérivore (1948)

Inuktitut (1994)

Désaveugler (1959)

Cash (1959) Fric (1952) Pognon (1952)

Bancocratie (1919)

Orgasme (1959)

Culpabiliser (1972)

Conformisme (1959)

Esthétiser (1990)

Text theme:

A critical look at words that allow us to think (or not), words that we do not mistreat quite enough as well as words that, to be truly accurate, should also be constantly invented.

Artwork theme:

The project uses city space as a space for collective thinking about words we use.

History

History:

This artistic intervention had two components:

Intervention #1: December 3, 2009

Intervention #2: May 2010

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Julie Faubert

Document(s):

Entre les murs des galeries

Les Mots

I Said No

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:41:51 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lum, Ken

Artwork creator(s):

Lum, Ken

Text author(s):

Lum, Ken

Text author(s):

Lum, Ken

Installation year:

2010

Remarks on location:

In the gallery's bay window.

Artwork description

Source : Audain Gallery (2010). Coming Soon. (http://sfuwoodwards.ca/audain.html)

Description:

Bay window displaying different ways of saying "no".

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

NO! no No No! Hell

no I NO

no Said

I No No No NO NO! No

said way way NO! bloddy

no José way

Text theme:

Variations on the ability and the capacity to say "no", both as a civic and social right.

Artwork theme:

Addresses Vancouver's past and present.

History

History:

As the initial public art project for the new Audain Gallery in the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University Woodward's, four visual artists who are SFU alumni were commissioned to create site-specific public art works for a series entitled Coming Soon.
These provocative works address the qualities of the neighbourhood and the context of the new location of SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts. Coming Soon highlights the Audain Gallery's commitment to art in the public sphere that addresses the present and history of Vancouver.

Event: Coming Soon

Event date(s):

2010

Dimensions

Other information

Document(s):

Coming Soon at Audain Gallery

Six to See: Vancouver’s Olympic Art Roundup

Growth

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:06:43 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

The Bank of Symbiosis

Artwork creator(s):

Alstad, Michael

Artwork creator(s):

Alstad, Michael

Text author(s):

Alstad, Michael

Text author(s):

Alstad, Michael

Installation year:

1997

Remarks on location:

Former Royal Bank of Canada (vacant space)

Artwork description

Source : Michael Alstad (2009) Site-specific. Bank of Symbiosis. (http://www.year01.com/alstad/bank.html)

Description:

Six 5-foot tall letters made of foam, felt and wheat grass spell out the word G*R*O*W*T*H. Grown in the bank for two weeks prior to opening, the water supply was then cut off for the duration of the exhibition, which resulted in the slow death of Growth.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Growth

Text theme:

Growth, profit

Artwork theme:

The complex economic and emotional relationship between a bank and its clients; the economy, surplus, surveillance, privacy, social and monetary exchange.

History

History:

The Bank of Symbiosis. Site-specific exhibition by the Symbiosis Collective. Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON.

Date: 2- 25 octobre 1997

Dimensions

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Note(s):

The Symbiosis Collective and four guest artists collaborated on an artistic "occupation" at a former branch of the Royal Bank. Growth is a sculpture featuring six 5-foot tall letters made of foam, felt and wheat grass, which spell out the word G*R*O*W*T*H. Grown in the bank for two weeks prior to opening, the water supply was then cut off for the duration of the exhibition, which resulted in the slow death of Growth. It is part of «The Bank of Symbiosis», a larger exhibition that also includes "Take Heart", an installation.

Artist's biography:

Alstad, Michael

Source:

Michael Alstad michael.alstad@gmail.com Symbiosis Collective 29 McCaul Street, #502 Toronto, ON M5T 1V7

Document(s):

The Bank of Symbiosis: An Archeological Intervention

Site-specific. Bank of Symbiosis

L’œuvre/site comme échange et action

La Réserve

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:58:51 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Gaulejac, Clément de

Artwork creator(s):

Gaulejac, Clément de

Text author(s):

Gaulejac, Clément de

Text author(s):

Gaulejac, Clément de

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

In a wasteland

Artwork description

Source : Clément de Gaulejac (2009). Calcul Mental. (http://www.calculmental.org/)

Description:

La Réserve is an installation inspired by the specific history of a park that the city of Montreal left without any designation. At the park's entrance, a structure evokes the two squares - one red, the other, grey - usually used by the city of Montreal to announce the park's equipment.

A mobile and transparent suitcase completes the installation. A neon sign shines within the suitcase, stating that a journey has come to an end: "Nous y voilà" ("Here we are").

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Nous y voilà

Text theme:

Place without a name, determines its own context.

Artwork theme:

Absence, emptiness, projection onto oneself

History

History:

La Réserve is an installation by Clément de Gaulejac who was inspired by the specific history of a park that had been left without designation or assignment by the city of Montreal. Not knowing what to do with the space, the city decided... not to make any decision about it. And so, the park was left as it was, a white space on the map of the city. A fence prohibiting access to the park insured that the default decision would not be countermanded by use of the space. DARE-DARE moved into the park in 2006, opening the fence, and printed business cards with the intriguing mention "located in a park with no name". Clément de Gaulejac decided to leave his own mark on the story of this park by imagining an installation by which this unnamed park became The Park With No Name.

Date: July 7 to August 5, 2007

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Calcul mental

Document(s):

Vérité de la démocratie: appelez Nietzsche 68-08

Dare-Dare Clément de Gaulejac

Halifax Begs Your Pardon!

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:15:25 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Tactical Art Coalition

Artwork creator(s):

Tactical Art Coalition

Text author(s):

Tactical Art Coalition

Text author(s):

Tactical Art Coalition

Collaborator(s):

NSCAD; Khyber Center for the Arts

Installation year:

2002

Remarks on location:

Various locations in the city

Artwork description

Source : Tactical Art Coalition (2002). Nova. (http://critical-art.net/Original/halifax/index.html)

Description:

A series of friendly interventions designed to interact with the urban ladscape of Halifax in a manner that would elicit reflections, considerations, and ideas that would challenge or expand the usual geo-psychological set of notions guiding the habitual activities of people in the public sphere. Gizmos, pamphlets, "Sorry" bricks and "Sorry" flags were used to highlight contested cultural and historic sites around Halifax.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Sorry

History

History:

The event took place from July 7-17, 2002

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Our goal was to bring out occurences/histories, opinions and meanings that have been dispossessed, silenced or ignored.

Artist's biography:

Tactical Media

Document(s):

Halifax Begs Your Pardons!