Temporary

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Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; transitory.

12 écriteaux au cou des arbres

Monique Bertrand, 12 écriteaux au cou des arbres, 2004
Twelve steel plates were suspended to trees. These plates were painted black with white markings. The inscriptions appeared sometimes as icons (star, crescent moon), sometimes as two dates on a tombst [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bertrand, Monique
Installation year: 
2004

La mémoire mythique

Luc Beauparlant, La mémoire mythique, 1998. © Luc Beauparlant
A sentence is written on the ground in the middle of the garden, the words forming two arches. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Beauparlant, Luc
Installation year: 
1998

Hommage à Gaétan Beaudin

On the ground, a square cement slab incorporates fragments of various pottery pieces. In the center, a plaque shows a quote from Gaétan Beaudin (1924-2002). [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Unknown Creator
Installation year: 
2002

Perfect Future / Ouverture

Dejan Atanackovic, Perfect future/ouverture, 2000Dejan Atanackovic, Perfect future/ouverture, 2000Dejan Atanackovic, Perfect future/ouverture, 2000
For this artwork, the artist used three different media: a medium poster format throughout Québec City, a large format poster placed at the front entrance outside the Musée de la civilisation, and the [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Atanackovic, Dejan
Installation year: 
2000

Asphalt Garden

Michèle Adrian & Paula Meijerink, Asphalt Garden, 2003
Flooded paved courtyard. The artist played with the black opacity of asphalt vs the clear transparency of water, with their capacity to absorb or reflect light, with the constant immobility of the fir [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Adrian, Michèle; Meijerink, Paula (SE BUSCA)
Installation year: 
2003

The You Are Here Garden

Taco Iwashima & Christopher Bruce Mathews, You Are Here Garden, 2002
At the entrance to the trail, a huge curtain features the phrase "You Are Here" in white letters. In the wooded area, white ribbons are hanging on which the phrase "you are here" is repeated. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Iwashima, Taco; Mathews, Christopher Bruce
Installation year: 
2002

Tombez dans le panneau

Tombez dans le panneau, 1992Tombez dans le panneau, 1992Tombez dans le panneau, 1992
Mediacom-type displays (black writing on yellow background or yellow writing on black background). [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Audette; Berganga; Dubeau; Dutrisac; Musiol; Thibault; Vigneau, Jean-Yves
Installation year: 
1992

The Looking for Cognition

Michael Robison, The looking for cognition, 1993
Cement slabs were arranged around a central excavation surrounded by a rope and flanking the mound of earth removed to this end. Two gravel arches framed this "garden". Fragmented words were written o [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Robinson, Michael
Installation year: 
1993

Sewing

Lorraine Oades, Sewing, 1997Lorraine Oades, Sewing, 1997
Every day, the artist embroidered on a piece of cloth a significant sentence from one of the 32 chapters of the French and English versions of the novel Bonheur d'occasion by Gabrielle Roy. After [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Oades, Lorraine
Installation year: 
1997

Être

Large fluorescent orange fabric letters form the word "Être"  ("Being") and are set in a frame installed on a boat piloted by the artist. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Labrecque, Manon
Installation year: 
2002
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