Collets de survie

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:40:27 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Boyer, Gilbert

Artwork creator(s):

Boyer, Gilbert

Text author(s):

Boyer, Gilbert

Text author(s):

Boyer, Gilbert

Installation year:

1997

Remarks on location:

The art work is installed on lamp posts.

Artwork description

Debat, Michelle (2005). Gilbert Boyer The Language of Art: For a Language in Migration. Parachute, no 120 (nov-dec)

Description:

Installation consisting of 140 stainless steel bands stamped with text and attached to lamp posts at the Faubourg des Récollets.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Pris au piège de la routine

Pris au piège de la complaisance

Pris au piège des dogmes

In the grip of conformity

Pris au piège des conventions

Pris au piège des mots

(Other text unknown)

Artwork theme:

History, Heritage

History

History:

PANIQUE AU FAUBOURG is part of the reflection about industrial land sites being transformed into new cultural areas. Because they are short lived, the artists’ interventions tried to inspire the public to "appropriate" history and the site of the Faubourg des Récollets or Old Griffintown. The proposed idea for the artists was to question and interpret these sites and their history,architecture and problematic urban location through their artwork. Young up-and-coming stars or established renown artists, the artists who were selected for this project were approached for their sensibility and their ability to adapt their work to this type of artistic action. They were from Montreal, the rest of Canada or France.

Event date(s):

1997

Dimensions

Other information

Document(s):

Panique au faubourg

Gilbert Boyer: le langage de l’art : pour une langue en migration/The Language of Art - For a Language in Migration

Panique au faubourg. Un coup de foudre à l’usine

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Panique au faubourg

Collets de survie

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