Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Projector

Myodesopsies

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:40:01 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

Myodesopsies 04 (Probable Song)

Artwork creator(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Artwork creator(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Text author(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Text author(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Collaborator(s):

Commission from Niel Minuk, Commissioner of Architecture II gallery.

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

Around Russell Building courtyard; the text is placed inside the upper window

Artwork description

Source: Edith Dekyndt (2008). Selected Works. Myodesopsies. (http://www.edithdekyndt.be/)

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Text of the artwork:

IT IS THERE - IT IS NOWHERE - YOU SEE IT - OFTEN - ALMOST - EVERYTIME - IN FRONT OF YOU - BUT YOU ARE - ALONE - WITH THAT VISION - THERE IS SOMETHING - THERE IS NOTHING - IT COMES FROM - YOUR MOST - PROFOUND PAST - IT REMAINS - IN YOUR EYES - FROM - THE LIQUID STATE - OF YOUR - EMBRYONIC - EVOLUTION - WHEN YOUR BODY - WAS - 100% LIQUID - SOME CALL IT - MYODESOPSIES - BUT THERE ARE - OTHER WORDS - OTHER EXPRESSIONS - LIKE - FLYING DUST - IF YOU TRY - TO FIX IT - IT DISAPPEARS - YOU LOSE IT - INSIDE YOU - IT IS YOUR HISTORY - IT IS - THE ULTIMATE - THING - IN THE FIRST PLACE - OF ANYTHING - AROUND YOU

Artwork theme:

Myodesopsies

History

History:

The work has been exhibited since 2001 (various exhibitions). The original installation took the form of a white on white projection from which the text emerged gradually
Date: 2001 --
Event: Boondael Chapel, Elsene, Belgium. Commissioner: Philippe Perraux.
Date: 2003
Event: Exhibition Any Resemblance, 22 BPS Center for Contemporary Creation, Charleroi, Belgium. Curator: Pierre-Olivier Rollin.
Date: 2004
The work takes a new form in 2005, a sound installation.
Event: Hospice de Havré, Maison-folie de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France. Curator: Véronique Barbezat.
Date: 2005
The work takes a new form in 2005, a sound installation.
Event: Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium.
Date: 2005
Still in the form of a sound installation (created in 2005).
Event: Exhibition Two Pieces White, Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Curator: Richard Perron & Neil Minuk.
Date: September 12, 2006-February 14, 2007

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Artist's biography:

Edith Dekyndt

ReCALL

Laboratoire NT2 — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Artwork creator(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Text author(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Text author(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Installation year:

2005

Remarks on location:

In a storefront window

Artwork description

Source: Moffat, Ellen (2005). ReCALL. (http://www.ellenmoffat.ca/?p=327)

Description:

ReCALL is a video projection of image and text in a window. We can hear noises from the street ambience as soundtrack.

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Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

The texts speak of smells, rhythms, folklore.

Text theme:

The “invisible residue” of a place

Artwork theme:

A reflection of local traditions, collective knowledge and personal mementos

History

History:

Created as an artist residency project at the Arts Center of the Confederation.

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Note(s):

The data bank of images and texts reflect local traditions, collective knowledge and personal memories as a poetics of place.

Artist's biography:

Ellen Moffat

Document(s):

ReCALL

Untitled

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:13:28 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

Projections

Artwork creator(s):

Holzer, Jenny

Artwork creator(s):

Holzer, Jenny

Text author(s):

Szymborska, Wislawa

Text author(s):

Szymborska, Wislawa

Installation year:

2008

Artwork description

Source: Jenny Holzer (2009) Jenny Holzer-Toronto. (http://www.jennyholzer.com/Projections/site/Toronto2007/)

Description:

Video projections of words on a building

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Text of the artwork:

[…]I KNOW THAT I KNOW HOW TO KILL, THAT MAKES ME AN ADULT. AND MY SON PLAYS WITH A TOY GUN THAT KNOWS HOW TO OPEN AND CLOSE ITS EYES AND SAY MAMA […]

Artwork theme:

4 projections

Some people from Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska

The Joy of Writing from View with a Gain of Sad by Wislawa Szymborska

Tortures from View with a Gain of Sad by Wislawa Szymborska

History

History:

Event: Luminato Festival, Toronto (organized by Luminato and the Art Gallery of Ontario)

Event date(s):

2008

Dimensions

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Artist's biography:

Jenny Holzer

Author's biography:

Wisława Szymborska

Source:

For media inquiries regarding Luminato, please contact: Laura Erika Barron Public Relations Coordinator lbarron@luminato.com (416) 368-3100 ext. 242 Bill Bobek Director, Communication & Media Relations wbobek@luminato.com (416) 368-3100 ext. 246

Document(s):

Jenny Holzer

Projections

ICONOCLASH : NIGHT of AWE DANCE PARTY

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:45:37 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Artwork creator(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Text author(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Text author(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

B7 on the business card of the event (Area B, exhibition number 7). Level Grange Road. Located at the North end of the park.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007) Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007. ( http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b7.html)

Description:

This installation pairs iconic movie scenes with a multicultural music mix to create an interactive dance party. The audience is superimposed onto these scenes via technology, provoking a reflection on issues of visual representation.

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Text of the artwork:

The monotheistic god of the second commandment plumbs for abstraction so that He can demand a new discipline to be enforced on His subjects alone- The paradoxical result Is not NO image It is instead the image of abstraction that is to be produced. Caroline Jones Making Abs […] -- MY CULTURE IS YOUR FETIS[H] -- […] residing […] of a cow […] -- "come worship ye the Golden god of pleasure! [for he is] of Israel" -- The term "idol" in the Western context has always been used to refer to deities in pagan religions. In "idolatry" the agency of the person is thought to be displaced, irrationally, into the agency of the thing. But in polytheistic traditions, the deity is not a thing : the image, icon, or representation Is animated by the […] -- For Judaism, The desire to index Divinity With the Golden Calf Can be viewed as an ethical […]

Text theme:

Judaism, religious tensions, idolatry

Artwork theme:

Judaism, religious tensions, idolatry

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Artist's biography:

Shiff, Melissa

Source:

1. Melissa Shiff, artiste 72 Major Street Toronto (Ontario) M5S 2L1 Tél : 647-273-6140 Courriel : melissa@melissashiff.com 2. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Giannina Warren Media relations 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca

Document(s):

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007 Zone B. Curated Exhibition. ICONOCLASH: NIGHT of AWE DANCE PARTY, 2007

Will Is Was

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:59:41 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Skelton, Carl

Artwork creator(s):

Skelton, Carl

Text author(s):

Skelton, Carl

Text author(s):

Skelton, Carl

Installation year:

2002

Remarks on location:

The projection used the plaza side of the old building (AGH) as a screen

Artwork description

Source: Hunter, Andrew, Thomas McEvilley; Jessica Wyman (2002). Carl Skelton : Will Is Was. Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton

Description:

Will Is Was was an outdoor projection/installation at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. The spherical object in the foreground was a modified lamppost containing a still image projector, which used the plaza side of the old building as a screen from dusk to dawn.

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Text of the artwork:

We had to start somewhere

History

History:

Art exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, summer 2002. (Commissioner: Shirley Madill).

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Note(s):

Will Is Was was an outdoor projection/installation at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in the summer of 2002. The spherical object in the foreground was a modified lamppost containing a still image projector, which used the plaza side of the old building as a screen from dusk to dawn. Every few days, the image would be changed manually; over the course of the entire summer, the images added up to the story of a tragic accident: confused by the appearance of the place, and by an alien pilot had crash-landed on the roof, where it was being held down by the museum's unusually powerful time-distortion effect.

Artist's biography:

Skelton, Carl

Source:

1. Carl Skelton 362 West 30th Street #1, New York, NY 10001 USA (917)601-7122 c a rl@ultratopia.com (personnel) Carl Skelton, directeur Intigrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. +1-718-260-4018 cskelton@poly.edu (lieu de travail) 2. Art Gallery of Hamilton 123 King Street West Hamilton, ON L8P 4S8 T: 905-527-6610 F: 905-577-6940 www.artgalleryofhamilton.com info@artgalleryofhamilton.com All exhibitions are archived through the Registrar's office at the AGH (905-527-6610, ext. 249).

Document(s):

Will Is Was

Carl Skelton : Will Is Was

Wish you were here

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:08:34 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Artwork creator(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Text author(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Text author(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

B8 on the business card of the event (Area B, exhibition 8). Level Grange Road. Located at the North end of the park.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b8.html)

Description:

Light projected on the ground

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Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

wish you were here

Text theme:

Inspire desire for the unattainable

History

History:

Wish You Were Here ³ YYZ Gallery, September 8-October 23, 2004, Toronto

Wish You Were Here: project for the "At The Corner of Time and Place" theme, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto. New version of the work (gobo projector, balloons filled with helium)

Event date(s):

2007

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Note(s):

The phrase is familiar as it has been abused by generations on souvenir postcards. Once meant as a wholehearted invocation to the friend or family member who could not travel along to an exotic location, it has become hollow and empty, often used with sardonic intent.

Source: Kathie Bethune-Leamen, "Once more, with feeling," in: Play/pause/repeat, p.24-25

Artist's biography:

Laurel Woodcock

Source:

«Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto Canada 2007». Sur le site Centre de l’art contemporain canadien. La base de données sur l’art canadien. http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche2007/artists/images/woodcock/index.html (Consulté le 1 juin 2008). 1. Laurel Woodcock, artiste Tél : 519-824-4120 poste 53659 laurelw@sympatico.ca (autre courriel : lawoodco@uoguelph.ca) 2. Giannina Warren Media relations Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca Giannina Warren Media relations, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca

Document(s):

Laurel Woodcock : play / pause / repeat

À paraître

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:07:58 +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:

1991

Artwork description

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Description:

Two projectors simultaneously projected images of book covers. The installation was accessible to viewers after the shop's opening hours.

Text of the artwork:

Gilbert Boyer
Vues de loin
Récits
l’ère nouvelle
XYZ

Du monde entier
Alain Fleischer
L’exposition des projets d’idées
récits
traduit du hongrois
par l’auteur
NRF
Gallimard

Artwork theme:

Literature

History

History:

À paraître was linked to the exhibition Artistes en miroir presented at Galerie Optica, which featured the table of contents of two fictitious books .

Event date(s):

1991

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Document(s):

Artistes en miroir

Gilbert Boyer/Alain Fleischer