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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

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

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

Imperfection de la langue

Lucie Duval, Imperfection de la langue, 2004Lucie Duval, Imperfection de la langue, 2004Lucie Duval, Imperfection de la langue, 2004
The installation consists of three sentences hanging between trees. The letters are red. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Duval, Lucie
Installation year: 
2004

Interdépendance

Jacky Gotthilf & Neva Gotthilf, Interdépendance, 2004
12 yellow panels are arranged in a circle. Each tag displays the name of a mountain somewhere in the world and indicates the direction of its location (left arrow). The letters are black. The panel di [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Gotthilf, Jacky; Gotthilf, Neva
Installation year: 
2004

La rencontre-Natshishkatum

Michel Depatie, La rencontre-Natshishkatum, 2007Michel Depatie, La rencontre-Natshishkatum, 2007Michel Depatie, La rencontre-Natshishkatum, 2007Michel Depatie, La rencontre-Natshishkatum, 2007
Large panels feature various texts. The art work consists of three installations and evokes an encounter. The first installation that appeals to the traveller consists of three rectangular pieces of c [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Depatie, Michel
Installation year: 
2007

Les Écritures d’eau

Pierre Bourgault, Les écritures d'eau, 1986Pierre Bourgault, Les écritures d'eau, 1986
The work consists of white painted wooden boards, linked end to end by two yellow polypropylene ropes and kept at the bottom of the river with boat anchors. The sculpture initially looked like a giant [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bourgault, Pierre
Installation year: 
1986

Les oiseaux

Ceramics art work produced with the contribution of the public. Texts by Hélène Dorion appear with the art work. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Derouin, René
Installation year: 
2003

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

Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion, 1999-Poetry in Motion, 1999-
Poems inside city buses, in the advertising spaces. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Various
Installation year: 
1999

Stèle

Sylvie L. Bergeron, Stèle, 1993 © Sylvie L. Bergeron
The artwork consists of a tombstone featuring a poem. Words are written on a plaque on the ground. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bergeron, Sylvie L.
Installation year: 
1993

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

The People’s Plan

Adrian Göllner,The People’s Plan, 2001Adrian Göllner,The People’s Plan, 2001Adrian Göllner,The People’s Plan, 2001
The light box images at Carleton U. are designed to recall the government mega-projects of the 1970s. Symmetrical and non-monumental, the logos echo the egalitarian sensibility inherent to the modern- [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Göllner, Adrian
Installation year: 
2001

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

Urbaine urbanité

Gilles Bissonnet, Urbaine urbanité, 2002
The artist painted the exterior building walls in white and installed strips of text on the façade. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bissonnet, Gilles
Installation year: 
2002