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Words Heard Here/ Mots perçus ici

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Words Heard Here/ Mots perçus ici [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Grande John K., & and al (1998). Tête des eaux=Headwaters. L’Annonciation: Boréal Art/Nature, p. 51 [2]
Location:
Lake Nemiskachi, Lake Nemiskachi, QC, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Creates, Marlene
Text author(s): 
Creates, Marlene
Installation year: 
1995
Remarks on location: 

Three sites over a distance of about 750 meters along the lake shore. Lake at the source of the Rivière du Lièvre, at the very edges of the Laurentians (Hautes-Laurentides)

Description: 

Series of works in which the artist represents words heard in conversations during the event with locally-found materials. For example, the word "source" is written with sand, the word "theme" is made of wood and the word "contact" is written with stones.

Text of the artwork: 

asgardtur
comparable
thème
comparable
passage
contact

Artwork theme: 

Nature, the present

History: 

Organized by Boréal Art / Nature, artists center


Exhibition: Headwaters, Lake Nemiskachi, Hautes-Laurentides, Québec

Event date(s): 
1995
Note(s): 

The word "asgardtur" is an Icelandic word refering to a place where Vikings go after death to fight and drink.

Artist's biography: 
Marlene Creates [3]
Source: 
1. Marlene Creates, artisteCourriel : marlene.creates@nf.sympatico.ca 2. Boréal Art/Nature, Centre Art/Nature, Labelle, Québec Addresse:Case Postale 4717 Rivière Rouge (Québec), Canada J0T 1T0 Téléphone : 819 278-3273 ou 819 275-7727Télécopieur : 819 278-3649Centre : 6240, chemin de la Minerve,Labelle (Québec)
Document(s): 
Tête des eaux=Headwaters
Grande John K., et al (1998).  Tête des eaux=Headwaters. L’Annonciation : Boréal Art/Nature, p. 51
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/words-heard-here-mots-per-us-ici
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/mots percus ici_0.jpg
[3] http://www.marlenecreates.ca/index.html
[4] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[5] http://plepuc.org/en/print/365
[6] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/words-heard-here-mots-per-us-ici