Literatures and Public Spaces

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, October 15-16 2010

Montreal, Monday, August 30, 2010 – PLEPUC, a research group based at Concordia University, is pleased to present the complete program for the two-day event dedicated to exploring the relations between literature and public space, which will be held at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal on Friday, October 15 and Saturday, October 16, 2010.

This international and multidisciplinary gathering will welcome renowned artists, art critics and art history scholars from many different countries to reflect on multiple phenomena of literary intervention in public space and in public artworks.

Text in public space is traditionally associated with signage and advertising. This limiting custom infers a utilitarian or mercantile relationship towards texts in any collective environment. On the other hand, since the second half of the 20th century, one can notice a greater presence of artworks or artistic interventions in public space. Among these, a significant number integrate original text or elements drawn from world literary heritage. The study of these works reveals a wide range of styles, speeches, functions, modalities of integration or mechanisms of reading.

PRESENTATIONS – Friday, October 15 and Saturday, October 16, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Throughout the two days, artists and practitioners, including Ken LUM, Rose-Marie GOULET, Didier VERGNAUD, Jean DUBOIS, Barbara COLE, critics and essayists such as Louise DÉRY, Christian RUBY, John K. GRANDE, and professors, including Paul ARDENNE, Sherry SIMON, Simon HAREL, Lise LAMARCHE, will share their reflections on literary text in public space.

ROUND TABLE – Friday, October 15, 4:30 p.m.
Three renowned Montreal artists, Michel GOULET, Gilbert BOYER and Lisette LEMIEUX, will take part in a round table discussion to share their artistic process and their experience with the public.

SITE LAUNCH [PLEPUC.ORG] – Friday, October 15, 6 p.m.
The PLEPUC research group will officially launch the first open access bilingual database listing over 600 literary artworks in Canadian public spaces.

During the conference, which is aimed at artists, professors, professionals in the cultural milieu, art students and art lovers, the public is invited to participate in the exchanges.  Publications will also be available at the Esse and RCAAQ kiosks. Admission is free.


Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public au Canada (PLEPUC) is a research group led by Marc André Brouillette, writer and Associate Professor at Concordia University. The group’s mission is to study the practices of literary inclusion in public spaces and to promote the creation of original literary works.

This event is organized by PLEPUC in collaboration with its partners: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Concordia University, Figura – le Centre de recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire, Le Devoir, Esse, Espace, Ciel variable, Spirale, Dare Dare, Artexte, Res Artis, RCAAQ.


Event: Literatures and Public Spaces
October 15 and 16, 2010
Free admission – no reservation

514-848-2424, extension 7572
info@plepuc.org
plepuc.org

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Beverley Webster Rolph Hall
185, Sainte-Catherine Street West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Metro: Place-des-Arts
514-847-6226
info@macm.org
www.macm.org

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Contact: Marc André Brouillette, ma.brouillette@concordia.ca

Facebook: “Art public et création littéraire / Public Art and Creative Writing”

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PROGRAM

Event: Literatures and Public Spaces
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Organised by Marc André Brouillette

[Download the program here]

Friday, OCTOBER 15, 2010
9h30    Session 1

Paul Ardenne (Université de Picardie, France)
Mots offensifs

Ella Chmielewska (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Concrete poetics or, on the radical potentials of literary forms “coughed-up by the city.”

Barbara Cole (Other sights for artist’s Projects Association, British Colombia)
Reading in Public

Pause

John K. Grande (independent critic, Quebec)
How Public is Public?

Jonathan Lamy (UQAM, Quebec)
Les panneaux-réclame amérindiens et dissidents d’Edgar Heap of Birds

12h30    Lunch

14h    Session 2

Suzanne Paquet (Université de Montréal, Quebec)
L’art urbain et ses textes. Procédés, usages et réception

Christian Ruby (philosopher, France)
Fiction et subjectivation dans l’espace public

Pause

Rose-Marie E. Goulet (artist, Quebec)
Des « lettres » dans la ville…

Didier Vergnaud (Éditions Le bleu du ciel, France)
L’affiche de poésie : un art de jonction

16h30    Round Table

Gilbert Boyer, Michel Goulet et Lisette Lemieux

18h    Cocktail

Official Site Launch [PLEPUC.ORG]

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010

9h30    Session 3

Simon Harel (UQAM, Quebec)
Mobilité entravée, mobilité racontée : la Place Émilie-Gamelin et ses fabulateurs

Julia Hains (Université Laval)
Pour une géocritique appliquée : Québec, une ville-livre

Josée Laplace et Roberto Zancan (UQAM, Quebec)
La ville des mots tempérés. Souterrain et littérature à Montréal

Pause

Lise Lamarche (Université de Montréal, Quebec)
Promenades dans une ancienne métropole avec quelques pas de côté

Julie Faubert (artist and Université de Montréal, Quebec)
Relectures. Des mots dans le corps de la ville

12h30    Lunch

14h    Session 4

Louise Déry (Galerie de l’UQAM, Quebec)
Lecture de l’en-commun

Ken Lum (artist, British Columbia)
To say or not to say: Some thoughts on the relationship between art and the Real

Jean Dubois (UQAM, Quebec)
Entre visibilité et lisibilité, quelques installations (con)textuelles.

Pause

Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz (École nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles, France)
Inscriptions singulières et « lieux communs ». Pour une poétique urbaine?

Sherry Simon (Concordia University, Quebec)
Afficher la langue dans l'art public 

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