TITLE : The Clandestine Sedentaries
DATE : 2001
Sound sculpture with automation
REALISATION : Commission Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
MATERIAL : record players, different motors, selected objects, bed spring, steel, cooper,
stained-glass paint on acrylic, halogen lamp, MIDI controller, computer
DIMENSIONS : object :140 cm X 260 cm X 290 cm (55 in. X 102 in. X 115 in.)
ceiling projection : about 12 m X 10 m (40 feet X 33 feet)
wall projection : about 12 m X 3 m (40 feet X 10 feet)
PHOTO : Jean-Guy Kérouac & Diane Landry
VIDEO : Diane Landry
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- Musée d'art de Joliette (Quebec).
- Expression, centre d'exposition, St-Hyacinthe (Quebec).
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec city.
- Grunt Gallery, Vancouver (British Colombia).
- Permanente Collection : Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
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Composed of odd, yet surprisingly familiar objects that sometimes produce scratching noises and strange apparitions of images, The Clandestine Sedentaries emerges from a genuine urban world, miniaturized and in movement. Installed in the centre of the exhibition space, the sculpture activates itself, bursting forth from darkness and generating its own light, its own sounds, its own movement, and its own vibrations. Dragged along by the rotation of the record players set like a table, and by an interplay of light and shadows, a whole set of miniature vehicles comes to life in images and sound, projecting their frenzy and folly all around us. Walls, ceiling and floor are all pressed into service, and we can hear cars humming, record players creaking, metal rods drumming. This sound environment, entirely produced by objects, could very well belong to a city. (text by Marie Fraser, excerpts from the catalogue : Les sédentaires clandestions, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2001).
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