LA LUMIÈRE COMME SURMOI
Carl Bouchard et Martin Dufrasne, Daniel Barrow, Sylvie Cotton, Rachel Echenberg,
Judy Radul, Karen Spencer
The event takes place Saturday, April 17 from noon to 5 p.m.
La Lumière comme surmoi, an afternoon of performances organized in collaboration with Sylvie Cotton, is the third section of Photographie et Performance : POINT & SHOOT, curated by Michèle Thériault and France Choinière. The event makes up the live portion of this project that explores the various possible intersections of performance and photography. The invited artists appropriate photography not for its usual result, but actually to absorb its very processes into their bodies, enacting it by mimicking the need for light, playing with the idea of the imprint, or by using the photographic object as an accessory.
Duo Carl Bouchard and Martin Dufrasne will present a new piece from their series L'amour propre – instrument de test, begun in 2001. Based on notions of rivalry, honour and the need for the other, these performances are conceived as trials to be undertaken in symmetry. The work presented at Dazibao deals with the idea of the negative, in both its photographic and its existential sense.
Through a sculptural piece created by Rachel Echenberg, spectators can participate in an unusual photographic experience, defined as such by the concept of time and the sensation of light, rather than by the image itself. The experience will be pleasant for some, but perhaps menacing to others. With facing the lost, Karen Spencer invites listeners to superimpose the mental images she generates in her narration of a natural setting onto the architectural elements of an urban space. Slowly the images take form, developing and imprinting themselves in the mind of the listener. Sylvie Cotton also works with the idea of inscription. In her series MY BODY MY STUDIO, she uses various instruments, from pencils to needles, to copy the birth marks, beauty spots and tattoos of others onto the canvas of her body. For her performance at Dazibao, Cotton will use candles to parallel the phenomenon of light exposure on photosensitive material.
Both Judy Radul and Daniel Barrow use photography, or more specifically the image, as an accessory to performance. In Cutting: a performance for video, Radul explores the terrain between the frozen time of the photograph and the durational nature of video. With an aesthetic drawn from comic books, Barrow creates performances that harken back to the very origins of cinema, the laterna magica.
Schedule and Location of Performances
Karen Spencer* Métro Sherbrooke 12 - 4 pm
facing the lost
Rachel Echenberg Dazibao 12 - 5 pm
untitled
Carl Bouchard & Martin Dufrasne Dazibao 2:30 pm
L'amour propre – instrument de test #6
Sylvie Cotton Dazibao 3 pm
Bobos et bonbons
Daniel Barrow OBORO Media Lab 4 pm
Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry
Judy Radul** OBORO Media Lab 4:15 pm
Cutting: A Performance for Video
Daniel Barrow OBORO Media Lab 4:30 pm
Looking for Love in the Hall of Mirrors
*NOTE : to experience Spencer’s performance, meet the artist at the Patisserie St-Louis de France (Métro Sherbrooke, exit Berri Est) where she will lend you a CD & Discman.
** Unfortunately, Judy Radul’s performance has been cancelled.