le désordre des jours [2005]
Multimedia installation
September 1st to 14, 2005.
Espace 306, Édifice le Belgo, 372 Ste-Catherine st W.
Montréal, Québec, Canada
In collaboration with :
Sound artist Carlo Verdicchio
Programmer Patricia Furtado
In the multimedia installation Le désordre des jours, photographs, videos and sounds transport the viewer on an unexpected journey. The installation uses a computer program, which selects at random the length of time and sequence of the images and sound. The viewer is presented an ever-changing work with no beginning or end. A poetic fiction, or an existentialist reading, comes out of this experience where the memory of the viewer is juxtaposed to the reality of the installation.
The beauty of the imperfections, of fleeting moments and of the fragmentary; fireworks, movements of clouds, a snail floating in an aquarium and self-portraits-- Banal scenes from daily life take a whole other aspect and evoke universal notions of life, death and time.
No image by itself contains the complexity of nuances that emerges of the group. Consequently, an essential element of this work resides in the powers of evocation and association of images, in what emerges from their proximity and their echoes on the mind.
Randomness plays a key role in this installation. It reinvents continuously the path and rhythm of the work and offers an almost unlimited grouping of images. Photographs, video and sound, when worked together, bring different levels of information, which nourish the poetic resonance of the work. In addition, because a computer chooses the images at random, this installation suggests a more fundamental questioning on authorship and finality in visual arts.
Thesis adviser : Geneviève Cadieux
Project supported by : CIAM
Multimedia installation
September 1st to 14, 2005.
Espace 306, Édifice le Belgo, 372 Ste-Catherine st W.
Montréal, Québec, Canada
In collaboration with :
Sound artist Carlo Verdicchio
Programmer Patricia Furtado
In the multimedia installation Le désordre des jours, photographs, videos and sounds transport the viewer on an unexpected journey. The installation uses a computer program, which selects at random the length of time and sequence of the images and sound. The viewer is presented an ever-changing work with no beginning or end. A poetic fiction, or an existentialist reading, comes out of this experience where the memory of the viewer is juxtaposed to the reality of the installation.
The beauty of the imperfections, of fleeting moments and of the fragmentary; fireworks, movements of clouds, a snail floating in an aquarium and self-portraits-- Banal scenes from daily life take a whole other aspect and evoke universal notions of life, death and time.
No image by itself contains the complexity of nuances that emerges of the group. Consequently, an essential element of this work resides in the powers of evocation and association of images, in what emerges from their proximity and their echoes on the mind.
Randomness plays a key role in this installation. It reinvents continuously the path and rhythm of the work and offers an almost unlimited grouping of images. Photographs, video and sound, when worked together, bring different levels of information, which nourish the poetic resonance of the work. In addition, because a computer chooses the images at random, this installation suggests a more fundamental questioning on authorship and finality in visual arts.
Thesis adviser : Geneviève Cadieux
Project supported by : CIAM
Video extract: 2:15 minutes (4,8 Mo)
*Final work includes more than 200 images/videos and more than 100 sound clips.