B/R/T Le corps habité | The Inhabited Body / curators:
/ Jason Arsenault
/ Andrée Duchaine
Bachmann, Roussel, Tingley's Exhibition
3520, rue St-Jacques, Montréal (Québec), Canada
Wednesday to Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m. — from November 1 2007 to December 2 2007
PHOTOS AND PRESS CLIPPINGS
PHOTOS OF THE OPENING
photos © Zula, 2007
photos © Wojtek Gwiazda, 2007
VIDEO OF THE OPENING
CURATOR'S INTENTIONS
Ingrid Bachmann, Natacha Roussel, and Jane Tingley use automata to create a viewing experience both physical and emotive. What is striking about their works is the way they use technology to address issues related to the body: the body as a sensitive environment (Tingley), the object as the body’s memory (Bachmann), and the body as movement experienced (Roussel).
WORKS PRESENTED
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PERIPHERAL RESPONSE
by Jane Tingley
Peripheral Response uses the body’s peripheral nervous system as a launching point for an exploration of seeking-to-understand.
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SYMPHONY FOR 54 SHOES (Distant Echoes)
by Ingrid Bachmann
By incorporating everyday objects into her work, Ingrid Bachmann interrogates the sublime often associated with technology. SYMPHONY FOR 54 SHOES (Distant Echoes) explores the pathos of technology by staging an unproductive act. Set out on four shelves, 27 pairs of shoes move and dance independently of each other.
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TAKE OFF YOUR LEGS
by Natacha Roussel
Walking involves putting one foot in front of the other, trampling the ground underfoot. In a more figurative sense, to walk is to move towards some goal or objective. In Take off your Legs, Natacha Roussel examines the theme of walking through our experience of the other’s body by means of movement, which in this case goes nowhere because it is only movement.
