The Lost Shield

TITLE : The Lost Shield
DATE : 2005
video installation
REALISATION : Artist's residency : Oboro, New Media Lab, Montreal
DIMENSIONS : variable
PHOTO & VIDEO : Diane Landry

VIDEO
NO sound

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- Musée d'art de Joliette (Quebec).
- C'est arrivé près de chez vous. L'art actuel à Québec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec).
- Vidéo programme: Metamorphosis, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey.
- GNO, galerie du nouvel-ontario, Sudbury (Ontario).
- Arte de Québec en La Habana, organisé par Le Lieu, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Havane, Cuba.
- Les 15 ans des Prix VIDERE, production la Manif d'art, Centre d'exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul, (Québec).
- FINE|LINE, Kunsthallen Braenderigarden, Viborg, Denmark.
- Horace, Sherbrooke (Quebec).
- Bus 117, Melbourne, Australia.
- Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George (British Colombia).
- Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Oboro, Montreal (Quebec).
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I have striven to mix the notions of performance and installation since the beginning of my artistic research: to make performance installations or installation performances. For that matter, the notion of time and the use of sequence for my installations are directly related to this underlying intention. Such is the case of new works, where I act as an invisible conductor guiding object-machines. The act of bringing human representation into my installations is part of this idea of creating works closer to the action. It must be said that capturing these portraits on film is very close to private performance. I take the pictures myself using an automatic trigger, and take many shots before looking at the results. These actions take place much like a performance without an audience, and it is the document recording that becomes the work.