A reel-to-reel tape recorder is perched at the very top of a metal staircase, playing an audio track. But instead of carefully rewinding the tape, the device’s mechanism is letting it get away and slowly slip onto a sloped surface. At the bottom of this slope the tape forms arabesques that pile up on top…
Erratiques is a metaphor about time, space, slowness, silence. Composed of a large inflated shape made out of glassy Mylar, the imposing installation draws the viewer into a state of observation and reflection shifting between the small and the immense. Rippling light effects and glassy waves incite the viewer to consider duration, trajectories and scale variations…
Based in oral storytelling, Viking Age history was only recorded by author-historians centuries after the events took place; as memory dissolved behind myth, these stories became part fiction and part documentary. Referring directly to the European ‘discovery’ of North America, Jessica Auer draws from saga literature and archeology to examine this historical enigma. After spending…
The installation Le paysage miraculeux is the fourth act in the project Le roc étincelant, which explores the power relationship between human beings and nature in extreme survival and adventure situations. Physical performance, facing death to find meaning in life, the Romanticism of epic adventures and contact with the wilderness create an entire culture of legends…
In the contexte of RiAP 2014, Sporobole is proud to co-present performances by Filipino artists Mideo M. Cruz, Bogie et Roy Lu. The event will take place on September 16. More details to come! Photos ; Tanya St-Pierre
TOUR DE TABLE / GRADUATES OF THE DEGREE IN CURRENT ARTISTIC PRACTICES ///// An artist’s apprenticeship is not elaborated in a linear or even hierarchical path with a single root from which the connections are born, it borrows a model where any element can influence any other, a rhizomatic structure. The students of the Université…
je ne raconte pas d’histoires Sound Situations What is in this space should not be presented, nor introduced, nor portended. In this space, je ne raconte pas d’histoires(I don’t tell stories); I create a ‘story of space’ that forces us to constantly adjust our perceptions, our doubts, our fantasies; I create a porous line on…
Asbestos Storm For more than a century, the miners of Asbestos excavated a huge asbestos mine. Paradoxically, this gigantic “hole” gobbled up entire sections of the town as it grew. LC and JGL examined the open-pit mine by staying there for four days and three nights, in a trailer right at the bottom of the…
Frédéric Lavoie works mostly in video, with which he has explored over the past ten years and more the notion of point of view through observation and listening. The work he is presenting at Sporobole is a follow-up to his recent video installation À l’affût et à l’écoute (2011), in which he began his visual…
Presentation of the film “Le Chant des ondes” (2012, 107 min.), by Caroline Martel, co-produced and distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. Presence of the director Caroline Martel Synopsis: Unveiled in 1928, the ondes Martenot were invented by Maurice Martenot. This particularly fragile electronic instrument appeared in many Hollywood films and in compositions…
Video program about Berlin / performances from here to elsewhere Composed of two parts, the closing night of the festival presents a program of Berlin monobands as well as two performances. James Partaik/ Reality Engine: Wireless Demons and Magnetic Disorder Playing with the usual codes of representation of space, the performance Reality Engine offers a…
September 12th will be a very big night at Sporobole. First, the opening from 5pm to 7pm of the new exhibition prepared by the Sporobole programming committee especially for Espace[IM] Média with Marie-Andrée Houde, Virginie Laganière, Jacinthe Lessard-L and Aude Moreau. Then the unveiling of Erin Gee’s new piece designed specifically for the sound wall….
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