L’INCALCULABLE CORPS GLITCH : UN ASSEMBLAGE PROVISOIRE Marie-Ève Levasseur For L’incalculable corps glitch : un assemblage provisoire – her first solo exhibition in Quebec – Marie-Ève Levasseur proposes a body of work covering six years of work, from 2016 to the present, including brand new creations, such as a virtual reality work created during…
TRISSEMENTS Geneviève Chevalier In this residency project, Geneviève Chevalier uses a combined approach involving the Université Laval collection of avian skins and Sherbrooke-area farms to probe the status of certain Québec bird species like the swallow. Trissements, her work-in-progress, mainly takes the form of a video projection consisting of random photo/video combinations that are generated based…
THE TREACHERY OF IMAGES Mathieu Valade In 1929, the Surrealist painter René Magritte created his famous work La Trahison des images (The Treachery of Images). In it he depicted a simple tobacco pipe, accompanied by the inscription “This is not a pipe.” Calling into question the connection between a real object and its representation…
ZOOM OUT/SORTIR DE ZOOM Micro momentum of artistic events ZOOM OUT/SORTIR DE ZOOM is the theme of a one-time event with variable dimensions that brings together several cultural figures around a common reflection. Apart from the usual names – festival, biennial, triennial or carnival – ZOOM OUT/SORTIR DE ZOOM exists as a momentum of artistic…
Déjà-vu is an online diffusion platform of immersive and virtual sound works. Created from the 3D digitization of Sporobole’s outdoor space, it recalls the familiar structure of the center. The platform offers the public the possibility to live or relive an experience originally conceived for the sound window, an outdoor linear device of 16 speakers…
From April 27 to Tuesday May 9 2022, the graduates of the Visual Arts program of the Cégep de Sherbrooke present Boîte blanche, their graduation exhibition. “Boîte blanche offers a new, sparkling space to new ideas, new creations that have just come out of other boxes, grey matter where synapses and neurons have joined…
Opening at Foreman Art Gallery : date to come Artists : Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Tania Love, Maude Deslauriers, Gaëlle Elma Opening at Sporobole : date to come Artists : Caroline Monnet et Ludovic Boney Les yeux dans l’eau looks at human and non-human relationships formed in proximity with water while tapping into a collective fascination…
Launch of the #119/Machines issue of Le sabord magazine. Readings and exchanges around the theme of the issue, Machines. Geneviève Rioux and Nicholas Giguère, authors of the issue #119, will be present. «Reflecting the creativity and inventiveness inherent to human beings, machines occupy a predominant place in our imagination as well as in our daily…
THE SPECTRUM OF OBJECTS KHADIJA AZIZ – SHANIE TOMASSINI – PHILIPPE INTERNOSCIA – MARTIN BEAUREGARD It is in the context of Sporobole’s new cycle of activities (2021-2023), centered on the question of the porosity between the real and the virtual, that we present the exhibition The Spectrum of Objects, bringing together works by Shanie…
Olen Metsässä (2019) – Sound performance / 30 minutes Olen Metsässä (“I am in the forest” in Finnish) is a sound performance based on the artist’s experiments of observation in the forest during a two-month residency in Finland (Kulttuurikauppila) from which she has just returned. No-input” and ”field recordings” are the raw materials of this…
Transmission I Cipher is an audio-visual performance musicalizing different patterns of transmission and conversion of information into rhythmic and sound sequences. Using a device of 15 speakers divided into three axes forming a triangle, each pole becomes a point of information transmission. Messages encoded in the musical sequences – words transformed into binary codes –…
Il y aurait une table mais vous faites parfois semblant est une occupation/performance sonore contextuelle qui naît du contact direct entre les artistes et le lieu dans lequel elle se déroule. L’architecture, les objets, les sons et les spectateurs eux-mêmes y deviennent les matériaux d’un jeu d’échelle au sein duquel l’objectivité et la subjectivité se…
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