Josée Brouillard Steffie Bélanger Tamar Tembeck Chœur Maha Journées de la culture 2012
© S. Bélanger and J. Brouillard, 2012
1 pm – Artist Talk with Steffie Bélanger and Josée Brouillard (in French), recipients of the Caisse populaire Desjardins of Mont-Royal Young New Media Artists Award (Studio 01)
The two artists will discuss Résonance visuelle, a sculptural and interactive video installation that came into being through a collaboration exploring sound as a way of conceptualizing visually. The project aims to build an silent environment that symbolizes sound in an ironic way. A multimedia artist that works with human psychology and a sculptor who brings life to still lifes have joined forces to realize a project that brings together the object and the human body. Using programming and audio sensors, the viewer’s voice is transformed into video that is then projected in the presentation space. The work presents sound as a sensorial experience where the approaches of the two artists allow technology to unite with matter.
2:30 pm – Commented visit of Auto/Pathographies (in French with bilingual Q & A), with the curator Tamar Tembeck (exhibition galleries)
Through the media of photography, performance and video, the group exhibition Auto/Pathographies addresses questions of identity and (self-)representation in the face of illness. Bringing together works from artists based in Canada, the U.S., Britain and Austria, produced from the 1990s until today, the exhibition offers both sensitive and critical perspectives on the roles played by disease in redefining individual existences and interpersonal relations.
4 pm – Sing along with Chœur Maha (hall of the art galleries)
For les Journées de la culture, the choir invites the public to join them in a choral experience with fun pieces, including Meredith Monk’s Panda Chant. The activity will take place in the open hall of OBORO’s art galleries, situated at suite 301.
© S. Bélanger and J. Brouillard, 2012
Josée Brouillard is a media artist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University (2012) and, prior to this, a DEC in Theatre Production (Collège Lionel-Groulx) and in Photography (Cégep du Vieux-Montréal), where she began exploring lighting and staging. Her education has led her to explore materials and lighting (and light as material) though the use of various modes of transmission and display technologies.
Born in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines in 1989, Steffie Bélanger is completing a BFA in Studio Arts (major in sculpture) at Concordia University. Her sculptures revisit the medium’s traditional materials as well as some of its mechanical subtleties. She is a board member of the artists’ centre Praxis Art Actuel and of the Concordia Sculpture Association.
Tamar Tembeck, PhD, is an art historian with a professional background as a performing artist and exhibition curator. Before joining OBORO in 2018 (after many years of involvement with the organisation), Tamar held an academic appointment within an interdisciplinary university research hub in media studies. Tamar notably coedited the publications The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age (U.
Choeur Maha was founded in 1991 by composer/performer Kathy Kennedy and visual artist Su Schnee. The choir has delighted audiences for two decades with their creative repertoire, singing in as many languages and styles as possible, from Hildegard von Bingen to Hildegard Westerkamp, from Mozart to Madonna – and often incorporating a healthy dose of electroacoustic music for good measure.
