Jean-Pierre Gauthier Stochastic Generator & Servitudes
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
Exhibition in partnership with ELLEPHANT
June 9 to July 31, 2021 at ELLEPHANT
The installations Stochastic Generator (presented at ELLEPHANT) and Servitudes (presented at OBORO) share an approach that shifts between the desire to control a system and the desire to relinquish control. While a sound event would normally unfold in linear time, interactivity short-circuits the way the sound is received, and despite their degree of autonomy, the works serve the will of their viewers. The elements of randomness in Jean-Pierre Gauthier’s installations spark interactions, echoes, variations, and arrangements. These dynamics are similar to improvisation, which is an important part of the artist’s sound practice, where the freedom to be inspired by and respond to the immediate constitutes a precious kind of servitude.
Originally scheduled to take place in April and May 2020, Jean-Pierre Gauthier’s exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes had to be postponed due to the physical distanciation measures related to COVID-19. The artist and OBORO offer you a video preview of his installation Stochastic Generator, which Gauthier redesigned so that visitors can activate it without any hand contact.
Du to sanitary mesures, the exhibition is open to public on Thursdays, from noon to 7pm, and on Fridays and Saturdays, from noon to 5pm.
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© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
Through visual, sound and kinetic devices, Jean-Pierre Gauthier poetically brings together chance, control, disorder, chaos, accidents. He deconstructs, diverts, assembles, tinkers, but also creates and composes. In his installations, sounds and shapes unfurl in an invasive and sprawling manner. More systemic than robotic, his works are conceived as interconnected and reactive systems in which visitors have the roles of triggers and generators. These installations have a performative dimension; they unfold, activate, get worked up, bustle, groan, wear out, stop.
Jean-Pierre Gauthier and OBORO offer you a video preview of his installation Stochastic Generator.
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
© Jean-Pierre Gauthier, view from the exhibition Stochastic Generator & Servitudes, 2021. Photo: Paul Litherland
