Guest curator : Paul Couillard
For this project, five francophone artists have been invited to undertake interventions that respond to the question: To what extent does language determine experience? The artists will work in two distinct environments, Toronto and Sudbury, spending a week in each location engaging in street actions and public “manoeuvres”.
In Toronto
Residency : from June 17 to 23, 2007
Presentation : Saturday June 23, at 8pm
at the Toronto Free Gallery, 660 Queen St. E
In Sudbury
Residency : from June 24 to 30, 2007
Presentation : Saturday June 30, at 8pm
at the GNO, 174 Elgin St.
Partner
Colette Jacques
Colette Jacques (Larder Lake) has been working full-time as a visual artist since 1986. A multidisciplinary artist, her work explores the mediums of performance, painting, sculpture, multimedia and installation. Propelled by the discovery of her algonquin ancestry, her artistic pursuits are intimately related to her heritage. Her work has been been shown in Ontario, Québec and the United States.
Artist ProfileStefan St-Laurent
A multdisciplinary artist and independent curator, Stefan St-Laurent was born in Moncton, New Brunswick in 1974. He has a Bachelor of Media Arts from Ryerson University in Toronto. His performance and video work has been shown in numerous galleries and institutions in Canada (YYZ, Toronto; Ottawa Art Gallery; Western Front, Vancouver; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax) and in Europe (Centre national de la photographie, Paris; Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie; Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Sweden). In 2008, he was the Curator of the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda. He was also Guest Curator for the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 and 2011. He was Curator of Galerie SAW Gallery in Ottawa from 2002 to 2012. He created Chanson du cœur with his twin brother Jason St-Laurent, commissioned by the French Theatre at the National Arts Centre in 2014 under the artistic direction of Christian Lapointe. He is Director of AXENÉO7 in Gatineau since 2014, and Adjunct Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Ottawa since 2011.
Artist ProfileSuzanne Joly
Suzanne Joly lives in the region of Lanaudière, situated north of Montreal. She has been making performances since 1989, and was involved for many years with the artist-run centre Ateliers convertibles. Her practice is concerned with questions of relationship to place and community, using the suburban territory and its particularities as raw material. Her work evolved from an early interest in visual prostheses made from recycled materials and everyday objects to a sustained focus on the use of sound. Recently the phenomenon of urban sprawl and its impact on the soundscape of lake areas has been of particular concern. In 2006, her performance "Ça monte du marais" (It rises from the swamp), presented after a spring spent gathering the sounds of marsh frogs, was presented at the Musée d’art de Joliette.
Artist ProfileLes deux Gullivers
Born in Albania, Flutura and Besnik Haxhillari studied art in Tirana, Lausanne and Berlin. In 2002, they completed a master's degree in visual and media arts at UQAM. The Venice Biennale (1999), the Tirama Biennale (2003), the Beijing Biennale (2005) and VIVA! Art Action Montreal (2006) hosted their work. We should also note the receipt of grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Les deux Gullivers are represented by the Joyce Yahouda Gallery in Montreal.
Artist Profile