September 2011
14 posts
The Sirens Song
(series: Invisible Places) Cláudio Bueno
There seems to be a strange and sometimes perverse seduction among:
Ports and Factories;
Prostitutes and Sailors;
Waters and Wars;
Sirens and Mariners;
Monuments and Men;
Québec and all of these elements!
Possible these issues are more noticed by a tourist (or artist-tourist), than the strong and young Québécois production. These are...
Revitalisation
contradiction, suppression, ambivalence
(thinking about revitalization in Saint-Roch/Quebec and in other cities around the world)
About: Invisible Places Project
Short and Initial Description:
Imagine walking through a place where the architecture can’t be seen. A place temporarily installed over somewhere else - geolocated over an empty field, a wasteland or a big garden. An invisible, discursive place. Inhabited by geographic coordinates that establish the limits of an informational architecture, and fragments of real and fictional histories. This is...
Janet Cardiff - Main Reference for my project at this moment! She was also an artist resident at La Chambre Blanche in 1993!
“Since the early 1990s, Cardiff and Bures Miller’s experimental art has been a fascinating exploration of how sound affects and shapes our experience. It has shifted our attention away from art as a primarily visual experience and an experience of the here and now...