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Ciel variable 72 – PHOTO PERFORMANCE

[Summer 2006]

Portfolios : ERWIN WURM, ANNIE BAILLARGEON, MANON DE PAUW.
Focus :Edward Burtynsky – L’oeil d’un coloriste sur le sublime contemporain.
Reviews : Shirin Neshat, Sylvie Readman, Jennifer Long, Guy Blackburn, Sunil Gupta, Laura Letinsky, Angela Grauerholz, Point & Shoot, Performance and Photography.
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Patrice Duhamel, Guy Sioui Durand, Hélène Brunet Neumann, Bruno Chalifour, Maria Zimmermann Brendel, Suzanne Paquet, James D. Campbell, Christine Gauthier, Johanna Mizgala, Jessica Wyman, Anna Carlevaris.

Image as Performance

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2006] by Jacques Doyon Instructions: define a field of operations that is compatible with the camera’s field, determine the procedures for choosing objects and the type of actions to produce, decide on a duration, insert a body into the recording field, perform the planned manipulations or interactions, and then re-evaluate the results of the […]

Erwin Wurm, Déséquilibre et inertie – Patrice Duhamel, Cet emploi du temps de l’entropie, du provisoire

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Portfolios
Authors: Patrice Duhamel | Artists: Erwin Wurm

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The situations in which Erwin Wurm involves us can be fully inscribed under the sign of potentiality. Beyond metaphysics, Wurm is interested in making the actual physique of bodies speak. […]

Annie Baillargeon, Arabesques et grotesques – Guy Sioui Durand, L’image au corps, L’allégorie luxuriante des performances photos chez Annie Baillargeon

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Portfolios
Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Annie Baillargeon

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In today’s generalized culture of screen images, new “nondisciplines” are entering the visual arts, media arts, action art, and art theory. Digital technologies, in particular, are multiplying in inventiveness and […]

Manon De Pauw, Prendre position – Hélène Brunet Neumann, Le corps conjugué

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Portfolios
Authors: Hélène Brunet Neumann | Artists: Manon De Pauw

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Manon De Pauw’s photographic and videographic work stands out for its ludic liveliness, the richness of its formal compositions, and its poetically evocative power. De Pauw explores the playful relationship […]

Edward Burtynsky – Bruno Chalifour, L’oeil d’un coloriste sur le sublime contemporain

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Essays
Authors: Bruno Chalifour | Artists: Edward Burtynsky

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract This article addresses the new work by Edward Burtynsky as it was presented, in part, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In this exhibition, twenty-four images on contemporary China were […]

Shirin Neshat, Zarin – Maria Zimmermann Brendel

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Zimmermann Brendel | Artists: Shirin Neshat

[Summer 2006] Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin October 1–December 4, 2005 Through poetry/art humans have survived. – Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat’s chromatic single-channel projection Zarin (2005) had its premiere in Berlin. This 35 mm film, transferred to dvd, does not catapult viewers onto the seashore and into musical expanse – as does Passage – […]

Sylvie Readman – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre d’exposition Plein sud du 4 mars au 15 avril 2006 Centre d’exposition Expression du 18 mars au 23 avril 2006

Jennifer Long, Doubt – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Jennifer Long

[Summer 2006] La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal 20 January–26 February 2006 The nine medium-scale colour photographs of women in this exhibition are akin to a searchlight focused on a troubling affliction of the heart that few today have not experienced at first hand: lover’s doubt. The images are powerfully interrogatory, offering an up-close and personal […]

Guy Blackburn, Touche – Christine Gauthier

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christine Gauthier | Artists: Guy Blackburn

[Summer 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Sagamie, Alma 8 décembre 2005 au 29 juin 2006

Sunil Gupta – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Sunil Gupta

[Summer 2006] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography November 25, 2005–April 23, 2006 Sunil Gupta is a storyteller. In decided contrast to Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment,” Gupta opts to engage the viewer with photographs that act as a series of narrative spaces – they are clues to moments in time as opposed to ruptures of time – suggesting a sense that […]

Laura Letinsky, Somewhere, Somewhere – Jessica Wyman

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jessica Wyman | Artists: Laura Letinsky

[Summer 2006] Oakville Galleries January 28–March 26, 2006 Even an anonymous hotel room speaks volumes of its transient guest after only a few hours. A place inhabited by the same person for a certain duration draws a portrait that resembles this person based on objects (present or absent) and the habits that they imply.1 Several […]

Angela Grauerholz, Reading Room for the Working Artist – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Summer 2006] VOX image contemporaine, Montreal January 28–March 18, 2006 There are two fantasmatic limits of the book to come, two extreme, final, eschatic figures of the end of the book, the end as death, or the end as telos and achievement. ⎯ Jacques Derrida, Paper Machine1 The archive unfolds in a lush, moving and […]

Point & Shoot, Performance and Photography – Anna Carlevaris

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Book Reviews
Authors: Anna Carlevaris | Artists: Diana Nemiroff, Doyon/Demers, Jan Peacock, Karen Henry, Rebecca Shneider

[Summer 2006] Point & Shoot Performance and Photography edited by France Choinière et Michèle Thériault Éditions Dazibao 2005 The latest in Galerie Dazibao’s series of publications on “hybrid” photographic practices introduces a timely subject: the relationship between photography and performance in Canadian art. Presented from both historical and theoretical perspectives, the collection of writings attempts […]