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.