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MANIF D'ART 4 MANIF D'ART 4THE QUÉBEC CITY CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIALMAY 1st TO JUNE 15th 2008THEME : THE MEETINGCURATOR : LISANNE NADEAUCALL FOR PROJECTS : MAY 17th TO AUGUST 6th 2007
TOI / YOUENCOUNTERS, LURES AND TATTERSThe numerous tools and means of communication developed over the last two decades confront us with previously unheard-of interpersonal rapports. Electronic mediation marks our human relationships, simultaneously spurring us to question our self-image and the previously standard links that existed between the contemporary subject and his or her environment. Because our former means of communication sustained the idea of distance and territoriality, the Internet and the instantaneous transmission of information bring with them an unparalleled space-time upset in which concepts of solitude and exchange are profoundly reinvented. What, then, of our zones of affinity, of our attempts at closeness or dialogue ? At the core of these new inter-subjective means, sometimes intimate, sometimes anonymous, even fictional, it is obvious that a tangible attainment of the other constitutes a hypothesis that is constantly put to the test. If the 90s was considered a decade of the aesthetics of communication, if a certain relational aesthetic subsequently swept the entire landscape of contemporary art in Québec, what is to be made of the representation and instrumentalization of our interpersonal relationships ? What is to be made of attaining the other when that other singularizes himself and enters the destabilizing territory of the intimate ? At the heart of the theme of this 4th Manif, the second person singular conjugates this new alterity. Addressed not only from the angle of distinctness, the otherness we are dealing with here is inseparable from a process of dialogue. The interrogation is located within this interface, which inexorably unites self and the other. From the couple who met by chance, from the expectative of the other to his or her rejection, from merger to rupture, from the real or fictional meeting, human communication is becoming a vital issue for creators in visual arts. The proposed theme will be articulated in four complimentary parts : Couple, love and erotism You, who looks Identiy / alterity Enticements, rupture and fiction Lisanne Nadeau Top of page A critic, art historian and independent curator, Lisanne Nadeau lives and works in Québec City. In 1989, she coordinated Mirabile Visu, an event underscoring 150 years of photography. A key member of the LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE for many years, she initiated a number of urban in situ events, including Rencontres internationales en arts visuels in 1998 and in 2000. As an independent curator, her work includes L’Éthique du doute in 1992 at the Musée régional de Rimouski; Paul Lacroix, a retrospective shown in 1998-99 at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Paysages et autres fictions in 2002 at the Maison Hamel-Bruneau ; Un refuge dans la ville in 2005 at the Musée de Rimouski, and Pharos, œuvres de Maurice Savoie, a Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas exhibition organized by Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec at Méduse in 2006. Lisanne Nadeau regularly publishes in various specialized magazines and catalogues, and steers publications. In this capacity, she coordinated the 2002 publication underscoring the 20th anniversary of the Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture of the Québec governement. Lisanne Nadeau serves on the editing committee of the magazine Inter and lectures at the École des arts visuels of Université Laval. Top of page CONTENTS OF THE PORTFOLIO :approximately 10 images of recent work on CD or slides, or a video excerpt on DVD or VHS tape (5 minutes maximum), with a descriptive list of works a résumé a short artist’s statement a press file a presentation of the proposed project : description, sketch (or any other visual document) and a short text outlining the relation to the theme a self-addressed, pre-paid return envelope (files will not be returned otherwise) DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS :August 06, 2007 (the postmark bearing witness) Send your proposal to : Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec Info Pascale Bureau 418 524.1917 Finished on September 6, 2007. Top of page |
