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Free-Fall of Possibilities — 2009/2010Materials : wood, carbon, aluminum, fishing poles, glass containers, stepper motors, vibratory motors, sensors, control cards, electronics and cables. Dimensions : 4m x 3,5 m Free-fall of possibilities is made up of ten automated mechanical units. They are in fact fishing rods to which are attached tiny vibratory motors. Swivelling freely at the end of the lines, they become vibrating baits, artificial lures that come into contact with glass containers of various shapes and sizes. This launches a mechanical ballet, a kind of resonant vertigo, a choreography producing a multitude of aleatory, sudden and unexpected sounds. Free-fall of possibilities is about human movement within space and time. A string of mechanical movements, of acoustic sequences and events translate the empirical experience that we unconsciously make of reality. The visitor witnesses an alteration in the temporality of sensory perceptions. At times contemplative, they smooth out and skim over time; at others overactive and stimulated, they go to the other extreme tossing about in intense, frenetic and unstable movements. Caught up in observation, the visitor continually reshapes his own chain of events. They materialise, rearrange, break up, change at a moment’s notice, mislead and distort sensory intuition. Free-fall of possibilities is meant as a metaphor for all of the “little deaths” that we mourn throughout our lifetime. The one of language: restrained and unspoken words. The one of gesture: curbed, aborted, interrupted or consciously abandoned impulses. It embodies these apprehensions, these constant tensions produced by an anticipated reality whose dynamics persistently elude us. |
———————————————————————————————————————————Presentations 2012 AC Institute,
New York (curator : Nicole Debout), solo exhibition Collaborator Marc
Juneau > Design of the programming Interface and controlling
cards |
———————————————————————————————————————————Text Marianne Bouchard & Catherine Béchard Translation Kathryn Casault Financial supports |
———————————————————————————————————————————Video Catherine Béchard & Sabin Hudon |
———————————————————————————————————————————Periodicals 2011 Parkinson, Jaenine, « Objet Indirect Object », Artengine,
Ottawa |