La patience des choses

Adults, 12 years +

Continuous performative installation. Admission is free, no reservations required.

 

In collaboration with OBORO

Presented by

 

La patience des choses is an immersive visual experiment, neither entirely theatrical nor resolutely performative, which explores objects and matter within systems that make them “puppet-like” through the relationships they create between the elements. An indeterminate, imprecise adventure that leaves room for the unexpected, the accidental, but also, or so it seems, for poetic magic. This is a project that requires an attentiveness to the materials and to what is presented, where artists and audience are invited to find meaning with their eyes, thoughts, and perhaps even their hands and whole body.

 

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Language: Without words

Running time: Performed without interruption, between 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Techniques: Mixed matter, objects, and sounds

 

Photos

Photos: Annick Larouche

Company

Julie Desrosiers designs, crafts, and manipulates visual worlds with a focus on exploration and aesthetic language. She seeks to broaden the concept of puppetry, questioning its definition by exploring both the form and meaning of the puppet object, its manipulation, and modes of representation.

Vincent Thériault creates performative assemblages of tools, materials, and contexts. Primarily sound-based, his work is shaped by improvisation, alone or as part of a collective (MMV2005), as well as by computer programming and installation.

 

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Credits

Collaborator, stage direction: Christine Rivest-Hénault

Performance: Julie Desrosiers and Vincent Thériault

Scenography: Julie Desrosiers

Sound environment: Vincent Thériault, as well as the humans and non-humans in the room

 

Julie Desrosiers gratefully acknowledges Casteliers and OBORO for their support.

 

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