[spectre] re:site montréal opening May 28, 5pm, Oboro, Montréal

[Florian Wuest]

Announcement


EXPOSITION

re:site montréal

Exposition collective présentée à OBORO
Commissaires : Felix S. Huber et Florian Wüst
Artistes : Ulrike Feser, Andrea Geyer, Corinna Schnitt, Wolfgang Staehle,
Unmovie (Axel Heide, onesandzeros, Philip Pocock, Gregor Stehle)

‘uvre de Felix S. Huber et Florian Wüst
présentée au Carré Saint-Louis, sur Internet et à OBORO
http://www.oboro.tv/resitemontreal

du 28 mai au 25 juin 2005
vernissage à OBORO le samedi 28 mai 2005 à 17 h

Visionnement spécial des ¦uvres de Corinna Schnitt
et lancement du dépliant qui accompagne le projet :
mardi 7 juin 2005 à 18 h

Felix S. Huber et Florian Wüst seront en résidence à OBORO du 25 avril au 9
juin 2005.

La galerie est ouverte du mardi au samedi, de midi à 17 h.


re:site montréal consists of two interrelated parts: a group exhibition of
works by German artists chosen by Felix S. Huber and Florian Wüst, and a
media arts project produced by Huber and Wüst during their residency at
OBORO. A component of the media arts project will be installed in Carré
Saint-Louis.

re:site montréal appropriates the idea of everyday life as a film
narrative. To a large extent determined by cinema, media and political
spectacle, we perceive and understand the world through the eyes of
cultural memory and collective imaginaries. Generally, the impact of modern
image technologies on social life represents two sides of the same coin; on
the one hand there is the threat of total control, and on the other hand
the potential of performance and the creation of visibility are unleashed.

Combining photography, video, digital live projection, newspaper edition,
and network installation, the exhibition explores the existing collusion of
subjective perception and the permanent flux of information, of public and
private spheres, reality and fiction.  Other works in the show critically
reflect on the behavioral patterns and architectural devices of power that
increasingly guide our navigation and interaction in public space.

The media arts project situated in Carré St. Louis -- a public park near
OBORO, broadcasts two live video streams through the internet. These images
and sounds are automatically mixed with prefabricated recordings and
enacted scenes, both stored in a database, that match with and expand upon
the actual scene at the site. The constantly changing audio-visual collage
is played back in real time on monitors and speakers integrated into the
structure in Carré Saint-Louis as well as through the internet at
www.oboro.tv/resitemontreal that can be accessed from a computer terminal
set up in OBORO's gallery. The ambiguous transparency of the project's
concept creates a stage with the gaze of cameras, which subverts the notion
of closed circuit surveillance found in any large city in the world. At the
same time, it presents a public platform for text exchanges.


Cette exposition bénéficie du soutien financier de La Bavière au Québec, du
Conseil munipale de Berlin, de l'Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.
(ifa) et de ProHelvetia, Conseil des arts de la Suisse.


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