Screenings

Name: Screenings
Start: 2020-10-14T18:30:00-0400
End: 2020-10-14
Location: Berge des baigneurs

Si tu ne me vois pas, est-ce que j’existe toujours ? [If you don’t see me, do I still exist?]

— Stéphanie Bourgault

October 14th, 16th and 17th, 2020

Community

Mentorat

A female human cannonball hurtles through the air, disappears and reappears randomly. She is submerged by the accumulating images. During the creative process, the artist leaps into the void and dives, unconcerned about her landing. The installation, which brings together sculpture and video projection, is presented in six different sites throughout l’Île-Jésus. Some of these presentations are advertised, others not. Will anyone see it? Will the installation simply fade into the background, or will people stop to watch it? Does a work of art exist if no one is there to see it?

In a world where we’re bombarded with images, where people spend less than 10 seconds on a social media post, why seek to generate new ones? At a time when an individual’s value is determined by the number of followers, is it possible to exist without the gaze of others?

Place

In the Saint-François and Sainte-Rose districts

Public

Passer-by

Credits

Thanks to Julie Lequin, for her energy, support and invaluable advice.

Music by Sébastien Roy

NASA sound clips
Apollo 11 launch
Sputnik

Film extracts :
Buster Keaton, One Week, 1920.
Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, Three Ages. 1923.
Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner, Steamboat Bill, Jr., 1928.
Buster Keaton, Seven Chances, 1925.
Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone, Our Hospitality, 1923.
Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, The Boat, 1921.

This event is part of the following project Si tu ne me vois pas, est-ce que j’existe toujours ? [If you don’t see me, do I still exist?]

Partner

The project is supported by the Programme pour les arts et les lettres de Laval 2019-2020, Soutien aux projets des organismes artistiques et littéraires professionnels, from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.