centre d'artistes.artist run centre
Lancement de site (http://www.AgenceTOPO.qc.ca/contacts)
Le jeudi le 4 octobre 2007 à 19h30
At articule, 262 Fairmount O., Montréal
The web lends itself easily to the constructed identity and brings up many questions as to what is true or false in the information offered by the people who stage it: the web has become a relational tool with which individuals try to forge closer relations.
Curator élne Tremblay has invited four artists who have developed fictitious identities in their practices to create works where these probable identities could spread. Net surfers will be invited to discover them, to witness fragments of their life and to form relationships with them, in a context where certain doubts could arise as to the existence of these characters.
The artists, Marie-Josée Hardy, Maryse Larivire, Marcio Lana-Lopez and James Prior, pose as characters being telephoned by the owner of a lost cell phone. Their names, telephone numbers and other personal information appear on the menu of the cell phone, which serves as an interface to contact each of them, at least with the accessible elements of their personae.
The web design of this new production by Agence TOPO is the creation of Guy Asselin, assisted by Jody Scallon. An essay by the curator is accessible online in French at www.AgenceTOPO.qc.ca/contacts