[Nettime-bold] location/dislocation

[Sylvie Parent <sylvie_parent@sympatico.ca>]

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LOCATION/DISLOCATION
http://www.deplacement.qc.ca
info@deplacement.qc.ca

Curators: Valérie Lamontagne & Sylvie Parent

Media Z Lounge & on the Web
New Museum of Contemporary Art
583 Broadway, New York, NY, 10012
(212) 219-1222
http://www.newmuseum.org

Exhibition: September 25 – October 7, 2001

Artists:

Æ (Gisèle Trudel & Stéphane Claude)
Atelier in situ (Annie Lebel & Stéphane Pratte)
Yan Breuleux
Johnny Ranger
Bill Sullivan
[The User] (Thomas McIntosh & Emmanuel Madan)
Nancy Tobin
Brad Todd

LOCATION/DISLOCATION

At a time when cyberspace is still being mapped out, this exhibition profiles seven Web-based projects
by Québec artists investigating concepts of “place” on the Internet.

Artist Yan Breuleux compares the evolving “geography” of the internet to the growth of a new continent,
where questions of power, difference, negotiation, and points of access come into play. In
NeverEndingStories, Breuleux culls graphic signs whose meanings are recognizable across borders and
cultures.

Several of the works consider how notions of architectural space are affected by the relationship
between the physical and virtual. Green, by the Æ collective (Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude), pays
homage to the work of visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, creator of New York
City’s Central Park and Montréal’s Mont-Royal Park. Johnny Ranger and Bill Sullivan’s
Everywhere/tout par tout questions the place of the individual and how identity changes through the
shifting contexts of real and fabricated environments. Brad Todd’s Utopia PKWY takes Joseph
Cornell’s house (Utopia Parkway, Queens, New York) as a motif, and transforms it into a Web-based
multimedia collage evocative of Cornell’s signature boxes.  In the main gallery space s(e)izing nyc, 1 :
10 000 : 1 by the architectural collective Atelier in situ (Annie Lebel and Stéphane Pratte) has as its
central motif New York City’s measured urban grid. Within this grid, the New Museum and the viewer
are featured in a series of spatial and temporal transpositions that echo the experience of displacement on
the Web.

The temporal aspect of navigating on the Web is a key concern for artist Nancy Tobin. Inspired by the
ubiquitous rest areas on North American highways, Tobin’s RESTAREA is a “stop” in cyberspace
where the viewer is invited to wait without interaction. In contrast, the Silophone project by [The User]
(Thomas McIntosh and Emmanuel Madan) transforms an emblematic industrial Montréal construction,
Silo #5, into an interactive musical instrument that can be played at a distance via telephone lines and the
Web.

This exhibition received support from Québec New York 2001, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du
Québec and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada. Promotional support
was also provided by Parachute magazine. Artbyte is the media sponsor of Digital Culture Evenings at
Media Z Lounge.

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