capsules montréalaises, 2010
A series of 5 4″ x 6″ postcards launched as part of RAIQ’s conference Arts interdisciplinaires: Hi-Tech, Low-Tech, No-Tech?
In an attempt to break my everyday routine in Montreal, I tried to match an attitude with a specific location.
untitled (Passage Festival), 2009
1′17″ single-channel video shown as part of Passage Festival, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris.
I recycled a quote from Herman Melville, submitted by Violaine Boutet de Monvel and Jeff Stanley, curators.
Greenwich Village Video Podcast, 2008
Video walk meant to be watched on mobile media devices such as iPod or iPhone. Launched as part of Conflux 2008, Center for Architecture, New York. Released on la domestique.
I wandered in Greenwich Village looking for green places. I then playfully invited the viewer to “walk with me”: to recreate my journey using his/her portable media device.
balades à Paris, 2008
Video walk meant to be watched on mobile media devices such as iPod or iPhone. Launched as part of Pocket Films Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Released on la domestique.
A video-based scavenger hunt, where I proposed to use personal markers to follow me in the Marais’ sinuous streets. Excerpt:
digital flipbooks, 2008
Brooklyn Video Podcast, 2007
Series of 2 video walks meant to be watched on mobile media devices such as iPod or iPhone. Launched as part of Conflux 2007, The Change You Want To See, Brooklyn, New York. Released on la domestique.
A series of video-documented dérives in Brooklyn, during which I proposed to follow my steps to find my everyday habits and discoveries. Excerpt:
rendez-vous, 2006
Directed with Mariève Desjardins, 2006, 2’26”. Video created for mobile phones. Shown in Paris as part of the second Pocket Films Festival, presented at the Centre Pompidou by the Forum des Images.
A lo-tech transcription of a SMS users’ habits. Postponed rendez-vous…
vous m’avez vue, 2005
Series of public performances in Montreal, color photography.
This project, was made up of a series of urban outings, minimalist performances documented photographically. Wearing a T-shirt printed with the phrase “Vous m’avez vue” (“You saw me”), I created an event by capturing looks shared with passersby. I also provoked encounters with some of them by placing myself in various spaces of visibility and contexts of the selected photographic layouts. In this context, I took my place in the commercial street of Chinatown and then I joined a team of itinerant vendors. I sneaked into tourist souvenir photos in Old Montreal. I found my way into the background of a film set for an American movie and into photos taken by people on the street. I stood in the window display of a department store located on the main commercial street of the shopping district…