Programming

I have always been fascinated by public art and street art, which are committed to reaching out to people and challenging the everyday life of ordinary people. Moreover, frustrated that the haiku is not so well known, I searched a long time for the way to diffuse it in other ways, and thus join a new audience of readers.

For the Écritures publiques project, Carl Trahan decided to work with a selection of texts referring to the mass and the crowd. This initiative is motivated by the location of the proposed support (in the town’s center, nearby a subway station, in front of a busy bus stop).

After reflecting upon the interventional space where the sign is located, the strongest references to appear were the Red Light district, the student crisis', and the Quartier des Spectacles. Each of the nine poems were written bearing all of these considerations in mind.

I note what I appreciate from my day. It's about simple actions and small gestures, what is needed to cultivate a conscientious attitude in front of what surrounds me. I celebrate my appreciations at the studio each day with a written page of gr‘attitude’.

Sharpen your senses, wear out your shoes and take to the streets. To hear, breathe, palpitate, rustle the city. Pick up its words. "Belle Gueule", "Jours d'école", "King", "VENTE VENTE VENTE", "silence"... The words of the city are everywhere, in the civic order and the human disorder, they break through.

Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf presents a selection of sentences that he’s been writing and collecting for some time. They are affirmative sentences whose subject appears questionable and silly.

The reality of the Red Light has been absorbed by the expansion of the Quartier des spectacles. Red Shift offers a poetic countdown that invites you to dislocate history and go behind the scenes of today's Montreal to meet Lily and get back in time.

Can the artistic gesture take the form of a question, and not that of a statement? It is this question that is at the origin of the project Questions posées en vue d'une réponse définitive.

The project plays with the syntax of HTML, CSS or chatspeak tags to craft coded phrases that address ethics, media and the future. His statements will be inserted randomly throughout the year and will serve to punctuate the annual programming of this component.