Programming

La réserve is an installation conceived from the particular story of a park left without use by the City of Montreal. Not knowing what to do with it, it was decided not to decide anything and leave this space white on the map of the city. So for this decision by default to not be modified by use, it was surrounded by a fence to prohibit access to it. By moving there in 2006, DARE-DARE opened the fence and developed an intriguing label: "located in a no name park". Clément de Gaulejac decides to join this story by imagining a device by which this no name park becomes The no name park.

Two squares

A structure, installed at the edge of the park, borrows from the City of Montreal the two squares, one red and the other gray, which usually designate what belongs to its equipment (swimming pools, arenas, schools, parks, etc.) . But this quotation from the municipal signage is singularly different; the two squares are here deprived of any inscription: no logo, no name comes to specify the designation. This silent sign inscribes in space the "a-nomimal" character of the park. It gives way to an absence and makes it possible to represent the void, if not to create it.

Nous y voilà

A suitcase, mobile and transparent, completes this device. In it shines a neon indicating that a path has come to an end: Nous y voilà. In the hollow presence of a place without a name, responds the integrity of a presence that asserts itself without specific anchorage, a name without place. This "word-holder" that can be posed anywhere determines its own context, unlike the "you-are-here" plans whose meaning can only be understood by referring to its context. Nous y voilà, because we planned to be there.

Clément de Gaulejac's work is part of a filiation of the global conceptual project in which he revisits the formal achievements by articulating them with concerns stemming from "du réel le plus platement réel". His projects move back and forth between careful observation of daily life and formalistic research on the language and foundations of communication. This dialectic has the effect of gently moving certain rules of the game.

Project blog: eau-tiede.blogspot.com

At the no name park
Opening Saturday, July 7, 2007 from 18h to 23h

Clément de Gaulejac lives and works in Montreal. He has presented his work solo or in groups in Canada, Europe and the United States. He obtained several residencies including Les Inclassables in Montreal in 2002 and the East-North-East Center of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli in 2005.
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