Programming

The exhibition Face B brings together musician Martin Tétreault and installation artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier. Each presents a little-known aspect of his production: Tétreault exposes the results of a year of daily interventions in a 365-page art history book and Gauthier introduces us to his research in experimental music. During the opening, Gauthier presented his first public solo improvisation with his invented instruments.

Martin Tétreault, just as he does with music, deconstructs, erases and triturates documents, whether they are books or record sleeves. Here he has tackled a 365-page art history book. Like subtracting the past days from a calendar, he has daily erased the content of the pages with sandpaper to keep only the numbers and words evoking the past. He also removed the images of works inside the book, leaving holes in the pages and digging small labyrinths deep into the thickness of the book. Christine Germain read the remaining text and integrated a soundtrack into the installation.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier recovers a multitude of machined objects (plastic funnels, galvanized steel sheets, pipes and motors) which, once gathered, deconstructed and diverted, become invented instruments. Through an electronic console of his own making, he alters pre-recorded sounds (voices on the radio, noises of all kinds, radio interferences, improvisation with his sound machines). Replayed in a choppy way through loudspeakers, the sound signal is chiseled by the rhythm composed live on the console. The exhibition will present recordings of his audio research carried out in the studio and in the workshop over the past two years (Les machines consentantes, Studio Avatar-Québec, 1999; Hachures, atelier, 2000).

This project is in keeping with DARE-DARE's desire to present hybrid practices and to encourage experimentation. It is an opportunity to make public the alternative path of these two artists. This exhibition is presented by DARE-DARE as part of the off-stage component of Vasistas? Window on Interdisciplinary Art, an initiative of Théâtre La Chapelle from February 2 to March 3, 2001.