Programming

This summer, VERTICALE CENTRE D'ARTISTES invites you aboard Villa - vehicle for contemporary and digital arts for a collective exhibition in the Accès culture network!

Six artists and collectives from Verticale — artist-run center' programming present recent works. The theme and the context of the exhibition respond to each other around the notion of mobility. Each in their own way, the works on board Villa open up to questions of displacement, cartography, exploration and the creative habitation of urban space. Whether contemplative, intimate, critical, funny or disturbing, the works use digital tools both in their conception and in their mode of presentation and offer a diverse portrait of current creation on the ground.

Villa
Launched in spring 2018, Villa is the first mobile laboratory equipped for digital creation. A place for creation and production, microdiffusion, promotion and mediation, Villa is a foodtruck-style truck planned to host artists in current and digital arts in order to reach out to the public and citizens. An atypical space for dissemination, Villa is also an object and material to be shaped.

Program

Roby Provost Blanchard — Rencontre in-game
Inside a virtual reality headset, the player levitates in an environment built from 3D scans. These scans emerge from photos taken in Laval, Burlington and Lac Châteauvert and form an impossible urban landscape, a surreal assemblage.

Pascale Théorêt-Groulx — « Un peu plus haut, mon torse veille sur vous »
Pascale Théorêt-Groulx flew over Ile Jésus with a drone equipped with messages on paper that she disseminated in residential areas to targeted people from the air. Dubbed EAI (Entité Aérienne Instable), the drone filmed these aerial experiences and delivered them poetically on screen, accompanied by a narration by the artist.

Galerie Galerie — Grosses données lavalloises
The online art distribution space Galerie Galerie oversaw web creation workshops for the creation of animated avatars in the form of GIFs. The public's creations form a collective online exhibition that sometimes takes the form of a satellite map and sometimes of a cloud of keywords. This amalgamation of data as a collective work seeks to highlight the unique, creative and human side of each individual, while offering an unusual virtual portrait of a community.

Les Oracle.sss (Magali Babin, Marie-Claude Gendron, Katherine-Josée Gervais)
The artists took root in a territory that was unknown to them by entering into communication, through performative actions, with the different physical, psychic or energetic entities that presented themselves to them. Their actions took as a starting point a stone arch that had marked the entrance to a neighborhood for decades, a type of construction that serves to symbolically underline the entry into another world... Mystical and ritualistic, their approach intends to reveal the mysteries potentially hidden in the explored landscapes.

Janie Julien-Fort — Chantiers sous surveillance
The artist uses the technique of solargraphy, a photographic process requiring exposure times of several months. Attached to an element of the landscape around construction sites, hundreds of small pinhole cameras were installed according to the deadlines of the various projects. The images obtained are catalogued, mapped and rigorously documented, then disseminated online via an interactive cartography. The work is accompanied by a file presenting the solargraphy technique.

Lagueux & L’Ecuyer — La pêche à la mouche à feu
Co-creation project realized with citizens within the framework of a series of electronic art fabrication workshops leading to the assembly of an interactive and luminous installation in the public space. Around the Villa vehicle, the work unfolds in different configurations, adapting to the terrain and the urban furniture.