DEVENIR est un montage construit à partir d’un découpage sonore (échantillonnage d’un vinyle) et de sons additionnels (field recording + voix). Cette proposition sonore aborde des thèmes comme la perception de soi dans l’espace, la conscience des limites sensorielles et physiques, la volonté de redéfinir des repères et enfin l’autosuggestion comme moyen de transformation.

Le maintenant historique ENCAN CLARK revient pour la 23^ième année consecutive. Les recettes de l’encan permettent à Clark de poursuivre ses activités de production, de promotion et de diffusion du travail des artistes qu’il soutient. Acheter à l’ENCAN c’est encourager CLARK, mais aussi tous ces généreux artistes chevronnés qui dévoileront le meilleur d’eux-même.

Merci de magasiner chez Clark.

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Paradoxically, the experience of a shared geographical place was here approached from the viewpoint of the intimate in the context of an exhibition project planned for a space, which though considered as private, is actually programmed within a social perspective.

This first part of the project presented the experience of a frenzied flight beyond a static space, wherein a rigid comfort provided one with a certain sense of vertigo, an instinctive interest in the unknown, and this by organizing a perpetual and risk-ridden migration fraught with dangers: the possibility of imploding into the infinite, of the disappearance of one’s cultural markers, or even that of an historical amnesia. To rush forward for the sole sensation of speed as the wind strokes the skin. Vertigo is everywhere in this work where it draws out a nervous migration by constantly overpowering the signposts of the real and unreal.  

The movement between what is accessible and what is inaccessible, between the comprehensible and incomprehensible is at the heart of the video ENCLOSED, 2009, a dual-channel projection, which presents two synchronized spaces of miniature libraries (predominantly built out of books). As the camera moves mechanically, arbitrarily, through the twin spaces, one witnesses the changing scenery like a passenger, caught in its unyielding movement. The challenge is for the individual to negotiate their own level of engagement, to navigate this indefinite space.

Over a ten year span, Patrice Duhamel developed a complex universe in which drawing, video, music, art criticism and curatorial practice echo each other. Three years after his death, the Centre Clark, of which he was an active member, is dedicating an exhibition to him by offering a collective of artist-curators the two gallery rooms, so that we may, once again, appreciate the surprising meanders of his thoughts and visions. The first-time retrospective will present an overview of this artist, who was keenly attuned to the difficulties we face in trying to seize what binds us to others and the world. Duhamel was an existential bricoleur who continuously found new forms for our inadequacies by combining bodies and objects in a game of unexpected possibilities. It is at once through a rigorous introspection and the deployment of a vast network of literary and cinematic references that he carried out this exploration into which never failed to inject a dose of the absurd humour he was so fond of.

ElectroSmog: A common term referring to all artificial radiation caused by electric and electromagnetic fields. Electrosmog is present everywhere. It is invisible and inaudible.

In order to make electrosmog audible, I designed a system composed of an antenna, a radio receiver and a computer system. I programmed software to act as a kind of super remote control that automates the capturing of radio frequencies. Ultra rapid, the software captures 10 frequencies per second, analyses them and classifies them in a database. Reconstructed from millions of audio clips, ELECTRO W. T. is a radiophonic world tour, a recomposition of the electromagnetic landscape.

The first edition of an international exchange project between Montreal and Bordeaux.

This exchange residency is the result of a collaboration between centre Clark and the Zebra3/BuySellf situated in Bordeaux. The objective of this partnership is to offer excellent working conditions for the artists involved as well as an opportunity for them to establish contacts and international visibility for their work.

In March 2012, we receive an artist from Bordeaux who will have access for a period of eight weeks to the residency studio and woodworking shop for the creation of a work or series of works. The residency will follow with a five-week exhibition at galerie Clark.

Mathias Tujague

Mathias Tujague’s work deals with production of objects and forms from our everyday life belonging to our community. He focus on various elements and reproduces them isolated from their environnement. By taking away the fonction, the object is reduce to a sculptural form, and a blank Canvas. Thus objects are shown for what they are, and perceived for what they suggest. This would appear to give the objects a new fonction, but no. A certain element of gravity emerges for these objects which are reduced to their archetypal forms. Tujague considers installation as a whole, and not element by element.