In 5 interactive installations triggered by 4 performers and a virtual entity, Line Nault addresses the complex question of identity.
The spectator is invited to wander through a living laboratory that is part movement, part art installation, and spiced with performance and the digital arts. It unfolds like a kaleidoscope, as though five rooms (each with its own distinct lighting) opened onto the same strange house. No narration here, no chronology, no logical progression – the entire room is a playground. The stations cut the space into a labyrinth of alcoves, a maze of small galleries that the audience discovers at its own pace. From our own perception of ourselves, through the rites of passage that crystallize our identity to the eternal question of “Who am I?”, the piece is a veritable puzzle-poem that multiplies points of view, highlighting our impossible quest for original identity.
Line Nault is interested in the perceptive rather than the spectacular. Through the body that speaks or moves, she brings to light the invisible structures of human mechanisms and the behaviour of machines. She describes her approach as “interstitial”, both in her work on the body and in her view of artistic practices.
In 2018 Line presented a performative, interactive work featuring dance, video and digital string instruments entitled SuperSuper. An associate artist at Recto Verso from 2011 to 2016, as part of her mandate she produced Là (an audience-response installation), 2012 (an interactive installation) Attachée (stage version featuring installation-performance and a book). In recent years she has presented Super 8, La problématique de l’erreur, Kitmobile, L’espace des autres, Revenir en avant and Vivarium. Her projects are often based on digital string instruments designed with studio Artificiel. She worked with that team on Séquelles-diffusion and Boules.
November 10-11-12-13, 2021
5:30 p.m to 8:15 p.m.
Progressive entry every 15 minutes
25 $
A work by Line Nault
Performance Audrey Bergeron, Tony Chong, Jessica Serli and Peter Trosztmer
Long-distance performance Alexandre St-Onge
Digital string instruments and audio-visual media device Alexandre Burton
Lighting and set design Simon Guilbault
Costumes Elen Ewing
Artistic consultant Ariane Plante
Director of photography for Les refuges and Les fleurs Philémon Crête
Flower design and fabrication Brigitte Breault
Additional music Victor Burton Dallaire
Technical director Alex Larrègle
Systems configuration Guillaume Arseneault
Technical assistant Jimmy Lakatos
Technical supervisor for filming Les fleurs Fanny Arsenault-Villeneuve
Technical assistant for filming Les fleurs David Lamarche
Graphic design Jannicke Morissette
Co-production Line Nault, studio Artificiel, l’Agora de la danse.
Creative residencies Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Agora de la danse
