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Christian BOUCHARD
“Broken Ground”
Broken Ground was realized in 2011-12 at the composer’s studio in Montréal (Québec) and premiered on February 11, 2012 during the exhibition Broken Ground by Derek Besant at Phoenix Brighton in Brighton (England, UK); the work was revised in 2013 and premiered on April 18, 2013 during the 55th Vienna Biennale at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna (Austria).
About the Exhibition Broken Ground
“The exhibition Broken Ground looks at seven cities over ten years, and how redevelopment infrastructure changes our perception of cityscapes. These cities could be anywhere (everywhere). Reconstructed from the opportunities of street level construction, I treat the sites more like stage sets, where there are props, actors, entries and exits, and evidence through the debris, disarray, shadows of figures and randomness throughout.
In our contemporary world the works have taken on hybrid references of displaced people from war zones, or natural disasters that fill nightly newscasts in the media.
The collision of my imaging with Christian Bouchard's electronic soundtrack builds the exhibition installation into a hypothetical representation of the constant change cities are in over time, and how components leave traces or clues to the ones that might have existed here…
Even in destruction, there lies the possibility for beauty and reinterpretation. Broken Ground invites reconsiderations into how our surroundings decompose around us and the phoenix-like reconfigurations that grow out of such interferences. Cities exist as ideas that we consistently negotiate our ways through and look for signposts to traverse the artificial landscape. Yet, at the heart of the exhibition is a recognition of things that feel familiar to us in our exposure to media and events that are particular to other parts of the world.”Derek Besant, Calgary [xi-16]
About the Exhibition Broken Ground
“The exhibition Broken Ground looks at seven cities over ten years, and how redevelopment infrastructure changes our perception of cityscapes. These cities could be anywhere (everywhere). Reconstructed from the opportunities of street level construction, I treat the sites more like stage sets, where there are props, actors, entries and exits, and evidence through the debris, disarray, shadows of figures and randomness throughout.
In our contemporary world the works have taken on hybrid references of displaced people from war zones, or natural disasters that fill nightly newscasts in the media.
The collision of my imaging with Christian Bouchard's electronic soundtrack builds the exhibition installation into a hypothetical representation of the constant change cities are in over time, and how components leave traces or clues to the ones that might have existed here…
Even in destruction, there lies the possibility for beauty and reinterpretation. Broken Ground invites reconsiderations into how our surroundings decompose around us and the phoenix-like reconfigurations that grow out of such interferences. Cities exist as ideas that we consistently negotiate our ways through and look for signposts to traverse the artificial landscape. Yet, at the heart of the exhibition is a recognition of things that feel familiar to us in our exposure to media and events that are particular to other parts of the world.”Derek Besant, Calgary [xi-16]
12,00€