Anne-Marie Bouchard artist talk and Syngja musical/visual performance
Friday, January 27, 2012, 7PM
4001, Berri Street (corner Duluth) space 201
Admission: $5 or *FREE* for members
Hors d’œuvres and refreshments will be served
Anne-Marie Bouchard, experimental videographer, worked with dancer Melanie Therrien and saxophonist Lyne Goulet on Short forays into the fairies’ wings. Together they created an interactive space in a fantasy world, integrating the viewer in the fairies’ dances. The viewer is placed in the hero’s position: first, standing in front of the “natural” world, the hero must decide to take on the journey. The hero is confronted then with unexplained forces of nature. Demons, ghosts and witches appear through video manipulation. A little further on the path, a fairy dance, calling the viewer forward. The longer the viewer moves near the fairy, the more the viewer gets caught up in her dance.
Experimental video artist, Anne-Marie Bouchard works video as a visual matter rather than with an objective witness. Her video work is inspired by intimate memories, ephemeral instants, like poetic bubbles in a fraction of time. Her camera work always suggests the presence of the person behind it, and the viewer is invited to look through her eyes, through her imagery. Her work is constructed in a poetic structure, where detail magnification, vivid colors, extreme slow motion and grain contribute to create a highly personal signature. Her video installations immerse the viewer into her poetic imagery. Anne-Marie Bouchard graduated in Film Production from Concordia University, Montréal in 1995 and earned an M.A. in Arts Visuels degree from Université Laval, Québec in 1999. Her work has been shown in festivals like Les Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois in Montréal, le Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA), Festival du Film Francophone en Acadie (Moncton, NB), Traverse Video (Toulouse, France), Zero Film Fest (Los Angeles, USA), Morocco, amongst others.
www.annemariereine.wordpress.com
Syngja is the combination of re-interpreted traditional Icelandic folk songs, psychedelic-pop and a cappella tape recordings of the sister team’s Icelandic Great-grandmother, infused with analogue projections. Cellist/songwriter Tyr Jami writes songs based on her poetic interpretation of dreams, life, and near-death experiences. Designer Zuzu Knew uses original drawings, prism vision and acetates to surface the living cartoon worlds of ancestors in the present.