Configuration d’une conversation

This proposal is a collaboration that took root in a performance where we proceeded to the material recording of a conversation spanning from sunrise to sunset, on Tuesday, April 17, 2017, and interspersed with the vagaries of daily life. By following a protocol established in advance, the conversation was archived according to a code of colors and materials corresponding to the topics discussed, grouped by category (relational field, artistic life, domestic life, etc.) and a code of knots according to the actions (e.g. meal, walk, etc.). Each yarn of wool was knotted to the others at random. The result is an object with a random but sincere configuration, like a friendship that began at Concordia University as part of a performance-oriented drawing course given by Professor François Morelli. We have chosen to interpret the conversation in silence through the movement of the bodies in dialogue, animating this object while listening and being present.

Materials: Wool thread, 2 digital photographies 120 x 120cm

Installation: Concordia University, Montreal, 2017

Avec Paule Gilbert https://paulegilbert.ca/