6 July 2017 7pm - 8pm
Curator’s talk:
Anne-Lou Vicente and Raphaël Brunel
(What You See Is What You Hear)
Thursday 6 July, 7 – 8PM
Addmission is FREE and all are welcome
From Marconia di Pisticci to Toronto (and back): a post-radio tale
On the occasion of this talk, they will discuss Toronto’s connection to Marconia di Pisticci, a small town in Basilicata, South Italy, where they were invited in 2016 to lead a workshop investigating a kind of unconscious soundscape of the place and its surroundings. Haunted by the spectral presence of Guglielmo Marconi, Pythagoras and Max Neuhaus, this workshop consisted of mixing up radio, acousmatic and sound art issues. Here we have a new guest in the story: Johnny Lombardi, aka Mr. Toronto, the inventor of multicultural radio in Toronto.
Anne-Lou Vicente and Raphaël Brunel are independent art critics and curators. They notably founded the bi-annual and bilingual contemporary art magazine about sound VOLUME in 2010. Since then they work together in the frame of the editorial and curatorial platform What You See Is What You Hear, created in 2014 and which they are still running, exploring the links existing between contemporary art and expanded sound. Drawing as much from art history and phenomenology as from media theory and cultural studies, their research, curatorial and editorial projects attach a specific importance to notions such as transmission, communication and diffusion.
Steps/Mesures is a short-term residency program presented in partnership with the Institut Français and the Consulate General of France in Toronto. This program invites artists and curators living in France for a series of short-term residencies in Toronto to forge conversation between cultural ecologies.
With special thanks to Selma Toprak and Justine Marie at the Consulate General of France in Toronto, and the Institut Français, Paris.
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Anne-Lou Vicente et Raphaël Brunel sont critiques d’art et commissaires d’exposition indépendants. Ils ontnotamment fondé en 2010 VOLUME, revue d’art contemporain sur le son semestrielle et bilingue. Depuis, ils collaborent ensemble dans le cadre de la plateforme What You See Is What You Hear qu’ils ont fondée en 2014 et dont ils assurent la direction artistique, poursuivant ainsi leur exploration des liens entre art contemporain et son « élargi ». Puisant autant dans l’histoire de l’art et la phénoménologie que la théorie des médias et les cultural studies, leurs recherches et projets curatoriaux et éditoriaux portent une attention particulière aux notions de transmission, de communication et de diffusion.
Steps/Mesures est un programme de résidence du centre d’art contemporain Mercer Union organisé en partenariat avec le Consulat général de France à Toronto et l’Institut français. Dans le cadre de ces courtes résidences à Toronto, des artistes et conservateurs vivants en France sont invités à échanger et créer un dialogue entre différentes sphères culturelles.
Avec le soutien de l’Institut français à Paris et du Service culturel de l’Ambassade de France au Canada