Ligne de flottaison (Waterline) (2007)

Audio installation by Caroline Gagné and Patrice Coulombe

Caroline Gagné site

Developed during the spring of 2007, while in residence at the DAÏMÔN Media Arts production and research centre. The work was presented in the Studio space of the centre from May 23 until June 14, 2007, as well as at the centre VU in Quebec City in September 2008.  

At first, we were hoping to find a situation of transition between image and sound. That meant for us investing in a kind of transitory space, to explore a path located between two adjacent territories that do not touch themselves. We have thus placed the image around an object in suspension on a floating line where only the emerging part is revealed. The sound, diffused under the image, becomes the space where the object is vanishing under the waterline. Its disappearance gives rise to a temporality that is related solely to the sound, creating a trajectory under the surface.

Publications (french)
Guy Sioui Durand, « Ligne de flottaison / Oh », revue Inter art actuel, numéro 103
Louis Cummins, « L’expérience émotionnelle de l’espace comme hiatus de la présence », revue ETC, numéro 80, Décembre 2007, p. 59 et 60
Communiqué de l'exposition à DAÏMON (Gatineau)

Medias
movie of the exhibition at VU PHOTO (Québec) 2008
Audio excerpt of the exhibition at VU PHOTO (Québec) 2008
Audio excerpt #1 of the exhibition at DAÏMON (Gatineau) 2007
Audio excerpt #2 of the exhibition at DAÏMON (Gatineau) 2007