"What Do Stones Smell Like In The Forest" @ FOFA Gallery, Montreal, April 23 - May 25, 2018
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Chloë Lum &Yannick Desranleau
What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?
April 23 - May 25, 2018
FOFA Gallery
EV 1-715, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex,
Sir George Williams Campus, Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine W.
Montréal, H3G 2W1
info.fofagallery@concordia.ca
514-848-2424, ext. 7962
EXHIBITION PROGRAMME:
VERNISSAGE:
April 26, 2018
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
FOFA Gallery,
EV 1-715, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex,
Sir George Williams Campus, Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine W.
Montréal, H3G 2W1
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PUBLICATION LAUNCH:
May 24, 2018
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
FOFA Gallery,
EV 1-715, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex,
Sir George Williams Campus, Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine W.
Montréal, H3G 2W1
PERFORMANCES:
May 3 & May 24, 2018
7 p.m.
EV Building Black Box Theatre,
1515 St-Catherine st. West, 3rd basement (EV S3-845)
Montréal, H3G 2W1
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A romance of reclaiming the ill body from the jaws of stillness by merging with the universe of things. Via a network of things, the body extends itself, connecting with stuff, reaching spaces and places with greater ease and expanded potentials. Like an ever-growing creature made of unfired clay, new limbs being hastily built-on as others drop off. Possibilities multiply. Stilted with the anxiety of showing its vulnerability to the outside world, the ill body is awkward in public, but comfortable at home. The ill mind/body is never fully relieved; at best, it manages to forget its ill state through distraction and fantasy. The pain of the body slows down the mind, opening it up to near-constant reverie.
Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau’s What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? is an autofiction, and the second chapter in a series of speculative works reflecting on the affective relationships between sentient bodies and objects. The first instalment, Is It the Sun or the Asphalt All I See is Bright Black, an installation, performance, and video work, was presented in Montreal at Circa Art Actuel (Spring 2017). What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? takes a similar approach in telling the interior monologues of a character wishing to expand their limited mobility through their senses.