GREVE en valise

Opening on Thursday August 23rd, 2012, at 5 pm.
Exchange program with Rad'Art (Italy)

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Wishing to reappropriate, reuse and rethink the urban space, Maria Teresa Zingarello and Silvia Pujia perform artistic activities within the public sphere. For them, to intervene in a place this way is a mean to reveal, recover and interact with latent realities of this space and with people who inhabit it. It is from this perspective that the artist duo from Italy, who opens LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE‘s 2012-2013 site-specific programming, will approach their creative stay in Quebec. By immersing themselves into the local reality, they will try to bring out the meanings, the stories, the memories and the fabric of daily life which compose the public place, as well as the conflicts, the contradictions and the elements of crisis, emergency, which shapes it. Studying the territory’s characteristics, they will bring to light some of its specific elements which raise awareness and encourage the public to be an actor : someone who, by interacting in a cultural project, creates a new way of living, dwelling in the city and public spaces. Receptive and sensitive to the current context of the student strike, the artists will adress this issue with paying a particular attention to its social dynamic.

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