REMEDIOS’ TERRARIUM
Fine Arts Gallery – March 19 – April 4, 2008
Certainly in the course of making an event, we produce objects and media and, most importantly, some latent behavior, but all as elements conditioning an event. Its continuously evolving responsive environment changes weather and behavior according to the hour and the day, and according to what’s happening inside or outside its porous boundaries. We arrange our objects in a physical space to leverage the unbounded corporeal intuition that visitors bring with them, so the Remedios Terrarium is an architectural experiment as well as an event.
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The Remedios Terrarium is also a set of conversations, articulated in things and events. It’s a philosophical investigation carried out in the form of material experiments made of experimental modes of matter. We create things, media instruments, and kinetic plants, “spoken” from diverse perspectives. We can be noisy, divergent, and even contentious, but making and exhibiting Remedios Terrarium —the 100 day long event — requires us to create a common boundary object together.
As you walk about the Gallery, you’ll encounter individual and collective echoes of questions and speculations reaching ten years back: How can we make compelling events without convention? What makes some events dead and others live? What is a gesture when we do not assume bodies a priori? How do conventions and bodies come into being or dissolve in the continuously flowing world?
TECHNIQUES and CONSTRUCTION
Topological Media Lab’s media choreography system: camera-based tracking, state engines, realtime gestural sound, realtime calligraphic video. Sculpture using rapid-prototyped, laser cut plastic, water, plants. Set construction.
PEOPLE
Remedios’ Terrarium features works by affiliates of the Topological Media Lab from Special Individualized Programs, Humanities PhD Program, MFA Studio Arts program, Design Computation Arts, Computer Science, Contemporary Dance, Electroacoustics, Theatre, and the University of Manitoba / Department of Architecture, and Pneuma.
| Artistic Direction : | Sha Xin Wei |
| Black Box Sound : | Timothy Sutton |
| Camera Tracking : | Jean-Sébastien Rousseau |
| Cells Concept & Design: | Pneuma: Patrick Harrop & Peter Hasdell |
| Cells Design & Production – Winnipeg : | Gregory Rubin, Candace Fempel,Evan Marnoch, Dirk Blouw |
| Cells Design & Production– Montreal : | JC Nesci, Jean-Sébastien Rousseau |
| Documentation (Photo) : | Morgan Sutherland,David Jhave Johnston,Emmanuel Thivierge |
| Documentation (Video) : | Desh Fernando, Ludwig Manahan |
| Dynamic Lighting : | Harry Smoak |
| Glass Cones : | Lenka Novak |
| Graphics Programming : | Michael Fortin |
| Networking : | Harry Smoak, Jean-Sébastien Rousseau,Michael Fortin |
| Plant Systems : | Flower Lunn |
| Promotion : | Lynn Beavis, Josée-Anne Drolet, JC Nesci |
| Print Design : | JC Nesci, Valérie Lamontagne,Josée-Anne Drolet |
| Project & Event Coordination : | Josée-Anne Drolet |
| Real-Time Calligraphic Video : | Jean-Sébastien Rousseau |
| Roundtable Event Production: | Josée-Anne Drolet |
| Roundtable Documentation : | Harry Smoak, Tim Sutton, David Jhave Johnston |
| Sebald Puppet TheatreConcept & Design : | Mark Sussman, Ayesha Hameed |
| Sensate Tapestry : | Marguerite Bromley, XS Labs |
| Sensate Tapestry Electronics : | Elliot Sinyor |
| Sensate Tapestry Sound: | Doug van Nort, Elliot Sinyor |
| Sound Field : | Timothy Sutton |
| State Composition : | Sha Xin Wei |
| State Engine : | Emmanuel Thivierge,Morgan Sutherland (Yon Visell) |
| Suitcase : | Elena Frantova |
| Technical Design & Consultation: | Harry Smoak |
| Touch2 Calligraphic Video : | Jae Ok Lee, Jean-Sébastien Rousseau |
| Touch2 Choreography : | Soo-Yeon Cho |
| Touch2 Dancers : | Soo-Yeon Cho, Kiani del Valle |
| Touch2 Set Construction : | Josée-Anne Drolet, Jae Ok Lee,Marine Antony, Jerome Delapierre |
| Touch2 Set & Costume Design : | Josée-Anne Drolet, Jae Ok Lee |
| Touch2 Sound : | Timothy Sutton |
| Touch Video : | Desh Fernando, Touch Creators |
| Vernissage Sub-Event Design : | David Jhave Johnston |
| Vitrine Display & Design : | Flower Lunn, Elena Frantova, Nadia Frantova, Jean-Sébastien Rousseau,JC Nesci |
| Vitrine Design Technical Assistance : | Ludwig Manahan |
| Web Design & Promotion : | Elena Frantova, David Jhave Johnston |
REFERENCES
http://topologicalmedialab.net/remediosterrarium/