Caroline Dubois et Julie Favreau
Plan d'aménagement
(performance and construction)
November 5 to 26, 2007
at 280, rue Beaubien est, Montréal
Performances :
Cycle "comfort" - Friday November 9 at 9PM
Cycle "risk" - Friday November 16 at midnight
Cycle "filth" - Saturday November 24 at 3PM
Plan d'aménagement takes an interest in the ambiguity and curiosity passers-by experience when they come upon a space under construction or development - a space in the making. In response to this ambiguity, Caroline Dubois and Julie Favreau will assemble various settings and situations of "soon-to-open" businesses or film stage. Plan d'aménagement takes place in a vacant commercial premise on Beaubien Street.
Investigations and performances carried out in this space during an entire month will fall into three thematic categories: "comfort", "risk" and "filth". These themes will guide construction and actions that will unravel there. The artists will continuously redesign and transform the commercial premise. The construction/destruction activities within this setting will become the building blocks of choreographies for three different performances. From the sidewalk, passers-by will witness the daily activities as well ass all phases of the project: construction, research and performance. They will be invited to come inside or to view from the shop window. Both the process and the performances will be accessible to them.
Caroline Dubois is a visual artist and choreograph. Julie Favreau is a visual artist. Through their joint practise, the boundaries between art forms are blurred, mixing visual arts, performance, living portraits, dance and theatre. In Dubois and Favreau's scenography, the body is completely dependent of the object.