PROJECTORS [a performance by the artist martin messier]

By the artist Martin Messier, Projectors is a surgical work of art in which he orchestrates the engineering, manipulation and distortion of 8mm projectors under the lights of a digital projector. Through a tight stage lighting and the resynthesis of the 8mm projectors’ quasi-mythical roar, the machines come alive outside of the projection room and turn into bizarre and explosive noise mechanisms. All at once offbeat, unfamiliar and marvelously incongruous, this performance leads the public to a timeless universe, somewhere between dialogue, confrontation and technological contrast. Here, the projectors do not project: Everything but discrete, they take action and become the performance itself – loud and luminous.

Credits

Martin Messier : Artistic Directors, Performance, Video, Light, Music

Technical Directors : Maxime Bouchard

electronics : Jean-FranÇois Piché, Maxime Bouchard

Technical Design: Thomas Payette

Photo credit : Maxime Bouchard

Production : 14 lieux

Aknowledgements: Perte de signal

Thanks to the Canada Council for the Art for their support

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchK8F9ZAgg

https://martinmessier.art/projectors.html