Myriam Laplante
dal 31/10/2003 al 24/11/2003
Segnalato da
31/10/2003
Myriam Laplante
Trace: installaction artspace, Cardiff
All over the planet, powerful nations are trying to rule the world and smaller powers are trying to stay autonomous. Other rulers just try to get all they can while it lasts. All this is done ' for the good of humanity '. The more they mess up, the more they say it was all planned this way. The performance acts as a parody of secret military research laboratories that exist all over the planet.
'Everything Is Going According To Plan'
Sat. 1st Nov. 2003 - 18.00
All over the planet, powerful nations are trying to rule the world and
smaller powers are trying to stay autonomous. Other rulers just try to get
all they can while it lasts. All this is done ' for the good of humanity '.
The more they mess up, the more they say it was all planned this way.
The performance acts as a parody of secret military research laboratories
that exist all over the planet. There will be cages with rabbits, monkeys,
mice, working alembics, and chemicals to produce bacteriological weapons,
mounds of earth with little plants.
Born in Bengladesh in 1954, Laplante grew up in Quebec and is now based in
Rome. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and North America.
'..the work of Myriam Laplante has false bottom moods. On the surface, her
tales of common folly, with grotesqueness, combining cynicism with mockery,
the works are crude, biting and solemn. A curious and humble lesson about
the human zoo that is the world, they are surprising in their material and
dramatic outrageousness, and tip art in the direction of the theatre of
life.'
-Louise Dery, 'the Parody of The Worlds According To Myriam Laplante'
trace: is offered as a significant artspace that represents intersections
between artistic disciplines. A place for wider
discourse and dissemination of contemporary art practice that's seeks to
place emphasis on context in the working process. The focus is primarily
performative - to explore the previously untried ways of 'thinking' and
'doing' offered by time based art and work that emerges from this field -
performance, video, sonic, interactive, installation.
trace: highlights one artist per month - each artist presents a live
investigation with the 'trace' elements of this activity
exhibited as installation open to the public by appointment on consecutive
weekends during the month.
In the image: Miriam Laplante Danse Macabre (Rumba).
Performance - 18.00 Sat. 1st Nov 2003
Installation exhibition:
2nd -24th Nov. 2003
[view by appointment]
trace:
installaction artspace
26 Moira Place
Cardiff CF24 0ET
Wales/UK
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