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Capture Site
by Helene Doyon and Jean-Pierre Demers		  
     

Doyon/Demers
746, rue Saint-Olivier
Québec (Québec)
G1R 1H5
Canada
Tel:+(418) 524-6337
http://www.doyondemers.org/situation/index_sc.html

Keywords
Telematic Installation, Performance Art, Environment, Database,
Connectedness, In Situ, Heterotopia, Contextual Art

In the context of the Festival Art Action Actuel FA3, Doyon/Demers presented the third version of Capture Site, located 5.25 meters above a rooftop visible from the windows of Artexte. The installation, composed of sensors fixed to a suspended gridwork, gathered data corresponding to changes in the environment, detecting variations in luminosity, temperature and wind velocity, as well as the movements and pressure exerted by the performers.

The conversation d'amour, d'anecdotes et de théories between Doyon and Demers, as they stood on the aerial grid each day between 12:00 and 5:00 PM, were transmitted in real-time audio and video to the interior of Artexte's space.

For the duration of this performative event, the environmental data were translated into information taken from Artexte's bibliographical database. Five streams of data were produced from the random pairing of the environmental elements with different categories from the database.		   Constructed Situation, Capture Site, Montreal
Constructed Situation, Capture Site, Montreal
Photo: Benoit Pontbriand
Copyright © Helen Doyon and Jean-Pierre Demers
     

For example, measures of light intensity were matched with documents from the "Subject" category of Artexte's database, temperature changes found their equivalence from the "Geographic Code" category, wind speed was matched with "Artists", etc. These constantly changing data streams, produced by applying environmental variables to information concerned primarily with Canada's visual arts community, were accessible on-line, in real time.

Finally, an email message containing selected information from the climatic reading and the movements of Doyon/Demers at that precise moment, was automatically sent, every 20 seconds, to one of the five continents.

 
Artist Biographies

Helene Doyon and Jean-Pierre Demers
Helene Doyon and Jean-Pierre Demers have been working together since 1987. Active in performance art, but keeping free of all labels, Doyon/Demers identify themselves as "undisciplinarians". These "Socioaestheticians" have produced many events incorporating rural and urban environments, in which often voluntary citizens become both the material for the work and its dispersed authors. Their works have been presented in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands and Japan. Doyon/Demers are currently completing their Doctorat en Etudes et pratiques des arts at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada. In 2003, Helene Doyon was appointed professor in New Media Arts at the Ecole des arts visuels of Laval University in Quebec City. Jean-Pierre Demers also teaches at UQAM.
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