Écran Total | Artist and Curators Talk
June 18th, 2021
Zoom Meeting
Penelope Umbrico, Louise Pelletier, Amandine Alessandra, Carole Lévesque, Katharina Niemeyer, Magali Uhl
Arts Letters & Numbers founding director David Gersten and Louise Pelletier, director of the UQAM Design Centre and Arts Letters & Numbers visiting artist, are pleased to collaborate in presenting this public panel discussion of the exhibition ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN. The Artist and Curators Talk will be the opportunity to hear Penelope Umbrico describe her latest work: Out of Order / eBay (Broken Screens on Screen and Broken Screens), a multimedia installation that confronts us with the materiality of the screen as a solid interface between the ‘here’ of our physical being and the ‘there’ of intangible information. Through multiplied screens, it appears to us as a projection surface that we gaze upon, but that we are never quite able to see.
About The Exhibition
Presented at the UQAM Design Centre in Montreal, Canada, the exhibition ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN features Jean Baudrillard’s photographs in conversation with pieces by Penelope Umbrico, Mishka Henner + Vaseem Bhatti, Adam Basanta, as well as Charlie Doyon, Clint Enns, and Xuan Ye. Through photographs, projections, and installations, the ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN exhibition offers three distinct experiences of mediation that articulate critically Baudrillard’s concepts of virality, simulation, surveillance and implosion. The first mediation is a very « real », physical exhibition at the Design Centre; the second is an outdoor installation; and the third is a partially re-mediated online exhibition. In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of international conferences, round tables, and workshops will be available online.
