{"id":56978,"date":"2016-02-05T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/?p=56978"},"modified":"2017-11-22T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T21:26:10","slug":"a-tout-hasard-a-documentary-series-on-public-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/2016\/02\/a-tout-hasard-a-documentary-series-on-public-art\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 TOUT HASARD, a documentary series on public art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The series is devoted to public art in Qu\u00e9bec. It immerses viewers in the work of sixteen artists.<\/p>\n<p>Each of eight episodes (in french) allows us to meet two creators and highlights the wealth of Qu\u00e9bec public artwork. Creator and Director Suzanne Guy\u2019s ambition was to entice and move viewers, piquing their interest in public art, so they notice and appreciate this art work.<\/p>\n<p>The title <em>\u00c0 tout hasard <\/em>(which can be translated as \u2018Just by chance\u2019) refers to the relationship a visitor has with the art. Public art appears more or less discreetly in a public space, and asserts its formal, conceptual or temporal characteristics. Some visitors use an itinerary or map to discover art work, but more often, the encounter arises because of a happy accident. As Suzanne Guy emphasized: \u201c&#8230;one day, you\u2019re walking more slowly, you\u2019re a bit more relaxed, and all of a sudden, you look up and notice something you\u2019d never seen, even though it was always there. I think that makes the encounter\u2014it\u2019s the randomness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series will have its Montr\u00e9al premiere at the Montr\u00e9al Museum of Fine Arts. Episodes will be presented in three sessions, i.e., February 11, 18 and 25, at 6 p.m. The series\u2019 director will attend, together with the artists.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will have the pleasure of meeting:<br \/>\nPatrick Beaulieu, Pierre Blanchette, Ludovic Boney, Pierre Bourgault, Sylvain Bouthillette, Marc-Antoine C\u00f4t\u00e9, Lalie Douglas, Jean-Robert Drouillard, Fernande Forest, Yechel Gagnon, Yves Gendreau, Lise Labrie, Diane Landry, Jean-Pierre Morin, Jos\u00e9e Pedneault, Michel Saulnier.<br \/>\n(For details about the presentations:\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbam.qc.ca\/en\/whats-on\/event\/a-tout-hasard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMFA website<\/a><\/u>)<\/p>\n<p>This is the series\u2019 second season, the first <em>Vu par hasard<\/em>, was presented on ICI ARTV. The second season will be on the air in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The series is devoted to public art in Qu\u00e9bec. It immerses viewers in the work of sixteen artists. Each of eight episodes (in french) allows us to meet two creators and highlights the wealth of Qu\u00e9bec public artwork. Creator and Director Suzanne Guy\u2019s ambition was to entice and move viewers, piquing their interest in public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":56929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64755,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56978\/revisions\/64755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}