{"id":63630,"date":"2017-06-15T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/?p=63630\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:21:40","slug":"an-artistic-intervention-on-the-lachine-canal-national-historic-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/2017\/06\/an-artistic-intervention-on-the-lachine-canal-national-historic-site\/","title":{"rendered":"An artistic intervention on the Lachine Canal National Historic Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wanderer: (re)Marking | Le fl\u00e2neur : (re)marquer<\/em>, a project by Douglas Scholes, is\u00a0presented on the Lachine Canal National Historic Site, June 15\u201325th.<\/p>\n

The project approaches the Lachine Canal as an entity, seen through the eyes and actions of the Wanderer, a character created by the artist. As this character, he performs a series of walks and interventions along the Lachine Canal, in response to the environment, the history, and the current and imagined realities of the canal. The Wanderer walks, performs maintenance activities, and draws attention to certain objects on the site, including bollards, vestiges, train tracks, and construction sites, inviting us to observe the changes that take place over time.<\/p>\n

\"\"In June 2017, beeswax sculptures appear on site, as ephemeral markers referring to notions of habitat, community, and labour, establishing a relationship between nature and culture in a landscape marked by the history of the working class and the industrial heritage. Scholes\u2019s actions, performed over four seasons, were recorded in order to produce videos, in collaboration with Les Best Boys, and a series of photographs that reveal a narrative about the Wanderer\u2019s presence along the Canal.<\/p>\n

\"\"In order to further reveal the layers and voices of the Canal, Scholes called upon a number of contributors \u2013 composers Atobop, writer Daniel Canty, sound artist Christian Carri\u00e8re, and visual artist Felicity Tayler \u2013 who have created, respectively, a musical piece, a book, a soundscape, and an alternative tourist map of the canal. Presented as an urban intervention and exhibitions in shipping-container galleries, the work includes performative walks, in situ sculptural interventions, videos created in collaboration with Les Best Boys, and the works produced by the contributors.<\/p>\n

Wanderer: (re)Marking | Le fl\u00e2neur : (re)marquer<\/em> is curated by V\u00e9ronique Leblanc, with the collaboration of Laurie Lamoureux-Scholes, Charlotte Lalou Rousseau, and Andr\u00e9ann Cossette Viau, as part of LandMarks2017\/Rep\u00e8res2017, produced by Partners in Art.<\/p>\n

More information about the program :\u00a0LandMarks2017.
\n<\/a>Facebook page : here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wanderer: (re)Marking | Le fl\u00e2neur : (re)marquer, a project by Douglas Scholes, is\u00a0presented on the Lachine Canal National Historic Site, June 15\u201325th. The project approaches the Lachine Canal as an entity, seen through the eyes and actions of the Wanderer, a character created by the artist. As this character, he performs a series of walks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":63623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63630","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\/63630","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=63630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63632,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63630\/revisions\/63632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}