PRESENTATION

Space Junk. Dysfunctional satellites errant between the cosmos and the earth, infinity and circumvolution. Video art. Lost in space between traditional and current media, the old and the new. An amalgam of artistic disciplines, and the culturally hybrid product escaping all categorization, following its own trajectory on an infinite creative horizon.

Liberated of all finality, space junk may also serve as an emblem for Quebec’s cultural situation, caught between Europe and America, French and English, the weight of history and an obligation towards the future. Named after Shawn Chappelle’s video, this special presentation of video art displays a panorama of recent Quebecois creations.

Programming is divided into three parts: Space Junk 1: Blending Edges brings together works in which dialectics occur in different forms amongst the following oppositions – the individual and the social, sexuality and norms. The story of life, loss of origins, and reminiscences of childhood compose an array of modernist designs in Space Junk 2: Lost Horizons. Space Junk 3: Remote Control reflects upon the different modes of current social mediations such as rational order and memory, cinema and technology.

	source S. Rioux