PRESS REVIEW
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Champion des événements artistiques in situ, Champ Libre s'apprête à investir une fois de plus l'ex-station de pompage Craig, située sous le pont Jacques-Cartier, pour un micro-événement d'art électronique sur le thème de l'eau, en lien avec l'architecture de la ville.

LE DEVOIR, MONTRÉAL, MAI 2004


If you plan on seeing anything over the next four nights, Champ Libre's DÉSERT is the place to be. The massive extravaganza of video, installation, performance and music occupies the equally imposing industrial setting of the des Carrières incinerator (1266 des Carrières, near Rosemont metro).

MIRROR, MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 2004


Montreal's Champ Libre advocates multidisciplinary collaboration in the resuscitation of urban space at this year's international festival of video and electronic art. ...For architects in particular, DESERT is a model of how designers anxious about urban space can collaborate fruitfully with creative (rather than technical) partners under an international spotlight to resuscitate decaying infrastructure.

CANADIAN ARCHITECT, TORONTO, NOVEMBER 2004

 

PRESS RELEASES  
 

Septembre 16th, 2008

After the Craig Pumping Station, the Des Carrières Incinerator, and the Grande Bibliothèque, Champ Libre continues its exploration of Montreal’s significant public spaces in transformation in this 8th edition of its international biennale. This year’s event, FOREST, explores more than ever the meeting of art, architecture, public space, and technology by associating for the first time artists and architects in collaborative artworks, which occupy, question, and explore public space in all meteorological conditions, and at all times of the day and night...

foret160908_uk.pdf
foret160908_uk.doc

 
   
 

September 15th, 2005

CHAMP LIBRE – a nomadic organization dedicated to the diffusion of multimedia art and architecture presents INVISIBLE CITY, an artistic event involving architectural intervention and new video which will take place in the garden of the Grand Bibliothèque National the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of September 2005 from 7:30 to 10 pm.

invisiblecite150905_uk.pdf

 
   
 

June 2nd, 2005

CHAMP LIBRE - an artistic organization dedicated to the presentation of multimedia art and architecture announces TERRE NOMADE/NOMAD'S LAND an in- situ architectural and video intervention-event which will take place from the 15th till the 19th of June 2005 at the Place SUN YAT-SEN square, in the heart of the Chinese neighborhood of Montreal

terrenomade050605_uk.pdf

 
   

April 5th, 2005

Champ Libre announces its 7th international biennale that will take place on the site of the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal in the fall of 2006.
Champ Libre and the Montreal architect Paul Laurendeau finalists for a 2005 excellence prize in architecture from the Ordre des Architectes du Québec

citeinvisible050405_uk.pdf

HI-REZ PICTURES

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Patrick Beaulieu / Philip Beesley
Meniscus
Patrick Beaulieu / Philip Beesley
Meniscus
Peter Hasdell / Patrick Harrop / Sha Xin Wei
Pneus


 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
Peter Hasdell / Patrick Harrop / Sha Xin Wei
Pneus
Michael Saup / Atelier Big City
Falling Forest
Michael Saup / Atelier Big City
Falling Forest


 
   
 
 
   
 
 
Forêt/Forest
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Forêt/Forest
poster (pdf)
 


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