_Anne-Marie Ouellet (CAN), Setting Consent
#Standards governing space #Group actions #Participatory
30.08.13 & 31.08.13 at 14:00, Tempelhofer Freiheit, entrance Oderstrasse
1 hr, in English
Audience should wear dark clothing
Maximum group size for each tour: 20 people
Supported by Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec
It has been admitted that prescribed standards guide our behavior in society. We borrow and adhere to behaviors suggested to us or that influence us. Both public and private spaces are governed by rules that control our use of those spaces. In the intervention presented at B_Tour Festival, the parameters will be clearly predetermined. The unexpected will have alternatives, eliminating all kinds of risk.
To be part of the group, to reunite, to perform in group actions that would usually be accomplished alone or in pairs, to appropriate a common space for a given time, to express one’s presence and to use the urban space differently, these are the guidelines for the action that will take place in Berlin’s massive public space, the Tempelhofer Freiheit. Once an airport, a highly controlled space, Tempelhof has been converted into a public park much to the delight of the Berliners who have appropriated the place in many ways during their spare time. The airport, like many other transit points, described as "a non-space" by Marc Augé, has become a public space, where the activities are all but ruled by time and schedules. A process of exploration, observation and experimentation of different actions will be undertaken a few days before the festival begins and then lead to one or several interventions that will be performed by groups of participants.
Referring to different group movements in the urban space ‒ parades, demonstrations, entertainment, patrols, etc. ‒ the participants will experiment with the purposes of a given public space in different ways. They will discover its limits through the observation of the standards governing this space and the frontiers between the private and public sphere.
To be part of the group, to reunite, to perform in group actions that would usually be accomplished alone or in pairs, to appropriate a common space for a given time, to express one’s presence and to use the urban space differently, these are the guidelines for the action that will take place in Berlin’s massive public space, the Tempelhofer Freiheit. Once an airport, a highly controlled space, Tempelhof has been converted into a public park much to the delight of the Berliners who have appropriated the place in many ways during their spare time. The airport, like many other transit points, described as "a non-space" by Marc Augé, has become a public space, where the activities are all but ruled by time and schedules. A process of exploration, observation and experimentation of different actions will be undertaken a few days before the festival begins and then lead to one or several interventions that will be performed by groups of participants.
Referring to different group movements in the urban space ‒ parades, demonstrations, entertainment, patrols, etc. ‒ the participants will experiment with the purposes of a given public space in different ways. They will discover its limits through the observation of the standards governing this space and the frontiers between the private and public sphere.
Anne-Marie Ouellet lives and work in Montreal (Quebec), Canada. Her interdisciplinary practice explores matters pertaining to the standards that govern behaviors in the public and private space. Through the elaboration and experimentation of different types of behaviors, Anne-Marie Ouellet creates organizational structures in the form of interventions in collaboration with groups of participants who wear her clothes-uniforms in the urban space. Her work mainly gravitates around the notions of individualism and collectivity, standardization and regimentation.
It has been shown in different contexts, including solo and collective exhibitions, festivals and special events in Canada, France and Germany. Anne-Marie Ouellet has a Masters’ Degree in visual and media arts of the University of Quebec at Montréal (2011).
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It has been shown in different contexts, including solo and collective exhibitions, festivals and special events in Canada, France and Germany. Anne-Marie Ouellet has a Masters’ Degree in visual and media arts of the University of Quebec at Montréal (2011).
FB Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/139298376279287/