Rousseau: We’ll start over from zero.
Lumumba: No. We have to get to zero first, before we can start from it.
(Jean-Luc Godard, Le Gai Savoir)
In A Sedimental Mood
Recent Sound-Image Works by Marc Couroux in Person
Friday, November 19, 8pm $8/ 5 members + students
CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave. down the lane
Executive Summary (2009)
The Following, Episode 1 (“Modified Limited Hangout”, with special guest star Robert Webber) (2009/10)
Strange Homecoming (A Structural Comedy) (2010) premiere
The work of intermedia artist Marc Couroux lives in and around various perceptual aporias, where paradoxical dislocations of matter flip focus to the unchartered territory between attention and distraction, sense and nonsense, a zone in which objects become processes, surfaces yield to sediment, where radical duration extends conventions beyond intended function.
The Following, Episode 1 (“Modified Limited Hangout”, with special guest star Robert Webber), a one-hour hall of mirrors (with commercials), emerges out of a collapse of 18 formulaic 1970s TV dramas, each featuring noted character actor Robert Webber ventriloquized into distinct visual and acoustic spaces, caught in a perpetual oscillation between the local singularity and the deus ex machina of structure. Executive Summary (video 2009) crisscrosses the porous boundaries between signal and noise, in a blowback of soundbyte proportions destined to wrest art away from communicative exigencies while troping on them.
Supplementing these titles will be a new sound-image work, Strange Homecoming (A Structural Comedy) created especially for Pleasure Dome, performing vagrant trajectories through reclaimed material long ago dropped down the proverbial memory hole.
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The work of intermedia artist Marc Couroux lives in and around various perceptual aporias, where paradoxical dislocations of matter flip focus to the unchartered territory between attention and distraction, sense and nonsense, a zone in which objects become processes, surfaces yield to sediment, where radical duration extends conventions beyond intended function. MC ’10