LIGHT ATTRACTION
An audio-light performance and installation using high powered lights to shape the interior of an imposing, translucent, rectangular prism. A choreography of masses of light is controlled in real time in order to develop a fictional and dramatic narrative. Light Attraction refers to the phenomenon of nocturnal insects’ attraction to light: this instinctive and impulsive attraction is often fatal. This aspect of the work reenacts a biological phenomenon which remains unexplained by science.
The piece is a metaphor for the impulsive and obsessive behaviours found in human beings. In the same way certain insects are attracted to light – driven by their instincts – human beings behave in an instinctive and impulsive way, with little idea of the reasons that motivate them. Chantre’s work tells a story with light, creating different sensory scenarios in which the physicality of the public is the director. The work relies on a language of light which borrows its cinematographic grammar from Science Fiction films and relies on the past collective visual memories of the public, such as a sunrise or a foggy swamp, to translate. The light box spreads out, seeks and watches its observers. It rests before it takes over, blinds, attacks and fascinates the viewer.
Presentation:
– Lumifest, installation insitu, Longueil (CA), 2018
– Filux Festival, installation, Merida (MX), 2018
– Mois Multi, performance, Québec (CA), 2012
Filux Mérida, Mérida (MX), 2018. Photo: Gabriel Berber
Mois Multi, performance, Québec (CA), 2012. Photo: Isabel Rancier
Filux Mérida, Mérida (MX), 2018. Photo: Gabriel Berber
Filux Mérida, Mérida (MX), 2018. Photo: Lorena Montiel
Filux Mérida, Mérida (MX), 2018. Photo: Gabriel Berber
Filux Mérida, Mérida (MX), 2018. Photo: Gabriel Berber
Created in 2011-2012
Techinque: Transparent plastic canvas sheets, 10 steel pipes, 4 moving lights, 2 stroboscopic lamps, 2 haze machines, 4 speakers, 2 subwoofers, computer, MIDI controller, music software, multimedia software and audio effect unit.
Dimensions: 366 x 610 x 366 cm
Press and documentation :
– Article, Filux, Light Attraction, Médida (MX), 2018
– Mention, Focus Mérida, Light Attraction, Mérida (MX), 2018
– Article, Voir Québec, Julie Gagné, Light attraction, Quebec (CA), 2013
– Mention, Quoi faire à Québec, Light Attraction (Web), 2013
– Audio interview, CKRL, La croche oreille, Quebec (CA), 2013
– Mention, Le Devoir, Jerôme Delgado, Light Attraction, Montreal (CA), 2012
– Mention, Sonsdofuturo, Chris Quites, Light Attraction (Web), 2012
– Mention, Voir.ca, Julie Gagné, Light Attraction (Web), 2012
– Audio interview, Radio-Canada, C’est bien meilleur
le matin, Marie-Ève Dumulong, Toronto (CA), 2012
– Video interview, Mois Multi, Québec (CA), 2012
Credits:
Music, light, programming and design: Manuel Chantre / Production management: Mateo Thébaudeau – Productions RectoVerso / Programming collaborator: Thomas Ouellet Frédéricks / Acknowledgement :Gaëtan Gosselin, Viviane Paradis, Mateo Thébaudeau, Émile Morain, l’équipe du Mois Multi, Jasmine Pisapia du Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Danny Perreault, Jérôme Arseneault, Francis Pineau.
A Mois Multi and RectoVerso production.