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Press release
For immediate release Projections series, Winter 2008
Montréal, January 29, 2008. The Projections series provides an ongoing showcase for video works, in a new relationship with the projected image and cinematic art. In the coming months, the series highlights Polish artist Artur Zmijewski and Taiwanese artist Tseng Yu-Chin.
Artur Zmijewski - Lekcja Spiewu/The Singing Lesson I and II The works of Polish artist Artur Zmijewski set out to transgress our societies’ taboos. For him, “art is a hard fight for human consciousness.” In the videos The Singing Lesson I (2001, 14 min) and The Singing Lesson II (2002, 16 min 30 s), he conducts singing lessons with deaf-mute children and forms an unlikely choir first in Warsaw, then in Leipzig, in the very church where Bach was cantor. Artur Zmijewski lives and works in Warsaw. He represented Poland at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and his work was presented at Documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007.
Tseng Yu-Chin – Who’s Listening and I Hate Assumption Poet, writer and video maker Tseng Yu-Chin explores the psychology of the everyday, particularly through the prism of childhood, as he plays on the gap between the innocence of that stage in our lives and our perception as adults. In one of the segments in the video cycle Who’s Listening (2003), children await the moment when they will be sprayed with milk, cheerfully submitting to a dubious joke. In I Hate Assumption (2005), the artist filmed children, with their complicity, going about their daily routines as they get ready for school (brushing their teeth, riding on the school bus), seemingly sleepwalking: eyes closed, heads thrown back, mouths open... Born in 1978, Tseng Yu-Chin lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. He represented Taiwan in 2007 at Documenta 12 in Kassel. Louise Simard is in charge of programming for the Projections series. The Musée d'art contemporain is a provincially owned corporation funded by the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fémininedu Québec. It receives additional funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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