Death is ten seconds away. Just enough time to do something simple and unimportant. In the context of extreme sports, the artist and his skydiving mentor invite spectators to consider the meaning of keeping control in dangerous situations.
Falling through the sky is a difficult place to do something ordinary. The fear of dying, of making mistakes, of not getting it right, or of simply looking stupid all come into play and have to be overcome in order to continue, to survive.
This exhibition, Turning Point, is a collaborative project between artist Paul Litherland and aerial performer Bertrand Cloutier. It is a video installation consisting of two synchronized video projections with quadraphonic sound. Viewers are mesmerized and destabilized by two skydivers in freefall (Litherland and Cloutier), signalling to each other and the viewer. Together they turn circles in perpetuity.
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- Exhibition history
- Turning Point
- (solo show)
- September 13 - October 19, 2002
- Optica, 372 rue Sainte-Catherine O., espace 508, Montréal, QC
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- Curator(s): Pierre Fournier
- Optica gallery site with project description
- Production Credits
- Sound mixing : William Dueck and Chris Murtagh (OMBU productions) // DVD Authoring : Andrew Brouse // Freefall videos : Claude Limoges, Yannick Langevin et Alex Coté (camera), Maurice Richard (equipment) // Creative Consultants : Donald Goodes, Karen Trask // Video editing : Paul Litherland // Exhibition installation : Paul Litherland, Thomas Bégin, Karen Trask, Patrick Mailloux, Dagmara Stephan, Marie-Josée Lafortune // Curator : Pierre Fournier // Video Projectors : Karen Trask, Pierre Francois Ouellette
- Related documents
- Communiqué Optica (inclue un poème en français de Bertrand Cloutier l'autre parachutiste dans le vidéo et collaborateur dans ce projet)
- Matthew Woodley, From Richelieu to Resistance (Fall Arts Preview), Mirror, September 12 to 18 2002
- Review: Allison Pletch, High Diving : Video art flies, McGill Daily.
- Listing/preview: HOUR, Visual Arts
- Component Pages
for this work
Turning Point video documentation
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Video Works
