YBCA presents the US debut of French artists Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin in a new project, Singing the Net. Singing the Net centers on ideas of frontiers, movement and identity using the Internet’s unique territories, histories and identities as inspiration. Bernier and Martin are interested in how Internet navigation movement might be translated and captured in sound, text and video.
Singing the Net centers around New Kahnawaké / La Nouvelle Kahnawaké, an experimental documentary film created by Bernier and Martin. New Kahnawaké explores the 7 Sultans Casino, one of the three hundred online casinos hosted by servers located in Kahnawake, a small Native American reserve to the south of Montreal, Canada. For this project, Bernier and Martin conducted a series of interviews with Kahnawake men and women, and incorporated elements of these interviews throughout the film. Bernier and Martin patterned the creation and editing of this film on the navigation system of an Internet browser’s history tool.
New Kahnawaké / La Nouvelle Kahnawaké is screened in fragmented parts throughout the gallery as a multi-channel sculptural video installation. The film’s soundtrack, created by Bernier and Martin, features recordings of Steve Bowerman, a professional auctioneer. Bowerman will also perform live musical interpretations during a public program held in conjunction with the exhibition. This unique project is a collaboration between YBCA and the new French residency program, in San Francisco, of the Kadist Art Foundation.
Public program schedule:
Film Screening
May 8, 2-4pm
YBCA Screening room
Free with gallery admission
Screening of New Kahnawaké / La Nouvelle Kahnawaké
A film by Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin followed by a question & answer session
42 min. HD. 2010
Live Performance
May 13, 6-8pm
Gallery 3
Free with gallery admission
A musical performance featuring professional auctioneer Steve Bowerman performing live as part of Singing the Net.
Discussion and Screening
May 15, 2-4pm
Gallery 3
Free with gallery admission
Artists’ Talk
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