Zipertatou and Maxou
GROSSE TERRE BOULE
Quai 5160 | Maison de la culture de Verdun
AN EVENT PRESENTED AS PART OF CAM EN TOURNÉE
In collaboration with Clémentine et Constance La Brie, Joséphine Laflamme, Jakob Baltazar Lebel, Léo Plouffe,
Cosmo Pouliot, Jasmin Raymond et le groupe Jacques, James et Seamus (Émile, Lou et Philémon Laflamme)
Commissaire de tournée : Marthe Carrier
Jean-Philippe Thibault completed his master's degree in visual and media arts at UQAM in 2003. Under the name zipertatou, his work has been presented at various places and events in Canada, Japan, Spain and France. By blending video installation, animation, modeling, photography, drawing, illustration, sound and musical bricolage and performance, he temporarily discards certain habits that lead him to assume the puerility of one thing and the austerity of another, and allows himself to be imbued with a specific sensibility, before turning his attention to humorous and poetic devices commonly described as "childish".
Maxime Bruneau uses objects he collects from bazaars, church basements and garage sales. Kitsch, old-fashioned and nostalgic, he transforms them to update and reflect contemporary issues. His work draws on surrealism and folk art, and has a strong humorous bent. He holds a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM, and has exhibited his work in solo shows at Espace Cercle Carré, l'Écart and P:142 in Berlin, Germany. In 2010, he was awarded a McAbbie Excellence Foundation Scholarship.
Is the artist's profession out of the ordinary? How do artists' children experience this reality? As part of Galerie B-312's 30th anniversary celebrations, zipertatou and maxou were invited to develop a project with a dozen children aged 8 and 14. With GROSSE TERRE BOULE, the artists produced a series of collaborative objects. The young people were involved in the entire process of creating an artistic video: the puppets were made from their drawings, the sets were designed following their ideas, they performed during the filming and composed the music and songs. By promoting their imagination, they were given the opportunity to appropriate the creative space as a way of working and getting involved.
Jean-Philippe Thibault completed his master's degree in visual and media arts at UQAM in 2003. Under the name zipertatou, his work has been presented at various places and events in Canada, Japan, Spain and France. By blending video installation, animation, modeling, photography, drawing, illustration, sound and musical bricolage and performance, he temporarily discards certain habits that lead him to assume the puerility of one thing and the austerity of another, and allows himself to be imbued with a specific sensibility, before turning his attention to humorous and poetic devices commonly described as "childish".
Maxime Bruneau uses objects he collects from bazaars, church basements and garage sales. Kitsch, old-fashioned and nostalgic, he transforms them to update and reflect contemporary issues. His work draws on surrealism and folk art, and has a strong humorous bent. He holds a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM, and has exhibited his work in solo shows at Espace Cercle Carré, l'Écart and P:142 in Berlin, Germany. In 2010, he was awarded a McAbbie Excellence Foundation Scholarship.