Culture pour tous
2007 projects: |
Alcoa – Deschambault Smelterlt and Tristan Fortin Le Breton |
Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and Caroline Hayeur |
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and SITQ and Jérôme Fortin |
Casacom and John Londoño |
Confédération de syndicats nationaux - CSN and Dolorès Contré Migwans |
Image de Mark and Jérôme Bourque |
Rona and Gilles Doré |
Telus and Christian Barré |
Culture pour tous would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for its financial support in 2007.
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In 2007-2008, Culture pour tous is developing a pilot project called “Art at Work,” with the collaboration of around ten private and publicly-owned corporations that have made a name for themselves with their commitment to the community.
The participating corporations will host the artists to develop works that involve interaction with the employees and result in an “open house” during the Journées de la culture 2007.
Communiqué – April 2, 2007: Art au travail 2008
Communiqué – September 17, 2007: Art au travail
Press releases:
Créativité dans le monde du travail
Journal 24 heures, March 20, 2008
Quand l’art motive les employés
Suzanne Dansereau, Les Affaires, October 6, 2007
Artistes en résidence au bureau
Jacinthe Tremblay, La Presse, April 23, 2007
Participating corporations and artists 2007:
ALCOA - DESCHAMBAULT SMELTER (Deschambault-Grondines)
Artist: Tristan Fortin LeBreton (photography)
Projet : Splash.
The artist photographed the smelter’s environment and employees, and printed these photos on aluminum panels, adding hardened splashes of molten aluminum.
BOARD OF TRADE OF METROPOLITAN MONTREAL
Artist: Caroline Hayeur (photography)
Project: The Board of Trade’s Views.
The Board’s hundred or so employees were each invited to take a photograph illustrating their vision of Montreal. The artist then photographed the individual employees in their workplace with their Montreal photo. The employees decided to display these images at the entrance to their office.
CAISSE DE DÉPÔT ET PLACEMENT DU QUÉBEC and SITQ (Montreal)
Artist: Jérôme Fortin (sculpture, installation)
Project: Some 50 employees of the Caisse and its subsidiaries, under the direction of the artist, created a “quilt” from recycled paper cut into strips, which were then folded and assembled. The work is now part of the CDPQ art collection.
CASACOM (Montreal)
Artist: John Londoño (photography)
Project : Exploring the theme of family and daily life, John Londoño invited CASACOM’s 15 or so employees to dig into their personal photo albums. From this image bank and his own compositions, the artist created two triptychs evoking dream times and getaways. The images are mounted on the windows of the main conference room.
CONFÉDÉRATION DE SYNDICATS NATIONAUX - CSN (Montreal)
Artist: Dolorès Contré Migwans (interdisicplinary)
Project: Ankoobjigan.
After a brief introduction to Ojibwa history and culture, 12 women employees went on a nature trip during which they created images representing the 13 moons. The collective work is exhibited in the cafeteria at CSN headquarters in Montreal.
IMAGE DE MARK (Saint-Georges)
Artist: Jérôme Bourque (photography)
Project: The artist and the Image de Mark team worked together to develop the visual and textual content of a photo exhibition and an art book on the creative process.
RONA (Boucherville)
Artist: Gilles Doré (painting)
Project: Under the direction of the artist, some 300 RONA employees from six departments, created six collective paintings in six days. The works were exhibited in the company’s long central corridor, known as the “Corrid’Art.”
TELUS (Montreal)
Artist: Christian Barré (photos, video and Web)
Project: La cigale et la fourmi.
The artist asked TELUS employees in Montreal, Quebec City, Rimouski and Sainte-Marie (Beauce) to send him photos on the theme of the environment. The images were then assembled into a collective online photo animation Internet.
See the project online: www.christianbarre.com/telus
In 2006, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Journées de la culture, Culture pour tous organized a special project called The Convertibles. It was a unique event featuring the creation and presentation of ten monumental collective works, produced in 10 Quebec locations by professional artists working with citizens’ groups (See www.culturepourtous.ca/theconvertibles). Culture pour tous wishes to pursue this type of creative experience in 2007, working to renew relations between artists and citizens by proposing a new artistic mediation project called Art at Work.
A call for projets has been annouced in spring to invite artists of all disciplines to participate by submitting creation projects that could potentially be part of a workplace residency.