January 11 \u2013 February 9, 2013
\nOpening on Friday January 11, 5:30pm
\nPublic conversation on February 8 at 6pm<\/p>\n
In Jacques Giraldeau\u2019s 1970 documentary Faut-il se couper l\u2019oreille?<\/em> (Must we cut off our ears\u00a0?) there were artists, an architect, a designer, a woman who did not speak, and many cigarettes. There were Marxist references and radical discourse. Around Faut-il se couper l\u2019oreille?<\/em>, there was the political effervescence of 1968: nationalist impulses, linguistic debate, disobedience raised as principle. Artists invited themselves everywhere, spoke loudly, organised themselves, occupied and were pre-occupied.<\/p>\n At Skol in 2013 there will be artists, women who speak, men too, and tea of course. References to a printemps \u00e9rable from which all the leaves have not yet fallen…radical discourse? Around Faut-il se couper la langue?<\/em> (Must we cut out our tongues?), there will be the comfort of the institutionalized artworld: the sense of struggles won, the promise of possible careers, and the standardizing effect of grants. There will be artists betrayed by their own words, but above all, who will ask the question: How does our discourse define our rapport to the political – the way that we become engaged…or remain withdrawn.<\/p>\n In the gallery there will be an itineray: beginning with the research documents produced by Edith Brunette during a residency at the artist-run centre La Chambre Blanche, continuing with Giraldeau’s documentary and finishing with conversations with the artists Sophie Castonguay, Michelle Lacombe, Cl\u00e9ment de Gaulejac, Hugo Nadeau, Mathieu Jacques, Steve Giasson et Andr\u00e9e-Anne Dupuis-Bourret\u00a0\u2013 to be seen live in the gallery or on video. At the end of this collective research, on February 8th these same artists will participate in a public conversation in the gallery, letting us find out if, in fact, they let their tongues be cut out.<\/p>\n