{"id":6564,"date":"2013-07-20T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skol.ca\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2020-10-28T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:45:22","slug":"etienne-de-massy-the-sublime-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skol.ca\/en\/programming\/etienne-de-massy-the-sublime-value\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9tienne de Massy: The Sublime Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <!--  -->\n\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-slideshow\"\n\t id=\"ngg-slideshow-3c39186c3de653068b86e96bd14e7b04-19251014730\"\n     data-gallery-id=\"3c39186c3de653068b86e96bd14e7b04\"\n     style=\"max-width: 540px; max-height: 300px;\">\n\n \t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:300px\">\n\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_mg_5687photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           title=\"\"\n           data-src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_mg_5687photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/thumbs\/thumbs__mg_5687photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"686\"\n           data-title=\"_mg_5687photo-guy-lheureux\"\n           data-description=\"\"\n           class=\"shutterset_3c39186c3de653068b86e96bd14e7b04\">\n\n            <img data-image-id='686'\n                 title=\"\"\n                 alt=\"_mg_5687photo-guy-lheureux\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_mg_5687photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n                 style=\"max-height: 280px;\"\/>\n        <\/a>\n\n        <\/div> \n<div id=\"ngg-image-1\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:300px\">\n\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_o6a5795photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           title=\"\"\n           data-src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_o6a5795photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/thumbs\/thumbs__o6a5795photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"687\"\n           data-title=\"_o6a5795photo-guy-lheureux\"\n           data-description=\"\"\n           class=\"shutterset_3c39186c3de653068b86e96bd14e7b04\">\n\n            <img data-image-id='687'\n                 title=\"\"\n                 alt=\"_o6a5795photo-guy-lheureux\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_o6a5795photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n                 style=\"max-height: 280px;\"\/>\n        <\/a>\n\n        <\/div> \n<div id=\"ngg-image-2\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:300px\">\n\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_o6a5846photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           title=\"\"\n           data-src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_o6a5846photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/thumbs\/thumbs__o6a5846photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"690\"\n           data-title=\"_o6a5846photo-guy-lheureux\"\n           data-description=\"\"\n           class=\"shutterset_3c39186c3de653068b86e96bd14e7b04\">\n\n            <img data-image-id='690'\n                 title=\"\"\n                 alt=\"_o6a5846photo-guy-lheureux\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/massy\/_o6a5846photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n                 style=\"max-height: 280px;\"\/>\n        <\/a>\n\n        <\/div> \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<strong>Video Installation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January 17 \u2013 February 15, 2014<br \/>\nOpening on Friday January 17, 5:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">An installation comprised of two videos, both produced using stop-motion techniques. The first, presented in the main gallery, is an adaptation of the poem <em>L\u2019argent <\/em>by Christophe Tarkos (1999). By putting this text in dialogue with his haunting and realistic imagery, and by deploying the irony in Tarkos\u2019 words to foster a certain level of discomfort, de Massy compels the spectator to examine his or her own relationship to money: \u201cthe sublime value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shown behind the first, as a sort of backstage view, the second video is a reflection on the digital image, on its immaterial, clean, and slick nature. Questioning its status as the \u201cperfect tool\u201d for the creation of parallel universes, irrational and completely disembodied, de Massy uses a process of accumulation, and sets the image to different rhythms, different arrangements that begin to build a narrative&nbsp;\u2013 captured live, suspended in fragments. Overflowing with abstract imagery, the video paradoxically creates a void, a distention of perceptions, a space without beginning or end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interpretive resources provided by the artist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poem by Christophe Tarkos:<\/p>\n<p><em>Pourquoi penser \u00e0 l\u2019argent plut\u00f4t qu\u2019\u00e0 autre chose<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>il y a trop de mani\u00e8res diff\u00e9rentes pour avoir de l\u2019argent il y faut penser<\/em><br \/>\n<em> la pens\u00e9e n\u2019est pas inutile<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (tous ceux qui ont gagn\u00e9 de l\u2019argent vous le diront)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> il est vain de dire qu\u2019il est inutile de penser l\u2019argent pour ne jamais en gagner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>et puis c\u2019est une chose qui n\u2019est pas d\u00e9nu\u00e9e d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>attention il y a plusieurs fa\u00e7ons de gagner de l\u2019argent et quelquefois cela<\/em><br \/>\n<em> entra\u00eene des calculs compliqu\u00e9s il y faut y utiliser la pens\u00e9e<\/em><br \/>\n<em> et prendre son temps (c\u2019est pourquoi il faut s\u2019y reprendre \u00e0 plusieurs fois surtout que de<\/em><br \/>\n<em> nouvelles id\u00e9es peuvent surgir entre temps et apporter tout un lot de nouvelles r\u00e9flexions)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bien s\u00fbr on peut penser \u00e0 autre chose mais au moins penser \u00e0 l\u2019argent peut donner<\/em><br \/>\n<em> de l\u2019argent<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (ce qui n\u2019est pas le cas d\u2019autres th\u00e8mes comme penser \u00e0 un radiateur, penser \u00e0 la<\/em><br \/>\n<em> terre, penser aux hi\u00e9roglyphes etc.)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Penser \u00e0 l\u2019argent est<\/em><br \/>\n<em> riche et complexe<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (cela am\u00e8ne \u00e0 penser \u00e0 de nombreuses configurations possibles cela utilise largement<\/em><br \/>\n<em> les possibilit\u00e9s d\u2019intelligence de la facult\u00e9 de penser)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>et en plus ce n\u2019est pas inutile et c\u2019est sain de ne pas penser \u00e0 une chose inutile et il<\/em><br \/>\n<em> n\u2019est pas inutile pour gagner de l\u2019argent de penser<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>je ne vois pas de meilleur th\u00e8me de r\u00e9flexion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Dated from July 1995, \u00c9crits po\u00e9tiques, P.O.L \u00e9diteur, 2008, p. 402-403,<br \/>\nISBN 978-2-84682-283-1, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pol-editeur.com\/\">www.pol-editeur.fr<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 17 &#8211; February 15,  2014<br \/>\nVideo Installation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past","category-programming","nom-etienne-de-massy","nom-guillaume-lafleur"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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