Join us at Maison Tavel on May 17, 2014 (starting at 6pm), for the opening aperitif of Distortions, an installation by Pierre-Laurent Cassière.
That same evening from 10pm to 1am, during the Nuit des musées at Musée d’art et d’histoire, you will discover Cyclique, an installation by Maxime Houot & Nohista – Collectif Coin.
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PIERRE-LAURENT CASSIÈRE (FR) - Distorsions
Maison Tavel – Free entrance with Nuit des musées pass
18h – 23h
In association with Musées d’art et d’histoire and Maison Tavel.
Pierre-Laurent Cassière (b. 1982) is a french artist whose practice is mainly influenced by media archaeology. Through kinetic sculpture, expanded cinema and sound installation, his audiovisual artworks often combine historical techniques with contemporary technologies to propose contemplative apparatuses that confront us with our perceptive habits.
Three dark mirrors suspended from solid oak gallows deform the image of bodies and space according to their oscillations. The steel sheets adopt numerous vibratory states: from gentle, almost liquid undulations, to noisy convulsions, which fragment, blur, and multiply reflections.
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MAXIME HOUOT & NOHISTA (COLLECTIF COIN) (FR) – Cyclique
Musée d’art et histoire (inner courtyard) - Free entrance with Nuit des musées pass
22h – 01h
In association with Musée d’art et d’histoire.
The Coin collective, an artistic laboratory based in Grenoble (France), produces installations and monumental performances. For each new project its artistic director, Maxime Houot, assembles a new collective depending on needs, wanted know-how, collaboration wishes.
Bruno Ribeiro, aka Nohista, is an audio-visual artist. Considering hearing and sight to be a single and indivisible sense, he plays images like a musical instrument, through which sound becomes tangible. In his creations, he works on the themes of perception and illusion, creating immersive and sensitive performances for the audience.
Cyclique is a work in situ, standing between digital minimalism and monumental kinetic installation. Inflated with helium and equipped with LEDS, 256 balloons form a matrix of luminous spheres above the ground. Its structure constantly changes, balloons moving at the discretion of air currents, immersing the audience in a synesthetic landscape where the sound becomes conductor.
