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Luc Courchesne’s The Visitor is a choose-your-own adventure
The film Teorema by controversial Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and a dream told to him by his daughter—these were the two inspirations for artist Luc Courchesne’s interactive, panoramic work The Visitor: Living by Number, which is up now at the Société des arts technologiques (SAT). Stepping into the middle of the installation you experience the work by calling out a number between one and 12, which corresponds to a destination or a character you wish to address. The Mirror asked Courchesne for more details. Mirror:
Why the Italian film and your daughter’s dream? Luc Courchesne:
Pasolini’s film is about a stranger, coming from outside of the
village and changing everybody. My daughter’s dream was about a
group of people living together in a shelter, a disaster happens and
they flee, yet they end up back in the original space. The structure
of the work comes from the movie; the content comes from the dream. M: How does
your technique differ from film? LC: I use a system I designed that records 360 degrees with a single camera and can be shown with a single projector. When making this work I was equally as preoccupied with the technology as with the content. When working in film you don’t have to invent the technology. I have had an 18-year fascination with interactive video. This is my 20th project, and with each piece the technology is becoming more buried in the art. Instead of thinking about how it’s done, people are thinking, “What’s happening to me?” Instead of telling a story, I’m constructing an experience, and in the process creating a medium for the 21st century. : The Visitor: Living by Number is at the SAT, 305 Ste-Catherine W. until Jan 20. Info: 844-2033
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