Panique au faubourg

About ten buildings with heritage character, foundries, blacksmiths, manufacturers, warehouses, and buildings where their roles were determined during social and economic development, were studied and recognized for their value.

The proposed idea for the artists was to question and interpret through their pieces these sites, their history, their architecture and their problematic urban situation. Approached for their sensibility and their ability to adapt their work for this kind of intervention, the artists that were selected for this project, young or well known were from Montreal, Canada or France: Roy Arden, Gilbert Boyer, Jessica Carpenter, Pierre Huygues, Véronique Joumard, Claude Lévêque, Marcus Macdonald, Nadine Norman, Alain Paiement, and Michael Robinson. Their pieces, made reference to here, were displayed in the interior or exterior of the buildings or within the gallery space at Quartier Éphémère.

The dynamic of the area is equally playing the game in this project. Were not numerous large city areas (Soho in New York, the Bastille in Paris…etc.) revitalized because of artists’ presence in the area acting as the catalyst? On site works, the industrialized land, abandonment, memory, urban issues and paradoxes, as well as desertification were the trains of thought proposed to the artists for contemplation.

PANIQUE AU FAUBOURG participates in the reflection about industrial land sites being transformed into new cultural areas. Because they are short lived, the artists’ interventions tried to incite and sensitize the public to a new appropriation of history and of the site Faubourg des Récollets or Old Griffintown.

PANIQUE AU FAUBOURG was punctuated with events occurring throughout its run: guided visits, children’s’ workshops, an industrial party, a performance and nocturnal visits…etc.

Publication of the catalog Panique au faubourg with texts of Caroline Andrieux, Dinu Bumbaru, Magali Guyon, Pierre Malo, Jean Émile Verdier

Catalog in PDF format

Roy Arden Dissolution series of 14 color photographs Darling Brothers foundry photo: Quartier Éphémère

Gilbert Boyer Collets de survie 140 stainless steel bands stamped with text installed around lamp posts in the vicinity of the exhibition photo: Quartier Éphémère

Véronique Joumard special lighting effects, halogen lights and variator Royal Electric photo: Quartier Éphémère

Pierre Huyghe video-projection, selection of 10 films with industrial themes Royal Electric photo: Quartier Éphémère

J. R. Carpenter I turned at random near the square: Wellington and Queen, 20 sept. 1996 serie of 12 photographs, wood, vellum, metal, glass several buildings photo: Quartier Éphémère

Atelier In Situ (Geneviève L’Heureux, Annie Lebel, Stéphane Pratte) projections n°5 building photo: Quartier Éphémère

Claude Lévêque rotating platform, disco ball, various lights, looped soundtrack Darling Brothers foundry photo: Quartier Éphémère

Alain PAIEMENT Dia logue found objects recovered from site Ives & Allen foundry photo: Quartier Éphémère

Nadine Norman DARLINGS’ - Indirect labour and idle time performance / installation Darling Brothers foundry photo: Quartier Éphémère

Marcus Macdonald Météorite meteorite, photocopies, coal forge W.Cadieux photo: Quartier Éphémère

Michael A. ROBINSON La fuite fatale casts cement, chairs Darling Brothers foundry photo: Quartier Éphémère