Sophie Bélair Clément

Sophie Bélair Clément is interested in exhibition circumstances, in information obtained in the course of the documentation process and in the dissonances that derive from recreations. Her performances and installations, contextually developed in collaboration with cultural workers and musicians, suggest sustained attention to the immediate and mediated space. Through her previous works she attempted to calculate the average time passed in front of  a  minimalist artwork at the National Gallery of Canada (2007) ; commissioned a choir to recreate the sound spectrum of a sodium lamp ; a chamber orchestra to be attuned to the sound emanating from Dan Flavin’s fluorescent tubes (2008) ; restaged a partial space of a sound art group show  (2009) ; calculated the average format of artworks exhibited in an institutional gallery since its opening (2010).

The artist would like to thank Olivier Maranda for his performance. Christian Miron, Benoit Bourdeau and Patrick Bérubé for the architectural reconstruction. Reiko Kanazawa for documenting the frequency of photographs taken by visitors of the Pergamon Altar. Pavel Pavlov, Vincent Bonin, Birte Endrejat and Alexandre Castonguay for our discussions. I also wish to thank Birte Endrejat for the research, translation and communications. Daniel Conen for recommendations and recordings. The Museum of Architecture at Berlin’s Technical University for allowing me to access Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann’s blueprints. Antenna Audio GmbH for the content of the audio guide. Mathieu Bouchard for teaching me about chance structures and programming. Thank you to Jonathan Demers for the tubes. Olivier Girouard for recording the performance and identifying the antique musical instruments. Marie Claire Forté and Francine Delorme for the translation. Thank you to Yann Pocreau and the team at Clark, the CAM (Programme de soutien aux pratiques émergentes) and the Canada Council for the Arts.