TRUCK STOP FINISHING EVENT / BLANC SCREENING

On the program :
– Bus trip to see Truck Stop works (leaving at 3pm)
– Dinner at Fromagerie Lemaire
– Closing night in the former drive-in cinema :
        Screening of Blanc by Nelly-Eve Rajotte
        + other interventions by Nelly-Eve Rajotte, Organ Mood and David Kristian

For its closing night, Truck Stop will once again light up the screen of Drummondville’s former drive-in by projecting Nelly-Eve Rajotte’s monumental video installation Blanc. The work will be presented at the very heart of the Montreal-Quebec roadway at the Drummondville drive-in, which has been closed for several years.

The artist, who is a native of the area, regularly films images of this legendary abandoned location. In fact, the video ends with images of this obsolescent place: two blank white screens will be illuminated by this magnificent trip. Through the use of a drone, the sublime North Canadian landscape is overflown by a mechanical eye that mimics the spectator’s point of view. As the aerial tracking shot moves through the white desert, our perception is destabilized and vertigo sets in, until we adapt to the bewildering aerial perspective of the drone’s mechanical eye.

In her research on landscape and disappearance, Nelly-Eve Rajotte questions cinematographic language by suspending, disrupting, or stopping the temporality that is specific to film. Through its sheer monumentality, the projection will create an immersive and destabilizing environment where viewers might lose their bearings.

Will also be presented during this evening, David Kristian’s sound creation Drive-In Notion, a sound and visual performance by Nelly-Eve Rajotte, as well as a visual performance by Organ Mood.  
 

Two options to get there : 
– For 10$, take the Truck Stop BUS from CLARK or l’Œil de Poisson : mandatory reservations HERE
– Come with your own car and join us at the Fromagerie Lemaire (182 Boulevard Industriel, Saint-Germain-de-Grantham) for 7pm. You’ll then get a ride to Drummondville’s abandoned drive-in.

THE BUSES !
The buses will make stops on the way to the opening in order to visit some of the works included in Truck Stop.
Price : $10 roundtrip
Free for kids 12 and under.
Buy your bus ticket and reserve free seats for kids (12 and under) on Eventbrite.

SCHEDULE

Montréal | Centre CLARK |
5455, avenue de Gaspé, suite 114
Departure : 3pm from CLARK

Stops to see the works of :
– Joshua Schwebel in Saint-Liboire
– Nicolas Fleming at Antiquité Michel Prince
– Patrick Bérubé in Saint-Janvier-de-Joly
– Gisele Amantea and Alain-Martin Richard at the Villeroy rest stop

Arrival at the Fromagerie Lemaire : 7pm
Departure and arrival in Montréal : around 11:45pm

RESERVE YOUR BUS TICKET

Québec | l’Œil de Poisson |
541 rue Saint-Vallier Est
Departure : 3pm from l’Œil de Poisson

See the works of :
– Camille Bernard-Gravel in front of Béton Laurier
– Patrick Bérubé in Saint-Janvier-de-Joly
– Gisele Amantea at the Halte Villeroy
– Alain-Martin Richard at the Halte Villeroy
– Nicolas Fleming at Antiquité Michel Prince
– Gagnon-Forest at the Halte Saint-Nazaire-d’Acton

Arrival at the Fromagerie Lemaire : 7pm
Departure and arrival in Quebec : around 12:15am 

RESERVE YOUR BUS TICKET

Truck Stop is the result of an exceptional collaboration between two art organisations and communities, the Centre CLARK (Montréal) and l’OEil de Poisson (Québec). This major art event aims to disseminate contemporary art in unusual places to have us appreciate and question our relationship with the territory. Discover this exhibition of ephemeral public art stretched along highway 20, between Québec and Montréal. Visit the 15 original works created by visual artists and collectives, from June 17th to August 19th, 2017.  

MORE INFO : truck-stop.ca/en/ & facebook

WITH:
Gisele Amantea / Camille Bernard-Gravel / Patrick Bérubé / Nicolas Fleming / Rosalie D. Gagné / Gagnon-Forest / Steven Girard / Mathieu Latulippe / L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres / Organ Mood / Ariane Plante / Nelly-Eve Rajotte / Alain-Martin Richard / Douglas Scholes / Joshua Schwebel

CLARK and L’Œil de Poisson wish to thank Ubisoft for their major contribution to this project. We also wish to thank the CALQ, the CAM, as well as l’entente de développement culturel de la Ville de Québec for their financial support. Finally, we would like to highlight the tremendous work of the participating artist and the working team that made this project possible.