ÉCRAN TOTAL / TOTAL SCREEN

Exhibition 19-05-2021 20-06-2021

Profile

Penelope Umbrico

Penelope Umbrico is an American photographer. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and, later on, earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she is now a faculty member in the Department of...
Mishka Henner

Born in Belgium, Mishka Henner is a contemporary artist based in Manchester (UK). He holds an MA in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Pointing at the absurdity of living in an age when everything is photographed, and when every produced image is archived and...
Vaseem Bhatti

Vaseem Bhatti, born in Glasgow, is of Indian/Pakistani descent and currently lives and works in both Manchester and Cornwall. Also working under the pseudonyms of EHQuestionmark and Bhatoptics, he has an object-specific, concept- and process-driven practice with a non medium-specific approach which attempts to deal...
Adam Basanta

Adam Basanta is an artist, composer, and performer of experimental music born in Tel- Aviv, raised in so-called Vancouver (located on the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam Nations lands), and now based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. He holds a BFA in Music Composition from Simon Fraser University and...
Charlie Doyon

Charlie Doyon is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, where she is currently studying Art History and Studio Arts at Concordia University. Dystopian by essence, her artwork combines material practices, photography, and digital media to explore the paradoxical nature of social isolation in a hyper-connected...
Clint Enns

Clint Enns is a writer, video artist, and filmmaker currently living and working in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. He has an MA in Mathematics from the University of Manitoba and has received Master’s and PhD degrees in Cinema and Media Arts from York University. While his practice...
Xuan Ye

Xuan Ye is a Chinese artist, musician, and engineer currently based in Tkarón:to/Toronto as an uninvited guest. X creates mixed media installations and performances as media poetry, synthesising language, code, sound, body, image, data, light, and time. Their work makes noises in the speculative space...

Presented at the UQAM Design Centre in Montreal, Canada, the exhibition ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN features Jean Baudrillard’s photographs in conversation with pieces by Penelope Umbrico, Mishka Henner + Vaseem Bhatti, Adam Basanta, as well as Charlie Doyon, Clint Enns, and Xuan Ye. Through photographs, projections, and installations, the ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN exhibition offers three distinct experiences of mediation that articulate critically Baudrillard’s concepts of virality, simulation, surveillance and implosion. The first mediation is a very « real », physical exhibition at the Design Centre; the second is an outdoor installation; and the third is a partially re-mediated online exhibition. In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of international conferences, round tables, and workshops will be available online.

Date:
May 16th – June 20th, 2021