Nos ébranlements (“our disruptions”) connects teenagers who don’t know each other. The project brings a group of young people together to reflect on and confront the issues that unsettle them from within. By speaking out and taking creative micro-actions, they have the opportunity to probe the instability under their feet, but also the things that need to be taken care of or renovated on this same damaged surface. It’s an attempt to join forces to (re)think this world.
The past year has weakened our ties, undermined our social contacts; in short, it has disconnected us. Multidisciplinary artist Judith Poitras and documentary photographer Jonathan Lorange, curators of this third edition, are inviting eight young people between the ages of 14 and 18 to reconnect with each other and the outside world.
A creative process to be completed in pairs leads them to question and reweave the thread that links them to the world. Artistic actions are integrated into daily life, manipulating mediums that thwart the virtual and the intangible: the young participants anonymously exchange letters, take black and white photos... so many pieces of reality that form the framework of a patched, multiform and collective video work.
- Le bois entre les mains,
L’instrument est délicat
Mais la corde est forte comme sa musique
—Karla Koala / Katrina Awad - Plop, avec douceur
Sous mes doigts agités
Les bulles éclatent
—Ménestrel du Nord / Victoria Norton-Poulin
- Assise en tailleur
Ta crépitante chaleur
M'emplit de bonheur
—Le raton laveur / Pierre-Nau Sagarra Martin - Un noeud c’est l’infini
C’est une promesse un noeud
C’est ma promesse à toi
—Vénus / Lauralee Leonhardt
- Une brise d’automne
Passant dans des cheveux
Pour montrer un chandail bleu
—Cyrano de Bergerac / Dana Leclerc - Les feuilles qui craquent sous nos pas
Engloutissent le son de nos voix
Ainsi que l'écho de nos joies
—Aimmry Ashryver / Myriam Simard
- Un réveil douloureux
Sous des draps rugueux
Une journée grise
—Matariki / Océane Bélanger Garant - Le rose noie mon nez
Mes sinus trouve que je suis
Complètement fou
—Citron amer / Emmet Logue
Credits
Artistic director: Mélanie Dumont
Creators and co-curators for the 2021 edition: Jonathan Lorange and Judith Poitras
Coordinator: Véronique Lavoie-Marcus
Participants: Karla Koala / Katrina Awad, Vénus / Lauralee Leonhardt, Cyrano de Bergerac / Dana Leclerc, Citron amer / Emmet Logue, Ménestrel du Nord / Victoria Norton-Poulin, Matariki / Océane Bélanger Garant, Aimmry Ashryver / Myriam Simard, Le raton laveur / Pierre-Nau Sagarra Martin