francine LeClercq: Francine LeClercq

ART REVEAL MAGAZINE no.11 , Cover and Interview, December 2015

http://issuu.com/artrevealmagazine/docs/no_11

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"The Spectator, the Viewer, the Observer and the Perceiver " @ the PUBLIC INTERROGATION: OUTSIDE THE WHITE CUBE Organized by The Multiple exposure Project Location: Public Spaces, Metro Manila/ Philippines Date: December 1-31, 2015

The Spectator, the Viewer, the Observer and the Perceiver (extract)

PUBLIC INTERROGATION: OUTSIDE THE WHITE CUBE seeks to re-frame the practice of curating and spectating images outside the exclusionary, institutional borders of the “white cube” or gallery space. Public spaces are used as an exhibition site to stimulate a mode of spectator experience that revolves around displacement of the passersby (public) from their “habitus” by interrupting the flow of pedestrian traffic. We alter a familiar public space and transform it into an unusual, dialogic site for image projection and exhibition, taking advantage of its accessibility and site-specificity in order to redefine the ways the spectators look at and engage with images. Adopting “guerilla urbanism” as a curatorial strategy, we make sense of the immediacy of the “public” and reflect upon its context, meanings, and intersections with representation, place, and discourse. In so doing, we intervene and reformat aspects of the urban landscapes and emphasize the “counter-spectacle” in art viewing and appreciation. This project also underlines the inherent ephemerality of an open-to-the-public display in relation to time and space. As a “traveling” exhibition which heavily depends on projection technology and public space as its “frame” or “canvas", this project celebrates the momentary nature of image-viewing, consumption, and mobility in the metropolis at a time of constant flux and transition.

The Multiple eXposure Project is a multimedia, multi/trans/inter-disciplinary artistic practice and research-based initiative that explores the many layers of image-making, participatory photography, visual ethnography, and performative encounter(s) between the image and the spectator; the subject and the viewer. As what the name of the project implies, this endeavor is profoundly interested in the notions of the “multiple” and the “exposure” both in their literal and symbolic sense.

http://www.themultipleexposureproject.co.nr
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