TOPO
TOPO is an artist-run centre based in Montreal whose mission is to accompany artists in their exploration of contemporary digital art practices.
Its training, creation, dissemination and mediation activities contribute to the development of practice. The centre accompanies, supports and implements interactive projects, hosts artists in residence, offers specialised workshops and participates in the community with cultural mediation initiatives. Its dissemination component explores innovative ways of presenting digital works through exhibition, performance, publication and circulation activities.
PROJECTS IN WHICH I PARTICIPATE
MICHEL HUNEAULT
Michel Huneault (1976) is a documentary photographer and visual artist. Her work focuses on issues related to development, trauma, migration and other complex geographical realities such as climate and health changes. Michel holds a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was Rotary Peace Fellow, investigating the role of collective memory after large traumatic situations. Before focusing on photography, he worked in international development for over ten years.
During his creative residency, Michel Huneault worked in collaboration with the sound artist Johann Mazé (France). Following further work on this topic -De la Frontière (2021), Roxham (2017), Monnaie d'échange (2016) and Occident Express (2015)- Michel continued his research on the idea of "border", this time working on both sides of the Bidasoa River, as well as in the Pyrenean mountain ports of the region. During this period he laid the foundation for a new work that deals with the multiple and simultaneous realities of a place/time that can be banal for the legal European citizen, idle for the tourist or artist who is by the way, but tense for the immigrants trying to cross it with the police presence dedicated to that cause. The artistic piece, in the post-production phase, will be presented publicly in the summer of 2023, in Canada, in the Basque Country and on the Internet.
Cultural exchange program Saison Quebec - Pays Basque organized by Etxepare Euskal Institutua and the Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec.
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