{"id":2118,"date":"2009-02-17T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/02\/17\/art-vandalism-or-conversation\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:40:18","slug":"art-vandalism-or-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/02\/17\/art-vandalism-or-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Art vandalism — or conversation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo by Jean-Pierre Caissie<\/p>\n

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“Ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne propre \u00e0 l\u2019art public: la possibilit\u00e9 de r\u00e9ponse,” wrote Jean-Pierre Caissie, the artistic director of Dare-Dare, on his blog<\/a> last month. “L\u2019expression artistique est habituellement \u00e0 sens unique. L’artiste s\u2019exprime et le mus\u00e9e pr\u00e9sente le travail. Quelques tentatives de r\u00e9ponses ont trouv\u00e9 place devant la cour de justice. Cependant, le street art ou l\u2019art public non-permanent offre la possibilit\u00e9 de r\u00e9ponse au passant.” <\/p>\n

Roaming from site to site around Montreal—first Viger Square, then the Park With No Name, and now Cabot Square—Dare-Dare specializes in ephemeral public art. I’ve been lucky enough to chat with Caissie about the various projects that Dare-Dare has helped curate and a common theme that keeps emerging is the opportunity for public interaction and response, something that isn’t normally possible in a gallery or a museum. Dare-Dare takes art from the gallery to the street and opens it up to the public.<\/p>\n

What happens then is entirely unpredictable. In 2007, Chih-Chien Wang built a “nest” of cardboard boxes<\/a>, illuminated from within, underneath the Van Horne Viaduct. People would come at night and drink nearby, but every so often, somebody would knock down all of the boxes, either deliberately or by accident. Each time, he rebuilt the nest in a slightly different way. Not long after, Caroline Dubois and Julie Favreau turned a long-vacant storefront into a space of perpetual construction and reconstruction<\/a>. Many neighbours, surprised to see the shop doors open, stopped by to chat.<\/p>\n

It’s not uncommon to pass by street art—stencils, graffiti, paste-ups and so on—that has been commented on. Caissie has a few examples, including one—a “raton voleur” that spills out from one of Franck Bragigand’s painted manhole covers<\/a> on St. Viateur St.—that adds so much to the original work that I had always assumed it was painted by Bragigand himself. Two years ago, somebody pasted a long-form poem onto a laneway wall; “Too bad it’s not that good<\/a>,” somebody scrawled underneath. Last spring, Fauxreel’s controversial Antlerheads<\/a> were literally defaced by Zato, another street artist, who transformed their Vespa scooter heads into morbidly grinning moster faces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Compare that to galleries, where any attempt to comment on art is considered vandalism rather than dialogue. Caissie points the way to a handful of news stories<\/a> about people attacking, defacing and otherwise leaving a mark on various pieces of art.<\/p>\n

The above was originally posted<\/a> last month on Urbanphoto.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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