About
CONTACT
josee.brouillard<a>gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
I am a new-media artist working mainly with video, light and electronics. I hold a BFA from Concordia University (2012), a DEC (professional diploma) in Theatre production (Lionel-Groulx) and another one in Photography (Vieux-Montréal), where I initiated research on light and scenography. I presented my work in Montreal (OBORO, Studio XX, BIAN—International Digital Art Biennial, Eastern Bloc) and abroad (InShadow, Lisbon, Portugal). I was awarded two research-creation grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2015 and 2012) as well as the OBORO’s New Media Creation Grant for Young Artists (2011). In 2014, I completed an artist residency at Studio XX. My installation Video Sequence for Prepared Monitor (2013) is part of the City of Montreal’s collection. Alongside my artistic practice, I work as a technical director and freelance consultant in various artist-run centres. I live and work in Montreal (CA).
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art installations aim to push the limits of video diffusion by deconstructing its displays and rethinking the viewer’s experience. My videos transcend the boundaries of the screen. The image lives outside of the frame. I like my visuals to mingle and merge with their surroundings and to overflow into the physical environment. A new hybrid space is created; both familiar and foreign, comfortable/uncomfortable. I use the properties of light in relation to the matter to sculpt the space. I aim at creating strange and changing environments that force the viewer to constantly reevaluate and negociate what he sees and feels. I wish him to experience video in a new way, by presenting it in an innovative mode. I want to confuse the senses of the spectator. I expect the viewer to feel uncertain and awkward in his perception of the work.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Coming up Brouillard : corps et lumière, Espace F, Matane
2020 Apocalypse : Open for Business, Maison de la culture Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal
5 4 3 2 1, Festival HTMlles, Eastern Bloc, Montreal
2019 Brouillard : corps et lumière, Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montreal
2018 Brouillard : corps et lumière, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal
Brouillard : corps et lumière, Maison de la culture Verdun, Montreal
2016 Séquence vidéo pour moniteur préparé, BIAN, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montreal
2014 À l'∞,Wired Women S@lon 101, Studio XX, Montréal
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2017 Séquence vidéo pour moniteur préparé, Voyons voir ... La collection de la ville de Montréal s'expose!, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal
2014 Séquence vidéo pour moniteur préparé, Data: Salon, Eastern Bloc, Montreal
2012 Le corps de la mémoire, Festival InShadow, Lisbonne (PT)
Résonance visuelle, Collaborator Steffie Bélanger, Les journées de la culture, OBORO, Montreal
Le Caisson à Brouillard, collective exhibition 2000 Watts, Eastern Bloc, Montreal
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2019 La Bande Vidéo, Quebec
2017 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff
Signal Culture, Owego (US)
2014 Studio XX, Montreal
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2019 CALQ, Acquisition and marketing
CALQ, Research-creation grant
2018 CALQ, Professional Development
2017 CALQ, Acquisition and marketing
2015 CALQ, Research-creation grant
2012 CALQ, Research-creation grant
2011 OBORO, New Media Creation Grant
COLLECTION
2016 Video Sequence for Prepared Monitor, City of Montreal's Collection
ACADEMIC TRAINING
2012 BFA, Intermedia/Cyberarts, Concordia University
2009 Cegep diploma, Theater Production, Lionel-Groulx
2003 Cegep diploma, Photography, Vieux-Montreal