Dissonances rurales

This publication accompanies the exhibition Dissonances rurales by Rémi Belliveau presented at the Galerie d'art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen of the Université de Moncton from October 23 to December 15, 2019.

''In this exhibition, artist Rémi Belliveau takes-up, through archives, interest in the metaphorical backstage of the Monument Lefebvre. An important historical institution in Memramcook Valley, NB, the Lefebvre performance hall has welcomed many artists from here and abroad since its inauguration in 1897.

Dissonances rurales studies the musical divergences and convergences provoked by an encounter between rural Acadian culture and 20th century western popular culture that figuratively took place upon the same stage. Analogue recordings of three violin players who performed at Memramcook’s Monument Lefebvre Hall, Arthur LeBlanc (1945), Yehudi Menuhin (1946) and Éloi LeBlanc (1976), are superimposed in a video work where each composition confronts the others, generating a soundtrack that is both dissonant and harmonious.

Using museology as an artistic strategy, the artist recounts segments of a story with non-linear paths that are presented through material and sound archives. They are manipulated with the intent of democratizing them, of activating them differently through the process of adapting their support, and of revealing unexpected fragments.''

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