MARTIN MESSIER | PROJECTORS

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MARTIN MESSIER | PROJECTORS

Martin Messier's Projectors is a surgical work of art in which he orchestrates the engineering, manipulation and distortion of 8mm projectors under the lights of a digital projector.

Through a tight stage lighting and the resynthesis of the 8mm projectors’ quasi-mythical roar, the machines come alive outside of the projection room and turn into bizarre and explosive noise mechanisms.

All at once offbeat, unfamiliar and marvelously incongruous, this performance leads the public to a timeless universe, somewhere between dialogue, confrontation and technological contrast. Here, the projectors do not project: Everything but discrete, they take action and become the performance itself – loud and luminous.

Artistic director, performance, video, light and music
Martin Messier

Technical Director
Maxime Bouchard

Electronic
Maxime Bouchard, Jean-François Piché

Design concept
Martin Messier and Thomas Payette

Photo credit
Maxime Bouchard

Production
14 lieux

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AUTOPORTRAIT CON FUOCO

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CYCLES

CYCLES
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FIELD

PERFORMANCE
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CON SORDINA

CHOREOGRAPHY
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machine variation
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