Archive for the ‘The clock, the dog and the jar.’ Category

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The clock: Stéphanie Sauvé

April 5, 2006

“Mon nom est Stéphanie, je suis née et vis à Montréal depuis 19 ans. J’ai reçu cette horloge d’une photographe exeptionnelle; le projet suggéré m’a semblé fabuleux. Le tissage, les fils qui s’entremêlent, ces tous petits réseaux de tentions, une obsession chez moi… J’ai voulu en lien avec le temps figer ou du moins, rendre le temps difficile à changer( voir la mobilité des aiguilles). Chaque petit réseau de fils se croise, comme chaque humain se croise sans se voir sous le stress de la vie, n’ayant jamais de TEMPS devant eux pour respirer un peu. Il est maintenant à mon tour de céder cette horloge à quelqu’un qui aura selon moi une forte imagination pour la transformer d’avantage.

Stéphanie Sauvé, artiste à en devenir”

( My name is Stephanie and i was born and have been living in Montreal for the past 19 years. I received this clock from an exceptional photographer and the project sounded fabulous. Knittings, strings, these small webs of tension, an obsession for me. I wanted with this web to stop time or make it difficult to change (thus blocking the clock movements). Every thread that crosses another is like every person who goes by another without stopping to look, buried under the stress of life without breathing a little. It’s now my turn to hand this over to someone who i think has a strong creative force to change this even further.

Stéphanie Sauvé, artist-to-be)

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The Clock: Valérie Sangin

April 3, 2006

“J’ai voulu donner un look Hitchcockien, avec 2 plumes de corbeau, et des droplets de peinture, mais rouge aurait fait trop évident, alors j’ai choisi jaune. Je l’ai ensuite passée hier à une amie peintre, qui est très enthousiaste du projet et qui va faire ça beaucoup plus rapidement que moi.”

(I wanted to give it a Hitchcokian look with 2 crow’s feathers and drops of paint, but red was too obvious so i used yellow. I then gave it to a painter friend of mine who was very interested in the project and will be quicker than i am.)

Valérie Sangin, Photographer in Montreal.

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The clock has begun…

December 5, 2005

Just received news from my friend Valerie in montreal, she has received the clock and i await results anytime soon!

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The jar on its way tomorrow…

November 30, 2005

Yeh!!! I found a taker for Seoul, so i will be sending out the jar to Seoul tomorrow… hope something good comes up…and soon…: – )

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The dog and the clock on their way…

November 29, 2005

Ok so i sent out the dog to London through my good friend Mike who hopefully will be sending this to my friend Karola and then the experiment will start…

The clock is on its way to Montreal, via lovely Sydney who will send it from NY…

Since I havent gotten any answers from Marcos, Im trying to aim for Seoul instead of Tokyo through my friend Aram, hopefulle this can be done this week…

Good things come to those who wait apparently…:-)

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Location, Location, Location.

November 20, 2005

Thanks to Tristam Sparks for the hand pixelized map…

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Experiment 1: the jar, the clock and the dog.

November 20, 2005

Ok so from this point onward and starting tomorrow hopefully i will be able to document via this blog the trials and tribulations of a jar sent to Tokyo, a plush dog sent to London and a clock sent to Montreal. This is basically a spin off of the chain letter concept but with a communal twist. People receive these objects, personlize them, then have to pass them on to someone they know after having taken a picture of the object sent to me which allows me to publish the results online and documenting who gets these objects, how they got them and what they did with them.

I am interested in testing a few things here with this experiment. Firstly whether people are opened to not owning, if the value is collective and accessible by all members of the group is enough. Im interested in the modes of personalization which is why i have a fairly blank object (the jar) which needs total personalization, an emotionally charged object with little personalisation capacity (the dog) and a highly functional object with no emotional anchor and with a large personalisation capacity. I am interested in knowing how far these obejcts will travel, how large does the community around these objects get, how interested people are in the destiny of these objects. Will they seek for them? Will they wait till it happens to drop in their hands???

I am sending 2 of these objects tomorrow in the mail and so the games begin!!!!

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New experiment on its way…

November 6, 2005

A next step for me which i shall implement in the next week is aimed at discovering what values come out of sharing a unique object and being able to see the hisory of interactions that people will have with it. Being inspired by the chain-letter phenomenon, i thought i might try a chain-object event and use the web to my advantage for once as a way to link people and as a feedback mechanism. So more to come this week as i decide who to send this to, what objects i will send, what feedback mecanism to use.