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  Maillardville 100 ans et plus / Maillardville 100 years and beyond, 2009  
Evergreen Cultural Centre
Gilles-Lizée Alma-Chua-Legault Doris-Brisebois
Gilles-Lizée
Alma-Chua-Legault Doris-Brisebois
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As part of the Maillardville 100 year anniversary celebrations, Evergreen Cultural Centre in partnership with Festival du Bois and Cultural Capitals of Canada have showcased this art project which captures the essence of the francophone community of Maillardville. It consists of 200 black and white portraits of 100 people who have or had a connection with Maillardville, 100 personal stories and a 16-minute multi media piece combining historical photos and footage with a soundtrack of music, sounds of the past and words of the present.

Durant les célébrations du centenaire de Maillardville, Evergreen Cultural Centre en partenariat avec le Festival du Bois et Capitales culturelles du Canada a présenté ce projet artistique qui capture l’essence de la communauté francophone de Maillardville. Il comprend 200 portraits noir et blanc de 100 personnes qui ont un lien avec Maillardville, 100 histoires personnelles et une œuvre multimédia composée de photos et de film historiques accompagnés d’une bande sonore de musique, de sons du passé et de paroles du présent.

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 Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC
 February 20 to March 21, 2009
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqqh5kpYFX0
About the book
The 240-page book Maillardville 100 ans et plus / Maillardville 100 years and beyond published in 2009 presents 100 people, 200 black and white portraits, their history in French and English, a 16-minute video in French and with English subtitles. The book can be purchased from Société francophone de Maillardville at 604-515-7070.
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Giants Leap / À pas de géants, 2007-2009
Vancouver Museum and Vancity Theatre, BC
Giants Leap / À pas de géants 
Giants Leap / À pas de géants, a one-hour documentary, has been co-written, co-directed and co-produced in collaboration with filmmaker Lynsey Hamilton. It is a diverse portrait of a changing neighbourhood raising questions of progress, heritage preservation, housing and culture. The development pressures in Vancouver on old structures and heritage are erasing the physical evidence of the past, replacing it with questionable construction choices. The city is becoming one accessible only for the rich and the quality of architecture has been identified as second or third rate. The residents are being driven out of their homes by developers pursuing profit.

Locations and Dates:
  • Night at the Indies, Toronto, ON
    December 2009
  • Heart of the City Festival, Vancouver, BC
    November 2008
  • Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC during BOOM! Forum
    September 2008
  • Carnegie Centre, Vancouver, BC
    June 2008
  • Norquay Neighbours, Vancouver, BC
    March 2008
  • Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC, screening with Heritage Vancouver Society followed by a panel discussion
    November 15, 2007
  • Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC, screening during Les 14es Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone
    February 8, 2008
Precaution, September 2007-2010
Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History
Precaution  
CAUTION sign is a powerful symbol, causing us to detour around a site, despite the absence of human authority. This CAUTION has entered our subconscious, with its connotation of warning and danger, but do we even bother reading the words? The linear and stretched shape, bright colour, dark letters, and location are enough to stop us from entering the areas it guards. Because we know its role and take its CAUTION for granted, we seldom take the time to approach, to get close enough to read the words, to isolate which danger we are CAUTIONed against, to question the essential characteristics of this inanimate perimeter guard.

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 Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, ON
 January 16 to February 23, 2010

 Deborah Loxam-Kohl
 Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History, Nelson, BC
 September 22 to November 11, 2007
Almost Gone: Remains of Cannery Villages, May 2006
Steveston and Port Edward, BC
Almost Gone, a 26-minute documentary, evokes the essence of a prolific era on the remote Central and Northern BC coasts. This montage of photographs, video footage, interviews and soundtrack juxtaposes remains of cannery villages and memories of people who once lived and worked there. It is important for the public to discover a way of living which no longer exists; for example, these people left their homes — some of them with their whole family - for this kind of seasonal work in very remote places. The production triggers the viewers to question the way we preserve our heritage when they witness the disheartening lack of physical evidence of such an important era of BC history.

Locations and dates:  
  • Gulf of Georgia Cannery Historical Site,
    Steveston, BC
Première on May 4, 2006
Daily screening from May to October 2006
  • North Pacific Historical Village,
    Port Edward, BC
Daily screening from May to October 2006
  • Alliance française, Vancouver, BC
One French screening on May 11th, 2006
A 6-minute coverage in French was broadcast during Zigzag, a Radio Canada TV show. It describes the process for making Almost Gone.
To see the coverage, click on the following link. In the middle of the page, type "Florence Debeugny" in the "Recherche dans nos archives" field.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/colombie-britannique/tele/zigzag.shtml
Original soundtrack by Gordon Cobb www.cobbhousestudio.com
Georgia Straight Review
 
Sense of Movement, 2006
Evergreen Cultural Centre
 Photo by Gerry Fuoco
Some Through series prints were exhibited in a group show of four francophone visual artists sharing a common trajectory characterized by bi-culturality and a constant redefining of their identity. Movement is at the heart of their migratory life and is expressed in their art through references to dance, walk, flight and optical shifts of perspectives.

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 Florence Debeugny
 Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC
 March 2 to April 1, 2006
   
 
Speaking Words of Wisdom, 2005
Havana Art Gallery
Combining photographs of individual words collected from an urban environment allows for play with meanings. The Ouch Ltd. arrangement refers, in a simplistic way, to corporations which run the economical sector whilst ignoring the social and environmental aspects necessary to human stability.

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 Katherine Polgrain
 Havana Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
 November 2005
  
Life of Water, 2005-2006
Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal
Two large prints from a photo essay addressing the connection between the decrease in annual rainfall and the increased use of cars, an acknowledged contributor to climate change, were presented during the group show including 100 Canadian photographers.

Produced by: PhotoSensitive
Locations and Dates:
  • Allen Lambert Galleria, Toronto 
    September 7 to 24, 2005
  • Collingwood Public Library, Collingwood 
    November 1 to 26, 2005
  • Moat Gallery, Main Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver 
    February 1 to 14, 2006
  • Maison de la culture Côtes-des-Neiges, Montréal 
    March 2 to April 16, 2006
 
  
Left Behind, 2004
Britannia Art Gallery
Five found objects hanging from the top of the display box were presented at eye level. Small photo prints hanged on the objects. Smaller found objects and several small photos laid on yellow fall leaves at the bottom of the display box.


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 Britannia Art Gallery
 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver
 November 2 to December 31, 2004
Through, 2003 - 2004/2006/2007
VECC Gallery, Campbell River Art Gallery and Sunshine Coast Arts Centre
Twenty prints on industrial theme photographed through mesh, plastic and glass, were presented during two different solo shows. They express psychological shifts through varying depths of field and illustrate the parallel between the subjectivity of photography and the way we observe, judge and interpret the world around us.

  Locations and Dates:
  • Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery, BC 
    November 28, 2003 to Jan. 13, 2004
  • Campbell River Art Gallery, BC 
    April 21 to May 27, 2006
  • Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC
    From February 21 to March 25, 2007
 
  
Assemblage, 2002 - 2003
Three art pieces made of photographic prints mounted on rusty objects or shown behind fences have been presented at:
  • Deterioration, solo show
    Galiano Art Gallery BC, May 2002
  • Rust Show, group show
    Glass Onion Vancouver BC, July 2002
  • Seconds, group show
    North Vancouver Arts Council BC,
    November 2002
  • Residue, Artropolis 2003 CBC Studios Vancouver BC, May 2003

view asssemblage works
   
  
The Deterioration Show, 2002
 
Thirty-four of my prints from the Deterioration series were exhibited
Passage of time details in urban and industrial environment
Alliance Française Gallery Toronto ON - solo show March - April, 2002
Galiano Art Gallery BC - solo show May 2002
Britannia Beach Mining Museum BC - solo show Summer 2002
Kaslo Langham Cultural Centre - solo show Summer 2003
   
  
The Vancouver Show, November 2001
Exposure Gallery
Six of my prints from the Urban and Industrial Deterioration series were exhibited at the Exposure Gallery in Vancouver. Seventeen photographers participated in this group show whose theme was Vancouver. The artists' works the curator selected presented the city with diverse styles and different areas of interest within the Vancouver Show theme.
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Exposure Gallery Curator Ian McGuffie
851 Beatty Street, Vancouver
November 23 to December 9, 2001
 
   
  
The Geist Magazine, issue no. 41, summer 2001
      Canadian Ideas....
          ...Canadian Culture magazine

The featured article Industrial Ghosts presents the installation At the Edge of Wilderness. The exhibition was held at the Vancouver Ironworks in September 2000. Nineteen of the installation's 400 photographs are published in this article. The article's text includes words found in Hildegard Westerkamp's soundscape composition, part of the installation.
view full article page 35 to 38  - actual print size - slow download
view full details Industrial Ear installation
 
 
        
Artropolis 2001: Environment & Identity
Contemporary BC visual art
In April 2001, my work entitled "Twisted metal" was presented at Artropolis in the curated exhibition "Erosion". I am interested in the "aging metropolis".

Coming from Europe, I have always been attracted to ruins, remains of past generations and circumstances, which speak to us as much as literature or paintings do. I find a definite beauty in abandoned things and feel some melancholy at how easy we leave them to deteriorate before we eliminate them.
    view the erosion gallery
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Artropolis Society
Vancouver's CBC Broadcast Centre
April 7 to April 28, 2001
 
   

        

At the Edge of Wilderness 2000 - 2003
In collaboration with Hildegard Westerkamp, soundscape composer, I completed a 400-slide, five-projector soundtracked installation entitled "At the Edge of Wilderness". This installation explored the interaction of nature with the remains of some of British Columbia 's most intriguing ghost towns. Considering British Columbia 's relatively brief history, our ghost towns represent the ruins of our "ancient" past. I intended to capture their essence before nature reclaims them forever.




             Photos by P. Courtemanche
Full Details Here           Modified installation panorama
Industrial Ear produced by the Western Front, at Vancouver Ironworks Sept 2000
Spirits of the West, at the Whyte Museum in Banff,
displayed  beside
First Son a photo exhibit of portraits by C.D. Hoy
Oct 02-Jan 03
International Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia May 2003
   
   
Mural, February 2001
Installation of nine large prints of the ghost town series 2000, in the home of a private collector. I enjoyed the process of this experience: selecting nine images from over 500 photographs; choosing to place them on the wall adjacent to one another in order to convey a sense of togetherness while their individuality distinguishes them.  
   
     
Collages, March 2001
 
  Collages created for the submission cover of a proposal sent to Canada Council for the Arts in March 2001. I am exploring the idea of creating large collages of my rusty and textural images.
 
   
   
Soundscape, Winter 2000



Cover photo of Soundscape, the Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 2000
Cover design by Robert MacNevin
 


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