| Impressions
from a press conference a day
before the official opening of the Biennale. The photos
shown here are in the order that the visit was guided by Claude
Gosselin, the director of CIAC.
I took many photographs but only the ones shown here left an
impression on me. The one project that impressed me. |
Photographer Ed Kostiner: Storyboard "Public
Domains"
Display of Cityscapes.
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Next to the project called Parc du
souvenir Chi Chi a park with a memorial monument in
Taiwan. Curator : Claude
Gosselin. |
16 architects submitted installations entitled: Ma Place
= It's MY
(public) place!. |
The most,
of which I do not have photographs, was the roof-top scenery project created by architects
for city office people who spend their days high up in sky
scrapers, never seeing the ground or greenery. Roof-tops of
lower buildings were painted with interesting designs.
No, thank you, I would rather live in the countryside!
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Photographer Ohanian attentive to questions from the press.
I found his photography interesting, challenging and of course
very professional. He had something to say and did it
without words. Bravo! |
Ohanian: photographs of a Chicago street junction. |
Ohanian: shots of city people from the
top. |
Ohanian: the Gypsy series. |
Architects were working on a project to make all the inner/
underground city and its tunnels more liveable, by incorporating
tables, chairs, wall decorations etc., into all those long
corridors that city people spend many wakeful hours in. |
Architect Prosky (of CCA), next to the underground display of
Hyper-Building.
Curator : CCA (Centre canadien
d'architecture.) |
View of the old Press Room, in which Armand Vaillancourt displayed some of his old
installations. This is the first time that this Quebec artist
whose projects always make it into the press, was invited by the
director to participate in the Biennale, and what's more the
Director was actually the curator of the Armand Vaillancourt
exhibit. |
Armand Vaillancourt: wall hanging Peace a
project done with children.
Where Armand Vaillancourt held court for invitees. A nice
playground for displaying his charismatic
persona. |
Armand Vaillancourt plays dead.
Vaillancourt: Oyster River. |
Vaillancourt: installations including the boat. And
yes, he was working on a project and interacting with viewers with
his usual panache. |
| Before leaving
the old Gazette building, we were treated to a roomful of images
from past Biennale events. |
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