ÉMILE MORIN

loadmess (la girafe, le clipart et les oreilles de Louis) [poésie maxienne]

2013

Biography

For thirty years, Émile Morin has been an independent artist based in Quebec City. His numerous installations and stage works have been presented in Europe, Australia, United States and Canada, at such sites as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Tesla Berlin, BEAP Festival in Perth, the Banff Centre, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Morin was the Artistic Director of Avatar from 2001 to 2006, during which time he gave the centre an additional mandate: the development of electronic art. He oversaw this area as a co-director from 2004 to 2007. Morin was also the Artistic Director of Recto-Verso and Mois Multi until 2011. Based on what he calls an “aesthetic of complexity,” his artistic practice uses and intertwines several disciplines in the creation of installations, scenographic spaces, immersive works and “dramatic” constructions. The uniqueness of his works stems from a multidisciplinary approach that systematically draws upon multiple mechanical devices that reproduce or distort the effects, phenomena and movements of nature, and sometimes the primary functions of the objects themselves. In creating these audio and visual devices, the artist is attempting to provoke and modify the viewer’s modes of perception, his understanding of the space that he inhabits and that surrounds him. For several years, Émile Morin has made intensive use—with a critical eye—of the new technological tools.