MAGALI BABIN

Untitled

2013

Biography

Magali Babin fiddles with noises and sounds, the sound of noises; she performs, improvises, composes and exhibits. She has appeared in concert at international electronic music festivals throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. The artist’s recent sound installations were presented at the Triennale québécoise of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2011, at Mois Multi in Quebec City in 2012 and at the Galerie d'art Louise et Reuben-Cohen at the Université de Moncton. Babin regularly collaborates with the mineminemine collective alongside André Éric Létourneau and Alexandre St-Onge, with Martin Tétreault’s Quatuor de tourne-disques, as well as the group project nocinema.org, initiated by French artist Jérôme Joy. Since 2010, in addition to co-directing the sound art series 24Gauche at the Espace Projet gallery in Montreal, Babin has collaborated with artist Herman Kolgen, with whom she created and presented a media and sound installation entitled Flesh+Wood+Metal. Magali Babin currently works as a curator at the artist-run centre Verticale in Laval, where the artist was invited to direct the 2012-2013 AUDIOPARC program.