Dominique LEROY
In residency at ESAPV (Ecole Supérieure des Arts Plastiques et Visuels) in Belgium.artistic project
During his residence, Dominique Leroy has implemented several projects:
Unity of diffusion is a mobile installation presented in a public space in Mons (from 15 to 30 January 2003). Sixteen half spheres made out of polycarbonate and equipped with loudspeakers, set on a metallic structure, form sound reservoirs between which the public can stroll and construct their own listenting pathways and sound compositions. The work Station 2, in collaboration with Thierry Guibert, is set up in a multi-media library in the town (from 15 February to 30 March 2003). Virtual objects, interactive and evolutionary sound panoptics, formed into a collection, can be consulted on a computer placed in the library. Installed in the musée des Beaux-Arts in Mons (from 27 April to 30 May 2003), Portes is a small architecture composed of two alveolar doors with human silhouttes pierced into them. In the alveoli, on the inside of each door, a large number of loudspeakers spatialized the sound of pods (of dried fruits) bursting open around the body of the listener.
Unity of diffusion is a mobile installation presented in a public space in Mons (from 15 to 30 January 2003). Sixteen half spheres made out of polycarbonate and equipped with loudspeakers, set on a metallic structure, form sound reservoirs between which the public can stroll and construct their own listenting pathways and sound compositions. The work Station 2, in collaboration with Thierry Guibert, is set up in a multi-media library in the town (from 15 February to 30 March 2003). Virtual objects, interactive and evolutionary sound panoptics, formed into a collection, can be consulted on a computer placed in the library. Installed in the musée des Beaux-Arts in Mons (from 27 April to 30 May 2003), Portes is a small architecture composed of two alveolar doors with human silhouttes pierced into them. In the alveoli, on the inside of each door, a large number of loudspeakers spatialized the sound of pods (of dried fruits) bursting open around the body of the listener.
residence
Dominique Leroy's stay in Mons was punctuated by many, very enriching encounters, as much at the human level as professionally. He was received by many structures such as teh City of Mons, the ESAPV, Mons multi-media library, the musée des Beaux-Arts, the French Community and La Lettre Volée (Brussels), a publishing house. His works in Mons interested several operators, such as Transcultures (Philippe Franck, Brussels), which invited him to participate in a collective exhibition in Mons this summer. A catalogue (paper and audio) gathering together his different projects, edited by La Lettre Volée, will be published in May. France Hanin (a young historian employed in the education service of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Grand Hornu - Mac's) is involved in the preparation of this catalogue and has also invited him to organise a workshop in April at Mac's and the MAM (Musée d'Art Moderne de Villeneuve d'Ascq - France). His visits to Belgium also drew him to Antwerp where he will stay for two years, in 2003-2004, at the HISK (Hoger Institut Voor Schone Kunsten: workshops, meetings with curators, critics and philosophers, trips to Venice, New York, etc.). He has already met Ann Demester, artistic director of an experimental exhibition site in Amsterdam and is preparing an exhibition for July 2003