MAPP_MTL, mapping festival in the Mile End / Mile-Ex
Between October 6th and 8th 2016, MAPP_MTL lays the foundations for an international scale event, at the convergence points of Mile End and Mile-Ex neighbourhoods. This first edition will offer a journey of both interior and exterior installations, exploring as an open laboratory, a vision of the future of mapping. Mapping is a fascinating medium that uses video projection to reinvent the places, spaces and objects that surround us.
Playing with our perceptions of reality and touching people by means of its power to transform, such is the seemingly unlimited potential of mapping. Ideas incubator and engine for action, MAPP_MTL gathers a community of artists, artisans and thinkers, in order to explore the limits of the mapping, regarding its language, as well as its technical possibilities and, in the long term, its applications in our society. An incubator of ideas and a generator of action, MAPP_MTL regroups a community of artists, artisans and thinkers dedicated to exploring the limits of mapping, as much for its power as a language and, over the long term, for its applications in our society.
The principal goal of MAPP_MTL is to create a window onto the field of possibilities of the art of transformation, and to offer an opportunity to the public at large to live uncommon and exceptional experiences.
MAPP_MTL ARTISTS
MAPP_MTL chose to invite local and international artists, in order to buildan open creative community, sparking encounters and reflections around usages and applications related to mapping. We are proud to announce in exclusivity the names of our first artists for this MAPP_MTL pilot edition: VJ SUAVE (BR) | JEAN-SÉBASTIEN BAILLAT (CA) | PHILIPPE DUBOST (FR) | DELPHINE DUSSOUBS (FR) | CHRISTIE 360 (CA) | REMI VINCENT (FR).
MAPP_MTL PLACES
VAN HORNE VIADUC | MOMENT FACTORY STUDIO | CENTRE NEVER APART
THE PROGRAMME SUMMERY
- TAPE MAPPING NIGHT | September 30th | Moment Factory Studio
One week before its first edition, MAPP_MTL organizes a “Tape mapping” workshop at Moment Factory Studio. A unique and playful activity, where the audience is invited to participate to a creative and dynamic scenography with stickers. This collaborative piece of work will come to life through the mapping projection technique.
- MAPP_MTL X NEVER APART | October 6th | Never Apart Center
MAPP_MTL will present within the NEVER APART 2016 autumn exposition a JEAN-SEBASTIEN BAILLAT and PHILIPPE DUBOST installation, redefining the mapping limits and applications, thus questioning the position of the medium in the galleries and art world.
MINUTES MAPPING HUMAN BODY | Octobre 7th | Moment Factory Studio
Minutes Mapping is a central piece of MAPP_MTL inviting creators to propose an idea in the form of a 60 seconds video projected on an unconventional surface. During the Minutes Mapping party, the public will contemplate the original propositions projected on a fascinating structure: the human body.
A MAPPING WALK WITH VJ SUAVE | October 8th | MILE-EX
The brazilian duo, VJ SUAVE, had the beautiful idea of putting a projector on a tricycle and presenting their playful animation on the walls of their city. Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga see the city as their playground, where they use urban facades as canvases for their nighttime creations. VJ SUAVE’s playful, poetic animations touch a wide public. They trace streets and alleys on tricycles equipped with projection equipment through public spaces. This unique interaction between artist and thestreet itself renders their art accessible to all, inventing moments of imagination and collective amazement. Modern storytellers, their art is situated at the intersections of drawing, technology and architecture.
MAPP UNDER THE VIADUC | Octobre 8th | VAN HORNE VIADUC
For less than a year, the space under the Van Horne Viaduct in the Mile End has become an emblematic place of the neighborhood. MAPP_MTL will establish here the center of its outdoor activities with projections on the 1 Van Horne (famous St-Lawrence warehouse), under the viaduct on the long wall of Millions Tapis et Tuiles. Montreal Christie 360 and the visual artist Rémi Vincent will transform the area while Tupi collective and A-Rock dj willmake the public shake on the open air dance floor.
MAPP X MUTEK NIGHT | Octobre 8th | Moment Factory Studio
Together with MUTEK, MAPP_MTL hols for you a electro mapping party toclose the festival. Programming to come!
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