Creative Resident: Sylvette Babin
Sylvette Babin est active principalement dans les champs de la performance, de l’installation et de la vidéo. Particulièrement intéressée par l’art contextuel et in situ, ses performances et installations sont généralement créées à partir des lieux où elles sont diffusées. Par des stratégies et dispositifs construits autour du corps, des mises en situation absurdes ou des jeux visuels et sonores, Babin propose des métaphores liées à certains états physiques ou psychologiques. Sylvette Babin est directrice de la revue esse arts + opinions et membre du comité de rédaction depuis 1997. Oeuvrant aussi à titre d’auteure et rédactrice, elle a publié dans plusieurs revues, catalogues et livres d’artistes.
Interdisciplinary artist Sylvette Babin is active mainly in the fields of performance, installation, and video. Particularly interested in contextual art and in situ, her performances and installations are generally created out of the places where they occur. Through strategies and devices built around the body, often placed in an absurd situation, or by using visual and/or audible games, Babin offers metaphors related to physical or psychological states. Sylvette Babin is the Director of the magazine esse arts + opinions and has been a member of the editorial board since 1997. Working also as a writer and editor, she has published in several magazines, catalogues, and books by artists.
Sylvette Babin's actions propose metaphors related to certain physical emotional states, using strategies and devices that involve the body, absurd situations, or visual and sound play. Recently, teaching performance has led her to consider the question of the renewal of the practice. During her residency, Babin has decided to reflect on the state of performance art (l'art action) and of the performative gesture, in particular by calling into question its true place at the heart of this practice. Interdisciplinary artist
Sylvette Babin has been working in performance since 1997. Also working as a writer, editor and curator, Babin has published in numerous journals, catalogues and artist books. She has worked as the director of the journal esse since 2002 and more recently as a teacher in the Urban and Theatre Arts program of Collège Shawinigan. In 2009 she will co-curate the event Orange in Saint-Hyacinthe.