le désert mauve and Paul Vivien will present two audiovisual performances as part of their fall tour that will take them to Rimouski, St-Gabriel, Montreal, Mont-Louis & Toronto!
For this special gig at Club SAW, they welcome Nick Schofield as a special guest to play support their tour. Tickets are live, get yours here!
Gabrielle HB & Charline Daly - Credit: Xavier Schoebel
Inspired by the self-titled novel by poet Nicole Brossard, le désert mauve proposes a soft audiovisual synthesis. As a duo, sound artist Gabrielle HB and video artist Charline Dally produce video artworks and performances oscillating between fluid landscapes, never-ending views, and microscopic dances. They develop slow, subtle progressions that erode a notion of time. Observing the space between thoughts, feeling the unfolding of a movement and capturing the void. It is an inner place opening to spacious possibilities. le désert mauve has presented their work at Ann Arbor Film festival (MI), BISFF (Pékin), MAJ (Joliette, QC), RVQC (Montréal), MUTEK (Montréal ; Buenos Aires ; Barcelone), ADAF (Athènes), Film Maudit (LA), Light Matter (NY), Noviembre Electrónico (Buenos Aires), Cadence Videopoetry festival (Seattle). They are invited members at Perte de Signal (Montreal) and were part of AMPLIFY D.A.I. cohort.
Paul Vivien
Nourished with training in design and living arts, Paul Vivien's works combine technical and intuition, science and fantasy. His works are subject to questions about the environment, both natural and artificial, in which our species evolves.
Behind the consensual aspect he gives to his projects, designed to attract and please, he hides the messages he wants to express, often dreamy, sometimes cynical or worried. Manipulating digital technologies for their unexpected surprises, are selected what seems most alive, the phenomena that would be most interesting to tame.
He then seeks to create a sensitive relationship between these manifestations of digital life and the people who could meet them, imagining new user-machine relationships. The computer singularity would be for him the bridge to a possible utopia between the human and his nature, this new form of selfless consciousness working at the best balance.
Occasionally involved in Parisian arts schools such as EPSAA, ECV or ENSAAMA, Paul Vivien is also an active member of the OYÉ label association, which supports digital arts projects in their development.
He recently presented his installations, shows and conferences at the Pulsar Prize at Station F, Arch 402 Gallery in London, Technarte Bilbao and Art Brussels.
Paul Vivien is currently touring the shows "Hands" mixing dance and video, and "Aurora" imagining the life of a synthetic aurora borealis.
+ Special guest Nick Schofield
Nick Schofield - Credit: Christopher Honeywell
Nick Schofield is a Gatineau-based musician, producer and ambassador of ambient music. He has been dubbed a "dazzling electronic artist" by Aquarium Drunkard and "synth maven" by Constellation Records. Nick has previously performed at National Sawdust in New York City, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and MUTEK in Montreal, opening for acclaimed artists Sarah Davachi, Colin Stetson, Hauschka and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. He is currently performing a live hardware set that marries his love of ambient aesthetics with the energy of electronic dance music.