Description

This work is a site-specific video and audio walk (English and French versions) that lasts 16 minutes and 40 seconds. Equipped with a digital video camera, a videotape and headphones, the visitor begins the walk at a precise location within the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Guided by the artist’s voice, the visitor interacts with the surrounding space while viewing a colour video. During the walk, the viewer is led to specific sites in and around the Museum.

The work is an audio and video recording that lasts 16 minutes and 40 seconds. The visitor is given a digital video camera with videotape and headphones. The walk begins at a specific location of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and continues in the Museum’s vicinity.

A compartmented storage unit is used to store the technical equipment: digital video cameras, headphones, digital videocassettes (French and English versions), batteries and battery chargers.

1- Check for proper functioning of all technical equipment including cameras, tapes, headphones and batteries.

2- Install the compartmented storage unit with the technical equipment: digital video cameras, headphones, digital videocassettes (French and English versions), batteries and battery chargers.

3- Give the visitor a set of headphones and a camera with charged batteries containing a videotape.

4- Show the visitor how the camera works using the applicable controls.

5- Show the visitor the exact location where the walk begins.

6- Ask the visitor to return the technical equipment once the walk is finished.