By Mere Phantoms and Navid Navab
Shadow projection in window, on St-Laurent Boul.
Saturday, March 4 from 8 pm. - 5 am.
The Goethe-Institut is pleased to participate once again in
Nuit blanche with an original interactive shadow installation by local artists Mere Phantoms which will welcome visitors into an enchanting space composed of light and shadow. Multidisciplinary artist Navid Navad has also created an in-situ interactive audiovisual window projection to accompany the installation by Mere Phantoms. Together they have taken inspiration from the long and rich history of Germany’s public gardens and the German paper-cutting tradition of
Scherenschnitte.
Gardens of Enchantment will transform the Goethe-Institut, both inside and out, into an ephemeral urban oasis filled with lush shadow imagery.
Workshop
From 8 pm. until midnight
Suitable for all ages; Free
The highlight of this presentation will be during
Nuit blanche when the public can participate all evening long in free workshops to create paper-models inspired by nature and Nuit blanche’s theme of Expo 67 - in particular the German Pavilion by Frei Otto.
These paper models will then be added to the installation, thus enabling the public to participate in the creation of a work of art. Visitors will also be invited to use handheld light wands to transform these miniature paper cut-outs into large-scale shadows that will sweep across the Goethe-Institut’s walls and be projected on its St-Laurent windows, thereby creating an immersive, interactive enchanted garden of light and shadow.
Film Screening: Starting 8 pm, showing non-stop in loop
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
By Lotte Reiniger, 1926. 66 minutes. Silent with French subtitles.
Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981) was a German filmmaker and pioneer of silhouette animation.
Prince Achmed, a series of stories from
One Thousand and One Nights, is considered one of the oldest surviving feature-length animated films in the world.
BIOGRAPHIES
Mere Phantoms (Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson), based in Montreal, combines intricate paper cut outs, with projected light to create place-specific shadow installations and performances. The duo produces community engaged workshops, projects and exhibitions in Canada and abroad.
http://merephantoms.com/
Navid Navab is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. Interested in the poetics of gesture, materiality, and embodiment, his work investigates the transmutation of matter and the enrichment of its inherent performative qualities.
http://navidnavab.net/bio.html
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