Things, 2009 (left)

25 audio CDs, 25 CD players, amplifiers, cables, 50 speakers, wood

The tracks played are looped in their original length but emptied of all content except for the randomly appearing word “thing”. The plinth, a classical form of presentation and bearer of objects, becomes the body of resonance for the abstracted idea of a thing, in an environment where concrete things are materially absent.

1–25 (French Version), 2003 (right) 

DVD, DVD player, projector, video projection, silent

The value of each number dictates how long it will be shown on the screen (i.e., ‘five’ is shown for five seconds). The high number is based on the frame rate per second of the country’s television broadcast standard at the time the work was created. 

Photo © Richard-Max Tremblay