Environ 8000 kilomètres

Artists: Dianne Landry and Jocelyn Robert

Date: May 7 to 23, 1992

Artists' Lecture: May 8

In a joint exhibition, two Quebec artists, Dianne Landry and Jocelyn Robert, explored the characteristics of time and space marking Canada from sea to sea.

Diane Landry and Jocelyn Robert, Environ 800 kilomètres, Open Space 1992

The first phase of the project consisted of an 8, 000 kilometres artistic bicycle trip across Canada, from Vancouver to St. Johns, during which the artists' applied a rigorous daily process. Each day for approximately three months, they selected a local object and altered it to indicate the distance travelled to reach it. Each day for approximately three months, the artists took two photographs: one of the object as found and one of the horizon as seen during that leg of the journey. Each day for approximately three months, they recorded sounds from the surrounding landscape, the duration of those recordings corresponded to the distance travelled. The project's second phase was an exhibition of both audio and visual objects created using the results of the first phase: a sound sculpture of 60 loudspeakers on stands, a tape recorded and a two hour soundtrack that ran in a loop; a mural composed of 83 photographic objects; and a self-lit sequence of 60 boxes that displayed the objects that were found/ altered.

Laundry, Diane and Jocelyn Robert, "Description de la proposition", Open Space Archives, Victoria, B.C. (Box 20, File 1992: G2)

Diane Landry and Jocelyn Robert, Environ 800 kilomètres, Open Space 1992