This video installation was created for the 6th MIVAE Montreal. This ephemeral artwork was executed with the intention of being staged in an abandoned waste incinerator.

I am is interested in the territories that reveal the challenges of our time and to this end I document areas that are being developed, exploited or in a process of being rebuild.

This project was elaborate in connection with the former activities of the incinerator des Carrières and the global waste management issues. From 1970 to 1983, hundreds of tons of Montreal domestic garbages were burned each day at this waste incinerator.

Presented in the former sediment exit - 75 meters-long tunnel - previously used to remove the detritus from the incinerator - the work plays with the distorted perceptions experienced in the tunnel. A large-scale video is projected on a suspended screen at the end of the space and creates the impression that the alley opens up onto a desolate landscape.

An animation, playing in continuous loop, shows a urban landscape in slow transformation. The viewer contemplates an ever-changing land, starting from a wasteland, becoming a landfill, then a suburban town, and so on. New "possible" landscapes appear and disappear, dissolving in each other's and confounding themselves. As the viewer moves forward into the space, the alley seems to stretch out and telescope towards the horizon thus creating a perspective of the infinity of the desert that the work echoes.

Video projection of 16' X 13'
Duration: 9 minutes

Computer, video projector, sound system, motion detector, microcontrolor.

Software programming: Stéphane Beaudet

Video (flash animation 10,5 MB)
Soundscape: audio 1 | audio 2 (MP3)