The Title Is
the Question

2009

Part of the group exhibition “Making it Work” by curator Susannah Wesley, this installation presents three videos in which three artists play a piece of music in sync, even though it was composed and recorded one artist at a time, without hearing what the others had created beforehand. An examination of a single collaborative process from three distinct angles.

Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello and Jacob Wren experiment musical research and exploration for over a year, playing music together even though they are not musicians. Placing themselves on unfamiliar terrain is an essential part of the undertaking. The music is not an end in itself, but rather a way for them to meet and approach the theme of working together in real time. They start to feel their way through collaborative decision-making without spoken language.

This project is part of the HOSPITALITY cycle, an extended period of research on the theme of hospitality.

Montréal, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.