October 5, 2022
Le banc de Marie-Louise is an interactive sound art installation located in the heart of the village of Mascouche, designed to highlight collective memory and pay tribute to Marie-Louise Desjardins.
The work takes the form of a bench where Marie-Louise sits with her 77 cats. As we take a seat on her lap, she talks to us about the weather, the seasons, and tells us stories and anecdotes about the area. She, who was the subject of much gossip, now takes her place and makes herself heard in turn…
Based on memories and anecdotes collected from citizens by the Société d’histoire de Mascouche, the interactive system that inspires Marie-Louise’s words takes into account real-time data on the weather to weave a different narrative each time it is listened to. The story may be enhanced in the future with local news.
This project is made possible thanks to financial support from the cultural development agreement between the City of Mascouche and the ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec.
Design and production
Art Partage
Radhanath Gagnon: technical direction and ideation, interactive scriptwriting.
Stéphanie Lagueux and Jonathan L’Ecuyer: ideation, artistic design and drawing, coordination.
Andrée-Anne Roussel: production management.
Louis TB: software design.
Samuel St-Aubin: electronic design.
Pascale Tétrault: technological integration.
Christiane Vien: texts.
Julie Vincent: voice.
Alexandre Côté: sound design.
Bande à part audio and post-production.
Fabrication
Infravert
Ariel Dumontier: technical consulting
Sophie Julien: project management and modeling
Nicolas Vigneau: painting and technology integration
Guillaume Rajotte de Wusteken: cutting and assembly
Research and original idea
Société d’histoire de Mascouche, SODAM
Hélène Gagné and François Tétreault: collection of stories with the project Y paraît que…
