Artist Statement

The quest for new narrative forms and the exploration of an interval of meaning between action and speech have been present in my installations and video works from the beginning.

The project Genre: Ado adds an approach specifically designed around an ethnographic observation of the language of the body/adolescent. Genre: Adosdeals with this subject by means of a strategy of utterance appropriate to the new media. The very nature of electronic tools makes it easier to work with the interval between the time and the place of image and sound. This artistic choice allows for a detailed exploration of the models of adolescent behaviour, individually and in groups.

Biography

Born in Beaconsfield, Québec, Nicole Benoit studied Industrial Design and Visual and Media Art. For over 30 years she has been active in various cultural and artistic domains. She produced and co-signed many independent art videos as well as contributed in television, film and radio productions. For many years she taught visual arts at the Université de Sherbrooke and at Bishop University and she also worked in various capacities for the Governement of Québec. Her work has been seen in Québec, Canada and Europe. For the last few years she has concentrated her work on the achievement of her personal artistic vision. She is presently finishing a doctorate at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where her research focuses on the quest for new narrative forms and the exploration of an interval of meaning between action and speech, a theme which has been present in her installations and video work since the beginning.