CEPA Gallery : Conversation Pieces

Nina Leo & Stefani Bardin — marketplace

Leo & Bardin's project will juxtapose the Market Arcade Building's present visual state with a phenomenological evocation of its past history as a portal to an open market. To achieve this effect, sensory triggers from Montreal's Jean Talon Market will be transplanted into an installation in the Market Arcade. The mediation of the evoked marketplace through food chemistry and media technology is a neat reversal of the processes by which the original market was most probably displaced, i.e. the increased availability and cheapness of processed food and the replacement of central, community-based, open-air markets with decentralized urban sprawl, technology-based consumerism and the virtual world market of goods and services on the Internet. The performative installation will take place in the passageway of the Market Arcade Building during the month of November. An ancillary theoretical and historical context to the piece consisting of photog